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Catherine Lewis

"This game sucks": Former Uncharted 4 dev says a mystery Naughty Dog project was torn apart by corporate, leading to threats of pulled funding and a huge leadership shake-up

Nathan Drake in Uncharted 4.

It sure sounds like a former Naughty Dog developer just revealed a few new details about the scrapped version of Uncharted 4 that never came to be, as he discusses a game prototype that corporate allegedly threatened to pull funding from if the team didn't improve things.

The version of Uncharted 4: A Thief's End that we know – the one that made it to store shelves – was directed by The Last of Us leads Neil Druckmann and Bruce Straley, but this wasn't always the case. Uncharted series creator Amy Hennig – who also served as director on Uncharted 1-3 – was previously at the helm for this one, too, but in March 2014, it was reported that she was no longer at Naughty Dog.

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