Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception

[isiolia]

Finished it last night. IMO, good not great. Doesn't really build on 2 the way that game built on the first one. I think they did do a fairly good job at balancing things between puzzle/shooting, but also never really escalated either to the level that the second game did. Felt like they built a lot up and never really went anywhere with it.

[Xeogred]

How many chapters are there? Watched my friend get all the way up to 18 last night. Seemed fun, but I honestly have more fun watching these kind of games be played than actually playing them (rare for me, but these games I can only play for like 30 minutes max before I get bored. lol...)

[dsheinem]

How many chapters are there? Watched my friend get all the way up to 18 last night. Seemed fun, but I honestly have more fun watching these kind of games be played than actually playing them (rare for me, but these games I can only play for like 30 minutes max before I get bored. lol...)

I think there are 20-25 or so, from what I remember reading somewhere. I am to about chapter 12, so I think I am around half-way. So far I liked Uncharted 2 better, but this one is still pretty and fun - I just don't find the story as compelling yet. There also seems to be less gunplay and more ledge climbing, and I prefer it to be the other way around. I quite like the new fist fighting mechanics, though.

Still, no series or game has ever given me my Indiana Jones fix the way that this series does (including Indiana Jones games). The only way these games could be better is if Drake were a professor.

[drunkn ghost]

I am on chapter 17 or 18 as well so I'm not sure how many there are but honestly I wish it would just end. The first two games were not my favorite games ever but I did enjoy them and this one just hasn't seemed as fun.

I still want to play the older ones again to compare them. I know it sounds crazy and I don't see how it's even possible but I swear the controls are not as tight as the first two. I have been punching all the enemy's I can because the shooting just doesn't feel that good to me. The character movement doesn't feel as smooth as I remember either.

I don't think I am an expert by any means and I try not to be a fanboy of any series (Except Battlefield which is the greatest shooter ever ) Graphics, sales numbers, fanboy opinion and what system it's on all don't mean anything to me. I will play any game I can get a hold of and I basically judge them on whether or not I enjoy playing them. I don't know what could change between now and the end of Uncharted 3 but so far I haven't had as much fun playing it as the other two.

[dsheinem]

The first two games were not my favorite games ever but I did enjoy them and this one just hasn't seemed as fun...

I still want to play the older ones again to compare them. I know it sounds crazy and I don't see how it's even possible but I swear the controls are not as tight as the first two. I have been punching all the enemy's I can because the shooting just doesn't feel that good to me. The character movement doesn't feel as smooth as I remember either.

At the time of release, Uncharted 2 was my favorite game this gen. You are absolutely right that, for all its minor visual improvements, Uncharted 3 doesn't feel as fluid and fun as 2. I am not done obviously, but so far it is a little bit of a let down. Check this out:

[Xeogred]

I guess the game is pretty short then. We only watched my friend play a good 4 hours or so and if there's only 20 some chapters, he was probably near the end... Uncharted 2 wasn't long, but it seemed longer than this.

[dsheinem]

I guess the game is pretty short then. We only watched my friend play a good 4 hours or so and if there's only 20 some chapters, he was probably near the end... Uncharted 2 wasn't long, but it seemed longer than this.

I think I've spent 4-5 hours getting half way and doing some (minimal) exploring. Your friend must be flying, as even one of the game's testers supposed best was 3-4 hours. Is he skipping cutscenes or something?

[MrHealthy]

Playing on Normal, looking for treasures and watching all cutscenes put me in at 8:33 for total completion time. Any longer and I feel it would over stay its welcome, so I am happy.

Oh and there are 22 chapters by the way.

There is also a seperate co-op campaign like portal 2, that is 5 chapters in length. Though those chapters will no doubt be longer then single player as you have to fight many more enemies and all that.

[Xeogred]

I guess the game is pretty short then. We only watched my friend play a good 4 hours or so and if there's only 20 some chapters, he was probably near the end... Uncharted 2 wasn't long, but it seemed longer than this.

I think I've spent 4-5 hours getting half way and doing some (minimal) exploring. Your friend must be flying, as even one of the game's testers supposed best was 3-4 hours. Is he skipping cutscenes or something?

Nope, that's why we all got together to watch him play it for the first time, to watch the whole movie.

Honestly we probably watched more like 6 hours worth I guess now that I think about it. We just had some intermissions and some of us switched off playing TF2 in the background, lol.

[Niode]

Thankfully somebody managed to fix and patch this game for 3.55CFW so I've been playing through it. The shooting mechanics are totally fucked compared to Uncharted 2. Retarded aim assist which is a massive hinderance, with no ability to turn it off. Slow laggy controls. I know it's running at 30FPS but this is ridiculous. There are some serious issues with input lag in this game. I dread to think just how unplayable the multiplayer is...

Just got to the 'ship graveyard' forget what chapter that is... Progress is slow because of the total bullshit shooting mechanics. The combat is basically just 'mash buttons until win' like the previous titles. Basically S,S,S,S,S,S,S,T,T,T,T,T,T, x Infinity will win every single hand to hand confrontation in the game. Zero improvement there.

I don't know if it's because I'm not very far in the game but there hasn't really been a part of the game where I've truly gone 'Wow'. There's a few minor events that impressed me such as the burning chateaux in France, but even then it hasn't really impressed me as much as say the train section or just after the train crash with the snow, so far.