What's so bad about U3?

Right off the bat, you'll notice the aiming is very, very bad. The core gunplay if the game is such a huge step down from 2. The AI is horrific. They will no joke run in circles in front of you. The game has a pathetic focus on melee. It's basically a watered down Arkham Asylum. Just mash square and triangle. A horrible part is how the game has these huge dudes who will trigger at certain moments (ie, flashy setpieces.) and lock you into melee combat. Bullets don't hurt them. So you just mash. And mash. And mash. The worst part is how its not like UC2 or something like Halo, in this game you're locked into combat. So you'll be in a middle of a firefight when this guy will run in front if you, triggering melee locking which you can't stop until he's dead, all while 20 guys are still shooting at you. The graphics are inconsistent. The blood, skyboxes, and in game character models are absolutely awful. One area will be beautiful while the next looks like a PS2 game. If you get even your foot in water the whole body will have a pop-in instead of just the foot getting wet. The animations are terrible, especially meleeing. Everyone just teleports where they should for it to work, its awful. Getting into cover, jumping, and even simply running looks terrible. And there's thus stupid thing where if you walk next to a wall he will touch it, but 98% of the time he touches the air next to the wall. This game defines uncanny. The plot is full of holes and unexplained things. But I don't want to spoil it. Puzzles are downright terrible. It's all about opening up your notebook and deciphering, or alternatively, waiting for "press up to win". Uncharted 2 had some great puzzles but 3's are terrible, and a much bigger part of the game than before. The controls are broken. Nathan will have terrible controls all for the sake of being super cinematic. He goes through these stupid animations which cause you to do things like get up out if cover randomly, not make jumps, and more. The set pieces are terrible, and the ones that aren't are copy and pasted from Uncharted 2. There are so many stupid chase set pieces, and plenty of "push forward while engine wanks off to the cinematicness". They are unbelievably terrible. One such chase sequence involves running away from guys shooting rocket launchers (sound cool? It isn't) and you have to stop because Sully tells you to snipe them. He, Chloe, and Cutter won't do it themselves of course. So you need to hide behind a pillar and try to snipe them. It's incredibly frustrating. Sorry this is poorly written, on my iPod. This game is terrible. One of the biggest disappointments I've ever played.

I doubt it's that bad. How could U2 be that good and then U3 be worse? They use the same engine. Nonetheless, I'm sure I'll still enjoy the game.

It's terrible.

:( I really hope not. I'll be making reviews for every title in the franchise, so stay tuned I suppose. Lol

Never played UC1, oddly enough I ordered it last night lol.

Nothing. Don't listen to him.

Lol, I just wanted to hear his opinion.

Actually, pretty much everything he said is right. The game is still good. I didn't think the aiming was horrible, UC2 had better aiming. As far as story, UC2 was better. The animations can glitch up like he said, though thankfully, TLOU of that fixed that. The graphics part I never noticed really. The melee is fun but can be annoying. Really, if you play UC2 then play UC3 you'll be like, what happened? Then you play TLOU and you're like... Oh. It's painfully obvious once ND split up in 2009 the best from UC2 went to make TLOU and the rest stayed for UC3. Hopefully, whatever ND is working on (Probably UC4) it will be great. TLOU team is probably working on the sequel/prequel, and post-launch support. The other team has had a long time to start work on the PS4 title.

That's sad... I'm never really upset about games, and I usually don't buy a game I don't like. You said you platinums U3, was it easy?

Sure was. The trophies are nearly the same as UC1 and UC2, there are 105 in UC3 but you only need like 50 or so for the platinum.