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they just flow one after another...you never really geta "break" very often. It's great.

Yeah I love the chaos too. It's exciting.

I'm glad it won so many awards. It deserves them. You can tell Naughty Dog really care about their game and about people loving it. I think it probably deserves best game of the year. Although critics like Assassin's Creed 2. I haven't played it so I wouldn't know if it's as good as Uncharted 2.

I'll give you cinematic beauty, but if you played AC2 and found the action better in Uncharted and it's characters lovable then I think you might be confusing it with another, much better game.

The action part may come down to taste, but I found AC's system much more exciting than Uncharted 2. Everything came down to the samey stop-go bullet fights the first game was about, which was not helped by the game thinking "make it harder" meant "fart more and more enemies into gun fights". Makes me wonder what kind of human resources company is backing this mad Russian's plans.

When it comes to lovable character you're getting a slap for this one. I found Ezio Auditore very sympathetic as a character. He just lost his family to the templars and this is his vendetta. Away from that he's charming to those in his world, yet clearly flawed in his weakness to women and his loyalty to his friends and remaining family, all the way up to the ending which I will not go into to avoid spoilers. Let's get frank here, Nathan Drake could not be any harder a rip-off of Indiana Jones if the Naughty Dog team tried. From the sarcastic views and quips of his adventures to the constant searching for female sidekicks and the pickles they try to unpickle themselves from. Past that though Drake's idea of "flawed" is "whine and b***h about everything while pulling it all off like an expert". There is no flaw to Nathan Drake, despite how they try so hard to convince us otherwise. It's like playing Blood on the Sand or Escape from Butcher's Bay without knowing which famous celebrity is jerking off to the display Nathan Drake shows yet at the same time trying to be modest about it.

Uncharted 2 is such a pop-corn game that it can only be judged by the last game you played before it and the next game you play after it, 'cause between the 2 you'll be getting a game which will amaze you at the time but will disappear from memory afterwards. It happened with the first one and once Q1 of 2010 is over the sequel will of been quenched by those games which Modern Warfare 2 scared away from the Christmas release schedule.

It depends. People often think "popcorn" games or films are bad but if they're filled with so much enjoyment, as Uncharted 2 is, then I don't see how they can be any less quality than those which ciritics apparently love. the whole point of a game is so that it will entertain, and sometimes even the most carefully and well-made game isn't as entertaining as a "popcorn" game.

Even though Nathan Drake is like Indiana Jones by the fact that nothing ever goes right for him, he's still a brilliant character. I know he's similar to Indy but how many other characters in games do you see that have flaws? NONE. So at least it makes a change to games. I do think they overdid it in certain parts though...things always break or fall down when he stands on them and it did get a bit "old" during the game...so did the parts where you lift up a female character to grab a ladder. It happens so many times that you get tired of it after a while. What I do like about Nate's "flaws" is that his movements aren't perfect. he falls off ledges, when he runs he isn't a perfect runner. He stumbles. I think it's very lifelike and I definately haven't seen anything like it in other games. characters are usually flawless. Yeah ok, he can take on a whole army on his own. An army that seems to be the whole population of a country lol..but that happens in movies and games...that's just something that we all accept..the hero does things that can't really be done..so in that respect he is flawless but if you gave him less villains to kill the game would be pretty boring...any game would be boring if it was made realistic.
I don't think they just added more enemies to make it harder...the enemy AI is improved..enemies hunt Nate out and duck and cover better than they did in the first game. There's also the guys in armour who just keep on walking even while you're shooting them to bits. And the bad guys climb over things to get where you are now too. I also don't think the game is just one gun fight after another like the first one. The storyline seems to break up the gunfights and there are other sequences and puzzles that break it up...it's not as bad as the first one in that respect. However, if you take any action game, essentially it's just one action sequence after another..one "gunfight" after another..it's just hidden well beneath other game elements.
But I do think the storyline and characters are well done in Uncharted. There is alot more basis on their emotions and relationships than in most other games I've played. the characters are believable and human.

If I might interject?
On the subject of characters. Eddy Raja is easily one of my favourite villains of all time.

Interesting point on humour too... Think back to the first game, when Drake is imprisoned. Raja taunts him with the map, gets distracted, and...
"Yoink!"

The Uncharted series for me was more a technological success than a gaming one. The engine Naughty Dog made for it is superb, both it's graphics engine and the way that while you play the game the engine installs the next section so, assuming you're playing from start to finish in one playthrough, it'll be seamless in regards to loading time.

But past that what does it bring to the table? All the characters are so stock it's a mystery to me why they even generated scripts for this, they could of just copy/pasted lines from existing movies and saved themselves the effort. I don't mean to bang on about this but this whole "flawed" thing to Nathan Drake is not "flawed" at all. So what he keeps cocking it up until the end battle? Snake did the exact same thing in Metal Gear Solid yet no one rants and raves about how "he's a flawed character" since Snake's character actually makes him appear legendary despite how much he screws up his mission until the last 30 minutes of the story. Nathan Drake is not a flawed character, just because he grunts when he does it doesn't stop him being heavily athletic. Just because he has mud on his face and stubble doesn't stop him being a handsome character. They are going for that special kind of flawed which means he seems flawed but underneath it all he might as well be Hitler's Aryan blueprint. Overall he's about as deep as a kiddie's pool. Not one challenging thought passes through his head from opening credits to end credits. It's just so generic in storyline and gameplay that it feels really insulting when people give it the title of "Game of the Year". It's more or less saying "Who wants something new in their games? Just re-sell people the bits they liked in other games and that'll do."

It feels really cheap overall, like being made to play the same game over and over again with the same items, weapons and puzzles used along the way except with a different storyline tagged to it....Wait, no, now I'm just describing the Legend of Zelda games. What annoys me about this so much is that I did enjoy the game, it just felt hollow inside.

And on the voice acting insite you brought up there you should know that the voice actor who plays Desmond (the actual main character in the game) in Assassin's Creed is the same one who plays Drake.



Eddie Rahja stars in that Uncharted video comic on the PSN network...Yes, for all my ranting I still checked this out, but I assure you there was alcohol involved.

Well, I dunno about ranting about Flaws, but Snake is probably THE most fleshed out video game character ever. So yeah, he has flaws, he has a personality, he's relatable, and he's awesome. But so is Nate.

And you're saying that Nate is just a carbon copy of Indiana Jones... Solid Snake is John Rambo and Snake Plisken put into one, so it's not like the inspiration behind him was all that original. Heck, Metal Gear Solid games take from many other franchises. It's still awesome.