Tomb Raider preview (The X Button)

The X Button writes: "Getting the obvious out of the way first, the game looks beautiful and Lara beautifully animates in ways that people used to the previous Tomb Raider and Uncharted titles would expect.

That's right, Uncharted. And it's not just in animation that Tomb Raider draws comparisons, indeed the whole aura of the demo had a very much Uncharted feel toward it, in that what we played is cinematic to the point of being an interactive movie, but it's also scripted beyond the telling of it. As we watched others before we even managed to get a go, every player experienced the same stumble, same bone crushing fall, exactly the same set pieces. It all looks great of course, if watching Lara receiving untold amounts of pain and anguish is your thing over lengthy durations…"