i was so excited for uncharted 3 after starting/shelving it nearly a year ago. when i finished among thieves, i was so into the series and the characters. but after this playthrough, i felt like i was just so caught up in the things that were frustrating that any redeeming qualities felt difficult to appreciate!

shooting feels clunky at times & lacks any sort of feedback, leaving me emptying entire magazines into regular enemies only for them to flinch. getting in/out of cover is inconsistent. i'd also oftentimes feel confused as to where i was supposed to go/what i was expected to do (not necessarily in a fun, puzzle-y type way), running around a small area trying to find where the game wanted me to hit triangle. any time i was exploring/traversing an area, it felt as though i was always bumping into something/not quite where i wanted to be.

i don't think that the series as a whole is lackluster, and im not saying that i dont think this game didn't have anything to offer. i did enjoy the shipyard chapters, music, and action set-pieces, but about halfway through i found myself just speeding through trying to get it over with! just my experience with this one.

All the first three Uncharted games are really fun… when you’re not in a god awful shooting section. And that’s a real shame because shooting is all you do for like 60% of it. If it weren’t for the lovable characters, great music, and incredible set pieces, I’d hate this game.

But what’s also a shame is how lame the story is. The plot was a jumbled mess and the villains were not great. They weren’t horrible like in Drake’s Fortune but they weren’t at all interesting. Also I didn’t like how we were retreading Among Thieves with the whole lost city plot. The ending also left a lot to be desired. But I can’t wait to play 4 given it’s reputation.

This game has some of the best setpieces in the series. The game suffers from levels being made first and then having the story written around it, though. At launch there were was a really bad issue with how aiming worked that made shooting a lot more difficult than it should have been. If you spun the right stick in a circle you'd get Drake's aiming movements coming out in a square, if that makes sense.

Sadly the multiplayer in this game isn't nearly as good as 2's. The time-to-kill got changed and that altered the dynamics of so many other parts of combat in a way that I didn't like.

Oh shoot! Another game I forgot I played!

Uh...Yeah, I like the part where you grab on to something and then climb it. There was also some shooting in there.

I definitely ended up beating this game and did not NOT have a chance to beat it because my mom's boyfriend left with his PS3......

3 Uncharteds out of 1. Colombia mentioned.