Uncharted Drake Fortune

Plot

Fortune Hunter Nathan Drake had recovered the lost coffin of Sir Francis Drake, who was buried at sea over 400 years ago. He was assisted by journalist Elena Fisher, who was there to record the events for a documentary. The two discovered the coffin to be empty, except for a diary written by Sir Francis, whom Nate claimed to be his ancestor. The empty coffin proved Nate's theory that Sir Francis faked his death in his final years to embark on one last treasure hunt. Shortly after, Nate and Elena were ambushed by a band of pirates. While fighting off the pirates, Nate and Elena's salvage vessel ended up extremely damaged, forcing the two to flee and jump into the ocean before it blew to pieces. They were rescued by Victor Sullivan, Nate's best friend and mentor, who came to their rescue in his seaplane.

At shore, Nate detailed Sully on his findings. According to Drake's diary, his final treasure hunt was to find El Dorado, the lost city of gold. Nate and Sully decided to leave Elena behind, as Sully feared that her publishing of the documentary would attract rivals. The two traveled to a rainforest in the Amazon, where they found ruins of an ancient South American civilization and clues that suggested El Dorado was in fact not a city of gold but a large gold statue that was removed ages ago. A frustrated Sully revealed to Nate that he was in debt and was particularly relying on finding this gold. Searching further, Nate and Sully discovered a long-abandoned German U-boat stuck in the Amazon river. Nate searched the vessel alone and discovered a dead crew, a missing page from Drake's diary, and a map that pointed to a southern tropic island, where the statue was likely taken.

Before they could leave, Nate and Sully were confronted by Gabriel Roman, a competitive treasure hunter who has hired the services of mercenaries led by Atoq Navarro, Roman's lieutenant and an archaeologist with extensive knowledge of the region and the statue itself. It was revealed that Sully's debt was with Roman, and he had promised Roman to pay him off with the fortune from El Dorado. However, Roman chose to follow up on Sully's information and find the treasure himself. They took the map from Nate and prepared to kill him, but when Sully tried to intervene, Roman shot him instead, just moments before the U-Boat exploded (the result of a torpedo Nate accidentally triggered). Nate used the distraction to flee from Roman and Navarro and then ran into Elena, who delivered a firm punch to Nate's face for leaving her behind at the docks. After informing her of Sully's death, the two worked together to find a way out of the rainforest and escape the mercenaries. They escaped in Sully's seaplane and were en route to the uncharted island where the statue was believed to be.

After being shot down near the island, Nate and Elena became separated after parachuting, leaving Nate to travel to the wreckage of the plane, while combating more of the pirates that had destroyed their boat earlier. After retrieving the map from the wreckage, he spotted Elena's parachute hanging from a nearby fortress. There, Nate was captured by the pirates, revealed to be led by Eddy Raja, Nate's former colleague. Eddy tried to make a deal with Nate, in which he would spare him his life if he were to lead him to the gold. Shortly after, Elena busted Nate out of the prison, and they used a jeep to flee across the island until they were led to a flooded city. At this point, Nate no longer felt it was worth it to continue going after the treasure due to their poor odds against the pirates and therefore was determined to give up and head for an escape boat he spotted from some footage Elena showed him.

After jet-skiing through the flooded city, fending off numerous pirates, the two ventured through the Customs House and found out through a log book that the El Dorado statue was moved further inland. Later, as the two temporarily parted ways, Elena managed to capture footage of the supposedly dead Sully working with Roman and Navarro, causing her to believe he was a traitor. When she showed Nate this, he was unconvinced but was determined to find him, either to rescue him or confront him. Heading north, he and Elena rode another jet ski to the monastery, where they fought through hordes of Navarro's mercenaries. Once they found Sully, he explained that the diary Nate had given him protected him from the bullet and that he convinced Roman to let him help them find the treasure, only so he could feed them useless information to buy himself time.

The three of them found a series of maze-like tunnels below the monastery. Searching these tunnels, Nate overheard an argument between Roman, Navarro, and Eddy, which revealed that Roman hired Eddy to capture Nate and keep the island secure, with the reward being a share of El Dorado. After Nate's escape, Roman doubted Eddy's ability to do his job further and ignored his superstitious claim that something cursed on the island was killing off his men, leading him to dismiss him and his crew.

Nate and Elena found a passage leading to a large treasure vault, in which they find the body of Francis Drake, assuming that he died on the island searching for the treasure. Before continuing on, they once again encountered Eddy and his crew, who were running for their lives, being chased by mutated humans possessing incredible speed and strength. The creatures happened to be the Spanish "descendants". Despite their ongoing grudge, the two teamed up to take the creatures down, after one dragged one of Eddy's men (Prakoso) down the pit. Soon afterwards, Eddy was also killed when one dragged him into a pit, leaving Nate alone to fight for himself. Nate and Elena escaped and found themselves in an abandoned German bunker. Nate ventured out into the base to restore its power. Along the way, he took a look at a projector and discovered that the Germans had sought the statue during World War II, but like the Spaniards before them, learned that the statue was cursed, as it caused them to become mutants. Sir Francis, knowing of the statue's power, was actually trying to keep it on the island, by destroying the ships and flooding the city, before he was also killed by the mutants.

Nate ventured his way back to Elena but found her captured by Roman and Navarro. He reunited with Sully outside of the monastery and informed him about the curse and Elena's capture. Under the monastery, Nate and Sully were held at gunpoint and found that Roman has secured the statue. Navarro urged Roman to open the casket, which held the mummy of El Dorado inside. Roman inhaled the dust from the rotting corpse and began to mutate, leading Navarro to shoot Roman in the head, thus revealing his betrayal to Roman and his plan to steal the statue and sell the mutagen as a biological weapon. The statue was lifted out by a helicopter as the mercenaries were attacked by the descendants.

While Sully stayed behind to fend off the mercenaries and descendants, Nate jumped onto the net the statue was suspended in and was carried to a tanker ship nearby. They crash-landed onto a large freighter after Elena kicked a mercenary out of the helicopter, whose rifle discharged into the pilot's head. Nate fought his way to the deck, killing numerous mercenaries. On the deck, Navarro and Nate fist fought until Nate knocked Navarro unconscious. As Nate pulled an injured Elena from the helicopter, Navarro regained consciousness and raised his gun. Nate acted quickly by pushing the helicopter off the ship, with the rope connecting the helicopter to the statue becoming tangled around Navarro's leg, causing him and the statue to plunge into the depths of the ocean.

Elena returned Francis Drake's ring that Nate had previously left at Drake's corpse. She and Nate leaned in to kiss, shortly before being interrupted by Sully on a small speedboat, having escaped the island and killed several pirates, taking several boxes of treasure from them. On the boat ride, Elena reminded Nate that because she lost her camera, he still owed her a story. As the boat sailed off towards the sun, Nate assured her he was good for it.