10 Things An Xbox Player Learned Playing Uncharted For The First Time
5. Drake's Deception May Just Be The Best Of The Trilogy
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When I heard that Drake's Deception held a controversial reputation within the Uncharted community, I have to admit I was a little apprehensive. After all, it's not totally anomalous for videogame trilogies to falter in their third and final entries, and with a series I already thought was a little overhyped to begin with, I began bracing myself for disappointment.
Oh, how wrong I was.
Drake's Deception is a beautiful game. In fact, it may not only just be the best Uncharted game, but the best PlayStation game of its era too. Maybe I'm saying this because ol' Nate, Elena and Sully had really grown on me by the time I started my playthrough of Uncharted 3.
Or maybe it's because Drake's Deception had the best gameplay of the three. Either way, there's no dispute that the series' original finale was a magnum opus in its own right - one that certainly deserves a higher standing in the community's eyes than it currently enjoys.
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 written 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 Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.
