Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune™ - PS3

naughty_dogs_project_43.jpg

Drake’s Fortune is your classic ‘Tomb Raider’ adventure type game, combining beautifully rendered landscapes (and some are stunning), with pirates (arrrrrr - no not really) and treasure. Basically, you’re on an undiscovered island, where puzzle solving, jumpy platforming, and shooting are used to unearth an ancient mystery. Yawn.

I’m about 30% in, which is about two hours (it’s not an overly long game then). The majority of those two hours have been spent getting shot while trying to come to terms with the ineffective camera and control system. There’s a lot of suddenly looking at the sky, or a tree, or putting your gun away and ‘rolling into’ the guy with the AK47 - in the midst of a deadly battle. It’s pretty frustrating stuff.

Overall, I think this game is a bit shit. The backgrounds are occasionally sublime, some of the best I have seen, but that’s not enough to make up for the dated ‘not as good as Tomb Raider’ gameplay.

January 25, 2008 | Filed Under Don't Play, Gaming

 

Comments

Leave a Reply




Please copy the string At4wZC to the field below:




Blog Flux Directory