Uncharted

The Uncharted movie serves as a loose adaptation of the Uncharted video game franchise, with Tom Holland starring as Nathan Drake alongside Mark Wahlberg's ...

The fact that Uncharted leaves the identity of the character a mystery hints that Uncharted 2 will pay off the post-credits scene. It's possible that the two men come face to face with none other than Jo Braddock, the film's secondary antagonist and leader of a vicious group of mercenaries. The unseen figure being able to shock both Sully and Nate implies that it's someone they both know.

Julio Capó Jr. is an associate professor of history and public humanities at Florida International University, the author of "Welcome to Fairyland: Queer Miami ...

This game also adopts the first-person shooter format to tell a state-approved story about the origins of the revolution and the successes of its people. The focus on entertainment was similarly reflected in the original releases of the successful games “The Medal of Honor” (1999) and “Call of Duty” (2003) and their many sequels and imitations. By the 1990s, another video game genre was also firmly established: World War II. In the United States and elsewhere, such attention to war further entrenched a nationalist memory of the battlefield that emphasized the role of individual combat and violence. Game designers and programmers often use a generic or fictional museum or heritage site, for example, to allow the player an opportunity to learn a particular past necessary to advance the character’s storyline. Countless video games, including 2019’s “World War Z” about fighting zombies, require standoffs at museums or cemeteries that even lead to the full destruction of those virtual settings. Whether fictional or not, the inclusion of museums and historical and archaeological sites in video games can also tell us something important about changing attitudes toward the accessibility and the gatekeeping of history. While Atari and its groundbreaking 1975 game “Pong,” a virtual simulation of a game of table tennis, showed the potential market for home video games, commercial sales were checkered over the next decade. Players-turned-imperialists were sometimes met with oppositional civilizations they might have read about in their history textbooks, from Alexander the Great to Napoleon Bonaparte. These games rewarded players for their persistence and determination to conquer and colonize. Such nostalgia sold well in the 1970s, when in anticipation of the country’s bicentennial and social, economic and political unrest, many Americans looked to the past in new, engaging ways. A decade later, Minnesota boasted of having 10,000 computers in its public schools, with a ratio of 73 students per computer — reported to be the highest ratio in the country at the time. The player is tasked with making important decisions along the way, including choosing the best path, when to hunt and how to avoid illnesses such as dysentery. Like many other video games, “Uncharted” uses fragments of history to advance its user-interactive storyline.