Uncharted 2 is, and will forever be, one of my favorite games of all time. I wish I could say the same about its sequel. Maybe my expectations of the game were too high, but I was disappointed in this game. The graphics are beautiful and the animations are fine, the game looks good...so why don't I like it? I believe it has to do with my opinion that I think it's boring.

I kid you not I actually fell asleep while I was playing this game. This game sticks to the formula used in the previous Uncharted games, while that is not necessarily a bad thing, a lack of innovation and an elimination of a climactic boss fight are not things that I would consider to be good ideas. I didn't feel like I accomplished anything when I finished playing. Sure, I may have devoted twelve hours of my life into the storyline just to reach the end...but I feel empty. I need more. After I beat the campaign, I ejected the disk (after quitting the game), put it in its case, and planned on picking it up again the next day after I got some sleep (it was around one in the morning at this point). I never did play that game again...I don't regret it. I don't feel like Uncharted 3 was worth the sixty dollars I spent on it. I eventually traded it in to Gamestop for thirty dollars in-store credit.

In addition to the single-player story, there is also a multiplayer component...I was never able to get this to work so I can't give a fair opinion of that.

It's not that Uncharted 3 is a bad game, it just needs some more innovation and less hour-long pirate shootouts that turn out to be irrelevant. If you want to pick up this game I would suggest renting it and deciding for yourself whether or not you feel like it's worth your money.

For the record, I fell asleep when Drake was wandering around in the desert and there was some chick reading lines from T.S. Eliot's "The Wasteland".