There is no other way to say it. Uncharted is a good game. A year later and it still stands as one of the best games available for the PS3.
Story: Uncharted: Drakes Fortune tells the tale of a treasure hunter looking for that one big score that can let him and his friends retire happy. He seeks to find the lost city of gold. Unfortunately he isn't the only one after the treasure and as a result he has to face numerous obstacles along the way.
The story for the game really stood out for me. The content of the story was excellent but more importantly the way the story was presented. The motion capture and voice actors also did an excellent job with the game characters.
Graphics: Uncharted really is till this day one of the best looking games on the PS3. The textures really come out sharp and beautiful in this game and the lighting and the color makes everything stand out.
Gameplay: The game pretty much plays like your standard 3rd person shooter today. You take cover and you pop out to shoot. When your health is low your screed fades out and your heart starts to beat loudly which also causes your controller to rumble a bit.
The core shooting gameplay is pretty spot on for what you would expect from a 3rd person shooter unfortunately, Uncharted suffers from some heavy linearity and very weak environment interactivity. Sure some plants move when you walk past them but not all of them. The environment destruction could have been expanded to include not just piles of rocks. Crates that look breakable simply don't break. Its not really a bad thing but it takes a bit away from the ability to explore the world.
There is some really good platforming in uncharted. I particularly loved their six axis use for balancing on logs. Probably one of the best use of sixaxis so far. Grenade throwing with sixaxis is kinda silly though
Uncharted stands at about 8hrs long which isn't bad but when you consider the game has no multiplayer it makes it seem a bit on the short side. However uncharted is a game you will probably play more than once and have tons of fun doing so.
