A great foundation for what became a flagship series on the Playstation, but is brought down by the game's jank. Most players will point to the gunplay not aging well, which is very true. Very often I would run out and shoot enemies then back into cover but Nate will cling to a different wall or roll past it. Personally I play Uncharted to climb impressive set pieces and Uncharted 1 is pretty lacking. I just finished this game over the past weekend and I can only remember scaling the fortress which was good, when the camera pans out while you're climbing is very atmospheric but not very challenging. The puzzles in this game are very surface level and just require the player to check Drake's journal and do what it says. I'd say the greatest strengths of Uncharted 1, however, are the characters and writing. During the first few chapters Nate and Sully have good banter and you immediately understand that they are close and like to poke fun at each other. Elena at first wants to get a news story out of this expedition, but later wants to help Nathan get to the bottom of the mystery of El Dorado. The villans though are pretty forgettable I don't even remember their names besides Eddy Raja, they don't get enough screen time to establish them. They make their first appearance during the first few chapters then dissapear for most of the game with just their goons left behind for us to deal with. Then near the end of the game they return and by then I had already forgotten who they were. Overall I think Uncharted 1 was a promising concept that just needed more time to be refined, luckily we got exactly that two years later.