The director of Days Gone, Jeff Ross, has revealed that he wanted to make his own Uncharted game featuring a young Sully.
Jeff Ross stated in an interview that:
“Victor Sulivan at the age of 25 in a very stylised world where…. it would be around 1976 I think is where we figured out his age might be. He busted out of the Navy for reasons, and I thought seeing him young and trying to figure out his way in this world going from trying to be a soldier or you know a military man to now I’m just out on the streets and I’m gonna become a hustler”
Ross had the idea to have Sully inspired by Sean Connery’s Bond, while using newer interpretations of the 70s to lean into as their version of the 70’s. However, the team came across the problem that the game wouldn’t exactly have many shootouts, and the team didn’t want to make the first Uncharted game where you never shoot anybody. Of course, since the release of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s Legacy, we’ve had one Uncharted spin-off already, but pitching an Uncharted game in which you never fight anybody is a rather different beast.
Previously, Ross has spoken out on Days Gone 2 and the fact that the team wanted to expand upon both the storytelling and the technical aspect of the game.
“I think we would have expanded the tone a little bit in a more technical direction. The tone would have expanded one ring outward towards some of the new reality. I think tis would have been a little bit more, I don’t want to say Avengers, but something where the player had resources, he had some of the remnants of whatever the government had.”
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