Opening words: BREATHTAKING. EPIC. GAME OF THE YEAR CONTENDER. If you have been holding off on buying a ps3, that is silly, especially now. This game is worth the $380 that you will have to spend if you don’t have a ps3 already. Is the game alone worth $65 after tax? To me its worth $100.

Presentation: 9.8
Everything is stellar. I cannot complain about anything really when it comes to the presentation, the look and feel, the menus, the load times are not to bad, everything is in the right place. The story telling is fantastic, the characters are cool, voice acting, sound production, visuals. Everything is perfect.

Single Player: 10
Perfect. The enemies on normal are a bit dense, put it on hard, flank city. You play a motion picture. You play an epic adventure. This time, it is longer, looks better, controls better, shoots better and climbs better. You will travel all over the world in this adventure. You will fight a lot of enemies. You will use and assortment of weapons. You will climb and solve puzzles, you will see and hear great acting. You will be floored by the visuals on a high def TV. The details are unreal. The water, the textures, the cities are amazing. In the single player game, there are some of the most memorable video game action scenes ever in the history of all gaming when you are fighting in a collapsing building also on that train both when climbing the train and when fighting on it. So many holy shit moments. I have not felt like this since I played Metal Gear Solid 4. You really owe it to yourself to experience this game.

Multiplayer: 9.5
Wow, special co-op missions with your friends, there are only 3, but man, are they re-playable. In the co-op mode you still unlock upgrade points for all multiplayer modes that makes this a cool mode to grind for points on. There is a points system, where you can unlock stuff like upgrading the guns, costumes etc. The other multiplayer modes are great as well, plunder is like capture the flag, instead of a flag, it is this big heavy treasure with a handle, and you can throw it, but when you pick it up, you can only use your hand gun, and it severely affects how fast you can walk, it is pretty realistic. Death Match, Elimination(like socom), Zone mode etc. It is kind of standard. But what really makes this game so unique is the climbing, and multi level playing field that adds this whole other level of fun that other shooters don’t have. This is a 3rd person shooter as well which also makes it more fun to me in a lot of ways. Hang from signs and shoot. So cool. My one complaint is with the gun power, in real life, the round of an ak 47 will knock you on your ass, in this stupid game, you have to unload half a clip with that gun to drop someone, I am sorry, that is un acceptable.

Visuals: 9.9
No joke, this is a graphical powerhouse. The best video game art I have ever seen. When they talk, their faces match the words, and they have facial expressions. They don’t look and act like moving statues like most other games do. I can just stop and look around in any of the environments and be amazed. Sometimes in some places you will see breath taking over looks, or landscapes, over mountains and lakes, so many pretty places. On the train fight scene you are actually moving through a real place, if you look to the sides you will see a real world and this is really damn neat. This game really makes me feel like I am in another world, it completely immerses me. The only things that kind of are off, are some of the shadows, and when you look up in the jungle in some places(which you hardly do) the trees can look like they came out of world of warcrack. The gun fire, and some of the epic destruction scenes, the debris and stuff that flies every where looks so cool. The lighting is really well done in this as well, and yes the dry wet fx are back. Everything looks better than the first Uncharted, and in my opinion that game was stellar. The snow fx in this are unreal, how it sticks on you, how it moves around as you walk through it, the snow blowing, this is stunning. This is the best looking console game on any system.

Game Mechanics: 9.0:
You do walk around like you have a stick up your ass. LOL, but that is not a big deal to me. The cover system in this game is a little odd at times, and takes some getting used to, but it is tolerable. What sets this game over the top though is the climbing and jumping mixed with the gun play. No other game does this as well. Sure there was tomb raider, but that game feels so clunky and crappy compared to this. There is no aim assist in this game either, so you have to play with skill or die a horrid death and be forced to listen to the ultra crappy death music. This game is easy to pic up and get the hang of. It is like other 3rd person and first person shooters, you have to be able to aim with your right thumb well or you will hate this. The puzzles are pretty easy, but fun.

Story: 9.5
Most video game stories bore me to death. In all honestly I have liked the story in this video game better than the last couple of raiders of the lost ark movies. This is so good they plan on making real movies off of them, and I have a feeling they just might work out to be good. Most gaming movies suck so bad. So I cross my fingers that it wont suck. Sure this is a treasure hunter game, but the character development in this is actually good, and you usually fight in the game with an AI partner, and they make funny comments about each other all the time like real people do. They talk about the environments like real people would. The dialogue detail is great. No other game has this level of quality and detail.

Replay: 9.5
Co-op missions, plus your typical shooter game modes. This unique take on online shooting really makes me keep coming back to it. I think I will get back to it after I beat borderlands(bordercrack).

Total Score: 9.7 out of 10:
Is this a system seller AAA title? HELL YES. Is this a good game? HELL YES. This is the best treasure hunter game ever made. This game has the best acting, the best story, and the best graphics and great game play. It is not the most original game made, but it does it all so right, better than all the competition put together. This game really pushes the hard ware of the ps3, and no, this could never look as good on the 360 or wii. This is a great reason to buy a ps3. Buy Uncharted 2 for the ps3 by Clicking Here.

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