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Uncharted: The Lost Legacy

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 01/05/2019
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Publisher: SIE

Developer: Naughty Dog

Release Date: 08/22/2017


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Naughty Dog knows how to work magic as every game in the series just pushes the boundaries of each system and what games can do visually. Lost Legacy takes what Uncharted 4 did and turns it up a notch or two with exciting action, fantastic animations and voice acting, and great characters, plus the visuals are some of the best ever made, period.

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The game follows two female protagonists Cloe Frazer and Nadine Fisher who you already know from Uncharted 2 and 4. The game starts out a little more subtle than other Uncharted games where Drake was in some life-threatening situation that you have to bail out of. They take the storytelling approach as this was a very entertaining and beautiful opening and slowly introduced the characters while ramping up the action. It’s one of my favorite Uncharted openings for sure.

During the 9 chapters you play through you can collect treasure, photo spots, and optional dialog, but it’s nothing very interesting. A lot of stuff from Uncharted is recycled like the open driving area, shooting, weapons, and gameplay, so this actually just feels like an expansion rather than a sequel. One part of the game I did not like was the open driving area where you have to activate three different levers to open a new area. It felt tedious and like mostly filler. The entire game is filled with fluff like an area where you enter a cave just get stuck and climb back out to go around the other way. It’s nearly a 10-minute gameplay session and just felt like it was there to extend game time.

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The game is mostly set in the jungle which I wish it would have been in some more urban areas like the first chapter. The jungles got a little old with just rocks and green everywhere as we’ve seen this so many times in previous games, I wanted the variety like in Uncharted 3 and 4. I also felt the puzzles were too easy, and then I still can not get adjusted to Uncharted’s shooting to this day. It’s always slippery and somehow awkward like there’s something off about it all.

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Outside of the campaign, there’s a mission mode and collectibles, but the game may be only worth one more playthrough just to see the visuals and combat again, but outside of that there’s not much reason to go back. Overall, Lost Legacy is a must-play for Uncharted fans and it’s just one more game that proves the PS4 is the clear winner of this generation of consoles.

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune HD Remastered

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 01/05/2019
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Publisher: SIE

Developer Bluepoint Games

Release Date: 10/07/2015


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Uncharted was one of those games that really pushed the boundaries of next-generation gaming. The visuals were out of this world amazing, the acting was top-notch, and the character memorable. The game has some flaws for sure, but most of these were fixed later on in the series. I did notice that the first game consists of more shooting than climbing, which was not obvious when I first played it on PS3 back in 2009, but it’s still a lot of fun just for the dialog and action alone.

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For fans of Uncharted, I will just say this now, this is the definitive version of the game. It runs at 60FPS which makes the gameplay so much smoother and the textures and visuals are just smoothed over and given a polish to make it look clean. It doesn’t look nearly as good as the PS4 games or even Uncharted 2 or 3, but it’s impressive how well the game holds up today.

The shooting and cover mechanics work just fine as Nathan jumps around pillars and low-lying cover, but I never quite got used to Uncharted shooting mechanics, they just feel really slippery and somehow off. The jumping can get weird as Nathan does not catch ledges when you run off of them like in later games so he just falls off. There were times I restarted areas over a dozen times because I couldn’t figure out where to jump. The handholds and areas to go aren’t highlighted like in later games so everything just blends in and it makes it frustrating to progress and even explore because you don’t know what you can climb on.

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While the story is decent enough and keeps you interested to the end, the Spaniards coming back to life as some sort of demons never sat well with me and was off-putting. Having this realistic treasure-hunting adventure turns into something from Hollywood was so weird and I never like that aspect. I also found the game extremely frustrating at times with stupid difficulty spikes everywhere.

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Despite all of this, Uncharted is not something I think I will ever go back to again as so many things were fixed and improved in Uncharted 2 and beyond. The game isn’t really all that cinematic-like later games so there are no interesting things to re-explore. It feels more like an experiment at this point rather than the masterpieces the later games became.

Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy – 13 Years Later

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 09/18/2014
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Publisher: SCEA

Developer: Naughty Dog

Release Date: 12/3/2001 (Ps2), 2/12/2012 (Ps3), 6/18/2013 (Vita)


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I can’t begin to tell you how many chances I have given this game throughout my childhood. When I first tried the game back in 2002 I had no idea what to even do. The game does not give you any hints, there’s no map, and there certainly aren’t any traditional objectives. The story is somewhat entertaining, but it’s cut short due to the short length of the game.

