(Community subtitles by Danil Zorin)
Uncharted: Drake's Collection is a greatly anticipated remastering
of the original Uncharted trilogy for PlayStation 4.
Those game imprinted their story on the videogame industry,
they influenced the adventure genre
and became the unreachable standart that many developers fruitlessly urging to reach.
All three games were carefully remastered.
They have 1080p with 60 fps.
Some of the visuals were remade completely.
The detalization raised a lot at certain moments.
High-res textures, too.
All in all, developers have done everything they could to make this remastering as good as possible.
For those who missed PS3 generation and Uncharted series with it,
this is a perfect way to catch up
and to prepare for Uncharted 4.
Those who watched my videos know that this game will be awesome.
As a pleasant bonus to Drake's Collection there is an invitation to Uncharted 4 multiplayer beta test.
And for those who played Uncharted before, like me,
it's a perfect reason to recall the greatness, to be nostalgic for a while.
As long as you are at it, you can sense how time damaged those games,
how good does they look now and if they are still playable.
The most interesting part was the original Uncharted.
Just because it's the oldest game.
It's been eight years.
Eight years! Every time I recall that 2007 was eight years ago, I feel kinda sick.
I have a feeling it was yesterday.
The setting was like this: PS3 was released in 2006, there weren't many games,
so everybody was waiting for the Uncharted.
Simply because it was Naughty Dog game.
Maybe in Russia this company was not yet well known, but
for those who owned PSone this was an iconic company.
They made Crash Bandicoot, all three Jak and Daxter.
Actually, it is hard to believe right now,
but then, at that time, the adventure game with live actors, a human-like characters
from Naughty Dog was some sort of sensation.
When the first videos were shown on E3, everybody watched them in amazement.
On one hand, it was rather unexpected,
on the other hand, everyone knew that Naughty Dog doesn't develop crap.
Another reason for such an anticipation was that Uncharted was supposed to show the power of PS3
and would amaze visually.
Naughty Dog juiced PS2 completely.
Even Jak 2 and 3 are one of the most beautiful games on PS2.
They still look decent, by the way.
When the original Uncharted was released there weren't any mass hysterias
nor were there many "Game of the Year" awards or "10/10" marks.
The reacton was different. Those who liked adventures but grew tired ot Tomb Raider -
all of these Anniversary, Legend and Underworld games that were all alike
which became obsolete at some point -
felt as if Uncharted was a fresh start
for all the adventure lovers.
In fact, Uncharted re-invented the whole genre.
Adorable animations, enemies looked like live people.
They approached you from different positions and reacted on hits.
They had a decent AI, they have different animatios for various hits.
Drake himself didn't just shoot, but he also fought in fistfights.
You can't surprise anyone with that now, but at that time it was amazing.
The game was utterly awesome.
In a sense, it was Indiana Jones game.
A nice adventure with classic characters,
a warm and cozy jokes
and, of course, the nazi
and their trasures.
Those were the selling points of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune.
It was amazing, and the game itself was rather diverse for those times.
The action there was a revolution.
It was the first game where charcter could hang from the edge and draw a gun to shoot enemies around.
Even details like that blowed minds.
Unfortunately, most of the features of the original Uncharted will be missed now.
First of all, because there is two sequels.
Second of all, it was eight years, guys, come on.
Eight years is critical period for videogame industry.
This kind of art is getting obsolete rapidly.
This is double true for light genres, like adventure games. Unlike some RPGs I can mention.
So, generally, when I launched Uncharted 1, I saw that remaster was good,
everything is so detailed now.
Character models were updated, lighting was improved.
The overall pictue is clear and smooth,
but the game itself doesn't feel the way it felt before.
Not as wonderfully, at least.
You keep thinking that animations are wrong, Drake jumps in a different way,
enemies are not so smart and don't react correctly to the gunfire.
Physics seems off and don't impress anymore,
fistfighting is too simple.
You have this overall awkward feeling of the game.
Despite the fact that the first game was rather small in its scale,
I mean, it was rather long in a gameplay, but it took place on a single island.
You had to run across the same locations several times.
It wasn't so irritating before, by the way. A lot of developers used that method.
It was fine in adventure games before, but nowadays it's irritating.
Nevertheless, something rather unexpected happened after one hour of gameplay.
I don't know whether that was a nostalgia or Uncharted core gameplay,
but I was sucked inside the game completely.
