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Uncharted:
Golden Abyss

Accessibility Report

24 Accessibility Features

We've documented 24 accessibility features for Uncharted: Golden Abyss, including Fully Voiced (Or No Speech), Large Text, Control Assists, Select Difficulty and Motion Aiming. Its accessibility is strongest in Controls and Getting Started but it also has features in Reading, Audio, Visual, Difficulty and Navigation to reduce unintended barriers.

This report is created with input from accessibility experts and the player community to help people find games that have the accessibility features they require. Once you have found potential games on the database, there are excellent specialist accessibility sites that offer in-depth reviews to guide your purchasing decisions.

Uncharted: Golden Abyss is an action-adventure game. It's a spin-off of the Uncharted series, although also a substantial experience in its own right that features the series protagonist, Nate. As with the other games you explore, run, jump and shoot your way through a blockbuster adventure with voice acted scenes interspersing the action and a focus on character and narrative.

Our accessibility examiner, Andy Robertson, first checked Uncharted: Golden Abyss accessibility 2 years ago. It was re-examined by Andy Robertson and updated 9 months ago.

Accessibility Notes

There are difficulty and other settings but all menus can only be access via the touch screen. During play you also have to use the tilt controls to balance and touchscreen (to swipe in a series of directions). You have to use the touchscreen to access menus.

The Zoom Remember option in controls only applied to the magnification of scoped weapons.

When you are able to take a photo in the game an icon pops up. You are also guided in the right direction with colour coded Yellow or Flashing elements in the environment. There is an aim assistance that you can turn on.

Game Details

Release Date: 15/02/2012

Out Now: PS Vita

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Players: 1

Genres: Action, Adventure (Fighting, Narrative, Shooting, Stealth and Traversal)

Accessibility: 24 features

Components: 3D Third-Person

Developer: Bend Studio (@BendStudio)

Costs: Purchase cost

Controls

We've documented 6 accessibility features for Controls in Uncharted: Golden Abyss which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Gamepad

Can play with the following:

Multiple Buttons & Two Sticks: Can play with multiple buttons and two sticks.

Motion

Games that can be played with different sorts of motion controllers.

Motion Aiming: Can use small movements of the gamepad to fine-tune aiming or as the main aiming mechanism. This is sometimes known as Gyro-Aiming. This usually provides the ability to calibrate these controls to taste.

Motion Tilting: Can use movements of the controller to replace steering or simple movement otherwise controlled by left/right movement of a stick.

Remap Controls

Can customise the controls for the game as follows:

Invert X/Y Axis: Can invert the direction required to control looking and aiming. This enables you to match your instinctive orientation when looking.

Controller Vibration

Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.

Sensitivity

You can adjust

Adjust Mouse/Stick/Touch Sensitivity: Adjust how sensitive touch/mouse/stick controls are.

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God of War Ragnarök (13 Controls Features)
Gears 5 (13 Controls Features)
The Last Of Us Part II (12 Controls Features)
Tchia (11 Controls Features)

Difficulty

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Difficulty in Uncharted: Golden Abyss which deal with how you can adjust the challenge of play, and whether this is locked once chosen or can be adjusted as you play.

Difficulty Options

Select Difficulty: Select the level of difficulty from a range of presets. This not only offers a way to adjust the challenge of a game but enables you to do so without dealing with individual criteria.

Adjust After Setting

Adjustable Between Levels: You can adjust the difficulty between levels/rounds. Although you have to restart your checkpoint or level, this enables you to adjust the difficulty after selecting it at the beginning of the game.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Difficulty

If you want to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but it doesn't offer the Difficulty accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Difficulty accessibility:

God of War Ragnarök (3 Difficulty Features)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (3 Difficulty Features)
The Last Of Us Part II (3 Difficulty Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Getting Started in Uncharted: Golden Abyss which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.

Assistance Getting Starting

These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.

Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.

Assistance With Controls: The game can automatically assist with aiming, steering, reloading, jumping, running etc. This reduces the challenge of certain aspects of play to remove barriers and make control of characters more accessible.

Assistance For Progressing

These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.

Bank Progress With Frequent Checkpoints: If you fail you can retry that level or aspect of the game without losing a lot of progress (less than 5 minutes). This is often provided via Frequent Checkpoints combined with restarting without losing time, equipment or score.