You play as Jak who is just an average dude that gets stuck trying to do…something. Well, eventually you find out you’re trying to find all the mages to open their portals and find out why they are missing. Then Daxter gets himself mixed up in Dark Eco and becomes an ottsel. He’s your sarcastic yet slightly annoying sidekick through the entire game.

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The main issue with Jak and Daxter isn’t the story or the fact that you have no idea where to go or what to do. It’s the platforming mechanics. They are sluggish, slippery, and just awful. In fact, I have played worse platformers with better controls. Just simply jumping from platform to platform can be a chore that causes multiple deaths. It also doesn’t help that the platforming segments are excruciatingly difficult. I went from area to area tearing my hair out because the game is so frustrating. Even the mini-games are ridiculously hard and require meticulous memorization and reflexes. Now I don’t want my handheld through the whole thing, but make it fun while also being challenging. The entire game felt like a huge chore.

The whole point of going through these areas is to collect Power Cells. These are needed to progress through the three areas of the game. By the third section you need 73 and there’s 101 in the whole game. That’s a lot of frustrating platforming. To acquire these power cells you need to complete one of the eight objectives in each area. Some require fighting certain enemies while some require finding items or going through a platforming segment. The biggest problem with this is that the levels are so poorly designed. I got lost all the time not knowing where to go or even an indication of where I’m going or what I am doing is part of the objective.

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Here’s another big problem with the game. It was one of the last “collect-a-thon” games similar to Donkey Kong Country 64 and various other 3D platformers of the time. Collecting Precursor Orbs to buy power cells is just a chore. I despise collecting like this in a game because to me it feels like an excuse for filler content.

I seriously could not take it anymore after almost getting to the final boss. I spent hours in frustration and anger and probably died over 100 times. Dying wouldn’t be so bad if you had more than three hits before you died and it didn’t take 50 green eco orbs to get a health piece back.

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At least the graphics are nice and the game has a nice atmosphere and charm about it. The Vita and PS3 versions have upgraded lighting effects, some texture filtering, and anti-aliasing thrown in for good measure. The game looks pretty decent even for a 12-year-old game.

The Last of Us

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/16/2013
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Publisher: SCEA

Developer: Naughty Dog

Release Date: 6/14/2013


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Post-apocalyptic games always try to focus on a mass group of people or the devastation itself. The Last of Us focuses on two people, Joel and Ellie as they travel across the US to find a cure for the biological outbreak that’s destroyed the planet. The journey is a decent length and you really get to love Joel and Ellie and they become amazing characters that you don’t want to separate from.

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The Last of Us is full of emotion and amazing production values. It’s the best-looking game to grace the PS3 and is a great entry for the final lap of the console’s lifecycle. The combat is a mix of action and stealth. You can sneak around enemies and grab them from behind and either shiv them or strangle them. Shivs aren’t easy to come by, you must craft them and they can break. Strangling takes about 10 seconds to do and is a slow way to kill someone, make sure no one else is around or you will be spotted. You don’t just fight humans in this game, Clickers are some of the scariest monsters since Dead Space’s Necromorphs. The sounds that were used are incredibly scary and original. These creepy creatures can hear you even if you crouch. You must slowly crouch around them and you can only kill them with shivs. Hunters and Runners are also hard to fight but Runners can’t be snuck upon, you must fight them. Bloaters are like Tanks from Left 4 Dead; huge enemies that are hard to take down. These enemies are interesting to fight, but they are the only ones in the game so it can get repetitive after a while.

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Repetition sets in other things like each encounter feeling the exact same way. It’s just room after room of zombies or humans to fight. I wanted more cinematic events which were kind of sparse. Crafting and collecting parts helps make the game a bit more interesting. You can craft melee weapons, Molotov, shivs, medkits, and smoke bombs. You can craft in the middle of combat which is nice, but weapon upgrade stations are rare. There are only about a dozen in the whole game and you need to save up a lot of your parts to upgrade weapons. You can add gun slots and even increase clip capacity on one-shot weapons which is nice. There’s actually a good variety of weapons and they all feel useful in different situations. I found myself using all of them one way or another often.

The game is very linear but feels like an adventure. You go through various areas in the US from Boston to Utah and the game just oozes a stylized atmosphere. You really feel like you’re being pulled into this destroyed world and it just feels so compelling. Despite combat, though there isn’t much to the game, there are no puzzles or anything else that’s very challenging. Just pushing Ellie across pallets in water, moving ladders, etc. The combat is downright frustrating since Clickers can kill you in one hit and the stealth is a bit iffy. Sometimes it felt the AI was flawed and got me killed. I also ran into a few glitches.

