Voice and Dialogue

Nolan North, Claudia Black and a cast of returning voice actors are there to give the sharp and crisp feel to the dialogue in the game. Their performances are absolutely spot-on with excellent timing. They deliver their other sounds and voice with equal aplomb, such as exertion and running, they even sound out of breath when doing these voice tricks. There are some very nice effects too, radio effects as well as muffled speaking when the character’s mouth is covered or otherwise obstructed. All in all, it’s brilliant design. The script itself is excellent with some truly epic moments in the story and some nice dialogue.

Multiplayer

If the single player game is the cake, then multiplayer in Uncharted 2 is the icing upon the top of it, covered with cherries and packed with a delicious filling. Naughty Dog have taken everything that was great about Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War 2 in multiplayer and thrown in a lavish setting, some truly excellent level design and given it their own unique twist and spin. All the moves from hand to hand, to acrobatic shenanigans are packed into the mp of Uncharted 2 and there are lots of player character models/skins to choose from, providing you’ve paid to unlock them of course.
Naughty Dog has proven that multiplayer is not just tacked on, these game modes, including a great cooperative suite are excellent and the servers have been rock solid. Naughty Dog can also alter weapon placement and other features on the fly, so you may find a map that you knew well, has changed a few months down the line to improve play or just spice things up a little in terms of weapon placement or so on. What is truly great though is the spread of modes, there are death-matches, team death-matches and a unique take on capture the flag and a gold rush mode where you must steal gold from the enemy AI and work together in a team to get it back to a collection point, using guns and acrobatic skills to win.

Then there’s a coop survival mode, like Horde Mode from Gears 2 and a coop objective mode, which challenges you to defeat a few waves of enemies and then work together to get through to the next area, using acrobatics and double-team moves to get the job done. I could do a massive review just on Uncharted 2’s multiplayer alone, but really, you should just get in, get your feet wet and play it because it’s just that good. There’s something for everyone and even the Machinima crowd can use the game to make their own movies, since there’s a mode for that too where you can use a green-screen stage or one of the game’s levels to film your own action.

Talking of film, Uncharted 2 borrows from Halo 3 and lets you record your mp games, playing them back and watching the action and how you did.

There are leaderboards and as I mentioned earlier, perks, allowing you to buy 2 and slot them into your character. These perks are similar to Call of Duty 4 and provide a little more spice to the mp game.

The bottom line: its tremendous fun and a solidly realised mode.

Top this?

After spending a lot of quality time with Uncharted 2 in single player and multiplayer I can say one thing, how on earth does Naughty Dog plan to top this game if they plan on making a Drake’s 3? One look at meta-critic after we assigned our score based on days of discussion, proves to us that this is a must have game for the PS3 and one of the greatest reasons you should go out and get a PS3 today if you can. It may seem too short, but it’s actually longer than Uncharted, you just want to devour it all in one go.

I stand by this review, by Naughty Dog and by the game.

This is one of the best games I’ve had the pleasure of playing for a long time.