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Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, released today for PlayStation 4, has a few purposes. It makes Naughty Dog's trio of populist action spectaculars available to play on current consoles. It introduces them to what Sony estimates are the 50 per cent of PS4 owners who didn't have a PS3. And it presents these already exceedingly handsome games in a pristine, buttery smooth remaster by Bluepoint Games which, for its sheer polish and attention to detail, must go down as one of the finest game reissues ever.Bluepoint Games' reissue of the three Uncharted games sadly doesn't include multiplayer modes, while it adds a new photo mode and a timed continuous speed option. But its principal point of interest is as a remaster that boosts the fidelity of the original games - notably to 60 frames per second - whilst being painstakingly faithful to the source and maintaining a consistent, unified interface. It's superb work, as Digital Foundry's John Linneman explains in detail:
"The quality threshold here is quite extraordinary. In a world where many remasters simply bump up resolution and frame-rate and leave it at that, Bluepoint has pushed further, almost blurring the line between remaster and remake."
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