Chloe reluctantly pulls her gun on Nate to protect her "cover", and upon entering the room, Lazarević executes Jeff and takes Nate's map with directions to Shambhala. Despite Chloe's insistence to leave Jeff behind, Nate helps him push on until they are caught. They reach the temple entrance to find Jeff has been shot in the crossfire. Whilst leaving the temple, Nate and Chloe are ambushed. Nate and Chloe scour the temple and discover that the Stone and Shambhala are in the Himalayas. Elena questions why Lazarević is after the stone, considering he doesn't need the money. After surmising that the temple they are looking for is adorned with one of the symbols on the Phurba, the couple survey the area from the rooftop of a local hotel, finding its location.Įn route to the temple, the pair runs into Elena Fisher ( Emily Rose) and her cameraman Jeff (Gregory Myhre), who are tracking down Lazarević to prove he is still alive. While Sullivan backs out, deciding that the quest is too risky, Nate and Chloe head to Nepal, finding conflict as Lazarević's mercenary army ravages the city looking for the right temple. Flynn and his men appear in the tomb soon after and take the letter, while Nate and Sully escape by jumping off a cliff into a river. They locate a tomb containing the bodies of Polo's passengers, as well as a Tibetan Phurba and a letter from Polo saying that the next clue is in Kathmandu, Nepal in a temple. With the help of Chloe working within Lazarević's camp as a mole, they discover that the lost fleet never actually possessed the Cintamani Stone. Nate and Sully follow Flynn and his boss Zoran Lazarević ( Graham McTavish), a Serbian war criminal who is widely thought to be dead, to Borneo. Chloe, who claims to have had no knowledge of Flynn's treachery, asks for the help of Drake's friend Victor "Sully" Sullivan ( Richard McGonagle) to secure his release. Taking the map, Flynn double-crosses Drake, who is arrested and imprisoned for three months. Harry and Drake acquire the lamp, which contains a map showing that the lost fleet had been transporting the Cintamani Stone from the mythical city of Shambhala (better known as Shangri-La) before being thrown ashore in Borneo by a tsunami. Nate accepts the job when he learns that the lamp may lead to the treasure of Marco Polo's lost fleet. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that former associate Harry Flynn ( Steve Valentine) and old girlfriend Chloe Frazer ( Claudia Black) approached him with a job to steal a Mongolian oil lamp from an Istanbul museum. The story begins in media res, with a wounded Nathan "Nate" Drake ( Nolan North) waking up to find himself in a train hanging off a cliff with a bloody stomach wound. Nate wakes up to his strange surroundings. Polo never revealed what had happened to the lost ships. After spending almost 20 years in the court of the Mongol Emperor Kublai Khan, Marco Polo departed with fourteen ships and over six hundred passengers – but when he arrived in Persia a year and a half later, only one ship and eighteen passengers remained.
The narrative opens with a quote attributed to Marco Polo, "I did not tell half of what I saw, for I knew I would not be believed." The plot revolves around the doomed voyage home of Marco Polo from China in 1292. Uncharted 2: Among Thieves takes place 2 years after the events of Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and 2 years before Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception. Alongside its predecessor and sequel, Among Thieves was later released for the PlayStation 4 as part of the Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection, released in October 2015. It remains the most critically acclaimed installment in the series.Ī sequel, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, was released in November 2011. It went on to win multiple awards, including numerous Game of the Year awards from several publications.
Set two years after the events of Drake's Fortune, Among Thieves follows Nathan Drake and Chloe Frazer as they search for the entrance to the lost city of Shambhala and the fabled Cintamani Stone in a race against Serbian war criminal Zoran Lazarević and his army of mercenaries.Ī critical and commercial success, Among Thieves was universally acclaimed by critics, who praised it for its gameplay, set-pieces, characterization and storytelling, multiplayer mode, visuals and art design. It is the sequel to 2007's Uncharted: Drake's Fortune and the second installment in the Uncharted series. Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception Uncharted 2: Among Thieves is an action-adventure game developed by Naughty Dog and published by Sony Computer Entertainment exclusively for the PlayStation 3.