I've actually been a bit disappointed so far. Mind you I just got to chapter 11, but everything doesn't seem to be as polished. I've fallen to my death for no reason too many times. They messed with the aiming, when it was perfectly fine the last game. The overall pacing of the game has been slow, I mean, I'm 11 chapters in, nearly half the game (If my assumptions are correct), and they're not even near hinting as to what, blondie wants (Can't remember the old hags name, and to be frank, that's not a good thing that they've shown the villain so infrequently like they have). And WTF did they do to Elena? She looks like she was on the receiving end of plastic surgery gone wrong. She doesn't look cute like she used to, nor does she look beautiful to make up for it. That being the bad. The good; game is still great. Once getting used to the mess that they made with the aiming, still plays beautifully. They tried their best with combat, it's no Batman, but it's a hell of a lot better than just bashing a guy with your gun (Which is how third person shooters do melee). Platforming returned to the first uncharted, so we got rope swinging back (yay). And I've been really impressed with the lighting, as non gameplay that it is. Looking into a room, and then walking in to have the lighting change, interacting with rays, the entire shading model has been revamped. Light scatters over models almost as well as them CG movies, crevices in skin move and bend as the characters talk, the shading they were using for skins have been polished even further. They got local lights working with the global lighting. Though with all these lighting improvements, they broke shadows. Oh well, I still have half a game to get through, will see if this second half makes up for the first.
