Naughty Dog is designing
PlayStation 4 action-adventure game
Uncharted 4: A Thief's End in
an open, sandbox style, where players have a range of options for how they want to tackle an objective. The overall goal, according to co-lead designer Ricky Cambier, is to never force players down one path or another, but instead to set them free to take on challenges as they see fit.
"I think our goal with the layouts in some of these spaces is that there's not that golden path," Cambier told
Game Informer. "You turn this corner, you're going to find something surprising. Or maybe this way you're going to use your potions; the mixup of your different tools. There might be a shimmy ledge this way, there might be things that break this way; so every path has that action, that tempo that you want."
Cambier, who previously worked on
The Last of Us, added that Naughty Dog's task with Uncharted 4 is "figuring out how to design on this new scale" that the
power of the PS4 provides.
"Because you want to go bigger in this jungle layout that we have," he said. "You can see just all the avenues that Drake has; these new tools. You give the player a tool like the grappling hook. Then you realize how much space you need to fulfill that and how far you can go. How you design a space that has that size and that epicness, but is still understandable, digestible."
and
at the information that UC4 will have bigger open environments and multiple paths in certain areas already.
