Uncharted: Drake's Fortune on PS3 (2007)

Simply jaw-dropping!

Brez from Warrington [Highly rated reviewer] , 29/12/2007

Graphically amazing as long as you've got a HD tele connected!

Storyline is a cross between Indianna Jones and Romancing the Stone, and voice acting is superb.

It's been a long time since I played a game that actually wanted me to keep on playing just to find out what happens next!

Control is good but not excellent and this can be overlooked because saliva is dribbling out from your mouth as you gaze at the graphics!!

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UNCHARTED DRAKE"S FORTUNE

SLYBOY360 from Neath , 24/11/2007

FOR ALL UK PS3 OWNERS THERE IS A DOWNLOADABLE DEMO ON THE PLAYSTATION NETWORK...ITS AWESOME, GRAPHICS, GOOD STORYLINE, VERY MOVIE-LIKE A-KIN TO TOMB RAIDER OR INDIANA JONES WHICH FOR ME IS NO BAD THING? IT IS OUT IN THE U.S.A. NOW! I`VE ORDERED THE GAME £ 31.99 DELIVERED & AM WAITING FOR IT TO ARRIVE...THE ONLY DOWNSIDE IS...THE WAVE AFTER WAVE OF ENEMY`S TO KILL? THIS MAY BE BECAUSE ITS A DEMO? WHO KNOWS? I WILL LET YOU KNOW UPON PLAYING THE FULL GAME (update!) PLAYED & FINISHED THIS GAME IN A FEW DAYS...BUT WOW...WHAT A CRACKING FEW DAYS! FOR ALL YOU NON PS3 OWNERS? THIS IS THE REASON TO BUY ONE!!! TRUE THERE ARN`T MANY AT THE MOMENT? BUT THIS ONE CERTAINLY IS! GAMES FOR PS3 ARE NOT REGION CODED (ONLY MOVIES) SO BUY FROM AMERICA TRY- (MOVIETYME.COM)

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Fortune favours the bold, and people who hide a lot

ChrisBarraclough from London [Highly rated reviewer] , 08/04/2008

Drake's fortune is a over-the-shoulder romp that would probably be the result of a drunken nights fumbling between Resident Evil 4, Tomb Raider and Gears of War. It has the hiding and shooting mentality of Gears, where you take cover behind various pillars and walls and lean out to blow the kneecaps off a wide variety of enemies, although here you will find yourself shooting at johnny foreigners instead of slobbering Jade Goody look-alikes. And not just a hundred or so johnny foreigners, oh no. By the time you reach the end of this game, you'll have taken down pretty much the entire population of Cuba, with maybe half of Fiji thrown in for good measure. Still, the cover system works well and aiming is a cinch, meaning this part is relatively good fun (moreso if you have a deep xenophobic complex).

In addition to the hiding and shooting bits, which make up the majority of the gameplay, you also have some Tomb Raider style hop-skip-and-jumping to do. These bits are fairly easy in general, apart from a few sections where your progression isn't entirely clear, leading to some rather hopeful leaps that end up with your corpse splattered across the bottom of a waterfall. Again, control is not a problem.

Finally, you have some puzzley bits and some driving bits, which only occasionally crop up and aren't too intrusive. One word of advice is that when on a jetski, you can control the woman using L1 and get her to shoot at things, which I didn't work out for a good twenty minutes, leading to much cursing as I died for the ?th time by ramming into an exploding barrel. Honestly, who spends their whole day throwing these barrels into a river, just on the off-chance that someone will come driving up it and shoot them in the face? Talk about paranoid.

As for the story, it is standard treasure-seeking fare with a typically English main baddie, that practically drowns in the sheer number of cliches that it vomits at you (even the dialogue is horrendous - 'You're looking awfully well for a corpse' being my favourite).

And so, Drake is worthy of at least a rental, although perhaps not a purchase as it is quite short, and if you're like me, you can't be bothered to play through a game again to find every single hidden chest or coin or other length-extending devices.

One-Sentence Review: Gears Of War in the jungle with Tomb-Raidery bits, but not as much jiggling.

More at ChrisBarraclough dot com.

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A fantastic game

Shaun from West Sussex, UK , 08/12/2007

A simply stunning game which really shows off the power of the PlayStation 3.

Great graphics throughtout but the game does suffer from screen tearing a few times when played on a HDTV but these tears are very few and don't detract from what is a stunning game. The textures, lighting effects, character's faces and the backgrounds are amazing and it is one of the best, if not the best looking game I've ever seen.

The sound in this game is also A+, which great action sounds, the best voice acting I've ever heard in a game, immersive ambient sounds and a soundtrack that is of movie quality.

Because this game looks good, sounds good and has to an interesting and very involving story you'll find yourself playing it for long periods on end meaning the game could be finished in a few days. It's not a short game but instead one which will keep you stuck to it and make itself appear short when it really isn't.

There are also a lot of bonus features which encourage repeat play throughs. Some of these are gimmicks, ie changing the way the game looks or infinite ammo but some of the rewards are 'Making of' type featurettes and are very interesting to watch.

It seems the PlayStation 3 just found it's real 'must have' game and just before Christmas too.

Well done Sony and Naughty Dog.

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brilliant

A customer from Milton Keynes , 23/06/2008

great adventure game with twists and turns one criticism is that the game is just to short

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A New Kind of Adventrure

A customer from Sussex , 09/12/2007

After sampling the demo, I went out and purchased this game. There is nothing else quite like it, and although the controls are slightly hard at first to get to grips with you'll find the game play outways any grumble you might have... especially regarding the somewhat repetitive nature of the adventure. Gorgeous graphics, cut scene - story advance, puzzle, shoot, kill... Gorgeous graphics, cut scene - story advance, puzzle, shoot, kill... Gorgeous graphics, cut scene - story advance, puzzle, shoot, kill... You get the idea. All that aside, extremely entertaing & wonderfully gripping.

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