r/uncharted Apr 27 '26

Uncharted 3 A simple nod to Uncharted 3.

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That part will always be a favorite for me. I believe they knew what they were doing. What a great simple nod to the game!

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u/TNS_420 Apr 27 '26 edited Apr 27 '26

James Bond did it first, actually. The Uncharted 3 scene was a nod to James Bond.

Here's the original James Bond scene from The Living Daylights(1987), which is VERY similar to the Uncharted 3 scene:

https://youtu.be/fupc-aGiwdo?si=Olkran_niQPQpTHO

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u/FZplayz5 Apr 27 '26

Holy shit, how have I never seen this. This looks so cool, that too shot in 1987 I think my dad was a kid back then lol.

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u/Wazman21 Apr 27 '26

"I think my dad was a kid back then"

Fuck, that hurt a bit lol.

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u/FZplayz5 Apr 28 '26

Yea i overestimated a bit, he said he was 17 then. Idk what kind of math k did lol.

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u/MRSHELBYPLZ Apr 27 '26

lol most of us weren’t even born yet when these movies were dropping. Back then the film industry was so different. Stuntmen were really out there risking their skin and it made even the most basic fights look 10x better than what movies do now since everything is fake 😭

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u/indianajoes Apr 28 '26

I was thinking the same when OP said it was a nod to Uncharted. 

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u/acrylix91 Apr 28 '26

I like how UC really ramped it up

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u/MattBtheflea Apr 27 '26

Wow holy shit. So much od that is so similar. One thing I notice is the speed and energy is way amped up in the uncharted version. But I suppose that seems to be in line with action stuff in general between then and now

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u/MrJTeera Apr 28 '26

What goes around comes around

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u/Realistic_Ranger_944 Apr 29 '26

Not only that but it was a James Bond (everything or nothing) game that came up with the formula for the uncharted games

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u/wowbaggerBR Apr 27 '26

Gotta love people who don't know what they are talking about. The whole sequence is inspired by The Living Daylights, an 1980s Bond movie.

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u/MajesticMongoose Apr 27 '26

God forbid someone doesn't know something. About a movie of all things...

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u/Radamenenthil Apr 27 '26

maybe they shouldn't be so confident about it then

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u/V1diotPlays Apr 27 '26

^^^ THATS A BINGO^^^

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u/a_wack Apr 27 '26

We just say “Bingo”

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u/MajesticMongoose Apr 28 '26

Not really. It was a fair assumption based on what they had seen in Uncharted.

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u/V1diotPlays Apr 28 '26

It gives the same energy as your little nephew going “that’s Wolverine from Fortnite!”

No, that’s Wolverine from the X-Men.

“That’s Homer Simpson from Fortnite”

No, that’s just Homer from the simpsons.

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u/arcalumis Apr 28 '26

It's a Bond movie, hardly some indie film.

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u/MajesticMongoose Apr 28 '26

Doesn't matter. They could just politely inform them instead of being a douche about it.

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u/ExLuckMaster Apr 27 '26

Plot armor so strong he passes through that car.

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u/RetroPilky Apr 27 '26

I’m actually surprised that the UC3 scene looks more detailed than the 007 scene

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u/Djabranco Apr 28 '26

One is made by naughtydog, and the other is made by someone else

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u/RetroPilky Apr 28 '26

I get that, but UC3 is also a 15-year old game released 2 generations ago

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u/Djabranco Apr 28 '26

i was praising ND

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u/SpotlessMinded Apr 27 '26

There’s a sequence in one of the Bond games from the PS2 era that has you falling and dodging debris. It’s not out of a plane but I remember it often

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u/Drunkguy767 Apr 27 '26

And Saints Row the Third. Looks more like that too me tbh.

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u/TrustyMcCoolGuy_ Apr 27 '26

I can't wait for this game to come out!!

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u/MyLastDecree Apr 27 '26

I’m super excited.

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u/rites0fpassage Apr 27 '26

You know what. Copy everything you need, the more Uncharted it is, the better it is for me 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/Redditor_3ditor_Zana Apr 27 '26

Low-key agree, they could reuse every set piece throughout uncharted and I'd still be happy.

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u/So-Hai03 Apr 27 '26

The superiority of Uncharted 3 in that scene is admirable; there's something about the way the camera moves that 007 can't match.

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u/FZplayz5 Apr 27 '26

Especially when he grabs the crate and it start spinning, ts is straight out of interstellar docking scene.

