there are a number of reviews that compare this to tombraider – and having played this I remember why that was also so frustrating. That time you spend hunting around the environment looking for the one bit your character can interact with so you can progress. I’m afraid I dont see this as a challenge anymore – once you’ve played asassin’s creed and see what can really be done with a totally interactive environment then a game like this just falls short every time. One example would be where you must use a fallen block to climb onto a platform to jump to another platform – but that last platform has scaffold underneath you just cant use but really should be able to. Assassin has set the standard by which all games of this kind must judge themselves by. Bad, bad, bad.
Rating: 1 / 5
This should have been excellent but it’s nothing of the kind.
Want a game where all your enemies have super eye-sight, great accuracy and weaponry and you have rubbish eye-sight and somehow your guns don’t have anywhere the power of your enemies? Buy this.
The enemies will always know where you are far faster than you will locate them, due to the camera and the third-person viewpoint and there’s loads of them, too many by far.
Still, this is a next gen game isn’t it? Well at times it doesn’t feel like it. Sure you have some smart abilities like punching your attacker, or shooting from cover – one of the better aspects of the game – but shoot a guy in the kneecap and watch him run without injury.
What should be fun is, due to a combination of controls, camera and lazy design, a frustrating, irritating mess.
Rating: 1 / 5
After a year of painful waiting, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has finally been released from top Sony developer Naughty Dog. Promising to fuse the platforming of Tomb Raider with the cover-shooter style of Gears of War, Uncharted drops you into the middle of an island paradise crawling with pirates (and worse), and filled with ancient ruins just begging to be explored.
This is one of the best-looking games available for the PS3; the jungle you can call your new home is lush and sprawling, and animations are smooth (most of the time, anyway; Drake can get caught in strange animation glitches from time to time as he scales the environment, and some of the flora is questionably static as you move through it).
Unfortunately, all that staggering graphical fidelity seemingly comes at the cost of gameplay in a game that amounts to a second-rate “Gears of War” clone. Drake can bounce from cover to cover as he dispatches his eyepatched antagonists, but the targeting and raw shooting mechanic leaves more than a little to be desired. Targeting requires the player to be annoyingly precise, often pulling headshots with a pistol from half a kilometere away. This changes the game’s core from the traditional “Stop and pop” to a new, more annoying “Stop and snipe.”
SIXAXIS controller is awkwardly shoehorned in, allowing the player to toss grenades by angling the gamepad, and carefully navigate logs by twisting it left and right. Methinks such implementation should have been left on the drawing board.
The platforming feels a bit more floaty than it should, with the game’s lush environments actually handicapping the understandability of the run-and-jump sequences. Fortunately, these platforming sequences are kept very brief throughout the title.
Naughty Dog is to be commended for creating a stunning-looking game; if you have a PS3, this will truly be the title to show it off to your friends. However, if you’re looking for more captivating shooters, there are plenty of PS3 games out there that will fit the bill in a more entertaining fashion than Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
Rating: 2 / 5
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there are a number of reviews that compare this to tombraider – and having played this I remember why that was also so frustrating. That time you spend hunting around the environment looking for the one bit your character can interact with so you can progress. I’m afraid I dont see this as a challenge anymore – once you’ve played asassin’s creed and see what can really be done with a totally interactive environment then a game like this just falls short every time. One example would be where you must use a fallen block to climb onto a platform to jump to another platform – but that last platform has scaffold underneath you just cant use but really should be able to. Assassin has set the standard by which all games of this kind must judge themselves by. Bad, bad, bad.
Rating: 1 / 5
This should have been excellent but it’s nothing of the kind.
Want a game where all your enemies have super eye-sight, great accuracy and weaponry and you have rubbish eye-sight and somehow your guns don’t have anywhere the power of your enemies? Buy this.
The enemies will always know where you are far faster than you will locate them, due to the camera and the third-person viewpoint and there’s loads of them, too many by far.
Still, this is a next gen game isn’t it? Well at times it doesn’t feel like it. Sure you have some smart abilities like punching your attacker, or shooting from cover – one of the better aspects of the game – but shoot a guy in the kneecap and watch him run without injury.
What should be fun is, due to a combination of controls, camera and lazy design, a frustrating, irritating mess.
Rating: 1 / 5
After a year of painful waiting, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune has finally been released from top Sony developer Naughty Dog. Promising to fuse the platforming of Tomb Raider with the cover-shooter style of Gears of War, Uncharted drops you into the middle of an island paradise crawling with pirates (and worse), and filled with ancient ruins just begging to be explored.
This is one of the best-looking games available for the PS3; the jungle you can call your new home is lush and sprawling, and animations are smooth (most of the time, anyway; Drake can get caught in strange animation glitches from time to time as he scales the environment, and some of the flora is questionably static as you move through it).
Unfortunately, all that staggering graphical fidelity seemingly comes at the cost of gameplay in a game that amounts to a second-rate “Gears of War” clone. Drake can bounce from cover to cover as he dispatches his eyepatched antagonists, but the targeting and raw shooting mechanic leaves more than a little to be desired. Targeting requires the player to be annoyingly precise, often pulling headshots with a pistol from half a kilometere away. This changes the game’s core from the traditional “Stop and pop” to a new, more annoying “Stop and snipe.”
SIXAXIS controller is awkwardly shoehorned in, allowing the player to toss grenades by angling the gamepad, and carefully navigate logs by twisting it left and right. Methinks such implementation should have been left on the drawing board.
The platforming feels a bit more floaty than it should, with the game’s lush environments actually handicapping the understandability of the run-and-jump sequences. Fortunately, these platforming sequences are kept very brief throughout the title.
Naughty Dog is to be commended for creating a stunning-looking game; if you have a PS3, this will truly be the title to show it off to your friends. However, if you’re looking for more captivating shooters, there are plenty of PS3 games out there that will fit the bill in a more entertaining fashion than Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.
Rating: 2 / 5
This is the most repetitive, clumsy, boring, un-adventurous game
I ever played.
The camera controls are unbelievably clumsy.
There’s some extremely cheap thing called a “story-line”.
It’s constantly the same thing over and over again, shooting enemies,
with clumsy targetting using the right controller, you never look in front of you, instead you keep looking at the same, boring, lousy spot.
All enemies keep on re-spawning over and over again, and they all look the same.
The environment is boring to say the least, graphics are horrible too.
None of the great adventurous feeling like Tomb Raider has, no single Whoaah moment, no puzzles whatsoever.
Overal, the worst game i ever played on a console, including the old Commodore C64.
Rating: 1 / 5
this looks like a game which has been tested to perfection, I think it will become a key part of ps3 so why sell it at £32?
Rating: 5 / 5