Tomb Raider Review

Post by Steve Farrelly @ 01:59am 26/02/13 | 24 Comments

It's not as though Lara Croft, fictional or not, is unaccustomed to the spotlight, and her new venture to rediscover herself is certainly one that has made headlines, but there's a good chance the buxom adventurer and her handlers, Crystal Dynamics, have only scratched the surface.

At least that's the sense James "Jickle" O'Connor gave us with his review of the game, and dammit if the guys isn't more often right, we've no choice but to trust that this new Lara Croft opus has touched him in a positive way.

Click here for his full review to see what we're on about.

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Ice9ine
Posted 09:50am 26/2/13

Nice to see a review up a week prior to release for once like the good old days. Definatley getting this on PC and is one of my most anticipated titles of the year. God of War and Gears will just have to wait.

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ravn0s
Posted 11:27am 26/2/13

i guess i'll be buying this game

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tel
Posted 03:45pm 26/2/13

Excellent review. Count me in for one PC version thanks.

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tHeBoRg
Posted 01:01am 27/2/13

Clueless Gamer: Conan O'Brien Reviews "Tomb Raider"

http://teamcoco.com/video/clueless-gamer-conan-obrien-reviews-tomb-raider

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Viper119
Posted 01:34am 27/2/13

That clueless gamer is hilarious, can't believe I've not seen it before!

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Jayman
Posted 02:06am 27/2/13

Clueless Gamer: Conan O'Brien Reviews "Tomb Raider"http://teamcoco.com/video/clueless-gamer-conan-obrien-reviews-tomb-raider

Ch-asm... WTF...

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Eorl
Posted 09:44am 27/2/13

Clueless Gamer: Conan O'Brien Reviews "Tomb Raider"http://teamcoco.com/video/clueless-gamer-conan-obrien-reviews-tomb-raider

Haha these are excellent, love his Resident Evil one.

I think I'll be grabbing this of somewhere cheap, looks really nice especially on PC. Apparently AMD users get some new hair rendering system as well which is interesting.

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ravn0s
Posted 10:08am 27/2/13

Apparently AMD users get some new hair rendering system as well which is interesting.

tressfx? i didn't know it was being used in tomb raider.

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Zakson
Posted 10:36am 27/2/13

I'm with Conan ... losing Lara (Lah-Rah) over and over again will be too painful, especially with the spike through the damn head. Who came up with that death scene?

Will not buy for awful deaths and reminding me of high school.

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Zakson
Posted 12:25pm 05/3/13

Regarding something said in the locked thread, is the FOV really bad? And can it be changed?

I played TR: Underworld the other day and the FOV was worse than I remembered!

After the epic fail that was Syndicate, I'm really not paying for a game that can't get the damn FOV right. Third or first person, it's a deal breaker. Get it right, game companies!

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TiT
Posted 12:59pm 05/3/13

ive been buying games here http://www.cjs-cdkeys.com/

its going for 22 pounds which is pretty good price

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Eorl
Posted 01:07pm 05/3/13

Yeah just grabbed it from CJS as well, instant delivery too which was nice for once. I'm quite eager to try it out as from what I've seen it looks great.

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ravn0s
Posted 02:19pm 05/3/13

looks like my graphics card does support that tressfx but it makes the game chug. turned it off and i have everything else set to ultra and it looks really nice.

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Eorl
Posted 03:30pm 05/3/13

Played for a small fraction of time during lunch, from what I have played though this game is definitely marketed wrong. All the trailers seemed to focus on the quicktime events and showing very little of anything else, but there are quite a few puzzles and surviving is quite big plus its also open world-ish which I didn't even know.

Definitely quite intense at some points and I've killed Lara a few times which are gruesome. Seems to be a fair few side stuff to collect as well like trophies and journals etc. Can see myself spending a fair bit of time on this title.

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ravn0s
Posted 04:14pm 05/3/13

i've played for 2 hrs and i'm loving it so far.

also, i f*****g hate wolves now.

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natslovR
Posted 04:35pm 05/3/13

I am about three hours in (for a gumby gamer), which is a LONG time for me to game these days, and I'm very keen to get some more in.

It's "Uncharted done right"

There is nothing that is annoying me so far, plenty impressing me, and I'm very easily annoyed.

It's been a while since I've jumped about and sweated a scene in a game I'm usually just not that interested/involved, but there's been a couple of times that I've done that so far in TombRaider -> putting down the mote going PHEW!!

Unlike that Assassins Creed BS I didn't feel like I was skipping through crap waiting for things to start, I was involved in the game from the very beginning.

Really well done.

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Zakson
Posted 04:46pm 05/3/13

Won't someone PLEASE think of the FOV and the camera in general ... do we get too many up close shots where we can't see past the character?

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deadlyf
Posted 07:14pm 05/3/13

There is nothing that is annoying me so far, plenty impressing me, and I'm very easily annoyed.

The only thing that has annoyed me so far was the "rape" scene where it is probably the first serious use of quick-time events. It pissed me off because I had no idea which keys to press, which until then every qt event told you which key to press and I died like 5 times just trying to work out which key they wanted me to press for which part.

I didn't work it out until later but apparently the symbols they replaced the keys with, "!" and the hand are meant to represent kick and grab or "F" and "E" but at the time I was just mashing s*** and dying and remembering how much I hate quick-time events.

I'm glad I struck it at that scene though since I had already seen it in videos when the media were overreacting to it. Now that I know what's going on hopefully future qt events wont completely ruin an otherwise intense moment in the game.

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ravn0s
Posted 07:19pm 05/3/13

haha that was the same for me deadlyf. i eventually checked the key bindings to see what keys i needed to press.

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groganus
Posted 11:08pm 05/3/13

I played this game all weekend on the PS3... This is such a fantastic game.. whilst it's easily comparable to the Uncharted series it is still very much a Tomb Raider game, it has sooo many great Tomb Raider elements, the only modern feature would be the quick time events, which are implemented perfectly.

Watching Lara Croft transform from a naive young girl to a strong woman with each brutal blow has been an amazing experience, The whole family is watching on rooting for her and falling in love with this mysterious island.

I can not praise this game enough.

If i had to fault it, it would be that some of the puzzles don't live up to the rage quitting puzzles of the original tomb raider games... at the same time, they are challenging enough to keep me doing them and they don't keep you bogged down from the story.

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DeadlyDav0
Posted 11:40pm 05/3/13

Won't someone PLEASE think of the FOV and the camera in general ... do we get too many up close shots where we can't see past the character?

My #1 hate about third person games. Still dont like it in FPS but at least its just the gun and HUD thats blocking the world. Also hate when the camera auto corrects itself if you dont move the mouse every second or so (dunno if this applies to lara but i remember it in just cause 2 and saints row 3 IIRC).

Good Game game lara double 10/10. I'll be interested in this if i can skip the cutscenes as it seemed story heavy in their review.

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TiT
Posted 01:10am 06/3/13

Bought it this afternoon and played it for a couple of hours tonight and love it!!! Hated all the other Tomb Raiders but this one is good!

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Joe
Posted 11:09pm 20/3/13

Hey guys i am new to the whole gaming community kinda thing but i really like that the developers made Lara's character feel vulnerable. I also like the stealth combat and the weapons upgrades were good as well the one thing i hated was dam wolves. i loved the story which really kept me engaged

i don't like scoring things but i felt this was solid game

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Nerf Lord
Posted 01:34am 27/4/13

Just a heads up, this is ~$19.50AU from GMG this weekend. (50% off weekend deal, then use 20% off code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA )

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/tomb-raider/

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