Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Unemployed, broke, hungry and home alone most days, I find myself idling.  Not today, no sir!  Today I finish up the rather elaborate quest of one Nathan Drake.  As part of my "Only playing cheap games" hobby, this is the first game I feel like talking about of the many that I have obtained since Christmas.  For those of you still on the fence to buy a PS3, now is the time to invest.  Some great games are now around 20 bucks which means you can save money!  (If you're cheap like me).


Drake's Fortune has impressive visuals and smooth frame rates.  Some of the animations look...oh pretty foliage how I love you.  Nice green leafy foliage is so pretty...Anyhow, the animation is cool but...Wow such pretty water and look how it splish-splashes and when Nate gets all wet and...Animations are sometimes goofy.  That's exactly what I was going to say but every other pretty thing just destroys my adult ADD.  The game has some snazzy visuals and for one of the first releases for the PS3, it does a great job looking pretty.  Kind of like Ben Roethlisberger does a great job of staying out of jail.

If the glove don't fit, you must acquit!

The graphics tend to mask the idea that all of the enemies that are placed in the sights of a limited amount of firearms may be legitimately retarded.  While the AI lacks, the game does try to do some things that I personally have never seen in a game (Well, if I had played it back in 2007).  If you take Gears of War and punch it in the face with Assassin's Creed, and the winner of that tussle makes love to Indiana Jones, then you sort of get the the gist of what this game is.  Action adventure with quite a bit of platforming and puzzles, all pointed toward an end goal:  finding El Dorado.

I love the way the game plays, but there are some moments that made me want to rage throw my dual shock through the TV.  There are moments where you must use the dreaded six asses control scheme that Sony thought was a great idea...

Yes, imagine controlling six of these.

The sound effects are pretty good.  At one point I really felt like I was a Guerrilla running through a Colombian rain forest as I trafficked a few kilos up to Mexico (Hey, I play my games differently).  From birds to insects to things falling on your face and bullets hurling wildly past you (but never into you), the sound effects crew really did a great job.  It compliments the music which is well done.  I won't go into how the music sets the tone of the game and how it expertly raises when action happens and stops when you put the cap on the last halfbreed trying to kill you. 

So, we have shooting, climbing, puzzles and treasures.  What about other features? Well, if you like actually trophy farming it looks like the game has 1000 points worth of trophies to get, from killing a certain number of imbeciles with certain weapons to finding the games hidden treasures (60 in all).  Once you finish this game you will get access to many special features such as behind the scenes footage and movies that you can watch over and over because Elena Fisher is hot. 

Even though she has the eyes of a corpse...