NATHAN DRAKE

Uncharted 4 was one of the very first games i got for the PS4, how fast runs time wince we are dealing now with the PS5. But it was also the very last time i get an "special edition" game as well since after that, special editions prices sky rocketed in an extreme way (with RE special editions being more expensive than a console...) and the Special Edition of Uncharted 4 have of course, a figure.

Very different to the Special Edition of Uncharted 3, that had a kind of "mini" statue by Sideshow, Uncharted 4 statue is HUGE.....taller than a Hot Toys and thats really impresive, mostly because the price wasnt that high. Also the quality overall is pretty high compared to the Uncharted 3 statue.

Drake is walking, taking his gun from the hostler at the same time, looking around with a soft smirk. The sence of movement is really good, since he is leaning to the side giving the effect of movement and speed, also he is standing in just one leg. I dont know if the statue could broke eventually or not but after a few years the plastic is still strong.

The base is a circular piece of jungle, with mostly mud, stones and a few plants here and there. The mud texture is really well painted tough....i guess it all depends of the paint since it laks any kind of texture but is actually pretty wet looking. Drake cannot be removed of the base tough.

The sculpt is really good. Drake looks much more older than his Uncharted 3 version tough is easy to decognice his face features. He dosnt have too much of a beard but his lips and blue eyes are nicelly painted tough his hair not much....there is a mess of paint on his forehead sadlly, wich looks worse given how big is the figure.

I dont know wath kind of plastic they used but is soo nice to the touch...soo soft like velvet and yet it keeps the colors pretty strong and vivid. Also it keeps the skin tone pretty realistic and natural looking wich is pretty impresive. 

I specially like his pants....in the lower half they have a dark tone to hos how Drake just came out from a swamp or something and the color is soo nice and natural. Also his pants and shirt have this weird wet look but is not intrusive, is more like humidity from the ambient, like a rain forest.

The shirt huge Drake´s body soo nicelly...and the fabric texture is really soft too. I am glad they keep the textures pretty low as well as the paint to avoid something as outlandish as the Play Arts Kai. Still, the parts that need more detailed paint, like the hostlers and gun, looks really good too.

He is also pretty dirty, aside of his pants there is dust and dirty all over Drake as well as blood and scratches but just the rigth amount soo this figure stands out pretty nicelly on any videogame characters collection.

While the Nendroid is cute i have troubles deciding wich is the best Uncharted 4 Drake, this one of the NECA action figure? But have paint issues deffinetly but they are a huge improvement over the Uncharted 3 statue and action figure tough this is deffinetly inferior to the Sideshow sixth scale Drake i am really glad we got soo many option for this amazing character.

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.

NATHAN DRAKE

Even if i am not a big fan of Nendroids, this was no brainer for me. Just by watching the prototype of Nathan Drake´s Nendroid i was sure i was going to get him. I really wanted him to play with Chris Nendroid.

Uncharted has been one of my most favorite games (even if i still dont play the fourth one) and soo far i been able to buy all action figures of the series - except that crazy expensive Sideshows statue - and i am really glad they continue to release merchadise of it even if its been a year since the last game.

Nate is tiny, really tiny. The same size of other Nendroids and in there is born my frustration: my big sausage fingers really strugle with this guy. Taking this pictures was a huge challengue for me actually, since put his gun on his hand is really tricky. But even if functionality is debatable, this guy is undenayable cute and cool at the same time.

He can stand on his own perfectly (something great considering his huge head and tiny feet) but still he comes with the elegant and usefull base with the mechanical arm that Good Smile Com always gives. His articulations works really good and allows all kind of poseability (with the design restriction of the small legs) soo he is a lot of fun.

He is probablly my favorite Nendroid given how easy to the eye and simplistic is his design. He dosnt have all those belts, puches, wires and incrediblle details the Snakes and Raiden have, soo not only he is more colorfull than them, but hes much more resistant and easy to move too.

