Drake can now engage in melee combat with more than one enemy at at time, and he's got a few new cool moves. The gameplay has seen some excellent improvements, too. After you've guided Nate, with Sully at his side, through a full-on battle with two armored trucks and a whole lot of fighters in the middle of a furious sandstorm, you'll feel like you could pretty much do anything. After you've fought your way through a group of foes on a plane that's lurching from side to side, causing the cargo containers you're using as cover to move back and forth and become dangerous themselves, the scenes from the first two games seem easy. Unlike in the previous games, though, where the battle scenes began to get a bit repetitive, even when they introduced ultra-powerful foes like the Descendants in the first game and the guardians in the second, this one has some really new, challenging approaches. Like its predecessors, Uncharted 3 has a lot of gunfights, wherein Drake and his allies take on groups of trained soldiers and, of course, kill them all. Some of the visuals came close to literally taking my breath away: waterfalls that actually looked like water particles of dust caught in beams of sunlight as you run past them being caught in a burning building with flames so real you can almost feel them. I don't care that they had to invent a plot that tied together a cruise ship that gets turned on its side with a trudge through the Rub' al Khali desert, because both scenes are so amazing just to look at – let alone to guide Nathan Drake through – that I'd honestly be happy with them even with no plot at all. Based on the clips I'd seen, I was prepared to be impressed by the visuals, but I wasn' t prepared for the jaw-droppingly incredible scenes I would see – and I mean what I say, too: my jaw literally did drop several times. To say that the graphics in Uncharted 3 are unparalleled is an understatement.
The story and characterization of the Uncharted games – and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, which comes out today, is no exception – are so much fun it's hard to care that you don't have any real control over them.
So you might think I wouldn't enjoy the Uncharted series.īut you'd be wrong to think so.
I like to have some measure of control over how the game progresses, and I'm not usually a fan of games where the plot sometimes seems to exist only to tie gun battle scenes together. I grew up on text-based computer games, and still think some of them were among the best I've ever played. I'm a pretty tough sell when it comes to video games.
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