Uncharted: Drake’s Fortune

Released in 2007, it was the first game of the franchise.

As the game opens, treasure hunter Nathan „Nate” Drake, accompanied by reporter Elena Fisher, recovers the coffin of his self proclaimed ancestor Sir Francis Drake, which he located from coordinates inscribed on a family heirloom: a ring Nate wears around his neck.[6] The coffin contains Sir Francis Drake’s diary, which gives the location of El Dorado. Pirates attack and destroy Nate’s boat, but Nate’s friend Victor Sullivan rescues the two.

When Sully and Nate follow the diary to the indicated spot, they learn that El Dorado is a large golden idol that the Spanish had tried to remove from the island centuries ago.[7] After finding a U-boat, mercenaries led by criminal Gabriel Roman intercept Nate, Fisher and Sully. Sully is shot but Nate manages to escape to an island where Sir Francis Drake’s diary claims the idol is located.[8] On the way to the island, anti-aircraft fire forces Elena and Nate to bail out of the airplane and they are separated. Nate heads toward an old Spanish fort to find Elena. Though briefly captured, Nate and Elena reunite and flee to the old customs house on the island. There they find that Sully has survived his gunshot wound.[9] Nate discovers that the idol is located near the customs house, and finds and rescues Sully.

Nate realizes that the idol is cursed, and that it turned the Spanish and Kriegsmarine searching for it into zombified monsters.[10] Nate attempts to stop Roman from removing the idol from the island, and arrives in time to see Atoq Navarro, a man hired by Roman, find the statue. Navarro tricks Roman into becoming cursed.[11] Nate then jumps onto the statue and rides it as it is airlifted onto a boat in the bay. There he defeats Navarro and manages to sink the idol to the bottom of the ocean.[12] Sully arrives and Elena and Nate leave the island with several chests of treasure, after displaying affection towards each other.