Ex-Naughty Dog Bruce Straley on Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning’s Similarity to Uncharted 2

Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1 is out in theaters now, and there’s one scene that may be a little familiar to fans of the Uncharted series.

The work also caught the eye of Bruce Straley, co-director of Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, who recently tweeted an image of the hanging train scene from the film, along with the caption, “Uncharted 2.” I compared the images. Included in that was “…a sincere compliment!” As a quick refresher, Uncharted 2 came out in his 2009. The game’s most iconic scene It’s Nathan Drake, the main character hanging from the train car.

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…sincere compliments! 😉 pic.twitter.com/qwVrLWqj2A

— Bruce Straley (@bruce_straley) July 15, 2023

Of course, the hanging vehicle idea wasn’t created by Uncharted 2. The 1997 movie The Lost World: Jurassic Park Contains scenes like It’s from Uncharted 2 and Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part 1. But Christopher McQuarrie, director of the last few Mission: Impossible films, has previously said he took inspiration from the Uncharted games.

McQuarrie you said that in 2015 He explained that Rogue Nation’s plane sequence was inspired by 2011’s Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deceit. contained a planar sequence.

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