At the center, the Golden Abyss waited in a chamber shaped like a drowned amphitheater. Platters of salt and glass lay before a dais; the idol itself stood on a plinth of black stone, its surface impossibly smooth and warm to the touch. It was not solid gold but something remembered gold—liquid and held together by a lattice of empty space that swallowed light. Its heart was a hole that led into a darkness that smelled faintly of ozone and old rain.

, following a younger Nathan Drake through the jungles of Panama. Visuals and Presentation Uncharted: Golden Abyss REVIEW (PS VITA) HD Gameplay

The villain, Vincent Perez, is a rogue general trying to uncover the truth behind a 400-year-old massacre linked to the Spanish Conquistadors. It lacks the supernatural elements of the main series, but the banter between Drake and Chase is genuinely excellent, and the jungle setting feels like a perfect distillation of Drake's Fortune .