My intentions was just to show my friends what Uncharted is in the evening,
I mean, the first game. And believe it or not - we came back to senses at 7 a.m.
I don't know how. There were many irritations.
But several hours afterwards I found myself consumed by the game and I couldn't let go of the controller.
Apparently, core gameplay is still good.
Despite the fact that the story is much simplier than the sequels,
a simple story and a few cutscenes.
Nevertheless, all the twists, all those nazi u-boats,
mountaings, jungles and all -
these elements are still working.
You do understand that the game is obsolete,
it's still very hard to let go.
So anyway, I beat the game non-stop. I had my complaints, but I still beat it.
If you recall our review of Uncharted, it is exactly as we said.
We said it was a decent adventure game that impact your emotions,
but it had some problems.
All those crowds of enemies irritated us back then.
All in all, it's quite difficult to determine how a generic gamer of our time will percieve the original Uncharted,
but I think it worth a try.
The only thing I have problems with
is that now the console architecture is different. PS3 had it's own architecture,
PS4 now have classic PC kind of architecture.
This makes many details look different.
Lightning is different.
They said they made it more natual, modern,
but I like it less in some scenes.
The contrast is lesser, the colors are not so juicy.
Uncharted is an adventure game, it has to be in bright colors.
In some dungeons on PS3 there was an amazing play of shade and light,
and it's much more smooth and realistic on PS4.
I don't know if my memories sugarcoat it, but it used to be more authentic.
But it's the common issue with that kind of remasters, especially when they are released on another platform.
There is no so-called HD Remaster that would look better than the original.
Just as when Metal Gear Solid Legacy Collection was released on PS3 I said it looked better on PS2.
Because the original developers made the game themselves, as they saw fit, frame by frame.
This time a different team is trying to recreate the same game on another type of hardware.
So, this is remastering problem.
But this time the job is well done.
It's unfair to attack the developers, but my inner geek keep reminding me that the original was better.
The most important part about this remaster is that for the fist time Uncharted 1 is translated into Russian.
The second and third game were in Russian already, but the first game was only in English.
The Sony were yet to start their Russian campaign, they did it after the game was released, so it was not translated.
Surprisingly, Uncharted 2: Among Thieves was remastered even better.
It is harder to see
since the release of the game five years ago was a stunning success.
More than 200 - or 250 - "Game of the Year" awards,
Uncharted 2 was doubtlessly the best game of 2009
according to all the living beings on this planet Earth.
If you remember, this game blew our minds off completely.
I was screaming that it was the Future Game.
It was a step ahead of every game of the time.
It looked just like the games would look in a future.
I think Uncharted 4 will be another example for all the developers to follow.
Just like Uncharted 2 was in its time - a lot of developers tried to reach its level.
And I don't really remember if anyone was able to surpass it.
Even if you take all the games to compare in the means of animation, atmosphere, diversity of in-game situations
only The Last of Us can withstand that comparison, another Naughty Dog game.
So, I launched Uncharted 2 with great caution.
I feared that this amazing game that I love with all my heart
might have faded after five years.
It's a common thing for games of this genre.
I was afraid to refresh my memories.
It's better for some games to leave them in your memories as they were when they were released.
I took my time for considering, but then I pushed "New Game".
I started to play and, frankly, I was stunned.
First of all, Uncharted 2 is not so obsolete.
The visuals did improve for last five years,
but not that drastically.
This remaster was updated, naturally,
and it looks awesome.
It looks like a modern game.
Yes, animations are not so impressive anymore,
and before they seemed as a revolution.
The game was alive, Drake was moving like a real person.
I remember my friends paid me a visit and they never played a videogame before,
and they stood and watched Drake run, crouch and crawl.
They could not believe that videogames actually made it this far.
Now you can believe it. It's quite modern now.
You can see some flaws, but, God, what an amazingly, stunningly great game this is.
I know this game by heart, but the contrast with the first game is so vast,
I mean the quantity and quality of cutscenes, diversity and all,
the improved sandbox,
since Uncharted, just like Halo, was always a directed sandbox
where player is given a small map he can move around in many ways
just like enemies who can approach you from various spots.
If you start the level anew, it would be different every time.
It is still impossible to stop playing Uncharted 2.
If you never played it and doubt if you should play the first game,
play the second game.
First of all, the first game didn't provide a lot of story.
You can launch the first game and play through several missions to get to know main characters - and that'll be enough to start playing Uncharted 2.
In general, this game will be a total amazement, even today.
