Inside the original pitch for Uncharted | The Verge
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In 2005 Naughty Dog was a game studio best known for charming, cartoonish action adventures like Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. But the studio had bigger ambitions, and wanted to create a more sophisticated blockbuster, something with human leads and lots of action. The team toyed with a number of ideas -- at one point they even considered a game set in a high-tech underwater station; a few months later BioShock was announced -- but ultimately settled on a pulpy action adventure in the vein of Indiana Jones, now widely known as the Uncharted franchise.