No, my name isn’t Rick Ladouche and I’m not coming to you live from inside Uncharted 2, but I do bring important breaking news to my fellow gamers.  Recently announced over on the Playstation Blog, PS3 owners can now get their hands on the Uncharted 2 multi-player demo.  If you were like me and wasn’t able to snag a multi-player beta key from the interweb, you can now get your hands on with the game.  The multi-player demo is open for all PS3 gamers now, so get on over to the Playstation Store and start downloading!

The demo clocks in at around 1.2GB, but for that size it’s packed full with multi-player content, as well as a few hidden surprises.  The package ends up containing 4 maps, four competitive modes, and two co-op modes.  Not bad at all!  Uncharted 2: Among Thieves looks absolutely gorgeous, so one would assume that all of those maps, the high pixel counted textures and gameplay features would take up most of that space, but that isn’t the end of this post. Oh no!  There is more, so read on…

Naughty Dog is also including two new innovative modes to Uncharted 2 called Cinema Mode, as well as the innovative Machinima Mode in the demo.  They apparently couldn’t wait to get it into the hands of gamers, so they decided to give everyone a little taste.  Cinema Mode records literally everything that goes on in a multi-player round and exports it to a multimedia video file on your PS3.  Everything is tracked and recorded to this file so it can be watched over and studied over from every different angle or viewpoint.  Want to check out how WombRaider69 got you from behind with that knife behind the dilapidated car? Find out how he did it in Cinema Mode by following every one of his movements in slow-motion, and watch the knife go into your body from any possible camera angle.

Uncharted 2’s Machinima Mode looks to be the first set of tools put into a box released console game dedicated to the support of user created content and videos.  This means you can record any and all of Drake’s movements in the game only to use that content for a custom video or webisode.  Attach your blu-tooth headset or PS3 Eye camera mic, and watch Drake’s mouth move to what you are actually saying.  Pretty crazy stuff!  I’m excited! Are you? I can’t wait to hear Drake tell all of my crappy dick jokes.

[Via Playstation.Blog]