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imo it's a cross between the old Tomb Raider's and Uncharted. Which I guess is what I was hoping for in the reboot. 

The story and characters are worse than uncharted. But the level design, and atmosphere was much better.

I personally liked underworld better, but I'm a fan of the older Tomb Raiders, but I still thought this one was a very good game.
If they made the challenge tombs more elaborate, or longer (IDC if it's optional), I would have bumped it up. A lot of the little puzzles were clever.

8/10.



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I'm a huge fan of TR ever since the first game launched back in 96, and loved what made TR such a great IP - platforming, puzzles, exploration, and both Lara's acrobatics and character (and I don't mean boobs here).

This reboot unfortunately has very little to offer in any of those categories, and pretty much the whole focus is on combat...that's about the only thing that's actually decent in the whole game, but even that is complete miss if you take into account that TR combat was always an addition to the game, rather than a focus of it, and that it was always about Lara's ability to move swiftly and with great skill, rather than to sneak and get behind the cover.

So, to summarize it, if it was a new IP, I'd give it 7.5/10.

As a TR game, I give it UtterCrap out of 10.



Well, i wasnt excited about this game. Mostly cause i never heard anything about story, wich is always an important drive for me.

I got my PS4 recently though and Tomb raider definitive edition was the only game that wasnt insanely priced, so i picked it up.

I only played the beggining and the first area and i was very impressed with the game, i enjoyed it alot. Its actually alot better for my tastes than the Uncharted series. I havent played through it yet though (i do enjoy uncharted 3 quite a bit, but with Amy Hennig gone i dont think the game will reach those levels of storytelling again), but all i can say is that crystal dynamics didnt disappoint as usual.



gergroy said:
spemanig said:

It's not Tomb Raider. It's Uncharted with a Lara Croft skin.


Thats funny, since a lot of people view uncharted as tomb raider with a dude

They're wrong. Tomb Raider was never a 3rd person cover shooter/tower climber. Tomb Raider Legend and Underworld are real Tomb Raider games.



uninteresting and dull setting and art
vulgar gameplay and OK graphics



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It's not Tombraider. By the end it made me kill more people than in all the early tombraider games combined, plus the secret tombs / puzzles were a joke. The open levels were decent, just a bit annoying that you have to use fast travel to get back with sections closing off due to annoying scripted qte events.

7/10 for an uncomfortable marriage between FC3 and Uncharted.



I am currently in almost the same situation as you. I bought it on black Friday, but I am barely finishing it up now. I am about 80% through and I am loving it. It has a lot of things I like about the uncharted series, but it has enough to differentiate it from that series. I like the amount of exploration this game encourages and some of the set pieces are spectacular. The downsides of this game, at least for me, are the side characters and the tombs(way too short). So far I would give this a 9/10.



ishiki said:

imo it's a cross between the old Tomb Raider's and Uncharted. Which I guess is what I was hoping for in the reboot. 

The story and characters are worse than uncharted. But the level design, and atmosphere was much better.

I personally liked underworld better, but I'm a fan of the older Tomb Raiders, but I still thought this one was a very good game.
If they made the challenge tombs more elaborate, or longer (IDC if it's optional), I would have bumped it up. A lot of the little puzzles were clever.

8/10.

I haven't finished Underworld, but I liked the platforming in it. It didn't automatically stick/grabbed the ledges, so it added some challenge and tension to it. But it was also a pain in the ass which is why I never finished it.

I agree on many on the tomb part; most of them were short and a cakewalk.



Bought it on day one for the 360, bought it the same day i got my PS4. Downloaded it for PS3 when it was offered free on PS+.

One of my favorite games of the 7th gen. It never gets old. Now I've played all of the old Tomb Raiders from PS1 to today. Hell, I even own the shitty Angel of Darkness (the only one I never finished), purchased Legend (for PS2, 360, AND PSP) and Anniversary (PS2 and 360) and got almost all the Achievements for Underworld (some wouldn't unlick even when I did the requirements). This one may be my favorite one, yet. Easily the most fun.

People that like the old ones may be true fans but they remind me of Resident Evil fans. They dislike the change but they forget how people were complaining about how stale the franchises were before the direction change. That's why Core got booted from Tomb Raider and Crystal Dynamics took over with Legend. Core was killing one of gaming's biggest IPs.

Anyway, TR is almost uo there with Arkham Asylum/Arkham City for me. 9/10 game.



I liked it

Didn't manage to finish it though, moved on to a different game just as i got close to the end. But looking forward to the sequel.

The game is fun to play and the mechanics is fun as well. Climbing and combat is satisfying. I hope they make the sequel a bit more challenging with the platforming, climbing something that's not easily done without becoming overly frustrating.



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