At least once in your life, there was a time in which you felt like you were lost in translation. In my case, it is the sheer happiness after completing all games from the Uncharted Series. You might think this is quite a silly post about some crazed gamer glorifying their experience, then intimidating his/her readers who will never probably play it. Well, I might do it subconsciously like everyone else (mind, this phase is no different than any kind of twilight fanaticism ;D) but all I’m intending here is to simply share a bit of the experience in just a few words and links - which doesn’t acquire you to play the game itself.
So, I’m sitting here in front of my laptop. Contemplating the time I’ve spent on my console these three weeks.... When everyone is off holiday or endorsed in some work/school (* insert pang of guilt)... While listening to this masterpiece...
It’s no Hans Zimmer, but Greg Edmonson manages to win an award by planting some tears in your eyes. Listen to it, I dare you. Be careful now, here are some tissues.
I am a cynic player when it comes to games. I’ll most probably say that the graphic sucks and it’s over done, the system is too familiar all throughout – all it does is drill your brain with their stories only awarded if you endured the very long game play... which ultimately gives you a piercing headache. It comes with the excuse of being interested, but being profusely half arsed. I first played Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Took it through real slow until the Chateau in France ... I gave up a long time. The camera movement sizzled my eyes to a pair of small vulnerable peanuts.
Eventually I stopped being a sucker and at least try to make the money spent worth something. As you expected, it became very addictive. Like a book, the further into the story I got, the more attached I am to reveal what is next. I was completely blown away by everything that was unraveled. In fact, I found this series a tiny bit richer than my Mass Effect 2 or Fallout 3 experience. You can argue it’s about preference really... everyone remembers how to assume direct control, don’t they?
Hello Sir Francis Drake and his Legendary ring. This gives you many surprises, and the graphics of the melancholy arabesque settings are absolutely breath taking. Naughty Dog has really mastered its’ cells without making it overly restricted with the game play. Plot wise, puts you on the tip of a sky scarper, and then it skins it down to a scaffold, feeling vulnerable as ever- but it pins that bond between player and Drake mostly, then his relationship with Sully. You'll be left with feeling poor half way through - not so heroic after all. Expect not that many new (or old) characters to chew with depth apart from Drake and Sully. Heck, I don’t know them because I haven’t played the other games especially enough to really care. But the amount of development is satisfactory. I'll say it's closer to reality, and pretty straightforward. THIS is the thing that got me into this mess in the first place.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Going from Borneo, to Nepal by the word of Marco Polo. Prepare to indulge yourself with an Asian adventure fantastic. Whether you played the latest or the previous installment of the series or none of them at all, Uncharted 2 will definitely seize you by the neck. You get the whole package incomplete from the third and the first: fresh new characters with funny witty one-liners, to badass boss with their annoying sidekicks that chase you around helplessly like Jaws after Human. This is where it really rolls in deep with it's content, after they finished wandering on the surface with introductions in Drake's Fortune.It gets even weirder with supernatural Guardians that looked inhuman, and that is sorely unexpected. This is the definition of a perfect Hollywood movie, plus some more materialistic surprises with the combats. I mean, huge tanks that are especially dedicated to drive off at the edge of the cliff if it means to get rid of you.
Uncharted 1: Drake’s Fortune
Greeted again by Sir Francis Drake and his ring, but by this time, the places are getting a bit constricted. You’re in the world of South America and the legendary Eldorado this time, but you spend winding your time going deeper into this unrecorded island, mostly. It’s superbly funny, and quite a lot of combat and less plot twists. There are some annoying bits, which you rather not go through like going against the rapid stream while bullets get planted through your ribs. But imagine it – a dark, closed and abandoned bunker full of corpses and rubble, evil Spaniard explorer monsters crawling after your neck, with nothing equipped but a gun and a single torchlight. At this point, I wasn’t sure if it was Dead Space/Resident Evil I’m playing. The spookiest of all. I watch my worst nightmare come to life.
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Scaling down from Uncharted 3 to Uncharted 1 in just a few weeks, you begin to notice the number of things Naughty Dog revisited, that you seem to think ‘hmm, this is familiar... Wasn't this reused but blown up to a scale of a hundred?’, you’ll ever complain or be disappointed with it.
Note: I've only touched base on the Campaign here, leaving out the Co-Op and Multiplayer online options... because I haven't got a proper connection sadly ): I do want to play with other fans. I
I didn’t keep to my word and I chose to glorify it anyway. At least you got it in a nutshell. Bahahaha
..... That in the end, I will still firmly anticipate the upcoming of Mass Effect 3 and some other games on the list.
So, I’m sitting here in front of my laptop. Contemplating the time I’ve spent on my console these three weeks.... When everyone is off holiday or endorsed in some work/school (* insert pang of guilt)... While listening to this masterpiece...
It’s no Hans Zimmer, but Greg Edmonson manages to win an award by planting some tears in your eyes. Listen to it, I dare you. Be careful now, here are some tissues.
