My OperaUncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth by Christopher Golden 2011
Saturday, March 3, 2012 1:48:13 PM
I think I’ve mentioned that I’m not that much of a gamer when I’ve reviewed various Tomb Raider tie-ins. However, I do keep an eye on what games are coming out and I had noticed the Uncharted series and it looked quite interesting but not having a PS3 I wasn’t going to have chance to play the games.
Luckily for me Uncharted seems to be following Tomb Raider into other media. DC comics recently released the first issue of an Uncharted comic book (I’ll let the first story arc play out before I review that) and Del Ray books has released the first Tie-in novel The Fourth Labyrinth.
Nathan Drake could be described as a modern day Indiana Jones or a male Lara Croft and neither would be entirely wrong in the broad strokes of the character. But Nathan is different; he isn’t a lone wolf (aside from the romantic interest of the adventure) but frequently works with his mentor Victor Sullivan.
Sully as he is known is basically an older version of Drake who raised and trained the younger treasure hunter. The pair have a relationship similar to that of Remo and Chuin or Jon Sable and Sonny Pratt.
The novel has Drake returning from a rather lucrative treasure hunt when he gets a call from Sully about a murder. Drake races to New York where Sully’s archaeologist friend has been murdered – his daughter Jada Hzujak wants Sully and Drake to help her find what her father was looking for that got him killed.
Hzujak had been researching labyrinths of the ancient world and discovered that labyrinths in Greece, Egypt and Atlantis had all been built by the same man and there were clues to a fourth labyrinth that may contain a vast treasure. Jada, Drake and Sully race around the world trying to find the fourth labyrinth before the industrialist who hired Hzujak and fighting off attacks of the “ninjas” protecting the fourth labyrinth.
This was an exciting novel, Drake is a charming rogue. Golden did manage to throw me some surprises, the romance that we would expect between Jada and Drake never rises above some flirting and mild sexual tension because Jada is Sully’s god daughter.
This almost fills the void left by the end of the Gabriel Hunt series and hopefully future Uncharted adventures will be just as good.
Luckily for me Uncharted seems to be following Tomb Raider into other media. DC comics recently released the first issue of an Uncharted comic book (I’ll let the first story arc play out before I review that) and Del Ray books has released the first Tie-in novel The Fourth Labyrinth.
Nathan Drake could be described as a modern day Indiana Jones or a male Lara Croft and neither would be entirely wrong in the broad strokes of the character. But Nathan is different; he isn’t a lone wolf (aside from the romantic interest of the adventure) but frequently works with his mentor Victor Sullivan.
Sully as he is known is basically an older version of Drake who raised and trained the younger treasure hunter. The pair have a relationship similar to that of Remo and Chuin or Jon Sable and Sonny Pratt.
The novel has Drake returning from a rather lucrative treasure hunt when he gets a call from Sully about a murder. Drake races to New York where Sully’s archaeologist friend has been murdered – his daughter Jada Hzujak wants Sully and Drake to help her find what her father was looking for that got him killed.
Hzujak had been researching labyrinths of the ancient world and discovered that labyrinths in Greece, Egypt and Atlantis had all been built by the same man and there were clues to a fourth labyrinth that may contain a vast treasure. Jada, Drake and Sully race around the world trying to find the fourth labyrinth before the industrialist who hired Hzujak and fighting off attacks of the “ninjas” protecting the fourth labyrinth.
This was an exciting novel, Drake is a charming rogue. Golden did manage to throw me some surprises, the romance that we would expect between Jada and Drake never rises above some flirting and mild sexual tension because Jada is Sully’s god daughter.
This almost fills the void left by the end of the Gabriel Hunt series and hopefully future Uncharted adventures will be just as good.
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