All my thoughts in the above two posts stand. Amazing thrill ride but it's totally not worth playing on anything other than Easy. Every point of challenge in that game is due to cheap A.I. advantages, primarily armor. The worst is still that final chapter, but the most egregious is the mid-game boss wearing nothing but a helmet and a combat vest who can take 15 shotgun blasts to the skull and three grenade explosions.


Easy isn't always a cake walk, either. There are still a few fights that are easy to eat shit during. I can't begin to fathom how people beat this game on Hard, let alone the Brutal or Crushing difficulties. I can at least IMAGINE myself being competent in Metal Gear Solid's most hardcore modes. I just don't see it with this series.


Also, holy SHIT is the design of the final boss fight ruthless. It's not even a complicated fight when you know what you're supposed to do, but it's got enough bottomless pits and edges Drake's desperate to cling to that most of the stress in that fight comes from battling controls. Never a good look.


After ultimately getting through UC2 in a day and change when I thought it'd take several days, I'm a little more hopeful I can plow through Uncharted 3 late nights as well and fire UC4 up right away late, late Monday.


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