If only Drake's introduction in the second game was his first for the franchise, this may have skyrocketed to number one, but instead the first taste we got of Nolan North's voice-acting capabilities was when both he and series love-interest Elena Fisher are unearthing some buried treasure from Drake's father. Although fairly action-light in terms of things that happen within the opening cutscene, the instant chemistry between Drake and Elena made the former one of the most loveable characters to embody throughout every game in the series, all thanks to a mixture of Indiana Jones-esque knowledge of the world around him twinned with an everyman sensibility that showed at any moment something (and anything) could go wrong. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zFzyG1CYhaw It's not long after the pair have seemingly found some answers to their expedition and Drake cottons onto the fact that they're about to be besieged by pirates that his nonchalant manner of dealing with all things death-defying comes out - and we all realised we were about to play out any number of sequences from every summer blockbusters in the decades gone by.
