Uncharted: Drake's Fortune - Plot

Plot

The game opens with Nathan "Nate" Drake (Nolan North) recovering the coffin of the explorer Sir Francis Drake, Nate's ancestor, from the ocean floor, using coordinates inscribed on a ring in Nate's possession. He is assisted by journalist Elena Fisher (Emily Rose), who is there to record the events for a documentary. However, the coffin contains only a diary written by Sir Francis Drake, pointing to the location of El Dorado, the fabled city of gold which Sir Francis sought, proving that he faked his death as Nate originally believed. After their boat is destroyed by a band of Indonesian pirates who have been tracking Nate, Victor "Sully" Sullivan (Richard McGonagle), Nate's old friend, rescues them; he and Nate, leaving Elena behind, travel to the island, where they find clues that El Dorado is in fact a large gold statue, and that it was removed long ago. Searching further, Nate and Sully discover a long-abandoned U-boat containing a missing page from the Drake diary that points to a southern tropic island where the statue was likely taken.

Before they can leave the island, Nate and Sully are accosted by Gabriel Roman (Simon Templeman), a competitive treasure hunter who has hired the services of mercenaries led by Atoq Navarro (Robin Atkin Downes), an archaeologist with knowledge of the statue, and pirates led by Eddy Raja (Jamie Sie), an old rival of Nate. The mercenaries hired by Roman and the pirates who have been tracking Nate are revealed to be working together to find El Dorado in order to compensate for money that Sully owes Roman. Nate refuses to help Roman, who then shoots Sully in the chest. Nate attacks Navarro and at that moment the U-boat explodes from a torpedo Nate accidentally set off. Elena then arrives to rescue Nate and the two fly off in Sully's plane to where the statue is believed to be held.

Having been shot down near the island and separated, Nate works his way to a fort where he spots Elena's parachute; unable to find her, he continues into the fort, where he finds a message from Sir Francis stating that he had gone to the fort's Tower. Upon arriving at Drake's Tower, he is soon captured by Eddy Raja, who demands that Nate assist him in finding the treasure. Nate and Elena are shortly reunited, and flee the fort from Eddy and his pirates. The two work their way through a long-abandoned port city and discover, through a log book in its custom house, that the statue was moved further inland; as Elena spots a supposedly dead Sully working with Navarro, heading north, they decide to follow him to the monastery. There they locate hidden passages, and rescue Sully, who survived thanks to Drake's diary blocking the bullet, and played along to fool his captors.

Nate and Elena find a series of maze-like passages below the monastery leading to a large treasure vault in which they find Sir Francis Drake's body, assuming that he died on the island searching for the treasure. Before they move on, they encounter Eddy running scared for his life, chased by mutated humans possessing incredible speed and strength. After Nate co-operates with Eddy to fight for their lives, he and Elena escape when Eddy is killed by the creatures, and find themselves in an abandoned German submarine base built into the island. Nate ventures out into the base to restore power to exit the base. During his exploration, he discovers that the Germans had sought the statue during World War II but that, like the Spaniards before them, learned that the statue was cursed; the creatures attacking them are in fact the descendants of the mutated Spaniards. Sir Francis, knowing the statue's power, was actually trying to keep it on the island, before he too was killed by the mutants.

Nate attempts to return to Elena, but finds her captured by Roman and Navarro. He and Sully fight through the descendants and Roman's forces to find that Roman has the statue. Navarro urges Roman to open it; inside is the mummy of El Dorado. The dust from the rotting corpse is inhaled by Roman, who begins to mutate, before Navarro shoots and kills him; he had planned to sell the mutagen as a weapon all along. He then has the statue lifted out by helicopter as his mercenaries are attacked by the descendants. Nate then jumps onto the net the statue is in. Elena, held captive in the helicopter, inadvertently causes the death of the pilot, and the helicopter then crashes onto a tanker used by Roman. A final fight breaks out between Nate and Navarro and his mercenaries, before Nate is able to rescue Elena from the helicopter. As Navarro regains consciousness, Nate pushes the helicopter off the tanker, whilst the chain connecting the helicopter to the statue, which has become tangled around his leg, plunges Navarro and the statue into the ocean for good.

Moments later, Sully arrives on a small speedboat, having escaped the island and taken several boxes of treasure he found in the cave and took from dead pirates. Once aboard Elena reminds Nate that because she lost her camera, he still owes her a story. As the boat sails towards the horizon, Nate assures her he will not break his promise.