Uncharted: Drakes Fortune

What could I possibly say bad about this great game? Well, a few things actually; after playing through the game in one night with a couple of friends, we all had this same opinion on it, and that was that its a good game in its own right, but there were just some things that wern't right..

The First thing that comes to mind is the story, Which at first looks like a complete rip-off of National Treasure, which, it partly is, mixed with Indiana Jones and even going to the extent of copying an idea present in Pirates of the Caribbean, the "people who touch the treasure turn into monsters" idea - I mean come on, that's just a little to far.

The point in which the game introduced these monsters we all just said "..what the fuck?". It was completely unnecessarily and ruined the last section of the slightly interesting story.

Combat in the game was ridiculous, Regardless of difficulty setting the enemies had superhuman gun wielding skills, causing them to hit you 90% of the time you go out from cover, however this gun fire does not kill you, but it does get annoying when your getting hit so often from so far away... with a shotgun... (as a side note, I did not find the game that hard, the only times I died were just incredibly cheap moments or the stupid quicktime events)

Every enemy in the game is some form of stereotypical "Asain", "Negro" or "Latain" all armed with stereotypical voices and insults, even the main villain is replaced by one of the above (I can't even remember I lost interest in the story that much near the end)

Another thing I noticed were some effects such as the plant light reflection and the explosion smoke all look horribly fake, as if the plants were plastic and the explosions were small atom bombs.


Puzzles were placed throughout the game at good points, with most being satisfying to figure out, but then there are others which were just ridiculous and ones which are just so stupidly simple it deceives you into thinking it was harder.

But really, I'm just nitpicking the game to death - it was a damn fine game and deserves to be played and finished by every PS3 owner at some point in their life.