The buttons on his shirt, the way his collar falls down from one side, his watch (the damn little thing is perfectly painted and sculpted!!!!!), the level of detail in this dude is really astonishing and in perfect match with adult Nate. You can even remove the pistol from his holster under his arm…and this pistol is cut in half!! This is only for the moments when Drake have his gun on his hand, soo his holster is empty instead of having “two guns”.

The paint is clean and vibrant, and his eye brows have small little hairs painted on them. I am soo glad they give each of this Nendroids theyr own face soo they dont share the same face features (even if its not that evident at first), like his eyes, they are totally different than Snake´s eyes.

He is really handsome for such a cartoony design and he comes with a second face with a lusty look. With some scars and a mischevious grin showing his fangs (BOTH sculpted and painted) and one of his eye brows down, i find this extra face to be more sexy than anything and is my favorite deffinetly.

Aside of his basic gun (and the cut in half fake gun on his holster) he also comes with a riffle. While the Snake´s and Raiden have black riffles, this one comes with brown tones and is basically the weapon they always gives him on all action figures.

He also comes with a little golden coin with nothing sculpted on it but that is obviouslly the engine of his adventure on the last game. I find this item to be the most interesting one that is soo unique to this figure (even if it dosnt have sculpt).

And he also comes with a hook and a rope, tough the rope is just hard plastic… soo its only to be posed hanging from something. This means if he dosnt have something to make the “hanging illusion” he looks really strange, like if hes fliying with an invisible balloon. This item is soo bizarre but once you find a way to pose him he looks really spectacular.

The little rope with hook on the side of his pants can be removed as well but i just forgot about it when i took the pics.

I really love this guy in the end, and he looks like he cames from another dimension when he is side by side with adult Nthan Drake. I am starting to feel a little adicted to this guys.

NATHAN DRAKE

After the odd attempt of SquareEnix to bring Nathan Drake to the action figure realm and the kind of boring statue from the collectors edition of Uncharted 3, Sideshow took the torch once more to bring Nathan Drake to life this time in theyr sicth scale deluxe serires, made with nop notch quality and a pretty high price.

I remember how broke i was when i got this figure years ago but i also remember how excited was i and i had no doubts to get him. He was one of the mst expensve items on my collection...."was" because for today standars he was a bargain and he deffinetly was a jack pot considering his quality.

The box is actually really discrete and simple tough the figure is not and it even comes with a background of the desert behind the blister tough the background is too small to display it with the figure. Drake is big, really big, is one of the biggest figures i have since Sideshow figures are usually an entire head taller than Hot Toys, but despite of that he can stand on his own perfectly.

Where to start? He is incrediblly articulated: on the neck, chest, waits, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knes and ankles tough i cant be sure since the articulations are under the clothes soo aside of the wrists they are all hiden. All the articulations works really good and are really sturdy and strong, this is mostly why he can stand on balance despite how tall he is.

Of course, the pants stop the legs to move too far and the shoudlers sometimes get stuck with the shirt but that can be fixed easy. Thanks to Drake´s simple outfit nothing stop his range of movement and he can achive an awfull lot of poses. Another reason is of course the material since his entire body is made with softish rubber material.

The sculpt is fantastic; the strong jaw, the nose, the eyebrows, everything is perfectly done and the material match the quality since the plastic is a little bit translucent and have this...super realistic skin texture. Up close look you can see Drake´s wrinkles on his forehed and lips as well as the soft texture of the beard. A HUGE improvement over the Play Arts Kai.

Of course, despite his serious expression his eyes are full of life. I am not sure but i think his eyeballs are separate pieces or maybe the sculpt is way too deep because his eyelids and eye balls looks separate. His blue eyes are full of life and wisdom...they even shine under the light.

 The rest of his body is as perfect as the face because his arms have some hair sculpted and his hands are made with the same rubber material they are soft and fleshy, almost creppy. And under his shirt he have a hairy and muscly torso with sculpted nipples....you cans ee the articulations but its extremelly nice looking and even from behind, his ass looks form and athletic....