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The story itself is the best part of the game. Bringing Ellie across the country and the hardships these two go through is just something else. I don’t want to spoil anything, but you get to play both characters and Ellie is just a strong character. A little girl who curses, kills people, and wipes out an entire gang on her own? It’s nothing like I have ever seen and shows Naughty Dog has the guts to do this.

The game itself looks amazing. The textures are at such a high resolution, the animations and models look great, and the lighting is fantastic. It really shows just how much more powerful the PS3 is over the Xbox 360. 360 exclusives like Gears of War 3 and Halo 4 have some pretty ugly textures and the lighting doesn’t look too hot. The Last of Us looks like a PC game and it blew my mind which is rare for current generation consoles these days. There are a few eyes sores but you really have to hunt for them, if only every developer put this much effort into their games.

Overall, The Last of Us is one of the best games of this generation and the best PS3 game this year. Joel and Ellie are highly memorable characters and their journey is frightening and enlightening. The combat can feel repetitive towards the end and can be downright difficult and frustrating, not to mention constantly being lost due to a lack of direction. Despite these flaws, this is one fantastic journey that every PS3 gamer should endure.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 04/21/2012
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Publisher: SCEA

Developer: Sony Bend

Release Date: 2/15/2012


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Golden Abyss is the prequel to Drake’s Fortune for PS3. This one is coming from Syphon Filter (for PSP) vets Bend Studios instead of Naughty Dog. We follow the hero Nathan Drake as he uncovers a 400-year-old massacre and travels through various dangerous locales to get there. Of course, this isn’t an Uncharted without some bad guy trying to get the fortune all for himself, but this time there are two, so this makes it a race. A new heroine is introduced as Marisa Chase, but fans will come to not like her as much as previous females in the series due to her lack of charm and charisma. The overall experience is the same as the PS3 versions, but with some added features exclusive to Vita.

The story itself doesn’t tread any new ground besides carving a new adventure. It isn’t as deep as the last two Uncharted games (Among Thieves and Drake’s Deception) because it doesn’t explore anything about Drake’s past, or push his character any. The game felt a lot like the first one, and that’s fine, but the Vita version could have been a lot more. The combat and platforming haven’t changed at all, but what’s here works well. If you are familiar with Uncharted‘s gameplay already you won’t need to learn anything new except the Vita features. You can climb around handholds as normal, but you can “paint” your path with the touchscreen which is helpful during long shimmies. You can use the touchscreen to climb ropes (as well as the rear touchpad), as well as access menus.

Thanks to the second analog stick you won’t have camera trouble, and this also includes combat. Gunfights feel just like the PS3 versions, but hand-to-hand use the touchscreen. You can press the first icon on the enemy or just use square. The final blow is laid by a swipe direction on the touchscreen. In fact, all quick-time events are done with the touchscreen. This doesn’t really add anything significant, but it is a nice touch and makes use of the technology. The tilt sensor is used to balance yourself on beams and the gyroscope is used to fine-tune your aim. These features are just subtle touches, but it doesn’t really make the game any easier.

Golden Abyss has 34 chapters, but the game can be beaten in about 4-5 hours if you aren’t looking for collectibles. There are tons of them, and without a walkthrough, you won’t find them all. This includes taking photos and doing charcoal rubs with the touchscreen. This is probably the best use of the touchscreen because it fits so well into the Uncharted gameplay and setting. The story is delivered with excellent voice acting, and the dialog is top-notch with Drake’s sarcastic and snarky comments. There are some interesting puzzles that use the touchscreen, but they are easy and not as challenging as the console versions.

The visuals are a real treat and are probably the best-looking handheld game to date on any platform ever. The lighting effects and highly detailed textures are unrivaled on any other portable device. It doesn’t look as good as the PS3 versions, but it looks very close to the first Uncharted graphics-wise. There are various locations to gawk at such as night caves, lush jungles, and dense villages.

After you beat the main game there really won’t be any reason to come back except to find the collectibles and unlock trophies. The story is entertaining, but not nearly as memorable as the console versions, but this Uncharted is lacking one huge thing that brings it down so much: Epic set pieces. Uncharted is famous for this and there isn’t a single one in the entire game. No exciting train chases, or anything like that. It feels too familiar to the basic gameplay and doesn’t stray far from that path. Golden Abyss is a great Vita game, but not the best Uncharted game.

