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S.T.A.G.E. said: Action/Adventure doesn't always mean the same. In this day and age it also means that a game has a quest of sorts and you input action during a quest whether openworld or linear. Uncharted is closer in genre to Gears of War than it is to Assassins Creed, you can just do more in the linearity of the world you reside (for that moment) than most third person shooters. You can use parkour to leap to other games with the same grace as Indiana Jones, Prince of Persia or a Pitfall game of the past. In a way it is completely meaningless, because the form and function of the two games are very, very different. Openworld games give a certain amount of freedom where you are allowed to roam and exist within it. As for the questions: - An open world to explore, that requires certain missions to be accomplished that ultimately forces the narrative in the desired direction. I particularily dislike the lengthy cutscenes that is fired up with every new mission you accept. - In Uncharted there is no mission to except or a major world to explore. It gives an illusion in the distance that there is choice but you cannot actually do anything but focus on the story, much in the vein of Gears of War. The game uses cutscenes for dramatic progression, which helps because the storytelling in Uncharted is top notch. While you're playing you feel stuck to the story and focused in achieving your goals in the twelve hours in which you are generally gaming. - Climbing, hiding, stalking requires virtually no skill. It's all basically done for you. I am hoping that Uncharted at least has a more complex mechanic for climbing buildings etc. From my limited experience it does, but the platforming still seemed extremely easy when I pleayed it. Note: Most of what you wrote on the good and bad can be compiled into one big paragraph so I'll just answer it like that. - Uncharted has a better system of stealth than Assassins Creed but its not exactly on par with Metal Gear. In Uncharted you don't climb buildings, you're mosing just trying to survive and thats what the parkour and climbing is for. It creates cliffhanger moments where you're hanging off of things for your life and trying to survive. The protagonist is a brilliant, but fun loving guy who just seems to always find himself accepting quests where he has to search for treasure and some supernatural being, rich person or pirate is tailing him. It's great. The platforming is fairly easy, but then again on most console games there is auto assist even in shooting games. It doesn't mean that your hand is being held though. Uncharted two has most of the stealth missions. Every game brings out more out of a different part of the system. The first Uncharted delves more into the shooting and fighting, second is stealth and shooting (mixed-bag) and the third has a lot of everything. Uncharted has a Punching and evasion system where you attack with square and dodge with triangle. There are commands that make it look like a quicktime, but its not. You can punch as you please, you kind of just need to keep from getting shot and pick your fights properly. Uncharted uses QTE's but mostly in part three, but really in two or one. People are seriously overdoing it. God of War is the top Hack N slash right now for Sony and that one has QTE's but no one complains. QTE's just provide sick finishers after a hard fought battle. The last of Us has a combat system which is based off of Uncharted but bloodier and more focused. Uncharted Review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=122NZnjjs7w Uncharted 2 Review: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPp9_ye5Fhc Uncharted 3 Review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWU-tjHllmY Last of Us Review http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GBXuE6jcl4 The review helps to watch so you see the progression, but Uncharted is one of the most influential franchises of the gen. The Last of Us IS one of the greatest games of this generation, period. If it doesn't get game of the year over GTA (which I loved as well) I don't know...seriously. |
Thank you for this replay. I seriously appreciate the time and effort you have put in, and this is the kind of reply I find extremely helpful.
From what I can gather, Uncharted is probably not a game I would like all that much. I suspect I would play it for a few days to a week before getting bored of it (this is setting in with Assassisn Creed after three play sessions for reference) but I am pretty sure there are other people in my family who would love this. If the game allowes for randomly running around the world gunning down innocent bystanders it would most likely be a guaranteed superhit in my house, but there is a reason why I don't want my kids to play GTA.
For anyone keeping score: If I decide to double down on consoles, surprisingly I would lean towards a PlayStation 4 at this time. I will look into a couple more games and see if it makes sense to dish out to cash.
