Difficulty:

Hard

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Worth playing"

Uncharted is a beautiful game, not denying that. One could say it would be the new "Tomb Raider". The game delivers on some plentiful exciting moments and some spectacular visuals - the water, the jungle setting, everything in this game is fantastic in the visual department. However, the game does have its fair share of faults. But we'll get into that later. The game feels as though it took a National Treasure trip in which Nathan Drake, the main character in the game, follows clues in which leads to a "great" treasure called El Derado. And throughout the game, you go from place to place, learning each clue and figuring out puzles left for you.

So, the story revolves around three main charcters, Nathan Drake, Sully and Elena. It starts with Nathan openeing, or recovering the coffin of Sir Francis Drake, inside it is his diary in which has the clues which lead to a great treasure. Elena is a journalist who funded his trip to find the coffin, and she is there to record the events for a documentary. Sully is Nathan's buddy to helps them go to the island in which the diary tells them to go to. Sully and Nathan find a Nazi-German U-Boat, and inside lies a map telling them or pointing them to teh southern part of the island. However, before they can leave the island, Sully is captured by Mercenaries led by a treasure hunter by the name of Roman. Nathan and Elana escape, but Sully does not. From there, you will go to many of interesting and beautiful locations which will memerize you and keep you intersted,

The gameplay is similiar to games like Tomb Raider and uses a cover system similiar used in Gears of War. Nathan can jump, climb, swing ang move from ledge to ledge. As the game progresses, you'll have to climb elaborate ways to get to your destination which can sometimes lead to frustration but sometimes it's thrilling and very much exciting to see Nathan swing from a vine to a ledge in which is about to break. When goign up against enemies, one much be careful. The enemies are smart, and... tough. As in, you'll sometimes wonder if they are hyped up on PCP or something. They are extremely resilant, it can get extremely frusterating in a large firefight. Nathan can only carry one pistol and one assualt rifle and/or shotgun. Overall, the gameplay is nothing you haven't seen before. There are some elements which are exciting but the majority of the time you wonder, how the hell did these enemies make it down here? Why are they here in this spot? Sometimes in a close and locked room there will be an enemy and you'll wonder, how'd he get in there?

The graphics are fantastic, and he cut-scenes all look great. Even though what happens during the cutscenes don't seem very much important, they'll somertimes draw you in and you'll get interested on whats going on. The textures are superb and the water, grass, plants all look great. However, sometimes, one might experience some slow loading times in the textures in which the texture will be low-resolution for a few seconds and then go high-resolution. The "popping" as it's called, which is seen mostly in the Unreal Engine. The game does have some interesting graphical glitches and some minor clipping which one can ignore and it's really not that big of a deal. The main character, Nathan looks abslutely amazing, if he goes in water, his clothes will become wet, and the animations are sometimes rather interesting, impossible as one might say, but to say the least, they're good.

Like the graphics, the sound is just as superb. Uncharted has some spectacular sound design, the jungle, the water, the vehicles, and the weapons all sound great. Well, scratch the few weapons... sometimes they seem a little "weak" sounding. The AK-47 doesn't have that infamous "popping" sound in which everyone knows it's a AK. But that's a small thing in which anyone can ignore. The music is great, and the voice acting is superb. Nathan, himself, is quite the smartass in the game, with his quirky remarks in which make the game rather amusing at times.

Overall, Uncharted is a great game for the Playstation 3. I would recomment it to anyone who owns a Playstation 3.