Uncharted 2: Among Thieves
- New functionality including the ability to remain with your friends while matchmaking; map customization and the pooling funds gathered in different modes for use in unlocking content and upgrades.
- An game world layout that allows players to take an aggressive or new stealth approach to combat.
- Free-flowing “traversal gunplay” that adds a unique vertical element to standard 3rd-person shooting mechanics.
- Award-winning cinematic storytelling, incorporating new and familiar characters, as well as all new and varied play environments.
- A wide array of gameplay modes including a robust single player campaign and a franchise first online multiplayer modes including competitive and cooperative play options.
Product Description
Nathan Drake returns in the sequel to one of the PS3′s most successful exclusive games. This time, Nate teams up with new and old friends in a quest to find the mythical Cintamani Stone that Marco Polo had secretly gone looking for before returning home with only one ship and 18 men. Explore a variety of environments from dense cities to swamps to the Himalayas, mixing shooting with free-roaming adventure. And using PlayStationNetwork, you can even enjoy co-operativ… More >>
The original Uncharted Drake’s fortune was without a doubt one of the best games released for the PS3. It had great cut-scenes, beautiful graphics, simple puzzles and gameplay with a never-ending sense of fun. This has very much carried over with it’s sequel. I find this both good and bad.
Uncharted 2 has even MORE impressive graphics than the first game. I mean seriously this game will blow you away with it’s presentation. The story is MUCH more involved, the locations are much more varied (and again: beautiful!) and despite a some dull first few missions you’re pretty much hooked until the end. The characters are just as charming in this sequel with a few new names to cast and everyone is voice-acted (and motion captured) to perfection.
Unfortunately what the game improved with production, it lacks in the gameplay. The controls are even more polished to make combat, climbing and stealth much smoother (multiplayer and co-op are awesome!) but are almost exactly the same as the first game. In fact aside from a few creative level designs it honestly feels like I’m still playing the first Uncharted game. I hate to call that a complaint but despite some eye-catching moments I couldn’t help but feel a bit underwhelmed. I just can’t recommend this game to anyone unless they liked (or never played) the first Uncharted.
Despite my complaining I still like this game. It’s fun (to be fair MORE fun than the first Uncharted), funny and has great graphics and cut scenes. I just wish some more time would’ve been put into the gameplay innovation.
Rating: 4 / 5
In order to entertain a mature and reasonably intelligent adult, a well laid-out plot of fiction must suspend the viewer’s disbelief. The plot unwinding in Uncharted 2 lacks this crucial ingredient. It is more of a plot acted out for five-year-olds. Our hero and his friend begin their joint treasure hunt stealing a map from a heavily guarded palace. Able to sneak around more than eight guards who stand within twenty feet of each other, the guards are beaten, knocked against walls, or thrown over parapets without the slightest notice of their fellows. Even if that could be pulled off by our heroes, the fact that even after the palace grounds are littered with unconscious and/or dead guards, and while many minutes pass, no alarm is given. So we must assume that these moronic guards are such poor security men that they do not move nor do they look beyond the ten feet in their immediate front…as precious minutes roll by. You just can’t get good help these days.
If this is considered one of the best plot-driven shooters out this year – if not the best – I am glad I did not risk buying one of the less well-plotted games. And as I write this review, I am also keeping in mind that I have played a very small percentage of this game as yet. I hope things get better. But as for right now my expectations are rather far lower than I had when I read all the praise this game received before I bought it. Whatever redeeming qualities might be revealed later on, the first few minutes of play have been less than satisfying.
Rating: 3 / 5
I could go on and on about the problems of this game but I’ll do my best to be brief.
The AI is a joke. You can jump right in front of a “guard” and have him not see you but hear you. However by the time he looks around you can easily be hidden. Oh, when I say “looks around” I mean he just stands there and shines a flashlight in a few spots. Finishing a room can be completely erratic from time to time and not in a good way like they’re providing variety but in a way where it seems sometimes you just get through a room based on luck. Numerous times I would play a room the same way a few times only to finally luck out when I went for a sneak attack and instead of being one that takes like two seconds it takes like a quarter of one and you can kill a second guy before he sees you.
The story is decent but it’s nothing to write home about and the telling of it is too invasive to the gaming experience in my opinion.
For all the talk about how this game was gonna push the PS3 like no other before I was completely unimpressed with the graphics. I mean they’re great, as good as anything else but it never dropped my jaw or anything.
I really wanted to like this game and it has a lot going for it but the horrendous AI and halfassed stealth gameplay really ruined this one for me. I mean it would be one thing if MGS4 didn’t exist but they’re awfully similar except for the platforming and MGS4 does everything else, story and AI especially much much better.
Rating: 2 / 5
Excellent shipping. It was pre-ordered with the Release Date Delivery option. It arrived at 10:10 AM on the morning the game was released in the US. YOU JUST CANNOT BEAT THAT SERVICE.
THE PROBLEM IS I GOT A CORRUPTED COPY. I played the game 3 successive times (once from saved data) and twice from the beginning in hopes of getting past the bad code. But the processor hangs up at the same place each time (Chapter 4 – The Dig). I did a system update to make sure I had the latest PS3 operating system. I played the game on three different difficulty levels thinking that different code being executed may permit me to get past the corrupted code. The disk was untouched — spotless under close inspection — no visible signs of physical abuse. It had to be returned for refund, much to my regret.
This is my 7th or 8th PS3 game ordered from this vendor and is my first bad experience; the frustration and inconvenience plus the chance of repeating the frustration does not make it worth a try at exchange.
Rating: 1 / 5
This game brings nothing new to the table. Its a generic rehash of games like tomb raider but with better graphics. I advise prospective buyers to consider playing tomb raider instead, a genuine classic or Halo ODST.
Rating: 1 / 5