the only genre Uncharted is called OVERRATED TOMB RAIDER RIP OFF.....

Tomb Raider with a dude.

GOTY

There are some games that I love with all of my heart but I can admit that they aren't perfect in every possible way. Some people tend to love a particular game so much that they can't stand to see ANY criticism of it at all. It's like a parent loving their kid.

I just read the whole exchange between M.U.G.E.N. and Rol and, even though I wasn't involved, I started feeling uncomfortable about the whole thing. Weird. Anyway, I was born a Nintendo fan. In the 90's, I became a Playstation fan. Right now, I'm an Xbox fan. Before all of that, I'm a fan of gaming. Just putting all of that out there so that nobody thinks I have any biases or an agenda.

Uncharted's platforming isn't platforming. Prince of Persia's platforming isn't platforming. Enslaved's platforming isn't platforming. Tomb Raider's platforming isn't platforming. They're jumping puzzles. The challenge comes from knowing where the developer wants you to jump. If you figure that out, you can't die. Timing barely plays a part in all of this.

In order of platforming skill required, it's:
1. Prince of Persia--a series that I've owned every game in since 2003 but is my least favorite on this list
2. Tomb Raider--owned every game in the series since '96
3. Uncharted--own both
4. Enslaved--own and enjoyed despite its problems

On one end of the spectrum, you have Enslaved. A game that absolutely will not let you die. You can only jump where the devs want you to jump. Still a great game in my opinion but you can see the problems with that. On the other end is Prince of Persia--with all of its wall running, rope swinging, bar grabbing, etc. It's the closest thing I've ever seen to "gaming parkour". It's complicated and beautiful. Tomb Raider falls in the middle with Lara's grapple and more extensive move list and Uncharted falls towards the Enslaved territory with the "Restart exactly where you died", "sometimes you can't jump where you want to" mechanics.

Uncharted isn't the best platformer. I personally don't even think it's a very good platformer (That's obviously not what ND's goal is with this game), with its simple jumping puzzles (ie: climbing the totem or that ice cavern--didn't die once.) That doesn't make it a bad game. Of all of the games I listed, I'd pick Uncharted over any one of them. It has great gunplay (again, not the best, imho), great characters, amazing graphics, some one of a kind set pieces, great pacing, etc. It's game of the year material. Still, just because you love it doesn't mean that it's automatically the best in every aspect. Otherwise, Red Dead Redemption would be the best TPS, ever--and as much as I loved that game, it isn't perfect in everything it did, either.

I'm not on anybody's side of that whole exchange.  Just putting my two cents in.  Sometimes a different perspective is needed.  I've said all I have to say.

I say let's not have gaming fans decide, lets have Naughty Dog, Sony and gaming media decide. Pretty much without exception (that I've seen) every gaming website (incl. this one) puts it in the action/adventure category. On PSN the Uncharted DLC is in the Action/Adventure category. Whereas Red Faction Guerilla and Socom are in the shooter category.

For me what makes Uncharted not a TPS is that the camera is free roaming, not over the shoulder, there isn't a targetting reticule permanently on screen, and there are lots of parts of levels and entire levels which do not involve shooting. Thats enough to put it firmly outside the official TPS category.

I don't class Mass Effect as TPS even though it's much closer gameplay wise (in missions) to being a TPS than Uncharted. So if ME isn't TPS then Uncharted can't be.

Genre: Action Adventure.
Type of game: Third Person Shooter.

how about Mirrors Edge??? You can die alot in that game, i would classify it as a FPPlatfomfer. I think i used a gun 6 times my entire playthrough

I only played the demo and didn't like it.  I don't know enough to say anything about it.--and I died a lot during that demo!!

like you read my mind

and yes mugen, I've played it

so @OP: Should've been an option for "a little bit of everything", I think that would have easily won the poll

ouch, at least you played the damn game, although seeing as you have played it, you do know enough to comment on it. I can see how some people dont like it. I enjoyed it but if you died alot in the demo then yeah, it only gets harder