{"id":10846,"date":"2010-03-01T08:06:21","date_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:06:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=10846"},"modified":"2010-03-01T08:06:21","modified_gmt":"2010-03-01T12:06:21","slug":"tom-baker-reviews-uncharted-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2010\/03\/01\/tom-baker-reviews-uncharted-video-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Baker reviews “Uncharted” video games"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker<\/a> (Chiba-ken, 1989-91)<\/strong> is a staff writer for <\/em>The Daily Yomiuri<\/strong><\/a>. A big part of his beat is the Pop Culture page<\/strong>, which covers manga, anime and video games.\u00a0 You can follow Tom’s blog at tokyotombaker.wordpress.com<\/strong><\/a><\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n

Here is his latest video game review, of \u201cUncharted<\/strong>\u201d and \u201cUncharted 2<\/strong>\u201d<\/a> which Sony recently released as a box set in Japan:<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>My pal Nate<\/a> is such a great guy that he keeps hanging out with me despite the fact that I’ve gotten him killed hundreds of times, usually by explosions, gunfire or plunges from cliffs. It’s a good thing he’s made out of pixels, or this relationship would be a lot harder on both of us.<\/p>\n

Digital though he may be, Nathan Drake, the lead character in the Sony PlayStation 3<\/strong> video games Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (2007)<\/strong> and Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)<\/strong>, is so lifelike and likeable that it is not unusual for players to think of him as someone who really exists.<\/p>\n

The two games, re-released Feb. 18 as a 7,980 yen box set<\/a>, are swashbuckling adventures from the Indiana Jones school in which our hero and a few friends hunt for treasure in exotic locales while fighting off gangsters and pirates who are also after the loot. And also as in Jones’ world, events take a paranormal turn once the treasure is uncovered…<\/p>\n

Read the rest of the review here.<\/a><\/strong><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tom Baker (Chiba-ken, 1989-91) is a staff writer for The Daily Yomiuri. A big part of his beat is the Pop Culture page, which covers manga, anime and video games.\u00a0 You can follow Tom’s blog at tokyotombaker.wordpress.com. Here is his latest video game review, of \u201cUncharted\u201d and \u201cUncharted 2\u201d which Sony recently released as a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,7,30,58,1,6],"tags":[200,193],"class_list":["post-10846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articlejournalism","category-blogs","category-japan-trends","category-reviews","category-uncategorized","category-writers","tag-nate-drake","tag-uncharted"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t