This Place Looks Familiar
HIGH Chloe.
LOW The combat.
WTF Are people actually playing these dire multiplayer modes?
Tag: Uncharted
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End Second Opinion
Time to stop shooting
HIGH “We can never, ever come back to this city.” “Add it to the list.”
LOW This story again?
WTF How is it that the wheels on these ancient pirate crates still work?
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End review
Gawping at the scenery
HIGH The Lemur event.
LOW The platforming is pretty, but uninvolving. Actually, it’s pretty uninvolving.
WTF Drake somehow survived infancy without being blown up or hurled out a window?
Uncharted: Fight for Fortune Review
Banking Relics like a Boss!
HIGH Finally figuring out all the rules after a few hours of play.
LOW Overlooking a combo bonus and going from a win to a loss in one turn.
WTF The final boss in the Golden Abyss campaign.
Uncharted: Golden Abyss Review
Killer App
HIGH Soaking in those sumptuous visuals.
LOW Finger-swiping QTEs.
WTF Why do I have to clean 100% of the dirt off this artifact with my tired finger when I can already make out the "hidden" image?
Sony PlayStation Vita software impressions
In this second part of our initial PlayStation Vita impressions pieces, Michael A. Cunningham gives his thoughts on some of the Vita launch titles. Michael has been burning through a stack of titles, spending between one and three hours with each.
Cinematic action gunplay
In a cinematic action game, the player needs to keep moving forward because the intent of the game is to both tell a story and excite the player. Viewed as a question of design alone, difficulty that forces several replays of any section is undesirable because it gates progress and converts the game into a movie that is merely very inconvenient to watch.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Third Opinion
Deceptively Good Despite its Flaws
HIGH That stunning horse-riding sequence.
LOW Too many questions without answers, and a plot in search of a soul.
WTF Drake barely survives the desert, but is apparently hydrated enough to run and jump around like a monkey.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Second Opinion
You aren't There
HIGH The hallucinatory sequences in Ubar and Yemen.
LOW Gunfights on the water and in a sandstorm magnify the significant deficiencies of the gunplay.
WTF These guys are really staying in a burning building to shoot at me?
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception Review
The iVideo Game Apple would've Made
HIGH My son telling me to jump back onto my horse after I chased down a moving truck with it, jumped into the back, and took out a bad guy.
LOW You’d think Drake has Wolverine-like healing powers after crashing through the floor for the umpteenth time.
WTF A middle-aged Sully convincing a teenage Drake to stay with him. There has to be some international law against that.
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