SO I'M TOLD UNCHARTED 2 IS RATHER GOOD.
Now I've been spending a lot of my time in the Uncharted 2 Multiplayer Beta and have been really digging it. Like many of you, my original thoughts on hearing that multiplayer was being added to the game left me with the feeling that developers Naughty Dog would simply slam a multiplayer mode in there without much care. I could not have been more wrong, I suspect some of you reading this may have already experienced the beta, so I shan't talk about it in any great degree, but all I'll say is that I can happily see myself spending weeks playing online. But, and this is quite the but. I also believe that your average Uncharted: Drake's Fortune fan isn't looking for a multiplayer experience. There looking for the same sort of mix between story and action that the original produced so well, with of course some gameplay and technical improvements.
What as surprised me slightly, is the early reception the game seems to be getting. While I will happily check out a review or two, just to make sure there are no nasty surprises when I purchase a game, I usually don't allow reviews to choose if I am to buy a game or not. But despite the fact that I've had Uncharted 2: Among Thieves preordered for over four months now, I couldn't resist checking out a few of the reviews and even I was somewhat shocked. On average the original Uncharted game receive a score of 88 (8.8), while it seems many a reviewer are falling head over heels for the sequel. One only as to check Metacritic to see how well the game being received by the media. Now I don't wish to start an argument about how Metacritic is false, or how it's biased or any of that garbage. But I do want to point out the scores, scores that come from some well respected media outlets. Hell, even Eurogamer gave it a 10/10 so it must be something special.
I to shall be playing through the original again in the next week or so, it will actually be the seventh time I've played Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, that itself speaks volumes I think. Of course you'll get your haters, sadly fanboys and fangirls still surround gaming and they will never truly go away. But as a game, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves could become that killer app for the Playstation 3, something the console as been somewhat lacking lately. As good a game as Killzone 2 was, it never became the key title Sony were hoping it would and LittleBigPlanet was maybe to unique to please the large mixed Playstation crowd. So maybe this latest Nathan Drake adventure could be that killer game. The original Uncharted defiantly showed me the great potential the system had when in the right hands, hopefully Among Thieves will prove that potential.
I'm pretty sure that at one point in the next two weeks I'll be discussing this game further, there's a lot I have on my mind and I'm itching to experience it. It already seems an early candidate for Game of the Year if the Gaming media is anything to go by, but I shall wait and see. Whatever they say, I am rather confident that I'll quite enjoy being Among Thieves, considering how much I loved the original. Plus I yet again push forward my belief that Nathan Drake is the videogame figure of today, yes there are many wonderful characters in gaming, but none quite as likeable and 'human' as Drake. You can choose to disagree, that's your choice after all. But when we look towards the future of how videogames must portray emotion and human likeness, we will all look back to Nathan Drake and clearly see where it all began.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is released on the 13th October (NA) and 16th October (EU).
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