Having now played and completed the entire game I can finally form an educated opinion on the game that was meant to make the PS3 a ‘must have’. The gunplay was awkward, with unarmoured, human enemies that had to be riddled with bullets before finally falling down and a flighty aim that made me long to return to the comforting world of keyboard and mouse. No matter how pretty your trees, invisible walls and enforced corridors in a supposedly natural location will break the immersion everytime. The rest of the game’s demo didn’t prove so compelling: released unfortunately around the same time as Crysis on the PC, Drake’s Fortune‘s jungle environments seemed dated, daft and artificial, both in their bizarre day-glo colour palette (which the developers seemed to have mistaken for ‘lush’) and their corridor-based level design. That I knew and remembered their names sets them apart from most game characters. The characters may have been archetypal hand-me-downs from the Indiana Jones movies but they were efficiently drawn nonetheless, with writing, voice acting, gameplay and animation all combining to make them memorable. There have been attempts, certainly, almost all of them doomed to embarassing failure – the Prince of Persia, for example, or Max Payne, or anybody in Oblivion – but Uncharted managed it within the 20-minute demo, effortlessly crafting witty banter between protagonist Nathan Drake and vague love interest Elena Fisher.

While games have had many intriguing, intimidating, troubled and amusing characters, very few of them manage to rise to the challenge of being charismatic.

I’d played this originally on release courtesy of a friend’s PS3 and was immediately taken by the charisma of the lead character. One of them, thankfully, lives up to its reputation. Rather late to the party, I have recently discovered the Playstation 3, which means it is at last time for me to cast my eye over the much lauded Uncharted games.

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