Late to the party: Uncharted 2

[Professor Bear]

Apologies if there's a thread already somewhere back in the sands of time when this actually came out, but in the spirit of COD4 and Pikmin 2 where great games languish unplayed for ages on a shelf before I wander around to them (currently not playing Arkham Asylum, Dragon Age, or the last two GTA add-ons), I just had a wee marathon on Uncharted 1 (which I'd given up on during the Lost Colony bits because it felt too repetitive) and 2, and if ever there was a game that didn't need a film adaptation, it's Uncharted 2.

Some great setpieces like the train battle, or jumping from truck to truck in a moving convoy on a mountain road at high speeds for fistfights with eurotrash, gunfights in collapsing hotels, battles with the goat-men of Nepal, and that's before you even get to the Tomb Raider-lite puzzles that emphasise scale and fun over puzzles that make you want to punch the tv like that Incan/Aztec calender thing with the skull and the motorbike in TR: Underworld that was just annoying.
The voice and motion capture acting is some of the best I've seen in a game, and the characters aren't petulant dicks, which I've always found to be a common trope in lazy VG writing - it all adds up to a pretty good summer blockbustery-type experience from the makers of the PS2 Jak games, and despite feeling a bit light and fluffy to play, I'd go so far as to call it one of the essential next-gen games.

Any love out there?

[Roger Godpleton]

I love it. There's a bit where [spoiler]you walk through a Tibetan mountain village, at one point I was walking over some guy's garden, and I actually felt embarrassed that I'd made this transgression.[/spoiler] Only GTA 4 evoked this type of reaction from me before. Both games have probably the best game stories ever in terms of how well they're told.

[Something Fishy]

I love it. There's a bit where [spoiler]you walk through a Tibetan mountain village, at one point I was walking over some guy's garden, and I actually felt embarrassed that I'd made this transgression.[/spoiler] Only GTA 4 evoked this type of reaction from me before. Both games have probably the best game stories ever in terms of how well they're told.

It's a great game.

That bit was really well written, fantastic change of pace at that stage.