NATHAN DRAKE

Its been a long time since i got  a new figure!!! I really missed it a lot! And its been a while since i got something from NECA. I got A LOT of figures from them, at a time i only buy theyr toys and nothing else but at some point they gravitated much more to movies and super heros and i lost interest in theyr products.

Then they release a hideous and awkard Devilmay Cry Dante that looked like Marylin Mason with a cheap wig, and a great looking Kratos, but when i saw Nathan Drake in the Comicon and i knew i had to get him!!!

I still dont play Uncharted 4 but i am loving this guy a lot. NECA has evolved a lot since the last time i got one of theyr toys. The first evolution came with the box, wich is not a blister of a clamshell, but a window box like a Play Arts KAI. The cover flap is the cover of the game and the back is full of great shots and artwork of Drake. The box make him looks like a cheap version of Play Arts KAI.

He is action figure standar size (same size than other NECA and McFarlane toys and bigger than Figma) and can stand on his pretty food tough thanks to his pants design, he cant move his feet too much limiting a lot his stance position.

He is fully articulated and nothing stop his joints to move nicelly. I still remember the time when NECA toys were like little statues, with a McFarlanesque pose. Now that phase has end and he have full movement freedom.

His face is not plastic with a coat of paint over it, instead the plastic has already the color of his flesh and the texture, wich gives him a much more natural look (and even some transparency to his skin). Ths sculpted wrinkles on his forehead, the blood stain, even the beard (an element that NECA really messed up with the Booker DeWitt figure) is painted in a natural and perfectly defined way. My only complaing here are his eyes…

I got the Dante from Dante´s Inferno figure from NECA and his eyes are amazinglly painted, with shine and the cornea perfecly defined. Drake by the other hand, have only a splotch of blue over pure withe. His eyes looks really dead and sloppy compared to all the work done around them.

Both is shirt and hips piece are made with pretty suft plastic soo the arms and legs can move with total freedom. I have to say, he have a really really good V shape body, with a thing waist and big shoulders and those round and delicious pecs covered by the thin shirt. I cant understand who a piece of plastic can be this hunky?

He have an extra face with an angry expresion. The head can be changed in an easy way, but i dont like too much his face sculpt. Each teeth is sculpted and painted perfectly, but i dont think the face looks as much as Drake as the “calm” face.

He also comes with a pair of extra hands to hold his other accesoryes, a pistol and an AK. He can hold the handgun perfectly and put it back into the holster on his left side but he cant hold tigthly the AK. This weapons instead can be placed on his shoulder thanks to the suft plastic strap it have.

His other accesory is a rope with a closed hook that can be attached to his waist and an “open” climb hook with a real rope. The rope is really slippery and short and the hook, while nicelly sculpted and painted, i am afraid it cant hold him by too long before breaking. Before that happened i made a little fixture with a metal piece.

He looks really neat inside his box but thanks to this rope accesory, i now have Drake climbing down my videogames and in this way i save a little space on the shelf for other figure.

Overall, this figure is both impresive looking and a lot of fun to play with. The paint job on his face dosnt looks always good under certain light, but in natural light and with a certain distance he looks impresive and realistic. For his size and price, he is a geat deal and even with the cheap paint on his eyes and “small” size, he is much much better than the Nathan Drake from Play Arts KAI.