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Diggle on 26 November 2015
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Nautilus said:

Nautilus said:
To be honest, while the Uncharted series had a better metacritic than the reboot of Tomb Raider, i found Tomb Raider better than Uncharted.It really felt more like you were fighting for your life, the exploration was superb(which in Uncharted there is next to none), and the combat overall was better.The only thing that uncharted does better than Tomb Raider, in my opinion, is the story, but not by much.And while i think I will like more Rise of Tomb Raider than UC4, I dont think Rise will score better than it.UC4 seems to have learned a thing or two from Lara, and looks like the world will be more open now, and the combat seems more engaging.We will need to see, but i find it hard for it to score 86 or lower

This is ironic sense the best things about the new TR came from Uncharted, including the combat. I did enjoy the reboot, but only because it reminded me of Uncharted. However it was no where near as good. The serious tone compared to the former caricature style of the old Laura, the narrative and world design were all similar to Uncharted.

TR even copied a lot of ideas from U2 and U3 for RoTR, but always over blow the set pieces. TR lacks an interedting story with irrelevant plots and boring characters. Laura herself is not interesting and seems forced doing things that no ordinary woman could possibly do such as brutalizing grown men, trained soldier's in fact and it loses its appeal because none of it is believable.

The brutality in the combat is way to over the top and becomes laughable compared to Uncharted's finely tuned melee combat and situational grappling that U3 built and TLoU later improved on, which will be further refined in U4. The physics, animation, shooting mechanics, characters, puzzles, environments, enemy A.I. and movement of Uncharted are far superior. Even RoTR does not compare to Uncharted trilogy. TR even used an artist from Uncharted this go around thus making it even more unoriginal than the previous entry.

Uncharted actually has varied combat since it has a cover system and allows you to shoot from mutliple angles while climbing on the environment around you, while TR is all horizontal and straight forward. It get's repetitive, especially the same over used choking stealth kill and pick axe to the neck. An open worls is useless when there is nothing interesting happening and the NPCs are boring as is with TR and it is far from emersive when all you do is un around killing animals and looking for GPS coordinates or similar treasures lol.

The Tombs don't even provide a challenge so they are not worth looting. Uncharted also allows you to use a variety of weapons instead of locking you into the same four weapons that can only be customized but so much. Uncharted is just a better built game in everyway period and the engine destroys TR's engine. TR is a good game, but Uncharted has always been the standard since it first released.

The most important thing Uncharted does better is the main character. No one can dispute that Nathan Drake is a much better character than laura Croft. before Uncharted came Laura was cartoonish, shallow and only known for her pare of cannons and I am not talking guns. FYI Uncharted is not a survival game so why would you need to feel like you are fighting for your life? It is an action game and does it much better than TR. Even then, Bate still feels more human than the automaton that is Laua Croft.