Quick Review: Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End

Developer: Naughty Dog

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment

Release Date: May 10, 2016

Played Platform: PS4

 

Things I liked:

• Stunning graphics
• Playing a Crash Bandicoot level on the slim PlayStation 1
  • Nostalgia and Easter egg
• Can choose to either hold the button or tap when doing QuickTime events (QTE)
  • Change it under the settings option
• Seeing the different journals and treasures from the past three games
• The ammo from enemies you killed before you died still on the ground
  • The past three games, it disappeared
• Stealth encounters improved
  • AI is highly improved – reminded me of Assassin’s Creed alert
  • Allies able to take down enemies as well
  • Able to mark enemies to see where they are while walking around
• New gears
  • Grappling hook and piton
• Innovative way to use the Dualshock 4 controller
  • Wished they implemented more in the game

It seems that they got rid of tossing the grenade back from the third game which I hoped they had it (probably mapped it to another button)

Things I did not liked:

• Allies sometime get in the way when walking around the tall grass
• Little to no navigation – not sure where to go
• Felt that the sensitivity slightly changes when aiming with a pistol versus a sub-machine gun
• Not major – had to adjust reloading with the triangle instead of R1 (Uncharted: Nathan Drake Collection controls)
• A lot of enemies everywhere in some encounters and hard to move stealthily

Quick Review: Uncharted: Drake’s Deception [The Nathan Drake Collection]

Read my review of Drake’s Forture or Among Thieves if you have not yet

Developer: Naughty Dog

Publisher: Sony Computer Entertainment

Release Date: November 1, 2011

The Nathan Drake Collection: October 9, 2015

Played Platform: PS4

 

THINGS THAT ARE THE SAME TO DRAKE’S FORTUNE IS IN RED / THINGS THAT ARE THE SAME TO AMONG THIEVES IS IN BLUE

Things I liked:

• Stealth mechanism
  • First priority was to use stealth instead of guns
  • Had trouble doing a section stealthly because the enemies were not moving from their position
• Improved hand-to-hand combat
  • Slighty improved from the second one; thought of the Arkham series, but not up to par
  • Grabbing the enemy and pushing them somewhere else
  • Grabbing weapon in mid fight/tumble: able to grab the weapon when the opponent goes down
• Open the journal at any time
• Funny dialogue throughout the game
• Need to be conservative on ammo
  • Cannot just keep shooting
• Different challenging puzzles
  • Was stuck on a few of the puzzles
• Change of pace in-game
  • Riding horses and chase scenes

Things I did not liked:

• Camera angle is bad when you’re running from someone/something
  • Cannot tell where you are going and might fall off the cliff
• Little to no navigation of where to go
  • Not sure if it is just me, but sometimes I am unsure of where to go
• Lots of glitches
  • I had some on the second one, but I encountered a lot on this one
  • Need to restart the checkpoint and do the task again
• Throwing the grenade back
  • It was a cool idea to implement this, but it should have been mapped to another button
  • Often times, you were switching weapons if the weapons were nearby of the thrown grenade
• The flame enemies (Djinn) was a pain to kill

Things that came to mind:

• While doing stealth
  • Add more weapon choices like smoke grenades or pistol with silencer
  • Bird’s-eye-view to see where the enemies are at
• JUST FOR LAUGHS:
  • They have amazing pockets. After all the events that happen throughout the game, they still have their important belongings
  • Realized how often Nathan gets caught, the antagonist never asks for his personal journal