Pardon the terrible upload quality.. the game is 100% smooth the entire time in reality.. but that whole entire sequence is just crazy. The visuals all these years later are still up there with the best of them.. and the crazy amount of objects and physics and enemies and just everything happening so fast. It's incredibly impressive. From the standard run and gun/cover based combat, to speeding down a hillside town in a Jeep being chased by an armored vehicle, to swinging/dangling from the back of vehicles on a rope through the mud as other vehicles chase you to jumping in the back of said vehicles shooting at enemies, then jumping from vehicle to vehicle to eventually crash in a cutscene and then watch as the game transitions to a into-the-camera chase sequence with incredible flair and destruction and physics... all seamlessly.. while looking top of class visually.
I mean imagine being the people coming up with these ideas and then figuring out how the hell you're going to make it work. That entire sequence was literally them flexing their prowess at this dynamic type of gameplay. Remember in Uncharted 2 with the building collapse while you could run around and shoot enemies? Or the train sequence in Uncharted 2, which by all metrics was insane back then as well. Uncharted 3's cargo plane sequence.. All of it is top tier. The Lost Legacy also has an incredible train sequence as well.
Imagine what Naughty Dog could do with an Uncharted game on PS5. This isn't an exaggeration.. Nathan Drake and Uncharted are responsible for Sony being the company they are today.. and for good reason. People eat this stuff up. Yes it was time for a break from Uncharted, but this series really allows Sony and thus Naughty Dog to flex their cinematic muscles in ways that other games mostly still have yet to match. I can't wait to see what's next from them.
