Does this look familiar? Aside from the wooden animations, of
course. This is Unearthed: The Trail of Ibn Battuta by Saudi
Arabia-based Semaphore, and even this Uncharted copy won't be
playable on the Xbox 360.  Unearthed has versions on everything
else it seems: PC/Mac, iPhone/iPad and Android, and PlayStation
3. The game follows fortune hunter Faris Jawad from Morocco to
Damascus, Alexandria and Dubai, searching for the treasure of
the famed Muslim explorer Ibn Battuta. Evil treasure hunters
stand in Faris' way.  Yes, it's easy to bag on this. It may not
be what folks in the west would buy (or what Saudi gamers
themselves would choose to import), but the country is new to
games development, and they've got to start somewhere.  Still,
if it's going to be so ... inspired by Uncharted, couldn't it
have picked a word with a different prefix for its title?  More
screens at the jump; they look better than the video.
Unearthed, the Saudi-Made Uncharted Knockoff, is Available for
Everything but the 360  Saudi Arab