8 Video Games Built To Kill The Competition (That WON)

Though the first Uncharted was a solid if flawed action-adventure romp, Uncharted 2 was the game that well and truly put the franchise on the map, with its peerless brand of eye-popping cinematic action that could well and truly compete with not just other games, but Hollywood itself.

Uncharted quickly became one of PlayStation's stable franchises, with many comparing it favourably to Tomb Raider - despite earning the early mocking nickname "Dude Raider" - whose pop-culture prominence had already faded considerably by the mid-to-late 2000s.

Uncharted categorically one-upped its genre-defining brand of globetrotting action, and so it's not without a sense of irony that when Tomb Raider was rebooted in 2013, it drew considerable cues from Uncharted's slicker gameplay style.

Though the reboot trilogy helped restore Tomb Raider's place in the AAA gaming sphere, it's never gotten close to its peak in the 1990s. More to the point, the newer Tomb Raider games pale massively in comparison to Naughty Dog's envelope-pushing achievements with the later Uncharted games.

Curiously, both franchises are in something of a dormant period right now, with the last Uncharted releasing in 2017, while Tomb Raider's most recent release came a year later in 2018.

All the same, it's safe to say that there will be considerably greater excitement about a new Nathan Drake adventure than Lara Croft's next sortie.