Uncharted vs Gears

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CGI-Quality said:

S.T.A.G.E. said:
Uncharted and Gears are two totally different games. They may share similar core mechanics, but Gears is more innovative. Uncharted took almost all of its major parts from other games and perfected it. Uncharted is a Cliffhanger/ Indiana Jones adventure and Gears is a post apocalyptic Human/Locust battle for the fate of humanity. Both are great in their own way. Uncharted holds your hands in the game, because it plays like a movie. Gears saves the cinematic approach for needed moments and floods you with gameplay (if you play on the right level).

In all fairness, they both have their innovative aspects, but BOTH have borrowed from one game or another. Where they're different, as you mentioned, is in some ways, why this comparison is a little off. However, for their respective fanbases, they ARE comparable, even though Gears is the undisputed winner on the sales front.

Uncharted hasn't done anything that I haven't seen in Prince of persia, Tomb Raider and Killswitch (Add major mechanics of all three of those games and you've got Uncharted). Gears 2 not only took what Killswitch did, but they added ontop of it. Uncharted just perfected the use of mechanics other games create or made popular. I love both games in their own way. Uncharted is what one would call a 'safe game'.