I am a cynic player when it comes to games. I’ll most probably say that the graphic sucks and it’s over done, the system is too familiar all throughout – all it does is drill your brain with their stories only awarded if you endured the very long game play... which ultimately gives you a piercing headache. It comes with the excuse of being interested, but being profusely half arsed. I first played Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception. Took it through real slow until the Chateau in France ... I gave up a long time. The camera movement sizzled my eyes to a pair of small vulnerable peanuts.
Eventually I stopped being a sucker and at least try to make the money spent worth something. As you expected, it became very addictive. Like a book, the further into the story I got, the more attached I am to reveal what is next. I was completely blown away by everything that was unraveled. In fact, I found this series a tiny bit richer than my Mass Effect 2 or Fallout 3 experience. You can argue it’s about preference really... everyone remembers how to assume direct control, don’t they?
If you enjoy watching Indiana Jones, appreciate a bit of fantasy in your history books, loved Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, play Tomb Raider, this is probably the perfect combination for you. It’s like watching a Hollywood adventure epic, only you get to manoeuvre. You’ll laugh in his shoes, jump, scream, hide behind the sofa, die, and try again, then move on and on and on. The characters you meet develop, and get to indulge yourself in some breath taking sceneries to know off by heart without spending a dime on a plane ticket, then feel nostalgic when this amazing soundtrack plays into the action scene.
What this game doesn’t have is its’ player’s freedom to explore. The events and endings are fixed, so are the places and the number of enemies. If you want to have a different results to blab about with other users, you should play Heavy Rain or LA Noire instead. But those kinds of stuff I find myself restricted exactly because they want to make it as real as possible. Don't get me wrong, I love the complexity in these games. It is impressive, but it does lose that ‘edge’ feeling. Uncharted makes full use its’ game play in most aspects. You’ll be satisfied with the sufficient amount of delicious grub in your plate to want more, rather than getting overwhelmed by the amount of the side dishes - if you're that kind.
I played from the 3rd down to the 1st, so it will be in this order. I’ll put each game into a few strings of sentences. I promise.... :P
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
What this game doesn’t have is its’ player’s freedom to explore. The events and endings are fixed, so are the places and the number of enemies. If you want to have a different results to blab about with other users, you should play Heavy Rain or LA Noire instead. But those kinds of stuff I find myself restricted exactly because they want to make it as real as possible. Don't get me wrong, I love the complexity in these games. It is impressive, but it does lose that ‘edge’ feeling. Uncharted makes full use its’ game play in most aspects. You’ll be satisfied with the sufficient amount of delicious grub in your plate to want more, rather than getting overwhelmed by the amount of the side dishes - if you're that kind.
I played from the 3rd down to the 1st, so it will be in this order. I’ll put each game into a few strings of sentences. I promise.... :P
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception
Hello Sir Francis Drake and his Legendary ring. This gives you many surprises, and the graphics of the melancholy arabesque settings are absolutely breath taking. Naughty Dog has really mastered its’ cells without making it overly restricted with the game play. Plot wise, puts you on the tip of a sky scarper, and then it skins it down to a scaffold, feeling vulnerable as ever- but it pins that bond between player and Drake mostly, then his relationship with Sully. You'll be left with feeling poor half way through - not so heroic after all. Expect not that many new (or old) characters to chew with depth apart from Drake and Sully. Heck, I don’t know them because I haven’t played the other games especially enough to really care. But the amount of development is satisfactory. I'll say it's closer to reality, and pretty straightforward. THIS is the thing that got me into this mess in the first place.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
Going from Borneo, to Nepal by the word of Marco Polo. Prepare to indulge yourself with an Asian adventure fantastic. Whether you played the latest or the previous installment of the series or none of them at all, Uncharted 2 will definitely seize you by the neck. You get the whole package incomplete from the third and the first: fresh new characters with funny witty one-liners, to badass boss with their annoying sidekicks that chase you around helplessly like Jaws after Human. This is where it really rolls in deep with it's content, after they finished wandering on the surface with introductions in Drake's Fortune.It gets even weirder with supernatural Guardians that looked inhuman, and that is sorely unexpected. This is the definition of a perfect Hollywood movie, plus some more materialistic surprises with the combats. I mean, huge tanks that are especially dedicated to drive off at the edge of the cliff if it means to get rid of you.
Uncharted 1: Drake’s Fortune
....
Scaling down from Uncharted 3 to Uncharted 1 in just a few weeks, you begin to notice the number of things Naughty Dog revisited, that you seem to think ‘hmm, this is familiar... Wasn't this reused but blown up to a scale of a hundred?’, you’ll ever complain or be disappointed with it.
Note: I've only touched base on the Campaign here, leaving out the Co-Op and Multiplayer online options... because I haven't got a proper connection sadly ): I do want to play with other fans. I
I didn’t keep to my word and I chose to glorify it anyway. At least you got it in a nutshell. Bahahaha
..... That in the end, I will still firmly anticipate the upcoming of Mass Effect 3 and some other games on the list.
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