My fiance likes to watch the uncharted games, and I enjoy playing them to look at the spectacle of a modern development, so we've rented Uncharted 4 on redbox and almost played through it from last thursday through last night. We have about 2-3 more "chapters".
The game is definitely a spectacle and has a lot of insane moments. We only recently finished Uncharted 3 so the most recent game was fresh in both of our minds.
As far as gameplay they've added some very fun new mechanics to what had become very stale platforming. The combat is mixed up by making stealth a lot easier; I suck at stealth games, but in this one it's fun to try before going guns-a-blazing, and there are a lot of new weapons that are more fun to use (hand cannons, grenade launchers, and sniper rifles are all more common in this playthrough for me)
The story itself has a lot more very slow and dramatic moments, which my fiance says sucks but I think she's eating it up. It slows gameplay down a lot, but by the end of the game she is much more opinionated about the characters as opposed to the prior games which invoked little conversation about the characters - so I say they were successful with this though I could do without it in my games.
Graphically the game is stunning, really. It's easy to nitpick here and here about some dumb shit, but for every nitpick there are 20 exquisite art elements in the same shot.
I would say paying 15$ to rent it for 5 days from redbox was well worth the playthrough, if you can stand gameplay.
A nice relaxing weekend of mindless action adventure gameplay
