If the video game industry’s highest ambition is to produce interactive movies, “Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception” is the greatest game ever made. This teen-friendly action-adventure hardly goes a minute without something spectacular happening. Playing it feels like taking the Universal Studios backlot tour. And I don’t mean the part where you look at the “Psycho” house. I mean the part where your tram “malfunctions,” the wheels lock, and an earthquake sends a fuel tanker sliding toward your face. Monumental setpieces are a dime a dozen with current technology, but with “Uncharted” there’s a sense you’re really there, that you retain the slightest bit of control as the world churns around you.
Credit the graphics, among the most impressive in the medium. Credit also the million ways the developers forcibly intervene in the action.
