There you get more color in the characters, and more globetrotting in the stories. We zeroed in on early 20th century stories like Doc Savage, who was a finely honed physical specimen. We looked at Robert Louis Stevenson and Robinson Crusoe. Our research for the original Uncharted took us all the way back to the beginnings of adventure storytelling. We wanted him to be a fallible hero - that was common as a thread in all of the pulp fiction we looked at. As a character, Nathan Drake is quite different from other video game characters. It led us to take an approach that was different from what most games take. RL: We took new directions in our approach to storytelling. VB: What did you try to accomplish with Uncharted 2? Be sure to catch the bonus video at the end, where Lemarchand tries to play and talk at the same time. On top of that, Sony has just trimmed $100 off the price of its PlayStation 3 and introduced the new PS 3 Slim as well. We interviewed Richard Lemarchand, co-lead designer of the game.

The timing is good as the fall video game season gets underway. The PlayStation 3 game hits store shelves on Oct.

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