Difficulty:

Easy

Time Spent:

10 Hours or Less

The Bottom Line:

"Disappointing"

This is a rail shooter with jump "puzzles". The sort of thing where you have to time it right, or just stand in the right place at the right time, several times in a row. When you start the game you usually only have to jump once. As the game progresses you need to jump more and more while if you fail any of these jumps you need to do them all again. That's a lot of jumping and trivial game play that I don't consider this fun, and that's what most of the game is.

The other part of the game is shooting stuff, I figured it would shine here and to a point it does, but the cover system is a little buggy and that unravels the experience.

Story wise it's kinda interesting: you're a treasure hunter with a rag tag crew. That sums it up quite well in fact. The tag line for the whole game could be "Treasure hunter with questionable tactics and a rag tag crew jumps around a lot and shoots people." I'm not really clear why the bad guy is both trying to get you to lead him to the treasure (which it's fairly apparent he is as the story progresses) and trying to kill you at the same time with wave after wave of goons. If you're dead, you can't lead him to the treasure so he should just leave you alone and hit you in the head with a brick at the end. Unfortunately this would eliminate 60% of the game play and then all you'd be left with are those lame jump "puzzles".

Voice acting isn't terrible, bordering on good. If the story was at all compelling the voice acting would have contributed well.

Visuals are pretty good, not quite surprising but very solid and contributed to the sense of adventure very well.

I ended up playing it for about 4 hours to give it a solid chance but then quickly sold it off/took it back. This is just not a game for me, it's dull, uninspired, and frankly rather boring. I guess can see why some people like it, but it's not a puzzle game, and it's not an adventure game which is what it was billed as, and it's a terrible shooter. So what's the point?

I have a feeling this was supposed to be Tomb Raider all over again, and it probably is . . . without the puzzles, solid & entertaining combat, or breasts. So again, what's the point?

Thief & Assassins creed are much better adventure games and I'd argue the real re-inventors and true successors of Lara Croft's Genre which each made the Tomb Raider series obsolete with stories that are at the very least original and I'd argue fairly interesting, very clever level design, and generally fun game play mechanics. Drakes fortune is trying to revamp a dead genre, Tomb Raider II, which was released TEN YEARS earlier. And more power to them if they had done it well, as I had hoped they had, but it just fails to be fun and I'm glad I got my money back.

If you can play this game for literally Zero dollars as I did, great, but it's still a waste of time.