Uncharted Early Concept Art Revealed

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is due out in a couple of months; the game looks pretty damn neat, and it also looks like it will be Nathan Drake’s most far flung and wide ranging adventure yet. But how did this adventure come about? We know that Drake’s Fortune was tropical jungles, Among Thieves were the icy Himalayas, and Drake’s Deception was sandy deserts- A Thief’s End appears to be not any one such environment, but a whole lot of them.

How did Naughty Dog visualize Drake’s journey so far? We, of course, don’t know their full creative development process. But, thanks to a new image shared on Naughty Dog’s Instagram account, we do at least have some extremely early concept art that was drawn up for the series. It actually looks different from anything that has been shown to us so far- where Uncharted always takes place in the great outdoors, this seems to be more in what appear to be sewers.

Honestly, I wouldn’t mind a level like this in one of the Uncharted games.

Early concept of our hero & an environment before he turned into Nathan Drake & Project Big turned into Uncharted • #uncharted #naughtydog #nathandrake #tbt #throwbackthursday

A photo posted by Naughty Dog (@naughty_dog_inc) on Feb 25, 2016 at 5:08pm PST