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Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for PlayStation 3
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for PlayStation 3 is an action adventure in which Nathan Drake follows a trail to the treasure of El Dorado. With journalist Elena Fisher and his old friend Victor Sullivan, he explores ruins on a remote island. You climb walls, leap over gaps and find passages through vegetation and crumbling structures. Armed rivals follow the same trail, so a quiet discovery can quickly become a fight.
During gunfights, you use walls and low obstacles as cover. You change position, watch approaching enemies and choose when to emerge and shoot. Drake can also attack with his fists at close range. Between fights, clues and his journal help with puzzles in ancient buildings. Looking carefully reveals more than a route: hidden places hold treasures you can collect alongside the main story.
You play the campaign alone. The adventure takes you through jungle, forts and underground locations, with conversations and action scenes linking the search together. The emphasis is on a set story route, not a freely explorable city full of separate missions. This PS3 release contains the original first adventure; the later PS4 collection and its revised presentation are not included.
Region and language
Our PlayStation 3 games are European editions and come with a Dutch or English box, unless stated otherwise. By default, you receive the version for the European market. We note it in the product details if the region is different or the box is in another language. In almost all cases, the game is playable at least in English, and often in the other five common European languages too.
Manual
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune for PlayStation 3 includes the manual unless the product title states otherwise. If the booklet is missing, the title says “No Manual”. This lets you see before ordering whether the game comes with a manual.
The manuals included with our games usually contain at least English and often around six European languages. The exact languages vary by edition, so Dutch is not always included. The booklet explains the controls and the main rules. You can use it to check how to control the game, which actions are available and how its different features work.
The history of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune
Naughty Dog developed Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, and Sony released it for PlayStation 3 in 2007. After Crash Bandicoot and Jak and Daxter, the studio began a new series about human adventurers. Nathan Drake had no collection of supernatural powers: he climbed, stumbled and fought his way through a treasure hunt. His exchanges with Elena and Sully made their personalities important to the journey, alongside the question of where El Dorado was hidden.
The move to PS3 gave the team room for more detailed environments and movements that flowed into one another. The design connected climbing, shooting and puzzles along the same story route. A fight could begin in a place you had been quietly exploring moments earlier. Playable scenes and cinematics kept the characters close together, so their relationships remained present while travelling too. This became a recognisable foundation for the sequels.
Among Thieves followed in 2009 and Drake’s Deception in 2011. In 2015, the three campaigns were reissued for PS4 in The Nathan Drake Collection. That later adaptation is separate from this original PS3 disc. Drake’s Fortune shows the series in its first form: an island mystery with a small regular cast, interspersed with climbing and combat. Both the standard and Platinum releases offer that same first story.
Similar games for PlayStation 3
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves builds on the same PS3 foundation of cover, climbing and treasure hunting. Its Marco Polo mystery crosses more countries and large moving action scenes. Drake’s Fortune keeps its island locations closer together. Choose the first story to meet the group; the second mainly expands the scale of their journey.
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception again combines shooting, climbing and puzzles on PS3, but puts more emphasis on Nathan’s bond with Sully. A search for a lost desert city replaces the island mystery. Large fire, ship and aircraft scenes take up more space. Drake’s Fortune has a more compact premise and introduces these characters earlier.
Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time also has you climb buildings and search for hidden objects on PS3. Sly mainly sneaks past guards and uses disguises and his ancestors’ abilities. Drake more often takes cover for a gunfight. Sly spreads its cartoon-styled adventure across historical periods, while Uncharted follows a continuous treasure hunt with human protagonists.
inFamous gives you a PS3 city where you more often choose your next destination. Cole climbs rooftops and fights with electrical powers; Drake uses ordinary firearms along a set route. Both combine changes in elevation with combat. Choosing between heroic and harmful actions belongs to inFamous, not to the story progression of Drake’s Fortune.
Tomb Raider: Underworld shares the interest in ancient ruins, climbing and hidden history on PS3. Lara Croft spends more time understanding large structures and environmental puzzles. Drake’s Fortune interrupts exploration more often with groups of gunmen and conversations with companions. Both demand attention to ledges and passages, but emphasise different obstacles.
