Uncharted 2 - Among Thieves

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    Hehe, yeah I saw the unlock in the store or something. Love those kinda extras, theres a mirror world unlock as well (flips the XY coordinates I figure, ala King Kong), and one where it mirrors everytime you die. Bet that's gonna be pretty confusing

    Anyway, just finished it, truly epic through and through. Without a doubt one of the best games of this generation. Now I just wish I had more time for the MP, really liked the "beta" trial.

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    / upon further research it seams to happen in all threads where madmager has posted and uses that psn signature

    My bad, I don't really know what happened. It worked fine forever but I deleted it, so it should stop.

    I've had two crashes in this. One in the train, and one after

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    finishing the rather long 3-sided gun fight in the temple towards (what I believe is) the end

    . It's frozen now while I write this. I think, before this generation, the total number of game crashes I've had in a console game was one.

    There's no doubting that it's fantastic, but focusing simply on how it plays only I think I had more fun playing the first one. Pretty much every other fight is a set-piece, which should be a good thing, but Uncharted still has a lot of trouble actually conveying what it expects the player to be doing. And if you are doing something different you die, so when this is so regular it's a bit of a problem. This is particularly evident in the rather ropey 'stealth' sections, but even in normal gun fights you can expect snipers, shotgun, and grenade launcher instant-kill enemies to spawn right up your arse if you didn't progress through the way the designer intended. And, like the original Uncharted, you never really know how far you can jump or drop, as it pretty much changes as the game sees fit. You can fall two inches onto a rooftop but if you're not supposed to go that way you die. Of all my deaths in Uncharted 2 98% of them were me being robbed.

    But it still gets a nice healthy "fantastic" because when you are going with the flow and get momentum it is really amazing and each death has you just pop out a checkpoint so it's no big deal. The cutscenes, story, visuals, the entire package outside of that is amazing, so I'll shut up and go restart my PS3.

    Edit: On the subject of this generation, I tried to play Brutal Legend after and the first thing it did was download a 256mb patch. Next we'll have to install console games on hard drives. Oh wait.

    This game is pretty incredible so far. I can't remember the last game I have played so much on the same day. It has the best materials I have ever seen in a game, and the characters take the crown from MGS4. The flow got broken quite a bit for me on the mission where

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    the player is running from a tank

    but otherwise is pretty solid. The only real gripes I have are with the cover system being a bit wonky like the first game, and picking up new weapons can be troublesome as you'll often drop your weapon right on top of the one you're trying to pick up.

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    Are those the same videos you 'buy' through the bonus menu?

    Yep, I believe this are the "unlockable" videos on the game, like they did with the first.

    I watched the first vid on that link, but I'm watching the rest when I get the game, HD ftw.

    Ah, OK. I'm waiting until I finish it before watching those, as even if there're no spoilers per se I want to discover all the environments and shit myself.

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    Ah, OK. I'm waiting until I finish it before watching those, as even if there're no spoilers per se I want to discover all the environments and shit myself.

    I've split my time between SP and MP since the game came out, and I'm starting to see some of those environments from the MP show up in SP levels (won't give away which one in case you really don't want to be spoiled). On this one level, because I knew the layout so well from MP, it somehow made me extra confident in the SP game and I ran around like a madman, neck-breaking half the enemies before I decided to start shooting. If I hadn't seen the level in MP at all, I doubt I would have been as confident.

    Anyway, the game is still my early choice for GOTY, certainly for the PS3. Looking forward to other games like BL, MW2, but damn, having soooooo much fun with Uncharted 2 and it's going to take something special to unseat it for me.

    I'm still looking at Red Faction as this years goty. Uncharted is probably the most solid thing ever made, but I have a soft spot for the sloppy and ambitious.

    Finished it yesterday. It is pretty amazing, but I had the same complaints as Taylor. It was very difficult at times to figure out what the game expected me to do, and most of the time when you deviate from that you end up dead in a frustrating manner.

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    The Siege

    chapter was just annoying; too much impossible gunplay (damn one-shot-kill grenade launchers, but then again I like the puzzle/platformer aspect of the game more than I like the combat.

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    The end boss fight also to me felt like an annoying joke: run around in circles, stopping every 5-10 seconds to turn around and shoot the resin. Granted, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune's end boss fight was a cakewalk of quicktime events, but at least that end fight was cinematic and had a spectacle to it. The entire game was set up that way, so it works well to have it finish that way; it all just fit nicely together. Drake's Fortune's boss fight felt like a satisfying ending to a satisfying movie, whereas Uncharted 2's was a bland boss fight hurt-the-evil-guy-in-the-only-one-way-you-can-until-he-goes-down. The spectacle of Uncharted 2's ending is probably supposed to be in escaping via the crumbling bridge, but that doesn't mean the boss fight had to be as lame as it was.

    Regardless, it's still an excellent game and I'm damn glad I bought it and will play through it several times in the future. Don't know about Game of the Year, though. Right now, Uncharted 2 is taking the position of "If I can't think of a better game by the year's end, it'll be my game of the year". I hasn't really clenched the title for me.

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