Just finished Uncharted 2: Among Thieves.
Uncharted Drake's Fortune was
a big mess for me, so i went to Uncharted 2 a bit concerned.
Well, the sequel is so, so much better that it doesn't seem to have been made by the same developer. Is really that better. But it's not perfect, at all.
GOOD THINGS
- While in Uncharted 1 they hinted at some set pieces and the action tone, in the sequel they embraced it with so much creativity! It's really amazing. So many people told me about the train sequence and it was great (a bit too much with the bulletsponge enemies), but the sequence jumping from car to car was simply mindblowing. Really amazed me.
- Graphics are just mind bending, even for today's standards, which really amazed me
- Gameplay is great this time around, controls are good and walk/shoot is satisfying, but still a bit clunky and loose
- The soundtrack nails it, really sets the mood and, sometimes, even gets more attention than the visuals
- Characters are much better developed and written, some scenes are pure fun to watch and the chemistry between Drake and Elena is priceless
THE BAD (and ugly)
- Man, plataforming and parkour are almost never fun. Really. There are some levels that you have to parkour some weird things and it's pretty interesting, but climbing walls is not really my kind of thing
- Puzzles are simple and didn't seem to have much tought into it. Also, the diary give the answer so it's not really a puzzle
- Boss battles are crap. Really. They took the ones from Uncharted 1 and made into several more in Uncharted 2. How can anyone enjoy this? The final boss battle is terrible, the "mystical creatures" boss battle is not clever at all and the list goes on and on
- The story is not there yet too, you can't care too much to an pointless blend military villain that wants to get rich (?) It's that the best they could do? And the "oh my god we need to find this but shit it's not this is that and this thing does that so that is this" story is a bit too much. Uncharted 1 made the same convoluted story and this doesn't helps to make us care at all. It's just meh.
- Please stop with the never ending waves of enemies and those snipers pointed at your head
CONCLUSION
It's a much, much better game than the first, but it's not perfect. But there's a lot from it that shines bright.