Unboxing: Uncharted 3 Explorers Edition

Several days late I know but I finally got around to it so welcome one and all to another Unboxing post, as promised this week I will be showing off the Uncharted 3 Explorers Edition (UK edition). This is one of my favourite collector editions in my collection due to the fact how awesome the chest is. I still remember it arriving on my door step and spending the first thirty minutes just staring at the packaging thinking how awesome, I was really shocked how much effort went into everything. The packaging as you can see is well decorated and it's one of the few outer boxes I've kept since they are normally too bulky and well just plain looking.

Explorer's Edition

How awesome is this!

The chest as got to the best part of the entire thing and it's not cheap material either. The entire thing is wooden and well decorated on the outside with atlas of the world and art sketches of Nathan on the sides. Leather straps and handle as well which have buttons to shut the lid plus the small metal lock as well.


Inside everything is stored and there was bubble wrap around everything to keep it all safe, very impressed since most don't seem to care once it's left the warehouse. The chest can also store 19 games by the way but I can never see myself using it for that, when I get my own place I'm going to have my own gaming shelf showing all these cool things (maybe a gaming room? wonder if Lynn will let me get away with it)

Plenty of Goodies Inside

Starting with the main game itself as you can see in the picture above it was the special edition of the game which the case is entirely cardboard. The reason for this is because the entire thing is designed to be the journal from the game, there are several pages with printed notes/pictures to match the real one from the game. While this is a very cool feature I hated the fact the disc is stored in just a slip page at the back, just glad blu-ray discs are harder to scratch. Also inside was all the multiplayer bonus dlc that came included (golden weapons, exp boosts, extra skins etc) although I'm not a huge fan of multiplayer.

Journal Case

I would love to see a full edition done for Nathan's journal one day, it's one of the first things I fell in love with when I started playing this series. I bet there are quite a few fans out there who would also buy it as well, although by now that journal would be pretty big since of the four games. Maybe do a set of them so there is one for each game, I would buy it anyway.




Sorry to say I did not get the statue out of the protective box and I know I promised that my future unboxing posts would show everything. Reason being I just have no space to store the statue right now so I rather keep it safe until I can, you can still make it out perfectly though.

Nathan Statue

Drake's Ring

Think the face could had been done a little better but oh well still looks cool and cannot wait to finally get it on display with everything else. So what's left to talk about in the box, well how about some cosplay items in the form of Drake's ring and his lucky belt buckle which I hear changes for every game.

Lucky Belt Buckle

If they announce another game and I'm still working in the Video game industry I will dress up as Nathan next time for the launch. Will even get some pictures up on blog if I do, hmm in fact maybe Halloween would be another good time as well. Anyway they are both very cool looking and they made up my mind when I was trying to decide if this explorers edition was worth buying.


The final item in the box is a 3D art card of Nathan Drake which can be seen below, it's quite big and dwarfs the PS3 case. To be honest I had forgotten about it until I started taking the photos for the Unboxing so I might get this into a frame on my wall, think it would go nicely above my desk.

So that's it for this post folks and I hope you enjoyed this Unboxing, I would love if you could leave some feedback on what you think and what improvements you would like to see. Next week I will be doing another Unboxing but this time I'm going to allow you my readers to pick which game I should put up, don't worry in the end I will do all of them but for now just leave a comment here or on Facebook/Twitter with which game you want next.

Assassin's Creed Revelations Animus Edition
Assassin's Creed Brotherhood Codex Edition
Starcraft 2 Wings of Liberty Special Edition

~Iznic