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 01/03/2012
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Publisher: SCEA

Developer: Naughty Dog

Release Date: 11/1/2011


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The Uncharted series is really interesting because it was a skeptical Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones knock-off during E3 2005 when Sony showed it off as a new IP for the PS3, but everywhere just kind of blew it off and ignored it. Now we’re 6 years ahead and Uncharted is one of the most respected and well like series in gaming history. Uncharted 3 is a solid roller coaster ride of action, suspense, and excellent voice acting that will really keep you sucked in.

After the events of Uncharted 2, Drake and Sully find themselves in a fight at a bar with a strange woman wanting Drake’s ring. What this ring does and how they get themselves into more trouble will be left for you to find out. The story gives us some history on how the two met as well as being the most dangerous treasure hunt Drake has been on. These guys seriously want blood and they are more vicious and violent than any of Drake’s other adversaries. The story isn’t anything to balk at because there are some extremely harrowing scripted events, and the characters are just perfect and you get attached to them even more because Naughty Dog brought out a new level for each character (especially Drake) for this big finale.

The game is mostly the same combat-wise with cover, lots of guns, and explosions. There is a great variety of guns that we love in the series as well as a few new ones, but combat still has a few issues like snapping into cover doesn’t always work, and the game is extremely hard with way too many enemies like in the previous games so this has never been addressed. You will die dozens of times during certain scenes and I really wish they would have fixed this and made it more reasonable and not so difficult. The stealth sections are still poorly designed because you have no idea where to go and there are too many enemies to sneak past or take out silently. One area will be choked up with enemies and if you kill one the next will see you because he’s just a few feet away.

Despite the combat being the same, the hand-to-hand is improved and is a blast to use thanks to great animations and quick counters to knock these guys flat.  The platforming and climbing are the same and that’s a really good thing. Cleverly laid-out levels are really fun to explore because you never really get lost. But what is special about Uncharted is the unique puzzles that span entire levels and are even bigger in this game. They are a little easier to figure out only in the sense that the clues you get can actually be used like they should unlike in the last game where the puzzles were almost impossible to figure out. Each puzzle is completely different from the last, but there aren’t as many as in previous games because this one is cutscene-heavy, and there is a better balance of shooting, puzzle-solving, adventuring, and cutscenes, so the overall flow is more natural.

Of course, the best part about Uncharted is the scripted scenes and these go way over the top with horseback riding, combat in the air while trying to get on a plane, a battle on a sinking ship, and just a whole bunch more that make the game feel like a blockbuster movie. This was my favorite part of the whole game because it just sucked you into the experience like most games can’t do, and I really felt the situations and the danger Drake was in thanks to clever camera work. The visuals are probably the best the PS3 has seen (better than Killzone 3, Resistance 3, and I daresay may be better than God of War III). The huge open landscapes are just riddled with ridiculous detail that I didn’t think the PS3 could even do. Beautiful lighting, high-resolution textures, and the animations are so detailed with Drake tripping over himself, and putting his hands on stair rails, so this makes the entire game feel organic and fluid.

Uncharted 3’s multiplayer is also a blast with unlockable characters, guns, and other goodies to keep you playing. I really like the multiplayer and the style works great, but of course, it’s nothing to break the grounds for online shooters. Co-op single-player is a welcome blast, so the whole multiplayer suite involved helps sweeten the already great package. Uncharted will be remembered by myself and most gamers who appreciate an excellent game. The third entry is the perfect ending to an amazing trilogy.

Collector’s Edition: If you want to spend the extra $40 then you will be treated with everything coming in a beautiful chest (its heavy cardboard, unfortunately), as well as a replica of the ring, a belt buckle, and a 6″ figure of Drake, plus a special packaging for the game case. The whole collection is beautiful and very well designed, but this is for collectors strictly and people who aren’t really hardcore fans of the series should probably pass this up.

2011 Game of the Year Awards — Genre — Best Action Adventure

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/23/2011
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Action-adventure games are all about open worlds with great combat/fighting, lots of missions to do, variety in activities, and even customization is great. These tend to be the heavy hitters and one of the most revolutionary genres in gaming history. There were a lot of AAA action-adventure titles this year, and a few didn’t even make it on the list. Only one can win, though.

Batman: Arkham City

Arkham City may be a sequel, but it’s a sequel that does everything that a sequel should do: Make everything 100x better and introduce so much new content it’s a completely different game. Arkham City has a huge open world and allows you to really feel like Batman with investigation missions, smooth and fun combat, plus all of Batty’s gadgets. This is truly a beautiful and unique game, something that all comic books games need to model from.

Runner-Ups

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2011 Game of the Year Awards — Achievements — Best Voice Acting

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/22/2011
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Voice acting is what delivers the personality in characters, and good voice acting is key to any good game. What makes it the best is a wide variety of personalities delivered by the voice actor and thus bringing out the greatness of characters. Good voice acting makes them unique, lovable, and makes you become attached to them. This year had some great AAA titles with amazing voice acting, but only one can take the prize.

Portal 2

Portal 2 delivers some amazing characters through witty whimsical writing and some talented voice actors. Portal 2 doesn’t just have good voice acting but diverse, funny, and unique voices for characters that are one of a kind. This is what made it top the others and is definitely something to be remembered. With characters like Wheatley, GlaDOS, Turrets, Cave Johnson, and other characters you just can’t beat that.

Runner-Ups

Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

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2011 Game of the Year Awards — Achievements — Best Story

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 12/22/2011
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A great story is usually memorable and you will talk about it for years to come. You need good characters, voice acting, and a lot of other elements to make a good story. Usually, there has to be a great ending as well as some twists and turns, but it also has to make sense. A good story is probably the hardest thing to find in the video game world, but there were a lot of great ones this year, but there can be only one.

Gears of War 3

This was the toughest category this year. With so many great stories I could only choose one. Gears of War may be considered a meat head’s game, but the story branching over the three games is full of great characters and a struggle for survival that eats at your heart. These people are fighting a genocidal race of bugs, and in the meantime, they are losing their loved ones right in front of their eyes. The delivery from the voice actors just makes you care so much about Delta Squad, but overall the ending and story in Gears 3 finish the story with a tightness that most sequels can’t really pull off.

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Assassin’s Creed: Revelations

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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

Posted by BinaryMessiah on 08/24/2010
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Publisher: SCEA

Developer: Naughty Dog

Release Date: 10/13/2009


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Ever since the first God of War the action/adventure genre has been all about cinematic set pieces, pounding soundtracks, and adrenaline-inducing combat, and Uncharted 2 pulls out all the stops. You play as Nathan Drake, once again, and this time you are trying to find the Cintamani Stone that Marco Polo died trying to find. Along the way you meet old friends, and make new enemies, but the story is as human and satisfying as ever, with amazing, snappy, and witty dialog and voice acting.

The best part about Uncharted 2 is the cinematic set-pieces. These complete 1-up the original game when it comes to this. The game starts out with Drake hanging from a train, but to add extra tension the train is slowly falling apart as you climb it. This method of getting your blood flowing is done throughout the game and really helps add to the excitement. The game is made like a Hollywood blockbuster movie with tons of explosions, and guns galore.

The gunplay is also a step up from the last game along with a more balanced and better-scaled difficulty. Before the game was a pain from the start, but now the game slowly gets harder. With a ton of weapons at your disposal, and with each packing a good punch mowing down baddies has never been so fun. Along with the gun, play is on rail shooting sections that are pulse-increasing mayhem, and a ton of fun, but Uncharted isn’t just about the action.

The adventure part is well implemented and just as exciting thanks to the clever level design and the puzzles are a little easier to figure out this time around. You really feel like you can do the impossible thanks to the game making you feel like a tiny person in a small world scaling mountains, and giant temples, and this is also in part with the camera angles. Naughty Dog learned what worked in the first game, and built tenfold on top of it, and it does show really well.

While the controls and animations feel smoother the game does has its issues still. Despite the difficulty being scaled better the game get’s overly difficult and unbalanced towards the end of the game. The engine just isn’t built for a ton of super-tough enemies at once. Dying over and over again just isn’t fun, and this really detracts from the excitement of the story. There are some minor control issues that carried over such as Nate moving to cover when you direct him the wrong way if the camera is turned just the right way. He’ll get stuck on small ledges and this could lead to frustrating cheap deaths, but other than that the game is fine. The game seems to balance gunplay and adventuring a little better now as well which makes the pacing spot on.

You can still collect treasures, and unlock new bonuses, and the multiplayer is pretty fun, but it’s no Modern Warfare in terms of depth and strategy. If you love cinematics and story at its finest picking up Uncharted 2, with its beautiful visuals, will keep you pleased.