Uncharted Timeline

Much like my Tomb Raider timeline, this is intended to put all of the Uncharted franchise into one timeline. This is made much easier in that there is much less material than Tomb Raider has generated and no reboots.

There is a rather comprehensive timeline I found at the Uncharted Wiki but it didn’t have everything and I didn’t necessarily agree with all the dates but it’s a very good and detailed.

I’ll likely do a new version of this once the Uncharted movie starring Tom Holland and Mark Wahlberg comes out along with any ancillary material.

Like Tomb Raider I am excluding fan works, but I am making one exception – the Uncharted Live Action Fan Film starring Nathan Fillion as Nathan Drake and Steven Lang as Sully. My timeline, my call.

THE TIMELINE

1988 
Chapter 1 Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Nathan, along with his other brother Sam, escape from the orphange.

1990
Chapter 2 & 3 Uncharted 3:Drake’s Deception – Nathan meets Sully

2000 
Chapter 3 Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End – Nathan is working with Sam and Sam is presumed dead.

2004 

Uncharted (Comic)

2005
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (game).

“Through Panama by Elena Fisher” (Youtube Video)

2006
Uncharted: Drake’s Trail (game)

Uncharted: The Eye of Indra (Motion comic)

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Motion Comic)

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (Game)

2008

Uncharted: Fortune Favors the Bold (Commercial)

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (Game)

Uncharted: Breaking and Entering (Youtube Video)
(Technically the proper name is Uncharted Live Action Fan Film but the shooting title was Breaking and Entering, I decided to run with that.)

2009
Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (Game)

Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth (novel)

Uncharted: Fight for Fortune (Game)

2012

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (Game)

Uncharted: Fortune Hunter (Game)

2016
Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (Game)


Uncharted Media

Playstation Games
Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (2007)

Uncharted 2: Among Thieves (2009)

Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (2011)

Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End (2013)

Uncharted: The Lost Legacy (2017) PlayStation Game

Nathan Drake also appears in Playstation All Stars Battle Royale (2012) but this games does not appear to fit Uncharted contiunity.


Playstation Vita Games
Uncharted: Golden Abyss (2012)

Uncharted: Fight for Fortune (2012)

Online Game
Uncharted: Drake’s Trail (2007)

Mobile Game 

Uncharted: Fortune Hunter (2016)

Motion Comics
Uncharted: The Eye of Indra (2009)

Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune (2007)

Commercials
Uncharted: Fortune Favors the Bold (Toyota Commercial)

Comic Book
Uncharted (2011)

Novel

Uncharted: The Fourth Labyrinth (2011)

Youtube Videos
“Through Panama by Elena Fisher” (2007)

Uncharted Live Action Fan Film (2018)

This is the End: Tomb Raider & Uncharted.

It's funny what I know about video games is really small.  The family Playstation serves mostly as a glorified blu ray player for me.  (with a lot of "what do these blasted buttons do?" if I try to pause.)

Yet there are two video game franchises that I absolutely love - not surprisingly Tomb Raider and Uncharted.  I cannot play the games to save my life but I love their expanded universes - not surprisingly they both are "descendants" of Indiana Jones.

This was initially just going to celebrate the catching up with Tomb Raider but I hadn't really talked about Uncharted that much and there wasn't enough Uncharted material to justify it's own post (but I have notes for an Uncharted timeline similar to what I did for Tomb Raider. I'll have to get back to that.)

I've been collecting now for a long time - nearly forty years.  Series and franchses went in and out of favour.  It's easier to  collect things as they come out - I jumped on the extended Uncharted material as it came out.  One novel and a six issue miniseries and I'll get the associated material for the Tom Holland/ Mark Walhberg movie assuming they make it before Tom Holland looks old enough to play Sully. (although I hear it or Spiderman 3 are his next films once the virus allows filming to start again)

Tomb Raider pretty much captivated me from 1997 when I first heard about her.  I admit we got a PC version of the first game and I could not play it to save myself but the character was interesting.  

I saw the first movie in the cinema when we lived in Emerald, a city in the Outback.  I got the novelisation, and the technical manual which came out then, the book store could order things for me.  

