#Uncharted 2 ch 23 series

Part of this is because it looks exciting. Elena doesn't have much time for games either, but still keeps her PSone around, ostensibly a memoir from her college days.ДЄnd yet, no one seemed to mind. One of Uncharted 2's best early jokes is that Nathan Drake doesn't play video games and is terrible at them. Technically you're still 'playing' the game, but your agency is left out of your hands. The rest of the time you're being funnelled through intentionally frictionless scripted puzzles or button-tapping your way through automated platforming sequences. Sometimes you simply watch cutscenes and have zero input whatsoever. But Uncharted 2 and its successors only dedicate a little over half of their running time to such mechanics. On that level, they're still fairly traditional action games. Of course The Uncharted games do have a failure state and you spend most of their running time engaged in third-person combat.

The genre has since come to be labelled somewhat derisively as 'walking simulators' - a video game with precious little interactivity and no game-over state. It was really 2009's Uncharted 2: Among Thieves where Naughty Dog really went off the rails (literally in the case of its seminal train sequence) and managed to subtly provide a proof of concept for a type of video game that was still in its embryonic stage. The first Uncharted wasn't particularly revolutionary, though it did feature some snappy dialogue and stunning visuals for its day.

#Uncharted 2 ch 23 series

But dig deeper and it becomes clear that Naughty Dog's bombastic blockbuster series quietly had a profound effect on the medium's development over the past several years.

On this level, it's functional at best and banal at worst. It's about a good looking white, heterosexual man going on exciting globe-trotting adventures, killing bad guys and wooing a spunky blonde reporter. On paper Naughty Dog's Uncharted series is as generic as it gets.