Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

It was style over substance, sunlight and gunfire masking the cracks underneath. A playground for bullets. Every room a repeat performance.
Cover, shoot, reload. The cycle of violence dressed in tropical colors.

The puzzles are Child’s play.
Brief pauses between storms, like catching your breath before diving back into the fire.

Then came the jet ski sections. God help me. Controlling that thing felt like dragging a corpse upstream. It didn’t challenge me. It punished me

There was beauty in the ruins. The foundation was there and it knew what it wanted to be.
It just wasn’t there yet.

It’s where it all starts, so yeah, it’s a must-try. But if you’re not bothered, you can just skip it. No real loss.

🇪🇸: A cualquiera que le preguntes, seguramente te dirá que The Last of Us es la obra de Naughty Dog que más marcó a todo el mundo. Sin embargo, también a una gran mayoría si le preguntas cuál de las 2 sagas se llevaría a una isla desierta, escogeríamos Uncharted.

Esta saga fue de las que fue de menos a más. Uncharted 2 es casi una obra maestra, el 3 baja un poco el nivel pero sigue siendo brutal y el 4, el mejor con diferencia si me preguntáis a mí. Pero la realidad es que este, el primero, es el que más lejos está del resto, para mal.

Ojo, no digo que sea malo ni mucho menos eh. Es más, es bastante decente. Pero en cuanto a puesta en escena, escenarios e incluso guión se nota la diferencia de presupuesto que hay entre este y el 2, y demos gracias a Dios que este funcionó de maravilla. De igual forma, tan malo no sería si la base de este juego se mantendría en todos los juegos de la saga a posteriori. La verdad que jugablemente muy poco más se le puede pedir, la parte de shooter es la bomba y no es siquiera la más importante del juego. El plataformeo, si que es verdad que los planos que ponían en el juego limitaban mucho más visibilidad, me estoy acordando ahora del castillo en ruinas y vaya tela jajaj. Menos mal que fue mucho a mejor en los siguientes.

Como carta de presentación de Nathan Drake y otros personajes como Elena está bastante bien. Si hay una cosa que diferencia a esta saga de otras como Tomb Raider, es que por mucho carisma que tenga Lara Croft jamás será Sir Francis Drake. Este juego no es tan profundo ni filosófico como The Last of Us ni lo pretende, pero creo (y espero) que todos nosotros nos identificamos más con Nathan que con personajes como Joel o Ellie. Es un desastre como persona, en mantener relaciones personales pero aún así son sus errores y detalles lo que le hacen humano y nos hacen cogerle cariño, como Elena y Sulli. Y que su carisma y gracia decanta mucho la balanza a su favor.

Reseñas cortitas serán de esta saga porque son juegos muy continuistas y cortos, pero espero e intentaré que se complementen muy bien las unas a las otras.

En definitiva, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune es una gran carta de presentación de uno de los mejores personajes de PlayStation, que aunque haya envejecido regular sigue siendo el gran juego que enamoró a tanta gente.

Le doy un 7 DECENTE.

🇺🇸: If you ask anyone, they’ll probably tell you that The Last of Us is Naughty Dog’s most impactful work. However, if you ask that same majority which of the two sagas they’d take to a desert island, most of us would pick Uncharted.

This is one of those sagas that went from less to more. Uncharted 2 is nearly a masterpiece, 3 drops the level a bit but is still amazing, and 4 — easily the best one if you ask me. But the reality is that this one, the first, is the furthest from the rest — and not in a good way.

Careful though, I’m not saying it’s bad, far from it. In fact, it’s pretty decent. But in terms of staging, environments, and even script, you can feel the difference in budget between this and 2 — and thank God this one performed well. Even so, it can’t have been too bad if the core of this game carried through all the later entries. Honestly, gameplay-wise there’s very little to criticize — the shooting part is fantastic and not even the most important element of the game. The platforming, yeah, it’s true the camera angles limited visibility a lot more — I’m thinking now about the ruined castle section and yikes, haha. Thankfully it got way better later on.

As an introduction to Nathan Drake and characters like Elena, it works pretty well. If there’s one thing that sets this saga apart from others like Tomb Raider, it’s that no matter how charismatic Lara Croft is, she’ll never be Sir Francis Drake. This game isn’t as deep or philosophical as The Last of Us, nor does it try to be, but I believe (and hope) that most of us relate more to Nathan than to characters like Joel or Ellie. He’s a mess of a person, terrible at maintaining relationships, but it’s precisely those flaws and little quirks that make him human and endearing — just like Elena and Sully. And his charm and humor really tip the scales in his favor.

These reviews will be shorter because the games in this saga are very consistent and short themselves, but I hope — and will try — to make them complement each other nicely.

