Tomb Raider - Legend

[digifan]

She's back! After nearly two years since her last dismal game, Lara Croft is back in spades. In this version she is enhanced with Crystal Dynamics graphics with some newly created puzzles and challenages. This is my review:

Game Play - 7.5/10

Eidos had made an excellent choice with Crystal Dynamics taking over the helm from Core Design. The player is Lara on an Indiana Jones type quest for treasures and relics found throughout the world. She is back up by a team of researchers and faces dangerous rivals and enemies. The only flaw is we don't see the support team nor able to interact with them. This game had beautiful scenary and stunning exotic locations. Lara start her adventure in Bolivia searching for a lost artifact. She is being stalked by an unidentified rival. If you listen carefully, the sound had echoes from the previous series of Tomb Raider games.

Graphics and Sound - 8/10

Graphics was stunning but the sound could use a bit of work.

Multiplayer - N/A

Since Tomb Raider was designed with a single player in mind, the multiplayer role is ireevalant to this game.

The Bottom Line - B+

To me Tomb Raider Legend featuring Lara Croft bring the first queen of video games back from the edge of oblivion. Crystal Dynamics had integrated a lot of elements from the previous series including the movies. I would, however, wish there was some form of in game guide as Lara moved from one tomb to another. The puzzles are fairly simple to solve but there are spots where the challenge can get quite frustrated.
This game is not perfect but it's on the right track.

Just my two point three five credit worth.


EDIT - Click here to check out a helicopter assault sequence from Legend. Sweet.

[PsychoMantis]

I was gonna buy it yesterday but i held off im waiting on chrome hounds that games gonna be awsome even online.

[thommo1980]

Sorry, Im just increasing my post count so I can create a topic

[Uncool]

Trashing this and your getting another spam infraction for it as well. >_>

[Recipe7]

Digifan, is this game better than the first 2?

[WonsAuto]

Digifan is long gone...

Last Activity: December 5th, 2006 12:04 PM

Look at the thread date. :P

[Recipe7]

Doh, didn't bother to look... hate when people resurrect dead threads =\.

[Master]

We recently learned that Gran Turismo 5 will launch shortly after the release of the PSP iteration of the racing series. According to a pamphlet from GamesCom, Gran Turismo 5 is coming out in Q4 2009.

The folks at Joystiq received word from a Sony rep that the pamphlet is in fact accurate. With this pamphlet and the word that GT5 would come out shortly after the release of PSP GT, we can expect the long wait for the PlayStation 3 racing game to finally be over. Of course, we’ve seen a lot of release date movement in the last few weeks, so anything is possible.

We’ll keep you updated when we hear an official release date.

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