There are games on tablets and Android consoles with more detail than Drake's Fortune, so the whole "eye candy" angle is pointless now. What was once revolutionary technology is now less powerful than the latest version of the Unity engine. Remember, Uncharted: Drake's Fortune released back in 2007. The problem there being that only rose tinted glasses can hide the aging engine tech of these games. This is also on top of the fact that Uncharted games are foremost praised and known for their visuals. This looked way more impressive back in 2007. There are licensed tie-in games with more to do other than go through the motions, over and over. The biggest thing the game offers is the ability to unlock guns at any point in the campaign, like a cheat mode, but in past entries, those have required you to beat the game on its hardest difficulty. Regardless of your nostalgia for the series, there are only so many times you can replay a campaign so highly scripted and linear, with no real progression system either. It's The Order: 1886 all over again, just with substantially longer run time and none of the cool weaponry. At best, a few sections in the third game allow you to try to be stealthy for brief intro and outro sequences. There are no new or alternate encounters to find. You play through once, you see everything. Uncharted campaigns, love them or hate them, are not highly replayable experiences.
Instantly, the replay value and extent of content in the package has dropped and we're just getting started. At best, day-one buyers get access to a limited-time multiplayer beta that will be unplayable after the beta concludes. Uncharted 3's also fairly dense (if sometimes questionably balanced) competitive multiplayer is also 100% scrapped for this collection. All that dynamic teamwork and substance in gameplay is just gone, even though people still even play Uncharted 2's co-op to this day on PlayStation 3. So, let me get this straight - the excellent co-op mode from Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3 is completely scrapped. You get the three campaigns from the core PlayStation 3 entries, a photo mode (previously included in The Last of Us and inFamous: Second Son), and no multiplayer except for access to the Uncharted 4 multiplayer beta. Even going past my personal reservations I have with the series, the Uncharted Collection just is underwhelming at best.