10 Things An Xbox Player Learned Playing Uncharted For The First Time
10. Drake's Fortune Isn't All It's Cracked Up To Be
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Not to upset the Uncharted purists among you, but I really did not care for Drake's Fortune in the slightest.
Everything about the franchise's entry point just felt very mediocre, with its one saving grace being the title's strength of narrative and its wonderful visuals. The developers behind the remaster, Blue Point, should really be commended for updating the look and feel of the franchise's opening entry. It's a testament to Uncharted's technical brilliance that it still manages to impress 9 years on from its debut, but sadly I found its gameplay lacking in a great many ways.
Not that it's completely without merit, however. In fact, Drake's Fortune remains worth playing solely due to the fact that it serves as a worthy introduction to the series as a whole, along with the fact that Nate, Sully and Elena are no less entertaining here than they are in its later instalments. They form the bread and butter of what makes Uncharted so great, and the sooner you get to know them, the better.
WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well.
In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and the Golden Age of Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled.
