Naughty Dog has spilled the beans on its downloadable content plans for treasure hunting sequel Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, stating the company plans to support the PS3 exclusive via additional multiplayer goodies such as maps and game modes.
Speaking to Eurogamer, multiplayer designer Justin Richmond reiterated that DLC is in the pipeline, before revealing it’ll focus primarily on a competitive offerings: "What you’ll probably see is more of the competitive type: more maps, more modes, stuff like that. The co-op stuff is hugely time-intensive and the size of it – the physical download size – is huge, so that’s probably not an option,” he said.
“I’m not going to say never," continued Richmond, "but for the foreseeable future we’re not going to be doing that." Despite this, he revealed he is "fascinated" by co-op, and let slip that there is plenty of things he would "love to do next game.”
"Naughty Dog does a really good job of defining things, and I think no one’s really done a definitively amazing amazing co-op experience and I think we can do that, and it’s something that at some point we’ll tackle," he added.
Elsewhere, Richmond also touched on brash hero Nathan Drake, revealing there’s still plenty of hidden depth to the character, though wouldn’t divulge anything specific since "there’s a good chance we might use some of them in the future."
“There are whole parts of Drake that we haven’t talked about at all yet. Drake is sort of a nice character in that there’s a bunch of stuff about his past that we know but nobody else does," he explained. "You’ll see that… But there’s a lot more of Drake to show, for sure."
And, while Naughty Dog has hinted on several occasions that future adventures from Drake and co are a possibility, Richmond wouldn’t let the cat out of the bag in regards to an Uncharted 3 – in fact, he’s not even sure what the team is up to next.
"Hahaha. I don’t know what we’ll do next actually," he said.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is due out exclusively on PS3 in North America on October 13, with a European launch following on October 16. We’ll have a review for you some time next week.