Hardcover: 184 pages
Publisher: Dark Horse Books (May 10, 2016)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1616559276
ISBN-13: 978-1616559274
Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 0.8 x 12.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
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Uncharted is probably the reason why I bought a Playstation. I remember being mesmerised by the world in Uncharted as I trekked through the jungle looking for a way out. To me, this is the most immersive game in terms of plot, direction and character development.I'm looking at the artbook for the final game and I've not played the game yet. But all those emotional feelings I felt while playing the earlier games are coming back to me. It's like coming out of the cinema after a wonderful movie and the mind is still playing back the scenes. As I looked through the pages of art, I could feel that this last game is going to be an emotional ride.This 176-page hardcover artbook is published by Dark Horse. Collected within are the development art for the game arranged in chronological order.The artworks are a mix of character designs and environment art. There are a lot of characters throughout the game and you'll get the see Nathan, Sully and Elena in various different clothes, and also the many other characters and enemies.The environment artworks are breathtaking as usual. Every one is good enough to printed out huge and hanged on the wall. I just love the design of the places, towns, Madagascar, Scotland, tropical forests, cove, beaches and underwater. I can see where the artists get their inspiration from, such as the huge stone faces in the middle of the jungle. Those are clearly from the famous stone faces at the Bayon temples in Cambodia. As a gamer, to be able to visit such beautiful places from the comfort of your seat at home is just amazing.For concept artists who want to study how good concept art looks like, you'll get a lot of good reference in this book.
I'm a huge Uncharted fan & I was eagerly anticipating this game & all the fun stuff that was to come along with it...this art book included. I'm conflicted though, as Uncharted has been one of my favorite series to play & I'm almost embarrassed to say how sad I am that this series ended.All in all, the art book for Uncharted 4 is good, though not as good as the Uncharted 2 art book, which wasn't even a hardcover but I still like better. I feel like the UC2 book provides a lot more detail & background, whereas the UC4 book feels almost like an afterthought cobbled together because they forgot the deadline or something.The presentation is nice, hardcover, with detailed, mostly full color pages throughout. The page weight is nice too, with an almost matte texture to it, not too glossy, which is good. The beginning has a few of pages of detail & backstory on UC4, and when I say a few, I mean a few, not much was spent on the actual written pieces that went into this art book, that much is obvious. It would've been nice if they had used a larger or at least easier to read font, even better contrast between the page background & the ink color would've been great...I have pretty good eye sight, but for those who don't, the reading in this book might be challenging. You'll need your glasses & every light on in the room due to the publishers color choices for printing it. Also, the content written, was just okay, mostly from Scherr & Druckmanns POV & I'll be honest, I'm not a particularly big fan of Druckmann, UC designer or not. If I have to read one more story about UC4 that references gameplay of TLOU again, I'm going to scream. Druckmann mentions TLOU in the UC4 art book as well.
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