When ever you get to a party, and you’re really late, you feel as if you’ve been missing out on a bunch of cool stuff. So I got myself a PS3 just before the holidays and I’ve been going through a bunch of games I never got to play before. So here is to the first one I’ve completed, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
It’s hard to describe how much fun I had playing that video game. It was release back in Q4 2007 and was appreciated by many critics. Now I’ve tried playing a Tomb Raider game before, and totally hated it. But this video game, is a live action adventure in the making. The characters are highly relatable and most of the mechanics of the game are plain fun. Simple puzzle solving, jumping from ledge to ledge, always on the brink of death. Many times I got a high stress level simply because I didn’t want my character to die. Usually it’s simple to discard this feeling considering nowadays you simply re-spawn to the check point that was 20 seconds ago.
Nathan Drake, is a really cool character to play and the story is not mind blowing. But I still felt compelled to complete the story, especially considering a sequel has been recently announced for this fall. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves will resume his adventures. Now I had tried the demo a while before purchasing the game, and I’ll have to say that the combat was very frustrating, as I recall I did not even complete the demo because I found the shooting was way too hard. At the same time it’s on this same spot I got stuck a few times, getting killed by hordes of pirates going in and out of cover. I guess I’m not use to aiming in 3rd person view. Nice balance between exploration, fighting and shooting. The cut-scenes helped the story move on while adding a great narrative value to the story.
It’s a must own title in my book.