Uncharted: Drakes Fortune

Uncharted: Drakes Fortune

Uncharted is a adventure action game, where you play as the character Nathan Drake and the main story aim is to find El Dorado (The city of gold). It is rated as one of the best adventure games of all time and is up there with Lara Croft - Tomb Raider.

 

 

Uncharted is developed by Naughty dog and was published by Sony computer entertainment America. It was made on the Naughty dog engine 1.0 and is only available on Play station 3, to the dissatisfaction of Xbox fans. It was the first game of the Uncharted series and more have followed like sequel Uncharted 2: Among thieves, it was originally announced at E3 2006, it was developed for 2 years and then made its big release at the end of 2007. It received very good reviews by critics, it got a very good score of 88 by Metacritic and it sold 4.6m units worldwide.

The game play itself is smooth and crisp and the graphics was top notch at this time of the year, except maybe for the mouths of the characters where it does seem to be lacking finesse. The plat forming elements allow Nathan to jump, grab, swim and move along ledges and perform other acrobatic actions, when facing multiple enemies the player can use either melee or range for the shooting, these third-person elements were compared by many reviewers to Gears of War. The game starts out with Nathan Drake and Elena Fisher discovering the coffin of famous explorer Sir Francis Drake who is the ancestor of Nathan, however the coffin only contains a diary pointing the location of El Dorado, from then on it is the pursuit of this famous city.

 

What I really liked about this game is the story, as the pursuit of El Dorado is quite intriguing and does make for great storytelling. The game play itself is decent enough but I don't think I would compare it to Lara Croft just yet, Tomb Raider defined this genre and to be honest I don't think it's getting knocked of its pedestal just yet.

To conclude, the story is the best part of this game with likeable characters such as Nathan Drake and Elena. The graphics are great for this time and even though in the newer games they are better, this game does still deliver in that department. But my biggest issue is that it could have been more successful if it was also released on Xbox but that's just my opinion.

7/10