Naughty Dog have released a 13 meg patch for Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune, that will allow players to earn Trophies, the equivalent of the Xbox 360’s Achievements.

Uncharted’s in-game ‘medal’ achievements worked out perfectly for the new reward system and translates perfectly to the Trophy system. Because of the availability of downloadable save games on-line, however, you’ll have to start a new game to earn the Trophies. It’s a great game, so this gives you an excuse to pick it up again. To get the patch, simply start up Uncharted and you’ll be prompted to download it.

The Trophy system was introduced in one of the latest PS3 firmware updates. Not only will you be able to earn these Trophies in future games, such as Resistance 2 and LittleBigPlanet, but some developers are retro-fitting the system into games already released, as is the case with Uncharted.

If the premise of this game intrigues you then you should buy it and play it. There’s not much that needs to be said – I can’t recommend it enough if you’re in the least bit interested in action/adventure movies. In fact, this is an Indiana Jones or National Treasure experience in game form, and arguably does just about everything better than those movies do. As such, it’s an advertisement for where gaming could take us, and shows the potential for it to be a more engaging form of storytelling.

Nathan Drake is an everyman, a sort of reluctant hero. He’s a bounty hunter out to make a quick buck by helping a documentary film-maker called Elena Fisher find Sir Francis Drake’s coffin and an interesting story. Being an opportunist, when he finds a notebook left by Drake he ditches Elena and flies off with his friend and business partner Sully to find the treasure Sir Francis mapped. Of course, it’s not so simple; Drake’s notebook is really just a set of clues that send Nathan all around the Caribbean in search of El Dorado (what else would a bounty hunter be searching for?)

Continue reading El33tonline’s review of Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune.