Take a good look at the video below, because it’s a teasing glimpse of how the fine folk at Naughty Dog are planning to make a woman (who somewhat resembles Helen Mirren) one of the most devious and memorable villains in a game this year. Last week during the Game Developers Conference, Naughty Dog co-president Evan Wells and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception co-lead designer Richard Lemarchand presented the below cut-scene (which features hero Nathan Drake looking snazzy, albeit beaten-up, in a nice suit) as an introduction to Uncharted 3’s main antagonist: Katherine Marlowe.
Lemarchand (who points out that his partner in lead design, Jacob Minkoff, is “the guy who, along with a bunch of other Naughty Dogs, did the train level in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves“) describes Marlowe as such: “Katherine is the head of a cabal — a conspiracy that stretches over 400 years right back to the reign of Queen Elizabeth. Of course, one of Queen Elizabeth’s main agents in the world was Sir Francis Drake, and so Uncharted 3 finds Nathan Drake — and his partner Vince Sullivan — pitted against Marlowe in a longstanding struggle over something that fans of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune know very well: Drake’s ring. And so this long contested fight for possession of the ring will propel Nathan and Sullivan right around the world, leading them into the mystic heart of the Arabian Desert. Marlowe commands a cadre of agents who represent a much more dangerous and insidious threat than Drake has ever faced before. They’re a group of highly trained men with backgrounds in special ops, and Marlowe’s tactics are more psychological, more insidious than anything Drake has ever faced before.”
