- Bad pacing. The opening especially is very slow, but there are also other parts of the game where it suffers. A game like Uncharted shouldn't have more than one puzzle in a row. Also the entire middle section of the game is spent fighting pirates on different ships and a shipyard that turns out to not push the story forward at all. The shipyard section in particular is good, but it still feels like a visual showcase rather than anything meaningful.
- Far too much forced hand to hand combat and on each occasion it goes on for too long. I'm not sure if it was practice for The Last of Us (which was far better in this regard) but it didn't work and wasn't fun.
-Some bad signposting on chase scenes
-Enemies. Wave after wave of enemies, who seem to be able to flank you out of nowhere, and take a ridiculous amount of bullets to put down. Too many completely open areas where enemies come at you from all angles. There is also a few times where a cutscene ends or a respawn occurs, and the game sees fit to put you back into the game, out of cover, and surrounded by enemies. Also, one enemy sees you, and even if you quickly dispatch him with melee, every other enemy on the map knows exactly where you are immediately.
- Woolly controls. Cover system isn't tight enough, aiming is too slow (about 12 seconds to look around 360) and semi-regular incidents of button presses not being carried out by the game.
- The story is very similar to the previous games, and both the second and third games end with the thing you spent the game moving towards being destroyed right after getting to it. Elena and Drake's relationship is also the same each time. They start in conflict and then the relationship progresses and they end up together, only to be apart at the start of the next game with, unless I'm forgetting something, no explanation.
-There are some glitches. There is one where you get out of cover, and Drake goes at superspeed and covers half the map in 2 seconds. It's kinda funny at the ned of battle, but otherwise is another small thing that adds to the frustration.
I know it is five years old now, and with the new game out, no-one really cares anymore. But I just finished it and wanted to vent a little. It has some great qualities, but is very frustrating.
I think it's more like a 7/10
