Best 3rd Person Shooting Game

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is a 2009 action-adventure third-person shooter platform video game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment for the PlayStation 3.^[7] It is a sequel to the 2007 game Uncharted: Drake's Fortune. It was first shown and announced on December 1, 2008.^[8] Officially announced in the January 2009 issue of Game Informer, it was released in October 2009.^[4][6]

The story follows Nathan Drake, as he travels around the world, along with Chloe Frazer and old friends Elena Fisher and Victor Sullivan to find the fabled Cintimani Stone and Shangri-La in a race against Serbian mercenaries. The plot draws heavy inspiration from Marco Polo and his travels through Asia, which sets many plot points along the way.

A widespread critical success, with heavy praise going to the game's set pieces, characters, graphics and gameplay, it was named byMetacritic as the most critically acclaimed game of 2009,^[9] and won Game of the Year awards on IGN, Eurogamer, Game Informer,Joystiq, Kotaku, Giant Bomb, AIAS, X-Play, Game Developers Choice Awards, and the Spike Video Game Awards for the year 2009 and is widely considered one of the greatest video games of all time. The game has also been a commercial success, having since sold 5 million copies worldwide.

A sequel and third entry to the series, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, was released on November 1, 2011.^[10]