I also got the Tomb Raider Magazine in the newsagents that reprinted the Top Cow Comics from issue 5 and none of the crossovers with other Top Cow characters.  By the final couple of issues Lara was sharing her magazine with Aphrodite IX.  There were no comic shops in Emerald and buying things on the internet wasn't really a thing then.

I remember trying to get the Tomb Raider action figure from the Emerald Toyworld and they just flatout refused to order it or even aknowledge it was a thing.  My wife rang the Toyworld in Rockhampton (three hours east of Emerald and the closest town) and bought it for me over the phone with the credit card and they posted it out to us.

By the time the sequel to the movie came out we had moved back to Ipswich and could get to the comic shops in Brisbane.  I saw Lara Croft: Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life in the cinema in Ipswich and bought the novelisation.

Then they brought out the first three novels The Amulet of Power, The Lost Cult and The Man of Bronze.  SOOOOO good with references and easter eggs galore.

The Top Cow Tomb Raider comics were a little more elusive and trying to buy the back issues was difficult.  I eventually got the bulk of them when Dark Horse did the Archives in 4 volumes that reprinted the issues 1-24, 26-50, the 12 issue Journeys and the various one shots.  issue 25 was a crossover with EVO and Witchblade and wasn't included.  

I also bought the new comics that Dark Horse printed to tie in with the 2013 reboot game and the 20th anniversary of the original game in 2016.  

But I wanted those Top Cow comics - I found a list and started working my way through it.  Ebay and comic shops selling on line have been a godsend.

I thought I had most of them only discover that there were two one shots that had not been reprinted in the archives.  Top Cow had done two books for Dynamic Forces - Scarface's Treasure and Sphere of Influence.  Both were bought fairly soon thereafter.  I discovered the French comic Dark Aeons and grabbed it too (sadly there is no English edition but I found a translation on line)

Then last week , it arrived the final two books I needed to finish off the Tomb Raider comics - the two issue event Dark Crossings.

I enjoyed both these series - Uncharted is fun and Tomb Raider is just solid action adventure. It was a fun hunt to chase these books down, discovering new appearances and false leads.  I may have to revisist my Tomb Raider timeline to include the books I wasn't aware of at the time I wrote it.

Aquaman (2018) Jason Momoa, Amber Heard and Patrick Wilson

For New Year's Eve, the family decided to take a trip to the movies to see Aquaman.  What a fun ride of a movie this was.

Jason Momoa is having the time of his life playing Aquaman - intially a surprise casting choise in Batman V Superman and Justice League.  While he may not look exactly like the comic book character, he has the spirit of the character down pat. 

With a touch of the bad-ass "I have a hook for a hand" version of the nineties with a pinch of the blowhard character seen in Batman Brave and The Bold, Momoa nails the character, a child of two worlds, scared of the destiny to unite them both.

There are a couple of intertwining plots - the movie starts with Aquaman foiling a pirate attack on a Russian submarine and a decision he makes causes the creation of one of his arch enemies.

The second plot involves Arthur trying to claim the throne of Atlantis, there are some gorgeous underwater scenes then a quest arounf the world to find the trident of the last great Atleanean king. 

The whole thing ends in a giant underwater battle with sharks with 'friggin' laser beams and giant seahorses and a big ass sea monster.

The search for the trident was a fun Indiana Jones/Tomb Raider/Uncharted style adventure (with a generous side of Disney's Atlantis THe Lost Empire) 

[As an aside - this movie has probably ruined the chances of a live action version of Atlantis: The Lost Empire or  The Deep, - but damn it made me wish for them]

Then the movie did the most awesome thing the quest for the trident ended in the lost sea in the hollow Earth - they went to Skartaris.  And queue the blank looks, for newbies to the worlds of DC Skartaris is the centre of the Hollow Earth created by Mike Grell (also known as the greatest writer on Green Arrow ever)  for the comic book known as Warlord. Skartaris has appeared in a couple of episodes of Jusice League Unlimited.  Could this be a set up for a Warlord movie?  Oh I hope so.

The whole movie was so much fun to watch from start to finish that everyone left with a big grin on our faces.