20 Video Games That Defined 20 Years Of PlayStation

4. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

Though Uncharted 2 is vastly superior to the first game in the series, it's Nathan Drake's debut adventure that holds the most historical importance to PlayStation. In its early days the PS3 was struggling to gain momentum. Its complex architecture made it a nightmare for developers to work with and it sold at a premium price point that was simply too expensive for the average consumer. With a low install base and spiralling development costs, getting people on-board to develop games for the system was not going to be easy. Sony desperately needed a game to kick-start things and show off the potential of the new hardware. And that game of course, was Uncharted. Naughty Dog tackled the PS3 with their usual brilliance and grace. Uncharted: Drake's Fortune featured cutting-edge visuals, physics and fluid animation that were far ahead of anything else on the PS3 And Xbox 360. It was a linear, cinematic adventure that felt like the love child of Indiana Jones and Tomb Raider, leading to it being jokingly called 'Dude Raider' by many in its early days. Uncharted is now one of Sony's biggest franchises and played a pivotal role in preventing the PS3 from becoming a dismal failure. It helped define a generation of cinematic games with its set-pieces and intuitive controls that made scaling buildings a doddle.