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Two weeks after the first teaser, a second one dropped showing a badly beaten up Drake waking inside a wrecked train car hanging over a cliff edge, basically giving away the game's now-iconic opening chapter months ahead of release.
Chloe Frazer was written as having grown up in Australia, and it just so happens her voice and mocap actress Claudia Black is Australian too, hailing from Sydney, so there's a bit of genuine background matching the character.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves didn't keep its name when it crossed the Pacific. In Japan it was localised as Uncharted: The Golden Sword and the Disappeared Fleet, which honestly sounds like a whole different pulp adventure novel.
Robin Atkin Downes has played villain after villain across the Uncharted series, so Tenzin sticks out. He's the loyal Tibetan guide who becomes one of Nate's genuine allies, making it the one time Downes gets to play someone actually on Drake's side.
Before Naughty Dog settled on Among Thieves, the sequel was floating around internally under the working subtitle Something Mysterious and Cool, which is a very Naughty Dog placeholder if ever there was one.
The multiplayer DLC didn't just add more Drake and Chloe outfits, it let you run around as characters pulled from inFamous, Killzone and Resistance, plus a nod to a fictional Uncharted title called Eye of Indra that never actually existed as a real game.
Tenzin's name is a direct tip of the hat to Tenzing Norgay, the real Tibetan Sherpa who climbed Everest alongside Edmund Hillary and became one of the first two people ever confirmed to reach the summit.
The mountainous Borneo section of the game takes its visual cues from the real Mount Kinabalu, even though in reality that peak sits way further north than where the game actually places Nate and Sully on the map.
The museum Drake and Flynn sneak into during the Istanbul chapters is modelled on the Topkapi Palace Museum, once the actual seat of the Ottoman sultans and still one of the most visited landmarks in Turkey today.
During the museum infiltration, Nate cracks a joke that they'll be "in like Flynn." It sounds like a throwaway pun on Harry Flynn's name, but it's actually a much older phrase tied to actor Errol Flynn and his reputation with the ladies.
