You could say the same thing about the ring. Then if Francis drake died on the island how did the ring with the coffens co-ordinates get to Nathan Drake. Most probably whoever got the ring with the co-ordinates to drakes family also put the journal in the coffin and dropped it in those co-ordinates and it never said if francis drake was on that expedition to find el dorado alone. Perhaps when Francis found how dangerous el dorado was, he sent one of his crew to bury his journal in hopes that one day his ancestor would find the coffin , go in search for el dorado, find how dangerous it is and destroy it or drop it to the bottom of the deep sea just like Nathan did.

what monster?
i seen tons of uncharted screens and never seen a monster, i wanna seee.

GO PLAY THE GAME.

They're not going to have screenshots of something that happens in the last hour of the game.

You know what would make a cool bonus to uncharted, to play an extra level as sir fancis drake, with a pistol and sword, how ace! back to the OT

You find his body later on in the game, maybe he faked his death and got someone to give his descendant the ring with the location to the coffin with a copy of his diary in so they could carry on the quest if he failed the coffin had to be where someone could not just stumble upon it, and think of it not a s a coffin but more of a safe

I think he went to the island, found out all this stuff. Then returned to England to try and get some support to prevent an outbreak or to hide the treasure and stop the Spanish removing it. But this didn't work, so he faked his death, and his last possessions were put into it and then he went and single handedly stopped the Spanish from taking El Dorado off the island... I think

i just buy it, will take almost 2 weeks to come here.

amazon it's slow.

Noooone of thiiiiiiis is reeeeeeeal. Iiiiiiiiiit's allllllllllllllllll maaaaade uuuuuup.

Seriously folks, you expect a video game to have water tight continuity and internal consistency? Come on, it's no big deal. I just laughed off all the incongruities and played on killing all the bad guys. It might end up making the movie a bit shitty though, I tend to be less forgiving when movies have big holes in them, because in movies you don't get to go round blowing the heads of baddies and monsters.

maybe good old francis used his psychic powers to teleport the diary to the coffin just before he died...

Maybe I wasn't paying attention, but wasn't the idea he faked his death? He was alive and well when he wrote the diary and when he faked his death he stuck it in the coffin instead of himself - by that point he'd found El Dorado, etc. hence all the clues. The sequence of events is, from memory:

1) he finds El Dorado and the coffin (not his, the 'Gold Man'), recording clues in his diary

2) he takes it to island and founds colony

3) he discovers 'curse' too late and destroys colony and fakes his death putting his diary into coffin so that no-one will ever again find island, colony, etc.

4) he dies following fall of colony in the vault

5) somehow Germans find El Dorado during WW 2 - possibly using missing page from diary or just by chance (I played game ages ago so can't quite remember if game was specific on how they found El-Dorado)

6) Germans follow clues to Island - discover 'curse' and try to harness it to their benefit in war. All goes wrong of course and the German installation is destroyed and all Germans killed or 'converted'

7) Nathan tracks down coffin after years of research using family ring he has

8) Clues lead to El-Dorado, and to German U-Boat (note first foreshadowing of later events on the Island and the creatures).

9) Clues lead to Island - and lot's and lot's and lot's of modern day 'pirates'

10) Clues lead to colony

11) Clues lead to vault and discovery of Drake's body, creature reveal, etc.

12) Escape leads to German installation, reveal of what they were up to

13) Usual half clean up ending - coffin and 'curse' sort of removed but island hopping with creatures left behind as surprise for future tourists


Personally I found the game made more sense than 95% percent of games but had the usual plot holes of such as 'Raiders' style plot. For example:

1) why put diary in Coffin at all? why not burn it? - 'cause no clues to follow!

2) how was page missing? - necessary plot device to withhold information - also I have vague memory German's had page so they could find El Dorado too.

3) wouldn't Nazi's follow up on events at installation?

4) how long do those creatures live? Food & Water I'll accept but damn, even allowing for the Germans they should all be pretty old - unless of course they breed, but game implies they are original Spanish plus some Germans.

5) how come in all these types of stories no-one ever worries about the remaining creatures, evidence, etc?

6) how the hell did a German U-Boat get into that position!  I mean, lovely level, beautiful lighting, etc. but damn, I know they cover it with a quick line, but I had a lot of trouble with that U-Boat ever getting there!

Hope this helps, it's from memory and although I really like game I don't feel like booting it up to check every detail. I suspect if you simply watch the cutscenes in order so you get the story in proper order without gameplay intruding you should be able to lock down what was explained, what wasn't and what is a genuine 'plot hole'

@ reasonable, they have been infected by a curse that turns them into zombies... so I don't think how they are still alive is really a question to be asking