There is no other way to say it. Uncharted is a good game. A year later and it still stands as one of the best games available for the PS3.
Story: Uncharted: Drakes Fortune tells the tale of a treasure hunter looking for that one big score that can let him and his friends retire happy. He seeks to find the lost city of gold. Unfortunately he isn't the only one after the treasure and as a result he has to face numerous obstacles along the way.
The story for the game really stood out for me. The content of the story was excellent but more importantly the way the story was presented. The motion capture and voice actors also did an excellent job with the game characters.
Graphics: Uncharted really is till this day one of the best looking games on the PS3. The textures really come out sharp and beautiful in this game and the lighting and the color makes everything stand out.
Gameplay: The game pretty much plays like your standard 3rd person shooter today. You take cover and you pop out to shoot. When your health is low your screed fades out and your heart starts to beat loudly which also causes your controller to rumble a bit.
The core shooting gameplay is pretty spot on for what you would expect from a 3rd person shooter unfortunately, Uncharted suffers from some heavy linearity and very weak environment interactivity. Sure some plants move when you walk past them but not all of them. The environment destruction could have been expanded to include not just piles of rocks. Crates that look breakable simply don't break. Its not really a bad thing but it takes a bit away from the ability to explore the world.
There is some really good platforming in uncharted. I particularly loved their six axis use for balancing on logs. Probably one of the best use of sixaxis so far. Grenade throwing with sixaxis is kinda silly though
Uncharted stands at about 8hrs long which isn't bad but when you consider the game has no multiplayer it makes it seem a bit on the short side. However uncharted is a game you will probably play more than once and have tons of fun doing so.
November 19 marks 15 years since the release of the Uncharted game that started it all.
I hope they don’t make another until the end of the ps5 lifecycle…. Show us a better jungle
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KeenGamer: "Which Uncharted game is the best? Uncharted is widely recognized as one of the most groundbreaking and consistently great franchises in gaming. For both long-time fans and newcomers to this action-adventure classic, here’s a ranking of the franchise’s four main games."
No Golden Abyss -_-, otherwise I agree with the order.
UC2: Best overall
UC4: Best graphics, best gameplay, best locations, best environements
UC3: Best set pieces IMO (the boat and desert fights will always be amazing)
UC1: A rough Draft of what was to come
UCGA: Basically UC1 on Vita
Great list and great article nicely writen and explained. Although for me personaly i would put Drakes Fortune above Drake’s Deception and Uncharted 4 is absolutely my favourite of the franchise and number 1 for me.
U2 is the only game playable on crushing without causing a great amount of frustration. Not to mention just how much influence it had that they redid some of U2s set pieces like the caravan twice, and armored truck chase in U4.
I'd rate it as the following.
1.) Uncharted 2
(Close to perfection of any game I've played in years. Single Player/Multiplayer/Co Op all amazing.)
2.) Uncharted 3
(On par with UC2 multiplayer/co op wise minus the kickbacks [aka killstreaks]. I really liked the Lawrence of Arabia story.)
3.) Uncharted 4
(Single player is amazing. Multiplayer was meh. Co Op had potential. Absolutely hated the health revive system it slowed down the game way too much. Always preferred the fast pace action of UC2/UC3. Made it way more fun that way. Recoil was too ridiculous that most people in lobbies would only do hip firing, using power weapons and using that OP grappling hook to melee people after dropping them. Nobody wanted to revive anyone.)
4.) Uncharted
(It's the first in the series so it's hard to judge. Though I loved the story.)
I agree here but it’s also a series you can play from front to back and truly enjoy. Story-wise, they are all great and flow so well. I wish they threw both Golden Abyss and Lost Legacy on this list. Lost Legacy is the best mechanically in my opinion. You can see it’s stepping stone framework for TLOUS2.
uncharted 2 is one of the few games that actually surpassed its pre-release hype.
I am a single player gamer...I barely ever touch a multiplayer component. The only exceptions over the years have been the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, TLOU factions, and the Uncharted 2 multiplayer. The Uncharted 2 multiplayer saw me spend more time playing it than all my other multiplayer experiences over the years combined. That game really was a masterpiece all around.
I agree completely, those are all stellar MP experiences, coming from another SP gamer who only occasionally gives MP some time.
Come to think of it, the step between Uncharted 1 and Uncharted 2 is huge. It goes from the weakest in the series to one of the best games ever made.
I think I'm going to play all of them again soon.
is multiplayer still up for the remastered trilogy? or did it never have UC2 mp?
good review
nice work man :)
But I would give it a 9.
Nice review
If this game had used multiplayer wisely, have a co-op at LEAST. Then it would dominate.
of a score.
the repetitive shooting elements really bogged it down for me, but other than that, good review