Solid_Snake4RD on 06 June 2009
It's always been the tradition at Naughty Dog studios to create games with the highest cinematic visual fidelity possible, and they are showing this off even more in Uncharted 2, which is looking super freaking awesomely good, yes it required that many adjectives!
The major news we're going on about is the fact that Uncharted 2 uses in-game assets to conduct it's cutscenes, yes similar to MGS4, Uncharted 2 now features in-game rendered cutscenes, this is different from the first because the first actually had them pre-rendered with in-game assets and then played back to the user, this on the other hand is rendered in real-time.
You can here Bruce Straley, the game director for Uncharted 2, confirm this in the IGN Video preview of Uncharted 2 here. At around 8:19 seconds onwards.The game dynamically translates to the cutscene, and the Depth of Field effect is applied giving it a very cinematic look.
