When I covered Dead Rising 4 on Day 10 I mentioned the original Dead Rising as being one of those key releases that set my mind to NEED when it came to the XBOX 360.
Today I get to tell you about the game that caused my NEED to get myself a PlayStation 3!
Uncharted 2 was one of the PlayStation 3’s biggest games heading into the holiday season of 2009. It was already looking great and raising excitement from the video’s coming out of Sony’s E3 conference earlier in the year. Then once it released, the gaming press unanimously confirmed this game was worth all the hype people had created over it. To this day it holds a metacritic score of 96.
Thankfully the online consensus made it clear that the original Uncharted game didn’t need to be played before jumping into the sequel, so I went into the series blind of any context and simply hoped to be wowed by all the things that critics based such high praise on.
Well I can wholeheartedly say the game delivered like no other did to that time. Continue reading “Winter in Gaming – Day 16 // Uncharted 2”