Uhhmmm anyway, this is deffinetly one of the most handsome figures i ever seen. The tailoring on his outfit is really nice too, with his green cargo pants, each pocket and section is made perfectly and the pants looks soo used and old and even have stains on the lower half. His shirt is made with a pretty fresh fabric but looks as used as the pants, anyone would expect it to stick.

The boots are perfect too and he even have small sock under them, Sideshow attention to details is trully stuning. But my favorite part of the outfit is deffinetly the blue scarf, looks soo dirty but adds a lot of movement to the display. Then it comes the weapons holster and the bandolier that fits over his torso by joining tiny belts on each side. In one side he have bullets, in the back theres a lot of pockets.

This are the most delicate pieces since they are made with leather imitation plastic and with the time the material is peeling and cracking. I try to add some shoes oild to keep deteroration at bay but the end result dosnt looks too bad considering how old and used the rest of the outfit is.

And a couple of spectacular details: a wrist watch and Sir Francis Drake´s ring as necklace, both are mede perfectly and specially the watch have a lot of details.

He dosnt have too many accespyes aside of a bunch of softish hands, his pistol and the riffle. The hand change is pretty easy tough the material is soo soft the hands have problems holding down the riffle. The gun is pretty simple and small, done with a metalic silver paint and fits no problem on the holdster under Drake´s armpit.

The riffle looks great and have an articulated arm section as well as removable bullets pin and there is one more single accesory: the map to Ubar, the City of Sand. This map have a great quality impression and in one side have the map and in the other have some sketches that help to solve certain puzzle on the game. Deffinetly this accesory works really good to improve the display.

Also, he comes with a big black base with the logo of the game. Is not neccesary for him to stand but its better than dont have any base and it makes him taller than he already is.

Overall, after having this guy on my collection for soo many years i think he is one of my favorites sixth scale figures i have, mostly because the big range of movement and how sturdy he is combined with the great quality of textures and materials used. Time flys and he still looks as cool and aesome as the first time, standing out from the rest of the figures. This is deffinetly the best Uncharted figure produced.

NATHAN DRAKE

 

It was almost 10 years ago when SquareEnix launched theyr premium toy line Play Arts Kai, working with anime characters and videogame characters beyond Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts. They experimented a lot....a lot...and made some really strange attemots to reach the leverl of quality theyr price represented and it was on its beginings that they pick the Uncharted lisence from Sony to release Nathan Drake from Uncharted 3.

The box of the figure show some amazing artowork but the figure itself was such a mixed bag. To begin with, Drake was a really short Play Arts Kai....i think he was the smallest with Lightning and Sheva towering over him two heads. This was an issue PAKs always had: theyr figures shrink over time while other got bigger and bigger, i never understood this.

Gladlly, Drake can stand on his own perfectly since he had no base at all. He is articulated on the head, chest, waist, shoulders, biceps, elbows, wrists, legs, knes and ankles. All articulations work perfect and gives him a huge range of movement since his outfit is really simplistc and dosnt restrict anything except the ankles. The long pants dosnt allow his ankles to move to much actually but aside of that is very fun to pose this guy.

A side note here, his shoulder articulations are extremelly ugly. This is an issue Play Arts Kai always drag around, the shoulders have a butterfly articulation soo they can move fron and back but that means they leave a huge gap between the arm and the torso and this big discconection is really troublesome for the display of the figure, even when he have his shoudlers straight.

The sculpt is...troublesome. Most of the sculpt is really nice, his muscly chest looks good as well as the texture on his shirt, details on his pants and shoes, i love the shoelace, but i find his face kind of blurry...specially on the eyes and beard texture. The beard texture just....dosnt work at all, and his eyes are a little lost tough i cant really defined if this is thanks to the sculpt of the paint.

The paint....uggggg, this is the big failure of this figure. The shoes have no painted detail at all wich is pretty cheap from Square!! The pants have some dark tones here and there but there no sence where this shadows are placed at all since they dont highlitght any detail. His shirt is the best part since it have this dirty tone all around. Looks actually VERY dirty and almost smelly.

