Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune Demo Back on the World Map

After playing the demo so many times (lost count) here’s my rundown of Nathan Drake.
And let me tell you, every new play through I catch something new about the guy through observations made during gameplay.

Nate is an everyman in the movie sense of the word and not in the everyday sense.
Very much in tune with Rocky the under dog;the bum who went the distance.
Or John McClane, a happy go lucky city cop who just happens to find himself in dire suituations one after another.
These are supposedly ordinary people doing extraordinery acts while being in extraordinary situations.

And Nate has very simmilar character traits.
Nate is not a very graceful guy;he lacks finesse. Every posture of his spells buffoon.
He’s very clumsy. It’s never one swift motion. He’s always doing something odd with his body.
It’s always slightly awkward and all his action are hardly athletic.
His gymnastics are kind of clown like.
He looks like he’s walking on a tight rope when he wobbles across a giant log.
He also jumps like a maniac with his hands and legs flailing in the air.
If he does fall to his death, either from the log or a high place, it’s more of laugh than a shock really.

His combat skills are even worse, it’s down right laughable as a matter of fact.
When he sees the enemy he sprints into action running in the opposite direction with his hands covering his head and his body slouched over while looking for a place to hide.
And he says very odd things during the most inappropriate times.
Openly telling us that he’s truely frustated by what’s going on and he’s probably gonna crap his pants.
His aim is unsteady, you have to constantly steady your aim after every recoil.
It gets worse with the AK-47.
His hand to hand combat skills are less than steller, he looks like a drunk with his fists flying in air, doing wild erratic random motions just hoping to hit whatever comes his way. It’s not really a combo move, just a few randoms punches and kicks in succession.

He lacks the acrobatic finesse of Lara Croft and yet he manages to pull of incrdible feats of daring-do….somehow.
He definitely does not have the military calm and courage of a Space Marine, Marcus and his comrades are always inching forward to the next cover closer to their objectives and they don’t flinch nor complain. But Nate on the other hand, he lingers throughout the area, running around the same spots back and forth for ammo and for cover. He only goes forward because he truely has no other option and his only reason for being there in the first place is less than honorable;he’s a treasure hunter and he thinks he’s a decendant of a historical figure. What an ego!

I was truely atonished at how well the character is realized and presented through the in-game model and gameplay actions alone.
Never mind the superb voice acting!

I think Uncharted is the epitome of the genre.
It refines ever element that came before it and then some.