Finally! A PS3 title that holds up to the 360's dominant force of top quality games...
...Uncharted: Drake's Fortune restored my faith in Sony and the PS3. The game really is amazing enough to hold up the the 360's empressive lineup. The forests and ancient ruins that you play through during the game are absolutely bedazzling!!!! It probably has the most impressive scenery in a game that I have seen yet, on both systems! That is impressive since I have played Oblivion and Gears already. But Uncharted also has a very intriguing storyline that seems to draw you into the game even more, almost like a movie at times. The gameplay is equally fun and amazing. Ememies respond to any place you shoot them as well as fall back and dodge or duck if you miss them. This makes the gunfighting scenes come to life. There is a lot of jumping and lot of cases where if you miss a ledge, you will instanly fall to your death. However, there are convienient checkpoints before each major jump or sequence of hangs, ropes, and jumps that you will have to get passed to move on. These are crazy, but they let will finally let you breathe once you reach the end, lol. Also, you don't have a health meter. As you get hit, your screen will slowly fade to black and white until you die. But if you get out of fire for a few seconds, you will see clearly once again. I actually like this because the game is designed for you to take on fire. If you had a health-bar, you would be popping potions like crazy, lol. Instead, you can just stick yourself to some cover and stay low for a few, much like in Gears of War. The only reason that I did not give this game a perfect 10, is because of the spans of time where you use the same weapons over and over again. There should have been an upgrade system similar to the one in Resident Evil 4 to complete the awesomeness of this game. But I guess they wanted to keep this part realistic. For you can only hold 1 pistol-type, 1 rifle-type, and 4 grenades at a time. Looking past this small fault, and you still have a very awesome game! As I was playing the beginning, I kept saying to myself, "Wow...wow....wow...." And I think that this is what makes and impressive game impressive. If you have a PS3, you should have Uncharted. Period.
I am so glad that I can begin to use my PS3 for something other than a DVD player now...the last game I played on it was in March, I think. I hope we begin to see a lot more titles like this on the PS3 so that they can keep me calm about dishing out $650 for the thing. So far, even with Uncharted and Resistance, two games are just not enough...and I don't feel that the system was worth the woney yet...hurry up game makers!!!!