I much enjoyed Uncharted 2, its good and I'm glad I got to play it. Got it two days ago and played it nonstop when I finished it yesterday. The problem that I have right now is that I'm very mixed on the storyline. What got me through the first Uncharted was that very excellent story and how like able Nathan Drake is. He is not like the ultra quiet and kind of creepy Nathan Hale is from Resistance and not a total dick wad like Cole with a douchebag girlfriend was from Infamous. Drake is awesome that he has a chivalrous attitude while plundering ruins who doesn't think ahead but has some really witty comments. From the first Uncharted my only beef story wise was when you solve the puzzle in the library which leads to an underground passage is that you find enemies down there that was suppose to be some secret passage way. That was my only problem with Uncharted storywise.

When coming to Uncharted 2, it starts on really strong. You heist an museum with a guy with a British accent called Flynn that you know he is going to betray you and this girl name Chloe. You know its coming, one thing you learn from movies is that when you are doing anything illegal never trust a guy with a British accent. But even knowing this. I love this first part. You will get pretty much get this map to a (I think its an island) area in the Malaysia Indonesia region only to have the map taken from you and then left to only be put in jail. Which Sullivan spends a good amount of money to get him out. Then you are instantly teleported to the island that beautiful, looks alot like the island from Uncharted 1. You go through the jungle, you get information from the guy Flynn is working with by going through his stuff to find were the treasure is which you solve in a minute where its taken Flynn more than 3 months. You head to the point of interest and is filled with a bunch of dead bodies (I'm lovin it) to find yet another map and a key. At this point is where I start disliking the game but this was all 1-2 hours into the game.

I won't be describing the story anymore but start nitpicking at it cause I think the story and how it was executed fails. You are yet again teleported to a city in Tibet where the treasure is located and is in a middle of a civil war. Civil war in Tibet really? Come on nothing ever happens in Tibet or Mongollia. Another thing is Sullivan **** out on you saying its too hot. If he spends large amount of his money to get Drake out, he should have been more aggressive on trying to get the treasure. You find the temple that suppose to have the treasure but guess what your treasure is in another castle. One thing that made the first Uncharted good was that most of it was centered on the island El Dorado was at. You were with Drake the moment he is on the plane heading to the island to when he leaves it. It has continuity which Uncharted 2 lacks and alot of movies as well lack (Mummy 2 and National Treasure 2 for example). Its too all over the place, not as bad as say Gears of War 2 but pretty close.

I have a huge problem when you are sent from Schäfer to the ruins of his expedition is that you are in this cold mountainous town no snow and then subzero climate. It irritates me because I have to go through hell frozen over through cliffs, canyons, yetis, and a temple with no floor to only find Nazis with holes in their heads (geez you could of just told me you capped your own men and waste this entire time that I could use to get the Cintamani Stone. This temple is also bull, cause its on this bottomless pit, all the walls are there just no floor. When the Tibetans or whoever built it came to this subzero mountain and stared at this cavern and think lets build a temple here. It doesn't make any sense you always build on solid rock which there is alot of because its a frickin mountain.

The game also throws a very cliched thing of the enemy forcing Drake to solve the puzzles while they threaten to shoot the girls. Really you could of thought something more inventive than something used from most adventure movies. I thought Uncharted was amazing because it felt fresh, it was something I never seen before. In this game every time you solve a puzzle, it feels like your only having it ripped from your hands. Its very unrewarding also its only helping the enemy. You would think that if the treasure is going to super power Zoran's army to this invincible force, you wouldn't solve the puzzle but obstruct and destroy all the clues. You have the key to the treasure throw it away where they can't get it.

Flynn is a douche. He has zero purpose after the heist. He is constantly failing. It was 3 months for looking for a place and Drake solved it in 5 minutes. He managed to capture Drake several times only to immediately escape from him. He can't even solve a dumb puzzle like put the weird items on the stone circles. He is an idiot and yet Zoran keeps him around for no reason. He caps his own men from stealing a tiny artifact, yet he is all forgiving for major blunders. Zoran is also dumb is that Drake is easily solving these problems and he says you out live your usefulness. Why doesn't he just hire Drake, I know Drake would just refuse but he is a lot more useful than Flynn. The worst thing about it is that they comment on Flynn, when Flynn is pointing the gun on Drake, Drake comments on why you haven't been shot yet and he gives no reply. The last douche thing about Flynn is that he is betrayed and shot in the heart when Zoran finds the treasure but for dramatic purposes Flynn can stay conscience enough to wait for Drake and try to blow Drake up with himself with a grenade. Flynn didn't have any deep hatred toward Drake and it isn't going to benefit him in anyway blowing Drake up. Why didn't he use the grenade on Zoran who shot him. I don't understand.

The last thing I have a problem is the ending that when you find Shambhala, its drop dead gorgous. Absolutely stuning, and you spend the least amount of time there. Its like its own world alot like when you find the city in the first Uncharted you want to look around go through it but it literally water slides you through it really fast. This is where most of the game should of been; in an uncharted place. It was a great miss oportunity.

This is a personal grep that only me personally is going to have this problem but I have a huge fetish for World War II guns. I love them absolutely love them. When they fit Nazis in the first Uncharted I was ecstatic, and they had MP40s laying everywhere. In this one they even had Lugers in it, got my gears going. When you stump on Schäfer's men. MP40s and Lugers everywhere and I was getting a hard on. But you only get to use it on the Yetis and don't even need to kill the Yetis. When you escape from the Yetis your MP40 turns into a AK-47 and your Luger turns into that pistol (how they get these weapons is not explained) so you never get to use them on people. The Luger is disappointing is that its makes the same sound as the other pistols but has a slower rate of fire. When in Shambhala, you will find a bunch of dead people and Drake will comment that they have been dead for more than 70 years. Drake finds a Luger and the punk gives it to Elena, **** Also the guns the rest of the soldiers have are AKs and pistols. No MP40s or Lugers to be found. If the bodies have been dead for 70 years that was before the AK was even made. There is no reason why they should of had AKs.

Conclusion is that I will probably never will play this game again. I like the first Uncharted solely on its story. I find the game play to be adequate much how Half-life 2 is an adequate shooter. They guns are a little under powering when shooting with the sound and I hate being about to see the bullets. That is not how a really gun shoots. Games that also does this is Gears of War, Agent Under Fire, and the biggest offender in it is the first Resistance. It doesn't even feel like I'm shooting a gun but more like a belt-gun or paint balls. It will take a lot from to want to play the coop and I rather play COD or Halo online. I understand how people can like it as a whole but I never really like Uncharted as a whole, only for its unique story the game shines for me. I still think the first Uncharted is the greatest game for the PS3. I would equal it to Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom. It was a crappy story but it still had Indiana Jones in it which made it good and with Uncharted 2 it still had Drake.