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Where "Uncharted: Drake's Fortune" was a wholeheartedly engaging (and novel) gaming experience, "Among Thieves" takes everything there is to love about the original and raises the bar to staggering heights.
To say this game is an improvement is a serious understatement. "Bigger and better" is the name of the game here. More gunfights, more bosses, more girlfriends, more characters, a more personal story, even more beautiful graphics, more stunts ... it's insane. You (as Drake) don ninja black and play cat burglar in a Turkish museum, face off against a gunship from inside a collapsing hotel, fight off tanks, do battle with another attack chopper aboard a moving train, escape a derailed train before it goes over a cliff - and that's how the game opens! Three of my all-time favorite stretches of gaming come from this very game: 1. The climb through the hotel and the following trek through the war ravaged streets of Nepal 2. The train (moving in and around, clinging to the sides, and not one, but two boss battles 3. The Monastery in the Himalayas - the scope of this sequence is epic. Moving through towers, temples, cliffs and shootouts (galore!). The scenery here is absolutely gorgeous.
And we can't forget about the Yeti. Scary bastards.
The one criticism I do have is that the big bad guy (Lazarevic) is a rather lame character, and the final boss battle ... well, I could've done without that. The earlier "bosses" were much more exciting.
But that isn't enough to keep me from coming back (again and again) to this game. It's an easy 10 for me; highly (re)playable, thrilling, occasionally frustrating, the cast is terrific (Nolan North is a legend) and it's just a purely thrill-ride piece of video game spectacle.
Just an incredible sense of adventure, epic in scope and my favorite current-gen game.
10/10
To say this game is an improvement is a serious understatement. "Bigger and better" is the name of the game here. More gunfights, more bosses, more girlfriends, more characters, a more personal story, even more beautiful graphics, more stunts ... it's insane. You (as Drake) don ninja black and play cat burglar in a Turkish museum, face off against a gunship from inside a collapsing hotel, fight off tanks, do battle with another attack chopper aboard a moving train, escape a derailed train before it goes over a cliff - and that's how the game opens! Three of my all-time favorite stretches of gaming come from this very game: 1. The climb through the hotel and the following trek through the war ravaged streets of Nepal 2. The train (moving in and around, clinging to the sides, and not one, but two boss battles 3. The Monastery in the Himalayas - the scope of this sequence is epic. Moving through towers, temples, cliffs and shootouts (galore!). The scenery here is absolutely gorgeous.
And we can't forget about the Yeti. Scary bastards.
The one criticism I do have is that the big bad guy (Lazarevic) is a rather lame character, and the final boss battle ... well, I could've done without that. The earlier "bosses" were much more exciting.
But that isn't enough to keep me from coming back (again and again) to this game. It's an easy 10 for me; highly (re)playable, thrilling, occasionally frustrating, the cast is terrific (Nolan North is a legend) and it's just a purely thrill-ride piece of video game spectacle.
Just an incredible sense of adventure, epic in scope and my favorite current-gen game.
10/10
10/10
