Jeff Ross, director at Bend Studio, confided in “VGC” about an aborted Uncharted project that would not have passed the conceptual stage.
Since Days Gone released in April 2019, Bend Studio was tossed around right and left, jumping from project to project. After having taken a stop from Sony on a possible sequel to their zombie gameunlike the players who gather around a petition to see Days Gone 2 released, Bend Studio has been looking for something to bounce back from.
It is in this context that part of their workforce was deployed at Naugthy Dog for some time before finally being put on an open world project still kept secret, but well under construction.
An Uncharted origin story for sully?
During this project quest, Jeff Ross and the team worked on a bunch of conceptsincluding one that was particularly close to his heart: an Uncharted prequel centered on a young, 20-something Sully set in the late 70s.
A Victor Sullivan at the age of 25 in a very stylized world around 1976, I think that’s where we found his age. […] He left the Navy for a variety of reasons, and I imagined him as a young man trying to find his way, becoming a soldier or a military man, and ending up being like, ok, now I’m just on the streets and I am going to be a scammer
A Sullivan “young and sexy, like a Sean Connery”, immersed in a 70’s universe without the “cheesiness of the time”, such was the proposal of the studio. Except that the concept posed several problems which ended up nipping it in the bud, leaving it only in an embryonic state.
There wouldn’t have been so many shooting opportunities […] We didn’t want to make the first Uncharted game where the player doesn’t shoot anyone.
The project therefore never went further, but the idea may not have been definitively forgotten. We already know that Naughty Dog is thinking of Uncharted 5, which tells us that we won’t see a prequel see the light of day one of these four?
Source: www.videogameschronicle.com
