3/17/2024 0 Comments Uncharted 2 storyline![]() ![]() ![]() He stumbles through the environment, gasping and grumbling, stretching for every handhold with excruciating effort. Easy as it is for the player to pull off, Drake himself always seems at his limit. While there are better shooters and platformers out there than Among Thieves, never have the two been brought together in such perfect harmony, effortlessly switching without a blink or the player making a fumble leaping from the high-ground, rolling into cover, before aiming true and blasting enemies with a generous array of weaponry. The combat’s touchstone is undoubtedly Gears of War’s stop-and-pop gunplay, while the athletic scampering is all Lara Croft. Drake can pounce out of cover to silently take down an approaching foe, leap between buildings and hang from rocky outcrops with one hand, gun in the other. Stringing all these elements together is delightfully simple for the player. He’s a versatile chap too, a crackshot with catlike climbing skills and like any good action-hero, he’s handy with his fists. Controlling Drake is mostly a doddle, with actions often confined to the simplest button presses. The characterisation is apparent just as much when you are in control as in the outstanding cutscenes. Part of Among Thieves’ genius – and where it stands tall over its contemporaries – is how the seams between gameplay and plot are barely visible. ![]()
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