Gaming Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Gets 4/10

[Valwin]

As a shooter, Uncharted 3 is solid, if not mostly the same as its ever been. I can do without the fisticuff QTEs, which play like a bargain bin version of the fighting from Batman: Arkham City. It's especially silly how you have to keep fighting the same big guy over and over, as if Uncharted 3 needs to keep saying, "Hey, remember how cool this bit was in Raider of the Lost Ark?" Uncharted 3 says that a lot. But the gunplay is good, and it provides a solid foundation for the mostly typical multiplayer support. You get lots of options for leveling up, customizing your characters, and playing various types of cooperative and competitive games. There's even a competitive/cooperative mode in which two teams of two players take turns playing the heroes and playing special thugs amid all the AI thugs.

But as an overall package, Uncharted 3 is mostly filler without gameplay. It's the modern equivalent of those full motion video games folks made back in the 90s when new CD-ROMs afforded all that storage space. So developers shot video footage, grafted it onto various games (usually puzzle collections), and a genre was born. Who cares whether there was an actual game in there? We were watching actual real video featuring celebrities like Mark Hamill, Dennis Hopper, Rob Schneider, and whoever the chick was in that Phantasmagoria game! She was famous, wasn't she? I forget.​

So as Uncharted 3 dutifully goes through the paces from cinematic set piece to cinematic set piece, featuring elaborately motion-captured and ably voice-acted characters in canned feats of derring-do straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark, it's starting to occur to me that I'm just killing time on the way to the serviceable shooter bits. Why don't I just cut to the chase and play a better shooter without all the breaks for something that clearly wishes it was a movie? Why is my decent third-person shooter so bogged down by an overlong, ill-fitting, poorly told, and ultimately uninteresting story?

When the backlash happened against FMV games, it was because players realized they weren't doing anything, so they might as well watch sitcoms and whatnot. Uncharted 3 doesn't quite make that same mistake. You have to participate by holding the analog stick up to move Drake forward. You are almost literally pushing him, as surely as you push a truck in one of Uncharted 3's many non-puzzling puzzles. Push him through stretches of exposition, through flashbacks, through hallucinations, through wilderness, through crevices, up walls, along railings. In the climbing sequences, which have zero sense of exploration or uncertainty, you push Drake up a wall much as you might push a child up a jungle gym to help him feel a sense of accomplishment.

There are perhaps three sequences where the climbing also involves shooting, with the camera swinging down below Drake to look up at enemies shooting down at him. It's exactly like Dark Void, which you didn't play because it wasn't the third in a popular series. But the occasional gunfight isn't enough to breathe life into all that climbing and jumping along a set path with no sense of danger and no deviation. As the camera helpfully lines up the next designated jump, Drake quips, "I've only got one shot at this". Actually, no. Saying so doesn't somehow make this dramatic. You have as many shots at this as this takes. One of the levels, which you can freely replay, is called "One Shot at This".​

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[Ikki]

I can't say I completely disagree.
I find the game part of the game gets monotonous pretty quickly but it's not bad. And the cinematic part is great.

If I was to review it like a complete asshole, the lowest I'd rate it is 8/10

 

[CCNaru]

I remember watching Sony E3 and they were complaining that people only wanted great graphics now, and that's what they're spending all their money on - mostly on real-like graphics than a story or something.

Also that site is shitty at best, it gave a shitty game like Chrono Trigger a 10/10.

 

[godreborn]

I've only played one chapter of the game, so I can't really make a determination as to its quality. however, I have heard several people comment that the game is a major step backwards from part 2. the game may be a victim of over-hype that nothing could ever live up to.

 

[wasim]

4/10 ?
lol! seeing others hyped about this game ... i thought it'll be a 10/10

 

[Godamit]

I remember seeing this a while ago. That reviewer is just a complete idiot, how he figured out how to post that on the website is beyond me.
The game is perfectly alright. My only issue with it is that some key scenes I was expecting didn't exactly turn out as I had hoped, but it's still a good game.

 

[Deleted User]

I mean, The gameplay in 1/2 was pretty bland, the shooting at a core is weak, and the climbing parts are on rails.

Uncharted at best is a glorified movie.

 

[3020]

oh look at me by giving this game a bad review I will surely generate controversy and get more views and attention!

