Trivia / Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

• Actor Allusion: In "The Chateau" chapter, Sully tells Nate that the building "doesn't look old enough to be a Crusader castle. Looks more like Renaissance to me." At the game's time of release in 2011, who were Desmond Miles' two known ancestors?
• Actor-Inspired Element: Graham McTavish improvised Cutter's Claustrophobia.
• Celebrity Voice Actor: In the Japanese dub, Nathan Drake's younger self is voiced by film/television actor Sosuke Ikematsu and Katherine Marlowe is voiced by actress/singer Mari Natsuki (better known to anime fans as the voice of Yubaba and Zeniba in Spirited Away).
• Completely Different Title: The Japanese title is Uncharted: Atlantis in the Sleeping Desert.
• Contest Winner Cameo: As the winner of the Uncharted Audition competition, parkourist and real-life superhero Jeremy "Spyder" Gallant was added a multiplayer skin, providing the voice-acting and motion-capture himself.
• Development Gag: The shirt that Young Nathan wears is the same one he wore in the original announcement trailer for the first game, before it was changed. He also wears this shirt in Eye of Indra. Uncharted 4: A Thief's End implies it's the faded hand-me down of his older brother, Sam.
• Enforced Method Acting: Nolan North broke two ribs before filming mocap for the game, which explains why Nathan always looks like he's in pain.
• Fake Brit: Sort of. Graham McTavish is from Britain, but he's from Scotland, not London like his character Charlie Cutter.
• Fake Nationality: Egyptian-American Sayed Badreya and English TJ Ramini as Yemeni natives Rameses and Salim, respectively.
• Playing Against Type: Zig-zagged with Robin Atkin Downes as Talbot. Downes has played villains in Uncharted games before (and after) Drake's Deception, but those villains are Latin American (the Peruvian Atoq Navarro and the Panamanian Hector Alcazar, respectively), whereas Talbot is English, just like Downes himself.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Charlie Cutter was supposed to be in the entire game, but his actor unfortunately had other commitments, and so was written out early.
  • A minor example. Early trailers showed a different, deeper sound for the AK-47, which didn't make it into the finished product.
• You Look Familiar: Graham McTavish previously voiced Lazarevic, the Big Bad of Among Thieves, which helps to mask the fact that he's a good guy as Cutter in Drake's Deception.