Someone accidentally made a good Tomb Raider game. I just played the demo, and I'll be purchasing the full version later this week. The graphics are beautiful, and the physics based puzzles are a lot of fun. I'm playing in 1920 x 1200 on my dell widescreen, and it is just a lot of fun to look at, playing is just a bonus. Crystal Dynamics should've taken over this franchise ages ago.
It's so much easier to move Laura around in this version. The keyboard commands are very simple to use IMO, and it works great. If you haven't given this a shot, I highly reccommed the demo. You'll probably be as surprised as I was to see a Tomb Raider game that dosen't suck!
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That's not worth 40$ to me.
It depends how much of a completionist you are. If you just want to beat it to see the story it probably isn't worth buying. I spent over 30 hours on it replaying all the levels and getting every secret and doing the time trials.
For the next TR game I would like to see more levels and less jibba jabba. The cool part of the original TR games (I consider TR1 and 2 to be the best in the series) was the atmosphere. You get a real sense of Lara being alone in a dangerous place. A place where if she died no one would ever really know what happened to her, etc. In TR Legends she is constantly in contact with two other dudes and cracking jokes and crap. It really took away from the feel of the game. In fact probably my favorite level was the one where she loses contact and has to do everything alone.
It's worth buying just to have it. The levels are worth playing again and buying it will encourage Eidos that the series deserves to stay around.
For the next TR game I would like to see more levels and less jibba jabba. The cool part of the original TR games (I consider TR1 and 2 to be the best in the series) was the atmosphere. You get a real sense of Lara being alone in a dangerous place. A place where if she died no one would ever really know what happened to her, etc. In TR Legends she is constantly in contact with two other dudes and cracking jokes and crap. It really took away from the feel of the game. In fact probably my favorite level was the one where she loses contact and has to do everything alone.
It's worth buying just to have it. The levels are worth playing again and buying it will encourage Eidos that the series deserves to stay around.
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I still remember the beginning of the first tomb raider, where Lara is running into a snowy cave in the mountains, and the first encounter is a couple goddamn wolves that come running at you.
And later on, hopping up those blocks trying desperately to get into position before those flying demon things fucked your day all up.
Really, really immersive. My neice and I would play that game for hours and hours on weekends. She'd get so freaked out when stuff would jump out; she about wet herself when that t-rex came.
And later on, hopping up those blocks trying desperately to get into position before those flying demon things fucked your day all up.
Really, really immersive. My neice and I would play that game for hours and hours on weekends. She'd get so freaked out when stuff would jump out; she about wet herself when that t-rex came.
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