The Uncharted 4 E3 Demo, showed off a frantic set-piece that became bigger and bigger, and left the audience with jaws open on the floor. Luckily for those who can’t take that much action – not all set-pieces in Naughty Dog’s last Uncharted chapter, will be as big and frantic as that particular scene.

　　Naughty Dog’s creative director Neil Druckmann, said this in a recent interview with Official Playstation Magazine UK.

　　During last E3, Naughty Dog showed off an epic Uncharted 4 set-piece that might well be, one of the most intense action scenes in videogame history. Following the demo, the audience was gasping for air, and the game received several E3 Game Critics Rewards, including one for best action/adventure game.

Uncharted has evolved

　　“I guess our approach in the past has been to go bigger”, says the creative director. “You saw that evolution from Uncharted 2 to Uncharted 3, but with this one we felt like if we went any bigger, it would become comical; we could become a parody of ourselves. So it became really about how do we make them unique? How do we make them more playable?”

　　“What we did with The Last of Us was we constantly went small, quote-unquote, with the set-pieces. The became these very intimate sections. So you had Joel when he’s injured and he’s stumbling; that’s still a set-piece”.

Expect big-spectacle set-pieces, but also more intimate ones

　　The creative director reassures Uncharted fans that the upcoming Uncharted 4 will have big set-pieces, but will also feature more intimate moments.

　　“Yes, we’re going to have big-spectacle set-pieces, but the thing that The Last of Us and Left Behind gave us, is the confidence that to create these small intimate moments where there isn’t a threat of death, but it’s another way to get to know the characters through interactivity”. Those are really, for us, just as exciting as what you saw at E3; the big spectacles. I’m excited to see how fans react to that new balance of spectacle versus intimate [moments]”, Druckmann added.

　　Set three years after the events of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception, Nathan Drake has presumably left the world of fortune hunting behind. However, it doesn’t take long for adventure to come calling when Drake’s brother, Sam, resurfaces seeking his help to save his own life and offering an adventure Drake can’t resist.

　　On the hunt for Captain Henry Avery’s long-lost treasure, Sam and Drake set off to find Libertalia, the pirate utopia deep in the forests of Madagascar. Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End takes players on a journey around the globe, through jungle isles, urban cities and snow-capped peaks on the search for Avery’s fortune.

　　Uncharted 4 will release for PS4 on March 18th, 2016.