11/10/2022 0 Comments Uncharted 2 voice actor![]() The game’s detractors rail against its linearity, the way in which there is no way to change Drake’s course, even as his writers question his morality in examining how his reckless treasure-hunting affects the lives of those around him. Without the quipping charisma of Nolan North as Nathan Drake - the over-exposed voice actor’s defining role – adding consistency and likable commentary, the jumps between looting museums, battling Yetis and crawling through jungles would have seemed disjointed, little more than a small boy’s collection of adventure fantasies clumped together for no greater purpose.īut with Drake's steadying voice, and the cast of supporting characters, all of whom talk with rare ease, Uncharted 2 instead flows and sizzles with pace and coherence, the developer keeping its ambition in check with its objectives at every beat of the plot. ![]() Fail to clothe your story with sufficient character and charm and it can seem simplistic. Sure, it calls upon genuine evils for its mythology – blood diamonds and Nazis – but it’s an Indiana Jones rendering of history’s blackness, good and bad painted in broad brushstrokes where heroes remain heroes, and villains remain villains, unambiguous in their roles. Naughty Dog’s Uncharted series is an anomaly then, a blockbuster happy to talk in the violent verbs dispensed by guns and grenades, but eager to couch them in easy-going, family-friendly nouns. It appeals to young and old without discrimination, delighting audiences without overly challenging them, a rollicking recipe seemingly well-suited to the video game’s inherent strengths.Īnd yet, in the medium’s awkward grasps for maturity - marrying hyper-violence with desaturated post-apocalyptic landscapes - or its celebration of the juvenile - plumbers who defeat foes with hops, set against a kindergarten mural of pea green hills and winking clouds - gaming has failed to take root in this fertile middle ground. That rip-roaring yarn, unraveled by boisterous, yet charming men accompanied by tomboyish, yet alluring women has been a Hollywood staple for decades. Strange, that the video game has so struggled to mimic cinema’s Saturday matinee. ![]()
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