UNCHARTED: LEGACY OF THIEVES COLLECTION

Brings Drake’s best adventure to PC.

Uncharted, I’ve missed you. The reckless personalities, lush environments and ridiculous action set-pieces are unlike anything else we have in games, and coming back to the series with this PC port of the fourth game and its standalone expansion (The Lost Legacy) has been a pleasure.

Where Lara Croft claims she’s just an archaeologist, despite her chaotic exploits, Drake and crew are self-confessed thieves, mercenaries and rogues, with silver tongues and dark pasts.

In his wake, history is destroyed one collapsing temple at a time, but in the end he always makes the right choice… and ends up no richer than when he started. They’re thrilling adventures – and Uncharted 4 is the best of all of them.

All the action has aged wonderfully well. As someone who plays a lot of FPS games, I prefer shooting and aiming with a mouse for the combat sections, which are actually more frequent than I remembered. The climbing mechanics are still lovely puzzles you solve as you work your way to a goal, finding the fun in architecture better than the recent Assassin’s Creeds, and the driving sections are still tense and exciting. Graphically, even going in with the expectation that this is a studio that excels at visuals, it’ll still take your breath away.

Six years after its original launch, this is still the best action-adventure game out there. It’s a gorgeous, first-class travel package that takes you physically and emotionally to incredible places. The beginning of each area or chapter feels like a red carpet rolling out in front of you, inviting you to experience something new each time. Take in the frozen earth of Scotland, the colourful savannah of Madagascar and the dry evening breeze of Italy. Uncharted takes you somewhere and turns it into a playground of chaos to mess around in (and probably blow up on your way out of it).

" It’s a gorgeous, first-class travel package that takes you physically and emotionally to incredible places."

Nathan Drake’s last outing in the Legacy of Thieves Collection is still at the top of the action-adventure genre. Imogen Mellor

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