Overview
Uncharted borrows the codes of adventure stories and turns them into an interactive journey. Nathan Drake follows clues left behind by explorers, pirates or vanished civilizations, crosses ruins and distant landscapes, and regularly sees his searches spiral into situations far more dangerous than expected. Exploration, climbing, puzzles and gunfights follow one another in a presentation designed to maintain a pace close to adventure cinema.
Drake's Fortune lays the foundations of this formula, before Among Thieves greatly expands its scale and ambitions. Drake's Deception continues this pursuit of spectacle while developing Nathan Drake's past and relationships further. From one entry to the next, the settings constantly change, but the series retains its taste for impossible expeditions, historical clues and treasures whose discovery is rarely as straightforward as expected.
A Thief's End ultimately takes a different look at this life of adventure. Treasure hunting remains at the heart of the journey, but it comes into greater conflict with Drake's choices, the people close to him and what he is willing to risk to experience that sense of adventure one last time. Taken together, these four entries tell both the evolution of an action-adventure formula and that of a character gradually forced to look beyond the next treasure.
