UNCHARTED: THE LOST LEGACY REVIEW

Uncharted - with the same old new faces.

PS4 exclusive.

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy is an action adventure game published by Sony and developed by Naughty Dog for the Playstation 4.

This review has some spoilers!

GAMEPLAY
Outside of the lockpicking mechanic there didn't really seem to be anything new.

Chapter 4 felt like Naughty Dog dipping their toes into the open world genre.

I mentioned it in my Uncharted 4 review that I thought co-op could have worked in the game. Obviously I understand why it wasn't and that it wouldn't really have worked, but the possibility seemed to be there. However The Lost Legacy, aside from a few brief moments, really felt like they could have used co-op. It very much seemed like Chloe and Nadine's story, rather than Uncharted 4 that was mostly still focused on Nate.

STORY
Good. Not the story telling masterpiece Uncharted 4 was, but still a solid piece. It did a good job of tying up the loose ends left too.

A lot of people didn't like Nadine in Uncharted 4, I didn't really have a problem with her as she wasn't really there to be the most in depth character. The Lost Legacy did give her much more depth though and I thought she earned her redemption - hopefully others feel the same way.

I was sure Asav's expert was going to be Chloe's father the way the story was going, Naughty Dog caught me out though and Sam showing up was a nice surprise that they kept well hidden.

I'd been hoping Charlie Cutter would appear, I know he was mentioned in Uncharted 4, but he never showed up. Assuming Naughty Dog are actually going to continue the Uncharted franchise I hope he appears again at some point.

GRAPHICS

Uncharted 4 is still the best looking game around, which means The Lost Legacy is as well.

I did think Uncharted 4 had slightly better facial animations, The Lost Legacy still has far superior animations to most other games, it just didn't look quite as good to me. There were a couple of points

SOUND
Voice acting was on point, soundtrack did its job

VALUE FOR MONEY

Around 7 hours long, halving the price to that of a normal triple A game was a nice move.

OVERALL
As a DLC/Expansion, whatever you want to call it, The Lost Legacy has to be among the best. As a standalone game it didn't quite reach the level 2, 3 or 4 but was still a very high quality game.

Even without Nate, Elena or Sully this instalment to the franchise has shown that the remaining cast is strong enough to hold it up. Most people will probably enjoy this game, regardless of their knowledge of the series and at the lower price it is worth checking out if you have a Playstation.