 

[Hells Malice]

Same site only gave Valkyria Chronicles a 7/10. So anything it says is now invalid to me.
and a few other random titles I searched got low ratings. Then shitfest titles like RDR and a few others got high ratings.

Yeah, this site doesn't produce valid reviews...at all. Reading some of them, you kinda wonder how monkeys can run a site for so long.

and i'm not sayin' this because i'm mad they gave Uncharted 3 a bad score. I've actually never even touched the Uncharted series, and probably wont since it never looked to be up my alley in terms of fun.

 

[Joe88]

troll review alert

 

[akari212]

4/10 ehh, I cant just give a score like that with this game, well you know, I love it.

anyway for me, this is a 8/10 for me, despite of the lack of gameplay, story line and graphics are awesome.

Anyway, this is the worst score that I ever seen on a reviewer, he fail as a human being right now.

I rather give Final Fantasy XIII a 4/10 than this one.

 

[KingVamp]

I mean, The gameplay in 1/2 was pretty bland, the shooting at a core is weak, and the climbing parts are on rails.

Uncharted at best is a glorified movie.

Climbing parts are on rails? How do not have it on "rails"? What do you mean by that? Didn't they have secret places that people can go to?


While he may have valid points (idk if he truly does since I only watch the first two walk thoughts and part of the 3 one) he seem to want a shooter game with basically
no story(which he doesn't seem to care about). Like I thought this was a shooter game with a story, until I read some comments.
The game try to copy (which I believe it miss) Batman fighting style which you couldn't even do much of. I thought the combat part was lacking and
seem easy. The shooting wasn't like right or consistent. I understand it is a video game and multiple shoots are fine,but a shot in a leg kills them faster in a shot in chest in some cases. I think people like the fact it feels like a movie (which I believe where most the hype is coming from),but I do feel something is lacking, mainly
in gameplay. Oh and the trophies for this game, from what I seen, are something you would have done anyway, so it doesn't really add anything...

I think the game could have benefit with at least one more year of development 'cause some say they are pumping out the series too fast.

I would at least give the game 7-8 for a score base on past games. That score just seem unfair/unlikely...

 

[10_0ARMY]

I can't believe a site would give it such a bad score since it got so much hype. Also, isn't this a ps3 exclusive so this score is crap.

 

[Arkangelyou]

Lol IGn gave it a 10/10 and Gamespot gave it a 9/10. Pretty sure that gametrailers gave it a score higher than 9. The game is awesome and stands against Skyrim, Arkham City, and Skyward Sword for Game Of The Year.

 

[Master Mo]

Man, I absolutely loved Uncharted 2 and it`s imo the best sequel in gaming, since I thought Uncharted 1 was heavily overrated. IMO U2 had an overall way better pacing then U1, since it managed to deliver just the right amount of gunfights, climbing and puzzles so that the pacing felt absolute perfect.

U3 on the other hand has honestly a very flaut pacing. The first part is very puzzle-heavy (not that they were bad thought) and the second part was very gunfight-heavy... Seeing something in the distance that you want to get to was just thrown away in favour of very quickly putting you in admittingly amazing situations (in the case of Uncharted not a good design-choice). Over all it doesn`t give you time to breath like U2 gave you and that`s why some of the amazing scenes didn`t have a big impact on you even though they might have been better then the ones from U2.

Over all I would rate all 3 games the following:

U1: 75% (at best... very overrated game)
U2: 92% (damn it`s an amazing experience)
U3: 84% (imo it tried too hard)

But 4/10 is ridiculous!

 

[Snailface]

Perfect thread to link this video clip. Topical, no?
http://mega64.com/20...ovie-premieres/

How dare that reviewer not give U3 a 10, I'll tweet about this! lol

 

[Joe88]

metacritic doesnt even count this site as a real review site so you can see the validity of it

 

[Fire2box]

I just got a PS3 recently and Uncharted 2 was a very fun game. I liked the gameplay a lot, it was simple and the enemy AI's could of been harder.

I haven't played UC:1 or UC:3 at all so I can't comment on UC:3 clearly. but if UC:3 is more of the same. I can safely say to me it's a good game and that's all that matters to me in the end is that I think it's good.