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Rise of the Tomb Raider's initial showing at Gamescom felt like a shift even further towards Lara's evolution into remorseless killing machine, with Ms. Croft stalking her way through leafy undergrowth under the cover of darkness, systematically slitting throats and shooting faces with impunity. It's a far cry from the Tomb Raiders of old, in which the majority of killing Lara did was of the animal variety.
Our hands-on with Rise of the Tomb Raider was the antithesis of the violent stealth section we saw during Microsoft's Xbox presser, taking Lara back to exotic locales and awe-inspiring sights. Taking place at the northwest border of Syria, we picked up with Lara on the search for answers after finding fresh clues in her father's research, leading to the Tomb of the Immortal. Beating a path to her destination via a precarious cliff ledge, Lara is still adept at shimmying along rocky outcrops, and crawling into dark, claustrophobic spaces.
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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.
if laras not a whinny toddler again then yeah
God no.
Nothing found in any of the gameplay videos shown to us shows classic Tomb Raider. It seems like it's moved even more in the totally different path the first game of the reboot set out on.
The game has benefited from it's evolution that is Tomb Raider 2013 which served as a foundation for Rise of the Tomb Raider.
I'm confident the overall package of Rise of the Tomb Raider will have enough to satisfy the fans of Tomb Raider 2013 and possibly new fans.
It's me and Lara this fall..
XO.
Might be in the minority here, but I think the old games were garbage compared to the reboot. I played the originals on PC and PS1 back in the day and the jank-ass controls made platforming a real pain. The worst thing they can do is return to classic Tomb Raider. Onward and upward.
the ROTR looks really good, the presentation is top notch. i think the classic tomb raider is gone,not a bad thing as the new direction is really cool