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You probably know Naughty Dog<\/strong> for either the Uncharted<\/strong> or The Last of Us<\/strong> games – and for good reason. It’s pretty much all the esteemed studio has been working on over the past 15 years. Since 2007, the company’s focus has been on popcorn action-adventure games, and soulful stories about faux parental relationships in a ruined post-apocalyptic wasteland. <\/p>\n

But what if I was to tell you that the kernels for these games were sewn long before Drake was even a glint in the developer’s proverbial eye? What if I was to tell you that the studio’s penchant for heart-rending character development actually began before either of these PlayStation<\/strong> juggernaut series was even conceived? Way back in 2003, Naughty Dog was teasing out the foundations of what would become some of the most successful franchises of all time in a little game called Jak 2<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

If you played the first game in the series – or indeed any of the Crash Bandicoot games that preceded that – Jak 2 is a shock to the system. Naughty Dog, in a breath, discarded the rainbow palettes and mild peril of everything that had come before to instead focus on a grim, industrialised sci-fi GTA-like sandbox.<\/p>\n

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You probably know Naughty Dog for either the Uncharted or The Last of Us games – and for good reason. It’s pretty much all the esteemed studio has been working on over the past 15 years. Since 2007, the company’s focus has been on popcorn action-adventure games, and soulful stories about faux parental relationships in a ruined post-apocalyptic wasteland. But what if I was to tell you that the kernels for these games were sewn long before Drake was even a glint in the developer’s proverbial eye? What if I was to tell you that the studio’s penchant for heart-rending character development actually began before either of these PlayStation juggernaut series was even conceived? Way back in 2003, Naughty Dog was teasing out the foundations…<\/p>\n

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