Uncharted 4 is absolutley the best PS4 game hands down, up there with Ghost of Tsushima and Spider-Man. I loved just how the original trilogy took the linear genre and made it as unpredictable and natural as possible where you were traversing a linear path that felt anything but linear, and this game of course brings that type of gameplay to a whole new level. This is a robustly designed game with a story and crafted journey with twists and turns galore.
Yes the game is linear in style, but at the same time it's not. There are many areas of open exploration yet every virtual place in this game feels natural and alive right down to the smallest detail. The water in this game looks absolutely amazing too, with all the refractions and crispness aswell as real physics of how it flows. The game also has some truly amazing setpeices and some very practical puzzle solving that just doesn't feel like a switch based or block sliding puzzle you would find in a Zelda dungeon, but real environmental puzzles where you actually have to scope out for real observational clues to figure out a practical solution. The game also has a massive car chase sequence which might just be the best in gaming history, it was so expertly crafted and blew my mind just how good that whole interactive sequence was.
I also liked how the combat and shooting system was substantially upgraded from the original trilogy. The aiming and shooting just feels a lot more natural and robust than it did feel in those previous games, with all these different hitmarker symbols showing you just how and where you hit your enemy, which I haven't really seen in any other game except for Naughty Dog's own The Last of Us.
Another thing I should add is that there is absolutely no form of praise or award showboating on the cover, which I really find refreshing for a video game, because this game doesn't need all that, because it knows it's confident that the game can speak for itself, and people can form their own opinion of it.
For me, I think it's a flawlessly executed experience. I can find nothing wrong with it. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't have this in your collection.
Yes the game is linear in style, but at the same time it's not. There are many areas of open exploration yet every virtual place in this game feels natural and alive right down to the smallest detail. The water in this game looks absolutely amazing too, with all the refractions and crispness aswell as real physics of how it flows. The game also has some truly amazing setpeices and some very practical puzzle solving that just doesn't feel like a switch based or block sliding puzzle you would find in a Zelda dungeon, but real environmental puzzles where you actually have to scope out for real observational clues to figure out a practical solution. The game also has a massive car chase sequence which might just be the best in gaming history, it was so expertly crafted and blew my mind just how good that whole interactive sequence was.
I also liked how the combat and shooting system was substantially upgraded from the original trilogy. The aiming and shooting just feels a lot more natural and robust than it did feel in those previous games, with all these different hitmarker symbols showing you just how and where you hit your enemy, which I haven't really seen in any other game except for Naughty Dog's own The Last of Us.
Another thing I should add is that there is absolutely no form of praise or award showboating on the cover, which I really find refreshing for a video game, because this game doesn't need all that, because it knows it's confident that the game can speak for itself, and people can form their own opinion of it.
For me, I think it's a flawlessly executed experience. I can find nothing wrong with it. You're doing yourself a disservice if you don't have this in your collection.