Uncharted: Golden Abyss Review
Thanks to quirks of the calendar and the narrowing technological gap between the devices in our pockets and those lingering under our TVs, the latest instalment of the Uncharted action-adventure series arrives barely two months after we reviewed the last one, Drake’s Deception, and doesn’t look all that different. Even by the Call of Duty-regurgitating, never-knowingly-not-a-sequel standards of the modern video games industry, that’s an impressive rate of iteration. The difference, of course, is that Uncharted: Golden Abyss is one of the first games to be released for PlayStation Vita, and while the timing is perhaps unfortunate – even when Vita reaches Europe in late February, Drake’s Deception will be barely four months old – you can understand the choice of talisman. If anybody is going to convince sceptical gamers that Sony’s new handheld can deliver premium-quality gaming on the go, then surely it is Nathan Drake. With original developer Naughty Dog sticking to the PS3 for the time being, Drake’s latest fate is thrust into the hands of Sony’s Bend Studio, and the team best known for the Syphon Filter games proves a fastidious steward, carefully ticking all the right boxes over the game’s six-to-eight hour lifespan. There’s a reluctant love interest, double crosses, fossils and relics galore, and an ancient city of gold to be found by jumping, shooting and dangling through jungles and ruins across South America. Read more…
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