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Pre-Order InFamous, Gain Access To Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta?

Yesterday, the official US PlayStation site teased an "electrifying announcement"; the advertisement included photographs of both inFamous and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.

Sony will officially lift the lid on this announcement on April 27, which is only a few days away, but we may already have the answer. A Kotaku reader has provided the info-hungry Internet gamer hordes with a piece of visual evidence: it's a photo of Best Buy pre-order placeholder display boxes for inFamous, which clearly illustrate two interesting points: firstly, if you pre-order, you'll gain access to the inFamous playable demo, and secondly, you will also receive a voucher for an early introduction to the upcoming multiplayer beta test for Uncharted 2. Now, considering that Uncharted: Drake's Fortune was a strictly single-player adventure, it's huge news to learn that the sequel will boast a multiplayer option. That's first and foremost. It's further surprising to learn Naughty Dog is scheduling a multiplayer beta test, which usually only happens with titles that would feature multiplayer as a major focus. More leaked info around the 'Net has unofficially confirmed this information, so don't be surprised when Sony says exactly this come April 27.

As if Uncharted 2 wasn't already at the top of our Most Anticipated list for 2009; now it's gonna have multiplayer? And we'll get to play it well before the game comes out? ...yeah, that sounds totally bad-ass.

Related Game(s): Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, inFamous

4/24/2009 Ben Dutka

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Comments (35 posts)

Schmitty
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 4:39:34 PM
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does anyone else here subscribe to playstation on youtube?

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city96
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 5:28:11 PM

I do!!
I think it's just a way of promoting the new IP (InFamous). Millions bought Drake's Fortune, including me. FF demo raised sales so what will this demo do?
Oh yeah InFamous isn't as good as Prototype!
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aaronisbla
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:04:31 PM

infamous isnt as good as prototype? holy sh*t i didnt know the games were out, let me head on down to gamestop now....... oh wait

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Oyashiro
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 4:44:20 PM
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Hmm, I just hope MP is completely separate and wont influence how the SP campaign plays. I already had one game ruined because of that. (RE5)

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lloyders21
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 4:44:42 PM
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ill b pissed if its only for preorders from a certain gaming shop. hope its on all the infomouse disks in all shops.

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LegendaryWolfeh
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 6:14:44 PM

It obviously says in the article, "Best Buy pre-order placeholder display boxes for inFamous, which clearly illustrate two interesting points: firstly, if you pre-order, you'll gain access to the inFamous playable demo, and secondly, you will also receive a voucher for an early introduction to the upcoming multiplayer beta test for Uncharted 2." So yeah, it means go to best-buy//

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Troy Powers
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 7:35:16 PM

From my understanding, you have to pre-order infamous to get early access to the infamous demo, but ANYONE who purchases infamous (from ANY retailer) will get a Uncharted 2 beta code. Kinda like MS did with Crackdown and Halo 3.

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LegendaryWolfeh
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 11:02:59 PM

yep guess i was wrong :)

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rell
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 4:45:09 PM
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Well that ruin sony plans on the 27, this is good news.
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HeXeN
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 4:49:50 PM
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That's great news hopefully the MP won't take away from the single player campaign and who knows maybe it will add to the experience.

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Zemus101
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 4:51:34 PM
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Hmmm multiplayer for Uncharted? Honestly didn't see that coming at all. Why does everything have to have multiplayer now a days.

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piratedrunk
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 5:04:48 PM

Yeah It seems like everything has multiplayer these days. I like the occassional multiplayer game like guitar hero or racing games but what I look for in games now is a long quality single player experience as I tend to get the most playtime out of those. I have a lot of games with multiplayer and I don't find they increase the replay value at all for my taste.

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Scarecrow
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 6:02:25 PM

Yeah...

I mean I love Uncharted, but it DOES NOT need multiplayer, at all...

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bigrailer19
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 5:22:27 PM
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@ zemus101

i dont know why MP has to be in every game either, i would much rather have co-op, but o-well.

Either way though this is good news and im excited for it.

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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 9:49:11 PM

Isn't coop technically multiplayer?

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Sir Shak
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 5:42:57 PM
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I will say this as politely as possible : Kindly fu** multiplayer .

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slackernz
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 5:47:49 PM
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Too bad the cat's out of the bag Sony. You might as well announce the price drop instead to uphold that 'electrifying announcement'..=D

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Scarecrow
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 6:01:52 PM
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Beautiful

This is the kinda stuff which works!
Many are not sure 'bout INfamous, so this really works!

I applaud whoever came up with this.

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Fabi
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 6:14:14 PM
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Sounds awesome, I'm not big on multiplayer, and was not expecting Uncharted 2 to have it. So it's a nice bonus! I can't wait to play it.

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eba101
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 6:26:11 PM
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u see ben i got half of right i said they would get online but only uncharted gets but good enough 4 me

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Banky A
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 6:27:54 PM
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Wow.

3rd person Uncharted 2 with multiplayer?
Looks like GTA IV and SOCOM have some competition.

=D

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N a S a H
Sunday, April 26, 2009 @ 6:53:28 AM

How can you even compare those 3 games? OK, GTA and U2 but SOCOM?? :S

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Banky A
Sunday, April 26, 2009 @ 1:22:01 PM

They're both 3rd person.
But I know SOCOM (Confrontation) is tactical but I just put it there because of the noticeable similarities.

=D

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bamf
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 7:00:08 PM
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Great news for people who are interested in the beta, hardly electriyfying though is it if we was all to be honest?

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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 9:50:25 PM

"electrifying" because it involved inFamous, electricity... get it?

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Scarecrow
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 7:25:29 PM
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So what would most of you would've preferred?:

-Multiplayer

or

-Bonus levels
-Extra costumes
-Hidden characters
-Hidden treasures
-Treasure hunt mode
-Extra weapons
-etc.?

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HeXeN
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:09:33 PM

You now it could probably have all that stuff and more,try being positive.

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MirrorSoul
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:10:55 PM

The thing is that Naughty Dog did Uncharted 1 awsomely, and doubt they would leave out all the extra goodies like they had in 1 for multi-player .Plus they said in an artical 2 months after the first one released that they already had MP in mind and it would in NO WAY affect the single player campaign. I trust Naughty Dog, I trust that they can deliver a Blockbuster cinematic game like the first with multi-player added on to increase the pleasure and longtivity of there superb series.

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aaronisbla
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:07:49 PM
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not seeing why some people are hating on the multiplayer already. Multiplayer doesn't equal a horrible single player game if its done right, and if anyone can do it, its naughty dog

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MirrorSoul
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:12:14 PM

I agree, Resistance suffered from it though, but that was only because Sony pushed Insomniac a little so they could interfere with Gears 2 a little.

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aaronisbla
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:50:03 PM

i agree that the single player resistance 2 game was lacking a lil bit.

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firehahahahaha
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:24:55 PM
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I just walked into best buy today and saw the box and grabbed it :D.

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firehahahahaha
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 8:40:13 PM

Oh and also, theres only a code for the demo in the box, so what's up with that???

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IonHawk
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 @ 3:47:25 PM

You get the code for Uncharted inside the Infamous game box

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WorldEndsWithMe
Friday, April 24, 2009 @ 9:52:14 PM
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As long as it doesn't feel tacked-on and pointless I'm fine with it.

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