Life is Xbox had a hands on with Rise of the Tomb Raider. A short liked and disliked article about the game.
Mark from WellPlayed writes about five game launches that were impacted by unfortunate scheduling.
Zero Dawn sold really well so I’m not sure this belongs. The second game released next to a big game again and it hurt it some I forget what it was though, oh yeah Elden Ring .
But a good game is a good game to me I don’t care when they release personally but they do have to think about it when you want to get more people to buy it.
The Survivor Trilogy was a drastic reimagining of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider, and it provokes changes for the character that are truly fantastic.
Deserves less IMO, i think the 1st in the new trilogy was a perfect 1st step for the new direction. The next 2 games were half steps at best. Not only that, every character in the series including Lara is just annoying and doesn't make sense in terms of motive, like yes they have a motive, but none of it seems proportional to the lengths they are willing to go through for it. The most annoying thing is every one of the games say "become the Tomb Raider" yet 3 games later and we're still not there? No thanks. Then there's the mess of the 3rd game, massive skill tree that serves almost no purpose as there's literally only like 3-4 short encounters in the whole game, and they took till the 3rd game to finally manage some decent puzzles even remotely close to previous games in the series. Nah, the trilogy infuriated me to no end as a long time fan of the series, i hope we get better going forward cause that crap sucked.
Yeah...no
It was awful, for THREE GAMES it was "become the Tomb Raider" where she went back to square one after each game. Not to mention after a huge reaction of killing someone for the first time she then becomes Rambo straight after and goes on a slaughter spree without a single other reaction. Her development was all over the place.
She was whiney, weak and in later game a little arrogant and selfish
Oh and the voice actress compared to the previous ones was not as good
Lara Croft deserved better and while they are decent games as they are, we deserved actual Tomb Raider games, we could have had better survival games if they just stuck with the original Lara Crofts origin about her plane going down. Surviving 2 weeks in the Himalayas...I'd have liked to seen that, who knows what mystical threat she could have faced in the mountains or underground some secret concealed cave.
2013 I thought was a fine entry, but Rise and especially Shadow were painfully mediocre follow ups imo, I really didn't like how selfish and angry her character was in those two.
First one was decent, played through it twice.
Second one was okay, played through it once.
Third one was really bad, tried twice a year apart, still can't get through the first two hours, it is just really bad.
Starting today, Tomb Raider, Shadow of the Tomb Raider, and Rise of the Tomb Raider are free at Epic Games Store. The free game offers run until January 6 at 11 AM Eastern. Once you claim them, they’re yours to keep.
They're all solid games, but nothing quite matched the epicness of the first one for me. I think the 3rd one started off strong but once you got to that Peruvian area it took a massive nose dive for me.
Great games I've played them all on ps4 but it'll be good to finally try shadow on my rtx card.
Thats was short. :)
One of the plus points: "Tombs are back".
Cant the hint be closed? If it can, then problem solved :).
i wonder what ms was thinking releasing this game in nov. smart move will be dec.. but O well hope is successful against cod,fallout4 and star war..
I got a busy game schedule myself. I had Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain on 9/1, Tomb Raider: Definative Edition on 10/1, Uncharted: The Nathan Drake Collection on 10/9, Assassin's Creed: Syndicate on 10/23, Call of Duty: BO3 on 11/6, Rise of The Tomb Raider 11/10, The Old Hunters DLC for Bloodborne on 11/24, Uncharted 4: A Thief's End on 3/18, Dark Souls 3 on 3/24.
Microsoft knows how to market very well. So well, they got me to get this game by using there heads. How can we get people to buy this game Rise of the Tomb Raider? Simple.....lets give them Tomb Raider: Definative Edition with Games with Gold for free the month before. That will get them interested in the game/series. Maybe they will buy it. Lets try.
The main reason I'm picking up Rise of The Tomb Raider, Xbox gave me Tomb Raider: Definative Edition with Games with Gold for free. I played it and really enjoyed it. I liked pretty much everything about it. Enough to want a little more, so I'm getting Rise of The Tomb Raider.
Marketing 101 at its finest.