Uncharted: Golden Abyss
Uncover the dark secret behind the 400-year-old massacre of a Spanish expedition as Nathan Drake tracks the murderous trail of an ancient and secret Spanish sect. Caught in the middle of a rivalry between…
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an adventure developed by SCE Bend Studio, released 17 December 2011 on PlayStation Vita. The main story takes about 8.8 hrs to finish.
What Uncharted: Golden Abyss is
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an adventure game developed by SCE Bend Studio and released in 2011. It was published by Sony Computer Entertainment. It is available on PlayStation Vita only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
The events of Golden Abyss take place place prior to Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. Adventurer Nathan Drake accompanies old friend Jason Dante to a Panama dig site headed by the mistrustful Marisa Chase. At the site, they find the bodies of poisoned Spanish conquistadors, and a grave marker with a Visigoth symbol. After Dante has to leave due to a phone call, Marisa shows Drake an amulet she hid from Dante, inherited from her grandfather Vincent Perez and they agree to team up. Nathan and Marisa are then attacked and captured by Dante's real partner, warlord Roberto Guerro, but the pair escape. They go to Perez's house, who hired Dante to continue his research after a terminal cancer…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Uncharted series
Uncharted: Golden Abyss is the 13th of 34 entries we hold in the Uncharted series. The next entry was Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception - Game of the Year Edition in 2012. Its critic score of 81 is 3 points below the series average of 84. The highest-rated entry is Uncharted 2: Among Thieves at 95.
How it was received
Uncharted: Golden Abyss holds a critic score of 81 out of 100. That places it above 73% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 13 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 77, across 128 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 8.8 hrs.
What it launched against
Uncharted: Golden Abyss launched on 17 December 2011, within three weeks of Mario Kart 7, Trine 2, Age of Empires III: Complete Collection and Star Wars: The Old Republic. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Mario Kart 7, Trine 2, Age of Empires III: Complete Collection, Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Uncharted: Golden Abyss yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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