In 2007, when the first game of the Uncharted series went on sale, nobody can imagine that this will be the beginning of one of the most popular gaming franchises, will set a new standard in its genre and become one of the “sistemeraro” consoles family PlayStation. For ten long years Nathan Drake delighted gamers around the world their adventures, hunting for treasure and sparkling humor. But any adventurer sooner or later comes to rest. That is what happened in the game Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. However, the developers decided not to give up on the series and announced a new game of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Uncharted: Lost heritage), which is set in the same universe, but as the main characters are completely different characters. Were Naughty Dog Studio once again to please their fans? Let’s find out together.
Game: Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Platform: PlayStation 4
Genre: Action-Adventure, Third Person Shooter
Release date: 23 Aug 2017
Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Sony Interactive Entertainment
In the history of Nathan Drake and his family was the point in the previous game, so developers from Naughty Dog arose a natural question: to whom do the main characters of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy? After going through several options, they came to the only right decision. Fans of the series at the time, I loved treasure hunter Chloe Frazer, which debuted in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves in 2009. Between Chloe and Nathan was a short but very tempestuous affair, which, however, was initially doomed. However, the Chloe is so popular among players that its absence in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End caused outrage of the fan community. Despite the fact that Chloe was born and raised in Australia, looks sultry brunette immediately apparent that she has Indian roots, so with the venue of the game developers, too long did not have to think.
What is Uncharted without a faithful partner and a priceless ancient treasure? Companion Chloe in the new game has become well-known antagonists of the fourth part – Nadine Ross. The owner of a luxury aproximally and former owner of private military company “shoreline” joins Frasier to help her find a legendary artifact in the Indian Empire of Hoysala – Tusk of Ganesha. The search for that jerk for the main character are a very personal matter, directly related to her family. Of course, for the treasure hunt is not only a brave lady, but also extremely dangerous rebel leader on behalf of the ASAV, whose disposal is an army of mercenaries. The main action of the game Uncharted: The Lost Legacy takes place in the Western Ghats is a picturesque mountainous area in the West of the Indian subcontinent.
Relations of the girls in the course of their joint adventure, slowly developing. It’s wonderful to watch because of distrust and based on material gain cooperation grows a real friendship that can sweep away all obstacles in the way of girls seeking treasure. The events of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy happen some time after the end of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, so Chloe is not so young as the second or third parts of the series. She became more reasonable and experienced than pleasantly different from the flippant Nathan Drake, ready to rush headlong into any dangerous adventure. Despite this, Chloe is not alien to the sense of humor. Here only jokes are more thoughtful and diverse than the previous protagonist of the series.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy adopted almost all of the key mechanics of the previous game. But the developers still made some innovations in the gameplay. For example, artificial intelligence partner of the main character began to resemble what we saw in The Last of Us. Nadine Ross really behaves like a real, living person. She not only skillfully shoot and comes to enemies in the rear, but is also able to activate different mechanisms helps to overcome obstacles, she drives a SUV and even helps Chloe to solve some puzzles. Sometimes Nadine is very easy to navigate in the heat of battle, as it tells military girlfriend, where is the best place to hide from the enemy bullets, or in which direction to move at the moment.
Another novelty of the gameplay was the ability of the characters to cling to and move through each other when they are hanging on vertical surfaces, clinging to the ledges. For example, your partner hanging in your way, and you need to move forward. Chloe gently grab the shoulders of Nadine, will take a leg up on the ledge behind her and only then let go of his companion. Implemented everything as realistic as possible. Someone from players will not even pay attention to such a trifle, and programmers and animators Naughty Dog have probably spent hundreds of man-hours for the implementation of this interaction. In the game you can now pick locks with simple mini-game where you have to react to the vibration of the controller to find the correct position of the master key in the keyhole. Can open enemy chests with weapons and treasures, door locks and even handcuffs.
In the first half of the game developers have placed strong emphasis on stealth mechanics. The player has to hide from enemies behind cover, sneak behind their backs or hanging literally under their noses, holding onto the ledge. The stealth in the game has become more thoughtful and not felt a vestigial complement of third-person shooter. But the greatest surprise is the gigantic outdoor location, which becomes available to the player roughly in the middle of the game. Something similar we already saw in Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End where the main characters traveled across the expanses of Madagascar on the SUV and explored different places. In Uncharted: The Lost Legacy, the developers went even further. In addition to the key points that you want to visit for the further development of the plot, the location contains a lot of small optional quests, for which performance the player will get a particularly useful artifact and learns a lot about Hasselskog Empire. This innovation I believe perhaps the most important in the history of the series. Personally, to me Uncharted has always lacked something.
It is impossible to ignore a pretty grown-up puzzle. The main character will be faced with riddles, the solution of which will make you pretty smash his head. Don’t worry. In the game there are no unsolvable problems, and if you are a stupid man, without a doubt, fast enough to cope with any of the puzzles. But one thing is sure at 100%: puzzle Uncharted: The Lost Legacy one, and even head and shoulders above everything we’ve seen in previous games in the series. In terms of collectibles, the game confidently holds the bar installed. You will be asked to find 68 treasure to find the box 21 with rare weapons, listen to 17 optional dialogues with secondary characters and much, much more. Another innovation of the game was the passion of Chloe Frazier photography. She hasn’t parted with his smartphone and takes pictures of particularly beautiful places of the Indian subcontinent. The player will find 28 of these locations.
