Uncharted 2 Review

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gouki0521 Community Review Posted by: gouki0521 Feb 7, 2011
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Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

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Release Date: Oct 13, 2009

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I didn't like Uncharted 2, and here's why.


I have a PS3 and not many games for it. I heard Uncharted 2 had pretty good critical reception, so I figured "if a lot of other people like it, maybe I will like it too!". I ended up getting Uncharted 2, and I got really bored of it.

 

First off, I never really found the Indiana Jones movies that entertaining. I mean, the concept of them is pretty entertaining but I don't like the actual movies very much. This game is sort of like Indiana Jones. Well, it's also mixed with National Treasure (a movie I like), but doesn't have that same heart warming Nick Cage feel.

 

This game is said to be like Tomb Raider. I wouldn't necessarily know since I've never played a Tomb Raider for more than 10 minutes, but Nathan is far less attractive to me than Lara.

 

However, the hot girl of this game, Chloe Frazer, is super hot. I mean, damn. I don't think I've ever found a video game character more appealing. And that voice too. And that British accent. And that body. And that attitude. Mmm. yeskissheartcool

 

Anyways, after "playing with the sixaxis function", the gameplay comes in. It's a hide-behind-coverfire-throw-grenades-or-melee-them kind of game with "platforming". The reason platforming is in quotes is that it's not true platforming. True platforming needs timing, precision, caution, and fluidity. Uncharted 2 has choose-a-direction+jump and Drake does everything by himself. The only real challenge with the platforming is figuring out which crumbled rock you can and can't jump on, but if you spin the analog and mash jump, he'll find it for you.

 

After long platforming segments, you get to the combat. The combat is almost like WW1 trench warfare. You just sit there and wait and shoot millions of bad guys. There are just so many guys! It's not like the game even promotes stealthiness either.

 

So you do an hour of mind numbing combat and half an hour of fake platforming, and it repeats.

 

However, the graphics, voice acting, and presentation for this game are really great. It really does feel like a movie, and some of the gameplay parts are things you'd see in an intense action movie. I'm not saying this game was done poorly, just that I simply don't like it.

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Release Date: Oct 13, 2009
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kof2012

nice story i cant really comment on this story that much cause i dont have a playstation but considering what i heard from magazines your partially right but finish the game dude and then come and gives a story on your real insights other than that good story and visually uncharted looks good not to sure about the story

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Feb 7, 2011 by kof2012

iorilamia

New wave platforming battle games are fun, I liked it. Nice review. But I also have never given a damn about Indiana Jones and the only TombRaider i've played was the one on my ps1 demo disc WAYYYYYY back when,lol

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Feb 7, 2011 by iorilamia

MilkyPink

Some parts in Uncharted 2 seem to remind me so much of the Call Of Duty games. O.o Maybe because of it's detailed graphics? Uncharted to me is a very masculine game to where as Lara Croft is... feminine but simply EYECANDY for the males. (No offense! Most games with appealing female characters were designed to be eye candy for the male audiences! xD!) I personally do like this game, but I am always going to prefer the Tomb Raider games over Uncharted. >_< Lara Croft is and will always be the "Indiana Jones" type of Legend in gaming. >w<

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Feb 7, 2011 by MilkyPink

Cinderkin

This was more of an opinion piece than a review.

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Feb 8, 2011 by Cinderkin

SonicZero

NOOOOOOOOOOO UNCHARTED is one of the best games you can get on the playstation

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Feb 8, 2011 by SonicZero

ariscool24

Uncharted 2 is a great game. But what can ya do when some people have bad taste.

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Feb 8, 2011 by ariscool24

shenwoopunch

So biased.

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Feb 8, 2011 by shenwoopunch

PaladinJin

I respect your opinion about this game, i really do, but i feel that Uncharted had more character development and details in natural surroundings than any other game i have ever played. The combat is fairly simple and i wouldn't call it the best action game combat-wise, but the near non-stop action was pretty fantastic. Climbing up a giant golden dagger, leaping from train car to train car, running over a collapsing bridge were really REALLY fun aspects of the game. All of the characters in this game seemed quite believable, which is hard to do in a videogame. Drake has this charm about him that makes you (not in a gay way) fall in love with his character. You feel bad when he gets shot in the stomach, You laugh when he makes almost any joke, and you're frightened he just may fall off that cliff. I wouldn't necessarily say that Uncharted is like Indiana Jones except that they both take place in old ruins or thick jungles, though it did remind me a bit of Tomb Raider with more mechanics.

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Feb 8, 2011 by PaladinJin

de bad shot

i would of gone a much simpler rout by saying play station is shit there for uncharted 2 is shit.

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Feb 8, 2011 by de bad shot

blazemanx

i agree with cinderkin

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Feb 8, 2011 by blazemanx

SpeedBrkr

Wow, you're the only person who doesn't like it from what I've heard. I don't own a PS3 yet but I'll definitely pick up this title when I get it.

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Feb 11, 2011 by SpeedBrkr

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