Assisted Progress With Hints: The game notices if you get stuck (or you can press a button) and provides information to help you progress. This can offer hints or tutorials popping up during play. This includes hints after you have died, where it can suggest strategies or difficulty settings to adjust or offer to skip past problematic levels.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started

If you want to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:

The Last Of Us Part II (11 Getting Started Features)
God of War Ragnarök (8 Getting Started Features)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (7 Getting Started Features)
Tchia (7 Getting Started Features)

Reading

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Reading in Uncharted: Golden Abyss which deal with how much reading or listening comprehension is required, how well the game provides visual and audible access to the text and whether subtitles and captions are a good fit for purpose.

Reading Level

How much reading is required to play the game's main path or story and how complex the language is. The presence of voiced characters doesn't reduce this requirement, as it's recorded as a separate datapoint.

Simple Minimal Reading: Minimal reading is required. The quantity and complexity of reading are at a level that a primary/elementary student (9-year-old) could understand.

Text Visibility

Large Clear Text: All essential text is large and clear or can be adjusted to be. The general text used throughout the game in menus, instructions and other key information (excluding subtitles that are assessed separately) is at least 1/20 (46 pixels on 1080 screen) the height on landscape screens and at least 1/40 height on portrait screens. We base this on the full line-height, including the space above and below the letters.

Subtitles

All Speech Subtitled (Or No Speech In Game): All spoken content has subtitles, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to hear spoken dialogue or narrative to play the game.

Voice Acted

All Dialogue is Voice Acted (Or No Speech In Game): All of the game dialogue and narrative can be voiced, or there is no speech in the game. This means there is no requirement to read the dialogue and narrative text to play the game.

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If you want to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but it doesn't offer the Reading accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Reading accessibility:

God of War Ragnarök (7 Reading Features)
Beasts of Maravilla Island (7 Reading Features)
The Last Of Us Part II (7 Reading Features)
Gears 5 (7 Reading Features)

Navigation

We've documented 1 accessibility feature for Navigation in Uncharted: Golden Abyss which deals with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.

Clarity

Visual Directional Cues: Additional in-game visual cues that signpost where to go next and how close you are to arriving. This can be with camera movement to focus on your destination or important items. It can use light, breadcrumb trails, in-world pointers to identify your mission's target location.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation

If you want to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:

God of War Ragnarök (11 Navigation Features)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (6 Navigation Features)
The Last Of Us Part II (6 Navigation Features)
A Plague Tale: Requiem (5 Navigation Features)

Visual

We've documented 3 accessibility features for Visual in Uncharted: Golden Abyss which deal with how you can adjust the visuals to suit your needs, and offer additional information if you can't hear the game.

Interactive Elements

Outline Interactive Elements: Characters, platforms and enemies can be outlined or highlighted for visibility. This can be with a large border around the character or a special visual mode that adjust the colour to make characters more visible.

Audio Cues for Visual Events

Audio Cues for Visual Events: Audio is provided to indicate visual events. Game events or progress highlighted by visual icons, effects or animations are also accompanied by audio to signify that progress. This is useful for blind players.

Audio Depiction of Event Location: Indication with positional/stereo audio of where directional events are on the screen for things like damage, footsteps, environmental elements. This is useful for blind players.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Visual

If you want to play Uncharted: Golden Abyss, but it doesn't offer the Visual accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Visual accessibility:

Tchia (7 Visual Features)
The Last Of Us Part II (7 Visual Features)
God of War Ragnarök (6 Visual Features)
Star Wars Jedi: Survivor (6 Visual Features)

Audio

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Audio in Uncharted: Golden Abyss which deal with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see.

Adjustable Audio

Balance Audio Levels: Set music and game sound effects separately. This enables you to select your preference as well as ensure critical game sounds aren't obscured by other audio.

Audio Events

Visual Cues for Audio Events: Text or other visual indicators of audio events. This mirrors audio indicators of progress in the game with a corresponding visual indication.

Visual Depiction of Directional Audio: Indication on-screen with arrows, icons, located colour splashes and the like, to show where directional audio for damage, footsteps, environmental or way-finding sounds are coming from.