Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

For those of you familiar with the classic Tomb Raider series and want more, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is the only next gen game for the Playstation 3 to rival it. Uncharted comes from Naught Dog, the guys who bought you classic playstation gems such as Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter. Uncharted mixes platforming, epic gunfights and teasing puzzles to create an experience like no other...

The plot of Uncharted starts off quite simple but as you go along you may get confused in some places. The whole story starts off with Nathan Drake, a wily treasure hunter believed to be a descendent of the legendary Sir Francis Drake himself. With the help of a reporter named Elena Fisher who is filming a documentary, Drake pinpoints the locations of Francis' coffin in the middle of the ocean in hopes that he will find ancient treasure but the coffin is empty apart from a small journal that Nathan pockets. Suddenly your ship is attacked by modern age pirates but Nathan's old...

From the creators of the excellent Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter series Drakes Fortune is yet another triumph for Naughty Dog.

Drakes Fortune follows the story of an explorer named Nathan Drake. On a ring passed down to him through the generations he finds coordinates to the coffin of his ancestor Francis Drake. After locating the coffin and finding nothing but a diary inside Nathan, friend Sully and reporter Elena continue the quest to discover the treasure left behind by his great grand father.

If your fond of games like Lara Croft, Prince Of Persia and God Of War and if you love films like Indiana Jones and National Treasure then you will love Drakes Fortune as it combines elements of all the above into one...

This review is a little late in coming, and I'm sorry, I didn't get my hands on a copy for a while after it came out. But here goes nonetheless.

In Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, you play a character called Nathaniel Drake, who is a self proclaimed descendent of Sir Francis Drake, the famous English explorer circa 1500s. The game opens with Nathan uncovering the journal of his ancestor, in which is written instructions to a lost treasure. We later find out that the journal's "instructions" are not more than clues to solving some of the puzzles down the road. No matter! The game continues from here, throwing our hero into a variety of environments and predicaments reminiscent of Indiana Jones.

Gameplay

Drake's Fortune brings something fresh to the Playstation 3 with its simple, yet addictive game play. The learning curve is very smooth, and progresses along a path that continually builds difficult, yet never quite overwhelms the player with...

THE GOOD:
- Amazing graphics/visuals (one of the best, if not the best on the PS3)
- Great Tomb Raider/National Treasure-esque storyline and gameplay. I loved it, even moreso because I have never played Tomb Raider games before. The story and gameplay is very exciting, and I did not want to ever put the game down. It was cool how the game made me feel that I was basically alone fighting for my line, and that everyone was against me. I thought my two "allies" had turned on me at many points in the game
- Perfect music and sound. Everything works so well with environments, weapons, etc.
- Great voice overs/cast. I really believed them as characters
- Brilliant environments. You really feel like you are in these places. It is quite stunning. I also love how you travel to various places in the world to continue the story
- Amazing attention to detail. There are so many little things you will notice that will amaze you
- I like that the main...