Visually, the game looks great! I have already said that Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End is one of the most beautiful games ever released for the PlayStation 4. Well, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy outstripped its predecessor. It’s difficult to describe my emotions when I first saw incredibly beautiful scenery, silent ancient cities, huge statues of gods and extant architectural monuments of the past. After the game, I feel as if just returned from India and still haven’t recovered from jet lag. The beauty of the new Uncharted is intoxicating and amazing. The developers love the study of the smallest details is still a matter of admiration. Every leaf, every blade of grass, every butterfly, fluttering over bright colors, painted with special love. Once again I was amazed that after melee skin of the main character is covered with scars and then, but if she came ashore from the water, her hair sticking to face. Everything is so wonderful that I find it difficult to find the right words to Express their thoughts.
Music Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. You will hear the familiar from previous games motives, but the new treatment. In the game there is a pronounced influence of Indian music, and as the final track during the credits plays the song “Borders” Indian singer M. I. A. it is Worth noting the outstanding performance of the actors. Especially impressive is the work of Claudia Lee black, voiced Chloe. In the skill she is not inferior to the recognized masters of video game voice acting, Troy Baker and Nolan North, and in something even surpasses them. New Uncharted had better take place in high-quality headphones to enjoy all the subtleties created by Naughty Dog background sound. The game, by the way, offers fine-tune the sound, including the dynamic adjustment of the coverage and even the azimuths of the stereo headphones.
Originally Uncharted: The Lost Legacy thought only of the story as DLC for Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. So the developers wanted to extend the stay of fans of the series in the beloved universe. But in the development process was that the DLC has grown to a full-scale game, and call it just an “add on” language, no one not turned. In the end, The Lost leg it was decided to release as a standalone product. Many players are worried about the duration of the game. I hasten to reassure you! On the lowest difficulty, and without being distracted by the study of the world I ran the game non-stop for 6 hours and 20 minutes. If you do the research open locations, performing side-quests, finding scattered through the levels of artifacts that can be spent on Uncharted: The Lost Legacy 10 hours. For comparison, the first game in the series was held for 8 hours, the second 10 and the third 9. So the duration is in order. Although after the final credits still want to continue the wonderful story.
The only drawback of the game, in my opinion, has become crooked translation into Russian language. However, the translation I did not like in the case of Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. Just say: I passed the game with the original English voice acting and Russian subtitles. This allows you to hear the voices of the original actors and, in parallel, to assess the quality of the Russian translators. Sometimes the dialogues are translated more or less sanity, but sometimes the Russian “nadmozgi” begin to carry this gag, for which they should be ashamed. Instead, ashamed to read it all for some reason it was me. Due to incorrect translation completely changes the mood of some scenes. Often, it defeats the purpose of jokes, which could easily translate into Russian is much closer to the original, not the stick instead of things like “my foot in my mouth”. And now I’m grumpy out of nowhere. At the time I had to deal with localization on Russian language, so I understand how it all works.
Multiplayer new games I won’t describe in detail because it for the most part migrated here from Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End. “Competitive mode”, includes 14 maps, 6 game types, single player testing and hundreds of unlockable items. “Co-op survival mode” involves the cooperation of three players that stand against the waves of attacking they enemies and powerful bosses. However, you can try to survive in this mode, even in splendid isolation. New multiplayer mode has become the “arena”. About the same as the previous mode only in the scenery of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. Players can customize the appearance of their heroes and even get in the way of the new charismatic villain Asawa. And the game offers us a high quality photo mode, thanks to which any player may briefly to become a professional photographer, choose a nice filter to customize the facial expressions of the characters of the game, and send the picture in a social network.
Pros:
- The story grabs from the first minute and holds on until the very end.
- The formulation can be the envy famous Hollywood Directors.
- The main characters sometimes overshadow the Duo of Nathan and Sally.
- Partner really helps in the passing game.
- From the visual beauty and scope of the game is often breathtaking.
- The developers attention to detail is simply amazing.
- The game skillfully combines the corridor location with open world.
- Find treasures has never been so exciting.
- The puzzles become much more fun and interesting.
- Various minor improvements and additions to the gameplay.
- Great music and realistic sound effects.
- Most likely the game of the actors who performed the main roles.
- Significantly brought to mind the multiplayer modes.
- The publisher asks for all this magnificence funny 2499 rubles.
Cons:
- After the final credits want to continue the Banquet.
- There are comments on the translation of the game into Russian language.
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy — the essence of all that we with you for about ten years now, love the series. The game is full of references to previous installments, that will be only real fans. Despite the fact that the game was meant only as one story addition to Uncharted 4, the developers managed to make the gameplay a lot of nice new features. The study of the wide open locations and perform mini-quests led me into raptures. What to say about the prettier puzzles, excellent sound work and the outstanding artists of Naughty Dog. But the most vivid impression on me still made the two main characters – Chloe and Nadine. You do not want to think, but I would love to see new adventures of this wonderful couple in the future. I put the game 10 points out of 10 and remind you that Uncharted: The Lost Legacy will go on sale Wednesday, 23 August 2017.
Game review of Uncharted: The Lost Legacy
Sergey Grey