Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is the ultimate action adventure. It puts together the best of the best: Gears of War gameplay, platforming, puzzles, great graphics, and great orchestrated music. This game can be considered a perfect package.
The story of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is excellent. With many surprises (with Sully), and with a well-written dialogue, this game could be comparable to the movies. The story is rather basic: tomb raiders searching for a huge loot, and end up wanting it to stay on a island. I won't get into any details except that you play as Nathan Drake an ancestor of Sir Francis Drake, and go on an adventure with Elena Fisher, a reporter, and Victor "Sully" Sullivan, a tomb raider in debt. I will recommend this game to anyone.
The sound of Uncharted is amazing. The orchestrated music is phenomenal, and some of the best music I've ever heard in a game. The sound of the bullets, and weapons are the same as every other game, but what makes this game shine is the off-beat sounds that are epic. Congrats Greg Edmonson for making such amazing music.
Now onto the gameplay, can I say this game is flawless? With the exception of some of the gun fights, the level design made almost all of them fun. The platforming was great, but rather easy, and the puzzles were amazing. The only part of the game I didn't like was the rather annoying timed buttons because they were so far apart, it was hard to know when they were going to happen. But besides that this game was amazing.
Visually this is probably the best-looking console game. The game is rather on and off graphically but in most places it shines. The fortress and the jet ski levels are some of the best graphics ever in a game. It looks simply stunning in every way. Also worth mentioning is Drake's fluid animations that make this game even more beautiful.
I would give this game a perfect score, except that this game is missing a key aspect: multiplayer. While this game may have the best single player for an action adventure this gen (except for maybe Bioshock), this game was made for multiplayer. Hopefully the sequel will have multiplayer.
November 19 marks 15 years since the release of the Uncharted game that started it all.
I hope they don’t make another until the end of the ps5 lifecycle…. Show us a better jungle
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KeenGamer: "Which Uncharted game is the best? Uncharted is widely recognized as one of the most groundbreaking and consistently great franchises in gaming. For both long-time fans and newcomers to this action-adventure classic, here’s a ranking of the franchise’s four main games."
No Golden Abyss -_-, otherwise I agree with the order.
UC2: Best overall
UC4: Best graphics, best gameplay, best locations, best environements
UC3: Best set pieces IMO (the boat and desert fights will always be amazing)
UC1: A rough Draft of what was to come
UCGA: Basically UC1 on Vita
Great list and great article nicely writen and explained. Although for me personaly i would put Drakes Fortune above Drake’s Deception and Uncharted 4 is absolutely my favourite of the franchise and number 1 for me.
U2 is the only game playable on crushing without causing a great amount of frustration. Not to mention just how much influence it had that they redid some of U2s set pieces like the caravan twice, and armored truck chase in U4.
I'd rate it as the following.
1.) Uncharted 2
(Close to perfection of any game I've played in years. Single Player/Multiplayer/Co Op all amazing.)
2.) Uncharted 3
(On par with UC2 multiplayer/co op wise minus the kickbacks [aka killstreaks]. I really liked the Lawrence of Arabia story.)
3.) Uncharted 4
(Single player is amazing. Multiplayer was meh. Co Op had potential. Absolutely hated the health revive system it slowed down the game way too much. Always preferred the fast pace action of UC2/UC3. Made it way more fun that way. Recoil was too ridiculous that most people in lobbies would only do hip firing, using power weapons and using that OP grappling hook to melee people after dropping them. Nobody wanted to revive anyone.)
4.) Uncharted
(It's the first in the series so it's hard to judge. Though I loved the story.)
I agree here but it’s also a series you can play from front to back and truly enjoy. Story-wise, they are all great and flow so well. I wish they threw both Golden Abyss and Lost Legacy on this list. Lost Legacy is the best mechanically in my opinion. You can see it’s stepping stone framework for TLOUS2.
uncharted 2 is one of the few games that actually surpassed its pre-release hype.
I am a single player gamer...I barely ever touch a multiplayer component. The only exceptions over the years have been the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer, TLOU factions, and the Uncharted 2 multiplayer. The Uncharted 2 multiplayer saw me spend more time playing it than all my other multiplayer experiences over the years combined. That game really was a masterpiece all around.
I agree completely, those are all stellar MP experiences, coming from another SP gamer who only occasionally gives MP some time.
Come to think of it, the step between Uncharted 1 and Uncharted 2 is huge. It goes from the weakest in the series to one of the best games ever made.
I think I'm going to play all of them again soon.
is multiplayer still up for the remastered trilogy? or did it never have UC2 mp?
