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Category: Video Games
List Price: $59.99
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Rating:  298 reviews
Sales Rank: 314
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: military_and_espionage_action_games
ESRB: Teen
Media: Video Game
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 0.1 x 0.1 x 0
MPN: 98103
Model: 15782621
UPC: 711719810322
EAN: 0711719810322
ASIN: B000UW21A0
Release Date: November 19, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 2 to 3 weeks
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| Features:
| • | Uncover the clue to Sir Francis Drake's last great adventure and seek out the fabled treasure of El Dorado | | • | Use maps and hidden artifacts to uncover and island that was thought to have never existed | | • | Explore exotic locations, such as expansive jungles and 4000-year-old ruins. | | • | Interact with Drakes companions through cooperative mechanics and exploration | | • | Daring high-speed chases over land and water |
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Product Description
A 400-year-old clue hidden in the coffin of Sir Francis Drake sets a modern day fortune hunter, Nathan Drake, on an expedition for the fabled treasure of El Dorado, leading to the discovery of a forgotten island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. The search turns deadly when he and his party become stranded on the island and hunted by modern day pirates. Outgunned and outnumbered, he must fight to survive as he begins to unravel the terrible secrets hidden on the island . . . Fight to survive with both gunplay and wild hand-to-hand combat Gorgeous and highly-realistic backgrounds and graphics ESRB Rated RP for Rating Pending
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| Customer Reviews: Read 293 more reviews...
 Best game for PS3 yet January 6, 2009
D. Brown
This game was the ultimate for me. Puzzles, challanges, action, Acrobatic exploration, Fantastic Storyline, Fantastic dialogue and character development.
I am a Zelda freak and this game is right up there with Zelda OOT
Anyone who did not like either never played or is some kind of evil undead alien out to eat the souls of all mankind
 This is what passes for adventure titles today... December 31, 2008
Trevor Goodchild (The City of Angels)
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
Recommendation:
* If you want a first person shooter with slightly more story: this is your game.
* If you want an adventure game keep moving.
I played the first 5 chapters of this game -- and was bored to tears. There were very few puzzles and the solutions didn't make ANY sense. You get to solve such exciting puzzles as "locked door" and "how to get over there" over and OVER and OVER. Apparently the only problem anyone ever has to face on an adventure is what sequence of stones to jump from (how to get over there), and how to open a door. Frequently the solution to one of these problems will be to shoot and ignite a powder keg an enemy has left lying around for no good reason. The resulting explosion will create a path, or blow open a door.
By the 3rd of 4th chapter the game abandons any storytelling and just drops you into firefight after firefight after boring firefight. You will die a lot because you'll be low on ammo and the enemies just KEEP coming.
None of this is really fun. It's as if they wanted to make an adventure game but found out game design is hard and just went with gun battles instead.
The game has a few technical issues as well. The controls feel a bit clunky (but way better than say, little big planet -- so there's some credit). The other thing that drove me nuts is whats called "screen shear". This is when half of two different frames of animation appear on the screen at the same time. It's kind of technical why this can happen -- but I've *NEVER* seen a ps2 or ps3 game that had shear artifacts before. Some XBOX titles do have these and its one of the reasons I buy more PS3 games than 360 games!
 Tedious December 26, 2008
Hari Nair (Ellicott City, MD USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't understand the glowing reviews of this game. It's about 25% exploring and solving puzzles, and the rest of the time you are running from gunfight to gunfight. I didn't find the story particularly compelling either; in fact, the twist towards the end is pretty silly and changes the mood entirely. This is not a bad game, but now that I've finished it, I don't think I'll ever play it again.
 Four and 1/2 stars, PS3's first homerun........ December 21, 2008
Jason Bean (Iowa City, IA)
I'm a bit late reviewing this, so I'm gonna make this quick:
This game has some of the best graphics on the PS3. The gameplay is simple, but fun and easy to control. The dialogue (if you're into it) is funny, fast-paced and perfectly compliments the gameplay.
I think the only drawback (aside from the lousy speed-boat missions) is the the gameplay never evolves. The puzzles get more complex, but you're essentially doing the same things you're doing in the first mission. Thankfully this isn't a bad thing since the core gameplay is so much fun.
PS3 owners, this is a must.
A weak third person shooter disguised as an action-adventure December 20, 2008
sporkdude (San Jose, Ca United States)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I can imagine the meeting - "We have this great adventure game - gorgeous environments, fun action, interesting little puzzles, but it's only 4 hours long, what do we do?".
"I know- let's add waves and waves of enemies to make it last 12 hours! We won't advertise it, we won't show it in the commercials, and we'll make the AI dirt easy so we don't have to waste time developing it."
That's what they did. One third of the game is an amazing action adventure game, with a beautiful jungle environment, great controls, and thought provoking puzzles. Sort of like Prince of Persia in the rain forest. This is what the reviews, the previews, and the commercials emphasize. This is false advertising.
Most of this game is a slow, boring, 3rd person shooter. The enemies come in waves of about 20. They stand behind an obstacle, and really don't move. So, you're at a stalemate. You can't move forward because you'd be shot, so you have to poke around, kill someone, and do it again for the entire wave. Then, most likely, another wave pops up again. So very boring. It doesn't help that you can't keep more than two weapons without even being able to keep bullets from your previous weapon. This whole sequence makes entering any new room a dreaded chore.
It doesn't even make sense. You would climb some perilous ledges, make some scary jumps, knock down a pillar, find a key, all to open a door. What's behind this ultra secret door with such a super difficult barrier of entry? Fifty enemies just waiting. Wait, what, why didn't I just take the same route these fifty guys took?
However, this game really shows off the PS3s amazing graphical power. I doubt anything like this could be done on the Xbox360. The story is your typical ultra clichéd story which is just a plain rip-off of Tomb Raider/Indiana Jones. If you play games, your used to this, so it's not that big of a deal.
There are some other details. In the middle, there's some jet ski and driving missions which are actually done pretty well. There are also mutants or aliens of something near the end that adds some difficulty and a little twist.
All in all, if it was an action-adventure game through and through, this would be one of the best games around. However, most of it is a boring shooter, which makes it an average game.
Pros:
Amazing graphics
Fun Prince of Persia style platforming
Great adventure/action
Jet ski is well done
Cons:
Wave after wave of useless enemies
Enemies stay hidden, making the fights long and tedious
Bad weapon handling system
Hours to complete: 12
Difficulty level (on easy): Easy-medium
Frustration level: Medium
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