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Uncharted: Drakes Fortune Genuinely Does Look This Good!

Uncharted is one of those games that gripped me. It never exactly did anything that I couldn’t get in an experience elsewhere but what it did do was glue together all the good ideas from Gears Of War and Tomb Raider. Hence why I’m about to play through the game for the third-time in about a week.

The story follows Nathan Drake who is the fictional descendant of Sir Francis Drake. The games story catches you right from the start with the way it presents the plot. It’s movie-like in it’s presentation and while sadly it does steal a lot of Hollywood cliche’s it also does a chief job of integrating the plot into the game. Like in Metal Gear Solid 4 the camera will occasionally just flip out of a cut-scene and put you in charge of the protagonist. And you’ll sit there dumbfounded by the fact you’re essentially controlling a cut-scene. The graphics are that good in the early levels you’ll have to slap yourself to believe what you’re seeing.

Uncharted: Drakes Fortune is essentially half-platformer as you traverse across landscapes and buildings Tomb Raider-style and half third-person shooter. It has a Gears Of War-esque cover system and the game will require you snapping yourself behind walls at every opportunity because literally two-or-three shots will kill you in this game.

The game employs a medals system (which is now linked to Playstation Trophies) to make up for the campaign’s somewhat short length. There are 61 hidden treasures to find and certain submissions to complete as you play through (50 kills without dying for example).

The beauty of Uncharted lies in it’s overlookable presence. You see, there are many people that see a new IP like Uncharted, here it’s basic gameplay is just a reworking of stuff that’s been done before and they decide to skip the game. The fact is though that Uncharted is a wonderful game — what it lacks in originality it makes up for in polish ten times over.

9/10.