Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
by Sony
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Video Game Reviews of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Customer Review: Great game but...
Summary: 3 Stars
I regretted to play Uncharted 2 before playing the 1st one. It's just one of the best game on PS I've every played. Uncharted 1 is fun as well. The story is interesting. However, the part I don't like is that "there are way too many unnecessary battles." The enemy appears anywhere... somewhere even they're impossible to get to. You can see them... Good thing is that it doesn't do a lot of loading. The game is smooth. There are many good ideas in this game. It's cheap and I would recommend to you who like adventure games. Customer Review: Good game but overhyped
Summary: 4 Stars
My 2 cents:
Graphics: CHECK - awesome - some of the best you will see in any game!
Story: check - kinda. Not much depth to the story at all, hmm.
Fun factor - errr... not really. Its pretty boring in parts and the constant climbing
gets old quick.
Battles with enemies? Again after the first view boards its Hide\Aim\Shoot - pretty tedious IMO.
Other comments: Well the game frozen on me like 4 times while beating it. Didn't care for that. Weapons are pretty limited and I felt myself waiting for a big payoff that never really came.
Don't get me wrong Uncharted is a really beautiful game overall and you really should try it but after the white knuckle games like COD4 and Killzone2 and even Bioshock this one is really kinda boring.
Must admit that the presentation of the environments are stunning stuff. I found myself stopping to see the view off the cliffs in most scenes. Unbelievable detail.
Customer Review: 1 Part Indy + 1 Part Goonie
Summary: 5 Stars
With Uncharted 2 getting all the press and pretty much guaranteed a spot in the Top 3 games of the year, I figured it was time (as a new PS3 owner) to go back and play both in chronological order. My understanding is Uncharted 2 is better, but I don't know how. This game is a case-study in what adventure games can and should be.
Disclaimer: I love adventure movies. Indiana Jones...The Goonies...National Treasure...Tomb Raider...even Sahara. Movies that take a solitary adventurer and pit him/her against dark forces and things of the past for the sake of treasure. So, to be able to actually PLAY an adventure movie was a dream come true.
Others have said Uncharted is cinematic, and I think thats an understatement. Naughty Dog (who I hadnt heard from since Keef the Thief on Amiga, does anyone remember that one?) has accomplished this interactive blockbuster by several means:
Graphically, this ranks amongst the top in the genre, maybe the top in all of videogames. Its up there. Texture and rendering are unbelievably deep. Moss on rocks. Leaves, flowing vegetation, the light bouncing off swaying palms. Sunsets off the seascape. Overcast skies in the rainforest. Extremely realistic water flow, and how your clothes stay "wet" after you emerge from swimming. The motion blur of the background when you pan the camera view. The vividness of the color palatte is amazing, and will put your HD TV through its paces (as it should). This game is a reason to buy an HDMI cable. The main distraction from gameplay is that you want to stop and take pictures. Its beautiful.
The beauty helps support the solid gameplay. Do you remember the first time you played Tomb Raider, how exciting it was (and how quickly it became a test of patience and unnecessary precision)? Uncharted takes all the good things you remember from past adventure games like it and discards the bad. The puzzles are thought provoking and challenging, but not arbitrary (pull some box, set off some weighted-tile, etc, etc, etc). Things have a clear purpose, and navigating the platforming portion of the game doesnt require perfection (and 100 restarts).
Sound is on a par with everything else in the game. Music is perfectly matched to the scenario, and epic in its sounds and scope. Great, great scoring. Less important, but a detail I appreciated was surround sound accuracy, especially when you pan the camera view. They didnt have to do this, but it adds so much depth to the game. Buy a surround sounds system for games like this.
Minor gripes - gunfights are realistic enough, but how many 7.62mm bullets does it take to drop a bad-guy? Was my AK disfunctional? Also (and this is a common gripe from what I've read) the wonky camera angles can sometimes throw you off as you dash, climb, and swing along a vertigo-inducing cliff face. That being said, those same pesky camera views can sometimes immerse you in the scene, making it seem like you really are part of a movie in progress.
Uncharted has it all, the look, the voice-acting, the mechanics, the humor...I put this in my Top 10 games of all time, easily. If you are new to the PS3 (and were always sort of jealous of Uncharted when you owned a 360), you owe it to yourself to make this part of your permanent collection, especially as it is now at am amazing price-point. This is a game that will define this console.
Customer Review: New PS3 owner's review
Summary: 4 Stars
The game is combination of platforming and third person shooter. None of the puzzles are too difficult, and the shooting/cover system aspects work well enough. I had a good time with this game, but there is little to no replay value as there is only the campaign to plow through. I can see how this was GOTY when it was released, but it has become just above average in today's market. I've since started UC2 and that is definitely GOTY material today. Get it cheap otherwise just rent it.Customer Review: As Close to a Movie as It Gets
Summary: 5 Stars
Amazing voice acting and graphics (for its time), great action-adventure story, fluid controls, and a third-person view makes it feel like a blockbuster flick. It's the best PS3 series hands down.