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This is game with a tight adventure story line, good graphics and interesting characters and relationships. There are plenty of first person shootouts and puzzles along the way. The game moves from mission to mission as it travels around the world to find the lost city of Shambala. It is not an open world like Far Cry or Grand Theft Auto, that can be explored between missions. While I enjoyed playing the game to its conclusion, I doubt I will repeat the experience unless I go back to it using the multiplayer mode for a new take on the game.
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I haven't yet played a game that I will rate excellent. To get that rating the game would have to be designed so well that I could not think of any improvements. So to clarify my rating Uncharted 2: Among Thieves as Good means that it one of the best games I have played and one that I recomend any adventure loving gamer to pick up. Now to explain my reasons for my rating: Pros: 1. Playing in Multiplayer is awesome. Best thing about the game. 2.Multi-tactic choices to complete each level. Character controls are advanced and the player can usually choose how he wants to take out the enemies whether it be form long range, short range, or up close in hand to hand combat. 3. Engaging story with a very entertaining main character. (at least for me)Games always have holes in their stories as does this one, but this one does engage the player to find out what is in the next chapter. Cons: 1. Maps are a little to linear for my optimal enjoyment. I wish the maps were bigger with lots of areas and secret paths to explore as well as providing alternate paths to sneak up on enemies or avoiding them altogether if desired. 2. There are not enough maps in multiplayer without buying expansions. 3. I'm trying to think hard about my third con so I'm going to repeat con #1 at a different angle. The game plays more like a war game than an aventure game at times. There are a few areas of exploration and puzzle solving but majority of the game is trying to defeat the main villain's seemingly endless army of ruffians.Read full review
This is a great game with such real images you'll think you can smell them sweat. It is more than the 1st one a shooter, as I though the problem solving aspect of this 2nd edition to be easier than the first. It's about an 8 hour playthrough and the online game is fun too but takes a while to get enough "perks" to be at all effective. In the meantime, those who have been there a while will chew you up without any problem. I got this game about a year after it's official release for under $20 here on eBay and well worth that. Have a go at it, you won't be disappointed.
Great action adventure. A main function in the game is blasting the bad guys but the overall storyline is not bound up in over the top blood guts and gore repeated on each level which is a welcome relief from many current game titles. The storyline is interesting, graphics are amazing and the way the programmers utilized plays on the physics engine makes for qutie an exceptional experience. There is one scene in a blasted out old building where the hero and sidekick are being chased by a helicopter. The helicopter starts blasting the remains of the building which starts to tilt from one side to the other while, inside, the hero is fighting off several bad guys. The floor is tilting from side to side, you're trying to get the goons, not be shot by the helicopter outside and make it out safe as the building collapses. Much fun. For the parents, I would give this one an NC-17 as opposed to the standard teen rating just for the amount of time spent in 'shooting' mode. Yes they have seen worse on TV and the violence is not over the top like some games present, but I wouldn't give this to a younger kid. The only thing I dislike is being stuck on a linear path through the story. Side missions are fun and allow for a break. Would have been intersting to have some side-plots where the player could upgrade the hero while progressing through the story. Online play is a carbon copy of hundreds of other shoot 'em up titles, nothing new there. If you've played one you've played them all. Again, the programmers did such an interesting job with this game, I would have loved to have seen a new take with the online environment to acually have players work as a team to meet a goal rather than blast everyone on the other team until the timer expires. Overall, this is a good game and definitely worth checking out.Read full review
Item was in perfect quality - completely new. Awesome game too. IGN Review: Trying to remain as spoiler-free as possible, I'll just say that the story starts off about a year or so after the events of the first game and begins with Nate and a few fellow thieves working on finding Marco Polo's lost treasure fleet. Of course, things aren't quite that simple and the cast winds up going on a much grander adventure, one that takes them half-way around the world. That's about as far as I want to go with the storyline, though some of the trailers out there actually reveal a little more than that. The important part here though is that this game doesn't just take place on a single island and instead changes locales a handful of times over the course of the adventure. The result is that the pacing feels better and faster, and even though you're technically doing the same sort of shooting, climbing and puzzle solving throughout the game, the different ways the scenes are presented gives Among Thieves a greater sense of gameplay variety than the original. The great storytelling extends to the character development, which has been turned up a good notch or two. Almost everyone with more than two lines of dialogue has an interesting reason for doing what they're doing (though the main bad guy is just bad), and the way that everyone interacts with one another is realistic and interesting. Almost every character is unpredictable in some way, but not in a forced or unnatural manner. The story itself twists and turns throughout the course of the game, as you might expect, and for the most part it's a solid tale. Nate and his pals go through a lot, so it does a good job of reeling you in and keeping you hooked until the end. While I'd say the story is quite good overall, I wouldn't say that it's perfect. Without giving anything away, while most of the story has solid footing in real-world lore and legend, it does start to veer away from this at some point in a way that could have been handled better. Still, it's told very, very well through the use of fantastic cutscenes and acting, and will keep you guessing at what'll happen until the very end. Thanks!Read full review
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