Video Game Rack Fighter – Ranking World Car Thief Mayhem Champion; Currently Involved with Bookshelf Q. Battler (She has our condolences.)
Hey 3.5 Readers,
Video Game Rack Fighter here, swiping BQB’s laptop to bring you my very first Game of the Month column.
Alien Jones has a column. Dr. Hugo Von Science has a column. Even the Yeti has a column but that’s ok, BQB. Make the best thing that ever happened to you wait an entire year to get her own column. That’s totally fair.
***cough cough JERKFACE! cough cough***
Excuse me. Lots of dust here in BQB HQ.
Uncharted 4! Let’s check out the trailer:
Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Playstation
3.5 readers, I love, love, love this series. It is cinematic gameplay at its best. These games always grab hold of you, drag you in, and leave you feeling like you’re guiding treasure hunter Nathan Drake through his very own movie.
The graphics are that good, rivaling any big Hollywood blockbuster.
There’s a little bit of everything. Gunplay. Oh stop. If you’re reading this then you’re a video game nerd and you know you can’t have a good game unless you’ve got some gun action.
Hell, I’ve been lobbying Nintendo to let Mario pack a Mac-10 but they won’t return my calls. Dorks.
There’s death defying stunts. You’ll feel like you’re with Drake as he’s clinging on that ledge, overlooking a drop into vast nothingness below.
And there are puzzles. The puzzles I’m not that huge a fan of. Some of them are pretty obvious. Others are real head scratchers that take some time. Occasionally, they take too much time and then I have to go online to search for the answers so I can get back to making Drake make things go boom.
If you’re new to the series, it follows Nathan Drake, modern day ancestor of 1500’s explorer Sir Francis Drake, as he goes on globe trotting adventures to uncover treasures and relics. Obviously, there are always bad guys with unlimited supplies of henchmen getting in the way.
Naughty Dog, the game’s developer, scored a winner when they first began making this series. I’ve played them all and they keep getting better and better, proving that it is possible for games to a) have a lot of action and b) a compelling storyline.
Screw the movies. Just stay home and play Uncharted 4. Just don’t get any popcorn grease on your controller. Those things are like seventy bucks a pop.
You know, a friend of mine who only has an X-Box asked me whether or not Uncharted is worth springing for a Playstation (seeing as how it is exclusive to PS.)
My answer? If you’ve got the money and plunking it down isn’t going to leave you sleeping in a cardboard box at night, then yes. Yes it is.
STATUS: Rack worthy. This game totally deserves a spot on my rack.
Hmm. Yeah, BQB said that was a poorly phrased line and I scoffed at him but now that I hear it out loud…
Oh well. Uncharted 4 is my game of the month for April. If you’ve played it, share your thoughts in the comments and tell me which game you think should be my Game of the Month for May.
Take it easy, 3.5.
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