At first blush it would be easy to compare Nathan Drake, the treasure-hunting star of Sony's new adventure videogame "Uncharted," with "Tomb Raider's" Lara Croft. But Drake leaves Lara in the dust, delivering the Indiana Jones experience better than gamers have ever seen it before...
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?
This is the best game I've ever played. I'm so glad I got the chance to play this before the reviews came out and I'm so glad I got the chance to actually live to see this game play out. I loved it. Sony's 1st game that's ever been flawless to me.
Uncharted takes everything you know about gaming and kicks it up 10 notches and then throws a twist in the middle of the game that no one who doesn't look at spoilers will see coming.
Everything was a quality experinece here. Do yourself a favor... disable your 720P and 1080I settings... if you have a 1080P tv and play it on there. you won't see any slowdown, no pop up, nothing but beauty. Also, the last boss fight is the most cienematic in gaming history. It's like an action movie. I don't know what they're on about. They are right, however, the ending was soooooooooooooooo worth it.
The review doesn't reveal any plot, it just outlines the structure...so to anyone who doesn't want to know ANYTHING, just know it's a great review...lol...thanks, and game on...
Seems like they didn't have a greater interest in it, but then again; it's Variety. It had this whole "meh" attitude towards it to begin with, so I really doubt that the reviewer was serious about his job at that point.
By the way, the cutscenes aren't animated, they're real-time as far as I know... the framerate isn't constant; and a processor seldom has problems displaying a video.
Variety is variety... Mario Galaxy review anyone? though I agree with it. They really talked uncharted up, I thought. They were wrong about a few things, though. The fight scene at the end was amazing. It was cinematic. Unlike all games before it. This one actually felt like a movie right. The jeep scene had not 1 ounce of a choppy frame rate on my tv or ps3. I don't understand that... But, overall, a great review for a great game.
Evan Wells said by the time they're set to do another one the animation system will have increased to over 5000 animations for Drake and that the texture streaming would be bumped up to about 200 mb of v-ram, instead of 125 they ahd here.
I can see Uncharted turning into a great movie franchise. I wonder who would play Drake in the movie.