In short, Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune is a great introduction to one of PlayStation’s best characters, and although it has aged a bit poorly, it’s still the great game that won so many people over.

I give it a DECENT 7.

Just wanted to start off with this.I had 0 intentions on buying Playstation 3,since most of the games available already exists on Xbox 360,and there weren't that many exlusives I was interested in.My solution was to play these games on RPCS3 emulator,but from some reason games kept crashing,and I didn't had nerves to deal with all that,so I said Fuck it I'm getting the console instead.

Uncharted trilogy was one of the first games I wanted to check out,sjnce I already played 4th entry on PC,liked it for most part,and I wanted to play the rest.

I would say that I prefer this one for some reason.I wouldn't say that these games are anything special.There are things I enjoy,but some not as well.So the game is a action adventure shooter,similar to one of my personal favorite games Tomb Raider reboot from 2013.I realised that something felt way familiar when playing this one.

I like how unlike in 4th entry,the gameplay was tbe makn focus.Sure you had cutscenes as well,but they were not long,and they are straight to the point.Main focus was platforming,shooting,puzzle solving and a couple of QTE's.

Level design was fantastic,the atmosphere and graphics were incredible for 2007,all the green's and colors look nice.Platforming mechanics were great for most part,but liannas were quite annoying since Nathan will sometimes miss and you have to start over.

Shooting mechanics were good,even though I prefer aiming on mouse,you can make sensitivity to your appeal.Some of the enemies have way more health,and one of the things that annoyed me was waves of never ending enemies where you are supposed to rely on killing as many as possible and scrap for their ammo and then repeat that same thing again and again.

Weapon variety is limited,since there are only 2 slots for guns and additional for grenades.Along the way,you can collect treasures,which are not to difficult to find,it allows you to buy bonus features like outfits,guns etc.

Story and level design was linear,but I don't mind it since sometimes I like go play linear games from time to time,problem with them is that there won't be much of a replay value,since you can play it once and you pretty much saw everything game has to offer.

Story was ok for most part,I just don't get this logic of looking for treasure just to realise there is no treasure but somewhere else,just to realise that everything was a waste of time,that thing they were looking for was cursed.

Characters in Uncharted games are unique.They are likeable for most part,because they feel natural and organic.They don't feel over the top or like they are trying too hard,voice actors did a really good job with them.

OST was meh.Outside of main theme,not many felt memorable even though some of them fit the atmosphere in the game.

Overall,a good game,but nothing special either.Critics giving this game 90 makes it an overrated game.It's not THAT good.Being exlusive it's a great thing,I enjoyed 4th entry slightly better,first entry I prefer mostly because gameplay was a main focus,I heard Uncharted 2 is the best one,looking forward to it.

It was okay I didn't like the atmosphere and it made me literally so anxious that I had to take breaks while playing

Uncharted: Drake's Fortune is one of the most repetitive and boring games I have ever played. There were gunfights after gunfights and the puzzles were to easy. The only fun part of the game was at the end and that wasn't even much fun. Although it kept you on edge the whole time, it also felt repetitive because the creatures just kept on spawning randomly. The ending was not very good because the gun fights felt repetitive again and you just defeated the boss so easily. Story felt very mixed up.

I am a huge fan of the Uncharted series, but even I have to admit the first attempt was a shaky one at best.

Visuals and gameplay today are rather aged; the entire game is set on a singular island that doesn't provide the needed variety, but the last few chapters do introduce a new enemy type that forces you to change up the gameplay from aged cover shooter mechanics to a hectic run and gun, which I did enjoy.

The soundtrack, story, characters, and acting are definitely still a highlight; it introduced one of the PlayStation's most iconic characters, Nathan Drake, which is what mostly this game does; it sets up the potential that will only be realized with its sequel and finalized with the 4th entry, which is what I give this game the most credit for. The cast of supporting characters is great; Elena and Sully are endearing, and Eddy is hilarious, but the main villains are underutilized and could use more development.

The gameplay is just a standard third-person shooter with simplistic melee; you are mostly encouraged to hide behind walls to stay alive and shoot anyone that pops up. Parkour is also simple, and at times it's hard to figure out where you are supposed to go. Puzzles are not memorable and just easy, with the protagonist's notepad just giving away the answer right away. Collectibles are plentiful but sadly are just small, interesting models with no story relevancy or at least some fun commentary from Nathan; it just floats, and that's it. Set pieces are fun, though pretty contained compared to what will come with sequels, but are nice to have; not the jetski one, though; frustrating that one.

To sum up, it's still worth trying it out to see where and how it started, but alone it's just a good adventure to go through in two or three evenings; it could use a remake, though.