Jun 17, 2009

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves

So yet another great looking game is heading our way and yes it’s another sequel!

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves follows on from the very popular Uncharted: Drakes Fortune, but this time we find fortune-hunter Nathan Drake on the hunt to discover the real truth behind the lost fleet of Marco Polo and the legendary Himalayan valley of Shambhala.

In 1292 Marco Polo departed China with 14 ships filled with over 600 passengers and crew. Eighteen months later only one ship remained and only 18 passengers survived. Marco Polo never revealed what happened to these lost ships.

Embarking on a quest to find the lost fleet, fortune hunter Nathan Drake soon realizes Marko Polo was hiding a much bigger secret – he had gone on a secret expedition to find the mythical kingdom of Shambhala and recover the legendry Cintamani Stone, the “Wish-fulfilling jewel” of Buddhist mythology.

This game does look amazing and it’s nice to see that Nathan hasn’t just swapped one sunny ruin for yet another sunny ruin as some of the exotic locales look almost real and I look forward to playing the section of the game where you’re on a crumbling roof top building with a helicopter trying to shoot at you. Also this time around Drake has 2 girls fighting over him Chloe, a female counterpart that brings out his dark side and Elena, the blonde video reporter from the first game. Below is the video in which we see some of the great cinematic scenes and so game play too.