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Naughty Dog has got the pacing just right, soon after solving an awkward climbing moment, Nathan and his compatriots’ will be assaulted by enemies, usually variants on red-headed mercenaries. Sometimes the climbing and scrambling will be overlapped by pulse intensifying gun battles. You will never be quite sure what AT will throw at you next.
Actually that is a little wrong, throughout your play time with AT, you will grow accustomed to the unexpected. You know that climbing straight up that obvious wall is the way to go, but you know the game will toss in a scare along the way, but still when it comes, it is a laugh inducing shock.
The gun-play is improved over the past game, but only just, there is still no way to compare weapon damage except by using the handful of fire-arms on hand, but this trial and error approach is soon sorted out, and boils down to grabbing the shotgun for close in fire fights or an assault or scoped sniper rifle for taking enemies out from afar.
Enemy AI is mostly ok, with professional soldiers following set paths without fear of injury, sometimes there is a flanking attack, or a different enemy requiring a new approach, but generally the common or garden variety enemy presents only a moderate challenge. When they are in numbers, or heavily armoured facing an ammo-less Nathan they do induce fear, and then there are the special scripted encounters.
Some fights will be part of the story line and provide moments of unavoidable challenge that may frustrate. Death may ensue, but like the puzzle hint system, I suspect Naughty Dog has programmed AT to give players a little helping hand if the going gets too tough.
Nathan will spend a lot of time crawling through cavernous ruins, or along precipices, the 3rd person camera does an excellent job of keeping the action in frame, only momentarily will the next button push be a leap of faith.
This time around, the Uncharted franchise includes a number of multiplayer modes, both cooperative and competitive. Both are pretty standard approaches to the multiplayer feature demanded of today’s AAA titles. Tackling the adventure in co-op is probably the most fun, and most befitting the type of game this is.
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves lives up to the “must have” standard of the original release, and if you only own two games for the PlayStation 3, make sure they both have Uncharted on the cover art.
David Bass
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