Even though I remember a lot about this game, it never seized to amaze me.
The way it is written, the jokes, the characters,
how they interact and betray one another,
even the love triangle that Drake has.
A vicious and evel east european crime lord that destroys Nepal temples with tanks and choppers,
in order to find a way to Shangri La.
Mysteries, some absolutely crazy temples,
and riddles attached to them, Drake climbing giant statues,
solving puzzles -
all this is still awesome and has no rival.
Lara Croft doesn't even hold a candle to that.
It is still a very good game, it feels and plays awesome,
and its action is obsolete a little bit, really.
As for story, it's a living classic with no equal rival.
I recommend it to everyone, it's a wonderful game.
It's a real adventure, a big game.
As I once said, it's a mixture off all Indiana Jones movies, except, maybe, for the fourth movie.
It's an amazing adventure, a handmade game.
Where every inch, every twist
is made by caring people.
Naturally, Uncharted 2 was the rising of Bruce Straley and Neil Druckmann.
They made The Last of Us and now are busy with Uncharted 4.
Yet again, the remastering is very decent.
Textures are better, as well as many in-game models.
Everything was re-drawn and detalized.
The only thing is, if you compare it to original PS3 picture,
it still looks that they had it better in the original.
Then again, the most of the scenes are much better now.
Well, Uncharted 3... Who watch me long enough, know that I have mixed feelings about the game.
Generally speaking, it's a very good game.
It has many interesting story lines,
like how little Drake met Sally,
all those cute things are good.
But, if any of you remember, I have a large problem with this game.
This game is, in fact, a commercial copy/paste of Uncharted 2.
I was slightly disappointed in Ucharted 3.
Back then I said that it felt like this game was made by different people.
As if Naughty Dog created another inner team
and gave them Uncharted 3 with already existing technology.
While Uncharted 2 authors were busy with another project.
I turned out to be right.
That "another project" was The Last of Us.
Objectively speaking, Uncharted 3 is a very good game.
A lot of people like it, love it.
There's a lot of awesome action scenes.
We still remember the scene with airplane.
There's indescribable location in the desert
which still doesn't have any equivalent in any other game.
But as I said before, it's a repetition that doesn't have anything new.
I think I will beat the third game, too,
as soon as I finish Uncharted 2.
With all these years that came to pass I feel that I want to do it.
It's a part of the series, after all.
You can't really ignore it.
In my eyes, Uncharted 3 was like all the Indiana Jones movies, including the fourth movie.
There were a lot of awesome stuff, but the story bit the dust.
Too many repetitions and irrationality.
Some levels seems off and some things are entirely strange to the overall story.
Some of them awesome, though, like that twisted ship.
It suddenly appeared in the game,
but it was an awesome location.
As it was expected, Uncharted 3 was lightly remastered
since it was the newest game in the series.
It was released quite recently and it utilized the latest technology.
I mean, visually. And it also squeezed all the juices out of PS3.
It looks quite modern even now.
Even though it didn't improve much since the second game.
I think if you have PS4, you shouldn't even doubt the purchase of Nathan Drake Collection.
If you played Uncharted before, you know you should buy it.
Then again, if you didn't, you, too, know you should buy it.
Nowadays Uncharted is one of the major series in videogame industry.
It's a PlayStation symbol.
I am convinced, that everyone who likes single player adventure games should play Uncharted 2.
It's an unchallenged masterpiece. These five years just prove it.
The only misfurtune is that there is no multiplayer this time.
But I don't think it bothers anyone.
I think I played Uncharted multiplayer for two hours and it didn't attract me at all.
Although there were some people who played it for a long time.
But I don't think I understand those people.
And now - an advice for those who will play Uncharted for the first time.
You see, the thing is you can't play Uncharted on high difficulties under any circumstances.
I know many of you enjoy challenges and all,
but in this case it kills the game completely.
Uncharted is a game about hiding in a cover, then jumping out of it, running and shooting everything
and when the enemy is staggered with gunfire, you approach him and punch him in the face.
But on the higher difficulties this idea doesn't work.
Fistfights become useless and game is transformed into boring positional shooter.
So use recommended level of difficulty
and you will get a lot of fun.
As for me, I grand it 9/10. I think no one will be left disappointed.
They are warm, cozy, wonderful games
that gives many positive emotions.
We have a competition at the moment and you can see it there.
You can see that this game has granted unparalleled experience to many people.
So they put their hearts in their work and some of them are utterly awesome.
