Uncharted Drake's Fortune can be an exciting and beautiful Adventure but high difficulty level leaves you frustrated.
After loving Uncharted 2 I wanted to play it's predecessor so I bought it .I can say that U1 is mostly an enjoyable journey and It showed me that how much improved is it's sequel and It made me to go back and play it again.But at it's own right U1 can be sometimes excellent and sometimes super frustrating. The story is somewhat cliched but still it's nice.Some loveable characters appear and you shall find the voice acting and writing great (though not as great as U2).There are also a lot of of nice musics and the main theme is one of the most memorable.This game is extremely beautiful even after four years.The character models with pretty motion pictured faces are gorgeous. But the best part is the jungles and other beautiful surroundings .I haven't saw any jungle as fantastic as these.Animations are also superb and life like.
But gameplay mostly isn't as good as the other parts.IT is the simple cover based shooting with some platforming and puzzle solving. The combat is mostly fun but Specially in the second half ,huge numbers of super though enemies can make the combat extremely challenging and extremely frustrating! expect to die over and over again in some of the circle shaped levels with those goddamn grenade launchers !At the other side the platforming and puzzle sections are too easy and the difficulty differences between the combat and platforming will lead to uneven moments.There are some cinematic moments like boat driving and shooting in the back of the car and some pretty unsatisfying QTEs but at least they don't let the gameplay to lose it's freshness.One of my biggest problems is with the final level.Mind blowing difficulty level will leave you unsatisfied for the last time.U1 is good length with 10 hours of gameplay and with some kind of achievement points called medals with tons of treasures to find, it will get to 14 hours or more. At the end this is a good game and at least it was a great beginning for an outstanding franchise that became one of the best with U2 and it will get even better with U3!
Graphics:9/10
sound:9/10
Gameplay:5/10
Story:9/10
Final Score:8/10