If Tomb Raider and Gears of War ever had a baby then Uncharted would be the result. It uses GoW’s cover system, over the shoulder aiming, and blind fire mechanics while also making them easier to use as actions for taking cover and hurdling over objects are assigned to separate buttons instead of GoW’s multi-tasking single button. This means that you will never perform an unintended action. Furthermore, Uncharted would make Daddy Gears proud for including a simple but effective melee combat system.

On mother’s side of the gene pool Uncharted features environmental careening that’d make a monkey blush. Nate climbs, swings, and shimmies through obstacles fluidly and at a breakneck speed that helps keep the platforming sections from becoming stale.

The only small chink is that sometimes can be hard to determine what objects can be interacted with. In particular, usable ledges inside structures tend to blend in a bit too well with non-interactive environments visually and can lead to a few deaths since the player may not know for certain what can be interacted with as the only way to find out would be to through trial and error . These situations don’t occur that often though and abundantly scattered checkpoints keep this from being more than mere annoyance.