History VideoGame / Uncharted2AmongThieves

* GoingForTheBigScoop: Elena and her cameraman Jeff pursue Lazarevic into a war zone by themselves. Granted Elena was armed and fairly skilled with a gun, but bringing some cops or security guards with them probably would have been a good idea.

* TheAbridgedSeries: "Uncharted 2 Among Thieves: The Abridged Series", can be found [[https://www.youtube.com/user/Somefortunatesoul#p/u here.]] Created by Somefortunatesoul.

* VoodooShark: The Nepali army isn't around to stop Lazarević from destroying Kathmandu because they're fighting guerillas he riled up. And the ''entire'' Nepali army thinks fighting guerillas is more important than saving their capital city because...?

Nathan Drake is visited by an old pair of former associates, the smooth Harry Flynn, and Flynn girlfriend Chloe Frazer who were once hired to steal an artifact originating from the lost voyage of UsefulNotes/MarcoPolo, which puts them on the trail of a legendary treasure, known as the Chintamani Stone, in the fabled city of [[TheShangriLa Shambhala]].

Nathan Drake is visited by an old pair of colleagues who were once hired to steal an artifact originating from the lost voyage of UsefulNotes/MarcoPolo, which puts them on the trail of a legendary treasure in the fabled city of [[TheShangriLa Shambhala]].

* OddballintheSeries: This is the only main series Uncharted game starring Nate as the protagonist in which he has no personal connection to the macguffin and is the only sequel with no flashbacks taking place before the events of Drake's Fortune.

** The train section is certainty this as Nate did it to save Chole. He reaches her..and she chews him out just because he tries to save the aforementioned Jeff over her reservations and now doesn't want to be rescued. The train ends up derailing due to an explosion and he's nearly killed as a result. The only real good that came out of it is that he got the phurba back.

* OddOneOut: This is the only main series Uncharted game starring Nate as the protagonist in which the macguffin has no personal connection to him and is the only sequel with no flashbacks taking place before the events of Drake's Fortune.

** The train section is certainty this as Nate did it to save Chole. He reaches her..and she chews him out just because he tries to save the aforementioned Jeff over her reservations and now doesn't want to be rescued. The train ends up derailing due to an explosion and he's nearly killed as a result. The only real good that came out of it is that he got the pumba back.

** [[spoiler:At the end of the game, Nate succeeds in preventing Lazarevic from getting the powers of the sap, but returns home essentially empty handed, with virtually nothing tangible to show for his efforts.]]

* ChekhovsArmory: Lazarvic's train loaded is loaded with trucks. And a tank.

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* WholePlotReference: As pointed out by HeyAshWhatchaPlayin the game shares a lot of plot points with {{Series/Firefly}} and Film/{{Serenity}}. One similarity HAWP misses is that they also share a composer.

* BondVillainStupidity: Lazarevic captures Nate and his companions numerous times, but somehow squanders the opportunity to kill them in each instance. The most notable one is the first time, when he captures Nate's crew in a building. Instead of killing all of them immediately, he only kills Jeff, an untrained severely injured civilian, before leaving the room with everyone else (all highly trained uninjured warriors) alive and just assuming his troops will be able to handle them (the same troops who have been getting slaughtered by them en mass up until now).

* CutsceneIncompetence: Drake is somehow unable to [[WhyDontYouJustShootHim shoot Lazarevic]] before he drinks from the AppliedPhlebotinum, despite being able to shoot dozens of bad guys at similar range.
* CutscenePowerToTheMax: [[spoiler:Flynn delivers [[GameBreakingInjury Game Breaking Injuries]] to both Nate and Elena with a suicide grenade, which would not kill them in gameplay.]] Subverted when [[spoiler:Lazarevic takes down a Guardian with one shot; he's actually wielding the SAS-12, which is one of only two weapons that can one-hit-kill Guardians.]]

* NotSoDifferent: ''"You think I am a monster. But you're no different from me, Drake. How many men have you killed? How many... just today?"''.

* OnlyAFleshWound: Partially averted. [[spoiler:Nate gets shot in the gut by Flynn in chapter 14. It's however shown to be painful and debilitating and the wound DOES actually slow him (and thus the player) down in certain ways. Though it doesn't affect the gunplay, platforming and movement are affected.]]
* PleaseWakeUp: The ending.

* ShootHimHeHasAWallet: Subverted. Nate reaches for something and everyone aims at him, but he shows them its just a container.

** A character injured by a grenade in ''Among Thieves'' recovers without much fanfare except a bit of limping at the start of the final cutscene. However, quite a bit of time passes from when they first make it out of Shambhala and the recovery; enough time for Schafer's medallion [[spoiler:(and presumably his body, seeing as it is his funeral the characters end up at)]] to be recovered from the monastery, and for Sully to catch a flight in to Tibet.

* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Lazarevic kills a mook when Drake tries to [[ShootTheHostage hold him hostage]]. Later [[spoiler:he shoots Harry Flynn in the chest after finding the path to the tree of life.]]

* TheDevTeamThinksOfEverything

''Uncharted 2: Among Thieves'' is the second game in Creator/NaughtyDog's ''{{Franchise/Uncharted}}'' series. It was originally released on October 13, 2009 for the UsefulNotes/PlayStation3.

The second game in Creator/NaughtyDog's ''Franchise/{{Uncharted}}'' series. Nathan Drake is visited by an old pair of colleagues who were hired to steal an artifact from a museum originating from the lost voyage of Marco Polo, which puts them on the trail of a legendary treasure in the fabled city of Shambhala (Shangri-la).

The second game in Creator/NaughtyDog's ''Franchise/{{Uncharted}}'' series.

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