You start the game in a very unheroic position. The puzzles are not easy, but they are not so difficult that you will give up in frustration, as happens in many games. The game has a fascination with heights many of the puzzles that you have to figure out involve ways to scale big walls or buildings, all the while looking down with dizzying views. This effect is so well done that you’ll spend time just marveling at the detailed objects that are part of every colorful scene.
The colors of the environment are sharper and bright than you would ordinarily see in real life. The art style of the game is artificially vibrant. You can run and spray bullets wildly behind you, as you do when you’re trying to flee a jeep that is trying to run you over in a narrow alley. By contrast, the weaponry that Drake uses fits the game and it feels good when you aim, shoot and take down enemies. By comparison, my criticism of Ubisoft’s Avatar the Game is that the rainforest planet imagery looks fantastic, but the game play is weak. A game, after all, is not a travel video. Of course, good scenery is just a starting point. At another point, as you’re escaping through a jungle, you can see a view of the distant beach and shimmering ocean from atop a cliff. In one scene atop a tall building in Nepal, you can turn your character’s view and see an entire city in 3-D for miles in any direction, with the beautiful Himalaya mountains as a backdrop. That means that you can see some truly stunning scenes. While Naughty Dog lead designer Richard Lemarchand told us that the original Uncharted used about 30 percent of the PS 3’s processing power with its Cell microprocessor and Nvidia graphics chip, this game exploits probably 90 percent of the capability. It has strong, fun game play and it exploits the graphics horsepower of the PS 3 to the fullest.
Before I turned to Modern Warfare 2, I just had to finish playing Uncharted 2 because it was just too fun and immersive to put down, like a page-turning action novel. But what makes this game stand above the rest - and earned it a Metacritic aggregate review score of 96 out of 100 - is its execution. Chloe says, “I sense some history here.” And Elena deadpans, “I’m Elena, last year’s model.” The game’s best line is when Drake and his fellow thief Chloe Frazer run into Drake’s former flame, Elena. Drake is joined by his pal Sully and two fierce fighting women who love him but don’t want to admit it and compete for his attention. The main character, Nathan Drake, is a down-on-his luck type who stumbles back into a world of thieves and mercenaries who lead him onto a journey to find Shambhala, a legendary Himalayan valley that Marco Polo supposedly discovered many centuries ago. Three top investment pros open up about what it takes to get your video game funded.
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