The problem is the face... for some reason they decided to paint dark brown his entire jaw. I dont know if this is meant to be the beard of a dramatic shadow but the result is just jarring....looks almost like a kabuki actor. His eyes have the same dark brown around wich darknes them and its a shame since it hink they are nicelly defiined...under all this brown brush.

The hair is OK, soft plastic and while the sculpt is a little too soft, i am glad they didnt mess it by painting it since it alsready dosnt have the same color Drake´s eyebrows have. 

His accesoryes are a standar small gun. The sculpt of the gund looks kinda...toyish and has no paint soo it looks even more cheap, tough it can be placed on Drake´s hand or the holster under his arm. He also includes the riffle he uses on the cover of the game, black with brown details. This weapons is much better looking than the pistol since the sculpt is sharper, the materials looks more metalic and the paint is stronger.

The other accesory is the sniper riffle wich levitates between the other two in therms of quality since it looks and feels cheaper than the black riffle but much better than the pistol. Alls weapons can be placed on his hands perfectly fine and i cannot forget to also mention the different pair of hands Drake have, from fist to open hands and hands to hold his weapons, the hands exchange is pretty easy and works good.

This figure was pretty odd even 10 years ago, it had amazin articulations and some good sculpt and paint applications but it also had some poor lazy paint ops and the scale pretty much messed things up since he could not be paired with other Play Arts Kai figure. Gladlly, Lara Croft was released on this same tiny scale soo they can be put together for a dream crossover but she is much much much pretyer than Drake is.

NATHAN DRAKE

If someone i know wanted to start playing videogames and asked me wath game they can use to be intoduced to this hobby, Uncharted would be one of my suggestion. It is one of the most rounded videogame i ever played, from its concept, story, art direction, simplistic gameplay and gunplay, it is one of the most perfect games i ever played and for a long time it shined like if it was brand new.

Sadlly, Uncharted 1 and 2 didnt had any merchadise as i remember (the special edition of the second game came with a replica of the tirual dagger) and it wasnt until Uncharted 3 that we started to get figures based on the protagonist, Nathan Drake. The very first figure actually came with the game since it was part of the Special Edition along side a ring and a buckle and steelbook.

The figure is in fact an statue, with no articulation at all and it wasnt too big either, just your acerage action figure scale tough it was produced by Sideshow and shows Drake as he look in the cover of the game, walking on the sands, with his weapon in hand and his scarf moving by the wind.

The sculpt is good, with lots of detail on his outfit, like the bullets on his chest, the belt buckle, the marks on his pants and adds some textures on his scarf and shirt but dont overdone it too much. The face is OK tough i got the feeling he looks much more older than he was supposed to look, the look on his eyes and mouth looks very different from the artwork of the cover.

Paint is OK, very deffined in some parts like - again - the bullets, but very soft and indefined in others, like the skin tone or the shirts and pants. Theres a few dark areas to accentuate shadows but they are very few and between soo the paint is mustly simplistic. 

At first i tough it was the paint why he looked soo sold, but in fact i think the issue is more on the sculpting, since the paint on the face is mostly flawless wit exception of the shaky hair line. His blue eyes and lips are perfectly deffined, i mean for the small scale of the figure.

His only accesory is his weapon, a riffle that can be put on his hand with no problem and the sculpt and paint are good and correct and the last items related to the figure is the base since Drake can be removed from it. The base is big and blocky and very sandy, with a brownish and very light tone and mostly depends on the texture. The mst detailed part is the Uncharted 3 logo at the front that sports a perfect paint.

Actually, for a Sideshow figure this is extremelly poor, tough once you take note of the price of the special edition of the game, this figure was extremelly cheap and not bad looking for the price and to be the only figure based on Drake. Gladlly they later released more figures of him and Sideshow even made things right with an spectacular Drake soo this figure is just a small memento from an already far away era of special editions in games.