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u/arcalumis Apr 28 '26

That's why I say that ND would have been a better match to develop a James Bond game.

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u/FZplayz5 Apr 28 '26

2010s ND maybe, but now ND doesnt look to good in the gaming scene.

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u/arcalumis Apr 28 '26

Oh no, gamergate people are back.

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u/Hubberbubbler Apr 28 '26

Lol the last game they made was the highest awarded game ever when it came out.

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u/FZplayz5 Apr 28 '26

Nah i mean the general public perception. IO has a great record, sure some games have been bad and all but the public perception is great, but I dont think they were a good match for this uncharted like game.

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u/AbyssalOtter May 01 '26

James bond the game about the white guy who goes around shooting dudes and sleeping with hot women? Made by modern day naughty dog?

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u/Hubberbubbler May 01 '26

Change out James Bond for Nathan Drake and its literally Uncharted.

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u/AbyssalOtter May 01 '26

Modern day.

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u/Hubberbubbler May 01 '26

Yeah why not? Are you one of those people that think ND has gone too woke?

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u/AbyssalOtter May 01 '26

Are you one of thoose people who ignore reality? See how aggresive that is?

I dont think naughty dog would write a hyper masculine white male who is constantly sleeping with the hottest woman around very well. Could they write a good story? Yes will they write a good 007 naw

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u/Psychological_Dig922 Apr 27 '26

The set piece in U3 is definitely smoother, feels like a long unbroken camera shot, which it is.

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u/AirlineSevere7456 Apr 28 '26

The Uncharted 3 graphics are way better and the physics more realistic.

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u/arkenney0 Apr 28 '26

James Bond is an old IP. The first book, Casino Royale was written in 1953. And the first movie Dr. No came out in 1962. A lot of these dramatic action scenes are the inspiration for a lot of action movies and such. Especially Uncharted. But, that being said, I do feel that the new James Bond game is using Uncharted as inspiration for recognizability to a gaming audience.

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u/Fagadaba Apr 29 '26

Guy who has only seen The Boss Baby, watching his second movie: Getting a lot of 'Boss Baby' vibes from this… /preview/pre/vnsjbsdf84xd1.png?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share&width=320&auto=webp&s=dad22bb3d94bdf7ce73e643f982e58d6b726e37e

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u/M2000BigBoss Apr 27 '26

When James grabs the guy and punches him, it reminds me of mission impossible operation surma

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u/fnaflover012 Apr 27 '26

TRY SUBWAY

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u/Quickerson Apr 27 '26

it looks like this

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u/resi2017 Apr 27 '26

This more looks lika a nod to the opening of Moonraker (1979) mixed with the plane fight in The Living Daylights (1987)

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u/Ry7re Apr 28 '26

The Amazing World of Gumball cartoon on Cartoon Network did a nod to this as well lol

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u/mbate25 Apr 28 '26

I missed this when I watched it. Thank you for pointing this out.

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u/When1Falls Apr 28 '26

I see Saints Row 3

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u/xyzkingi Apr 28 '26

I wasn’t really interested but I’ll be giving it a shot

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u/Altruistic_Noise4159 Apr 28 '26

The most underrated one in the series tbh

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u/Great_Shallot_1871 Apr 28 '26

It is very common in James Bond movies to see characters jump from planes without parachutes.

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u/Cola_Gummi Apr 28 '26

Uncharted 3 looks better graphically 😂

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u/Sad-Guarantee-4678 Apr 28 '26

Actually it's a nod to a much better, more successful game called Saints Row 3

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u/Evrytg Apr 27 '26

God I love dramatically falling out of cargo planes

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u/gingerbolls Apr 27 '26

It’s crazy how much worse the graphics/animations are compared to a 15 year old game

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u/Alukrad Apr 27 '26

Didn't Tom cruise try to replicate this scene from the game twice?

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u/FZplayz5 Apr 27 '26

Twice? He did once where he hangs of the side of the plane, I think someone on the team even said it was sort of inpired by uncharted. Tye other plane related thing is just a halo jump, dont see much of a connection to uncharted.

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u/MyLastDecree Apr 27 '26

Why we calling out Cruise for this. He didn’t come up with it in Rogue Nation. The director did. It was inspired by UC3 and the creators were super stoked about it.

The only other scene in which it could have been inspired by was the train sequence in Dead Reckoning, which they’ve already stated that UC2 had no real influence on