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Tomb Raider Review

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Tomb Raider's tone is somewhat at odds with its action, but the reborn Lara Croft seems primed for a successful new adventuring career.

Not pictured: shooting hundreds of dudes in the face.
Not pictured: shooting hundreds of dudes in the face.

If the goal of the "reboot" is to free a creaky old franchise of its baggage, strip its protagonist of their larger-than-life attributes, and get back to basics, then consider the new Tomb Raider a successful reboot. The game relieves Lara Croft of her backflipping, wisecracking ways, recasting her as a wide-eyed young archeologist of no particular good breeding, out on a commissioned ship to make her mark on the world by finding--and shooting a reality TV series around--the lost island kingdom of Yamatai. The harrowing survival tale that commences once she arrives on the island molds Lara into a shockingly capable killer a little faster than I would have liked, but ultimately this origin story serves as a sturdier and more respectable springboard for further Lara Croft adventures than any previous game in the series.

Lara makes her way to the island with a band of researchers and television types in tow, and after the shipwreck scatters them all around the island, the game does a fair job, with voiceovers and flashbacks, of having you cross paths with each crew member and filling in the ways each one relates to Lara and how they may have helped or hindered her journey. The game is less successful at believably depicting Lara's own transition from eager young scientist to cold-blooded survivalist killing machine. The hasty remorse she offers when first hunting a deer for food or making her first human kill, in defense against the crazed cultists who rule the island, is hard to take seriously when you're then encouraged to slaughter every living thing in sight, human and animal alike, with a stock-standard video game arsenal of assault rifle, shotgun, grenade launcher, and flame-tipped arrows.

In its efforts to paint Lara as a vulnerable but resilient heroine, the game suffers an identity crisis of sorts. It swings wildly between quiet character moments, where you feel every bit of the physical pain and emotional anguish her grueling situation entails, and the sort of ludicrous, over-the-top action this medium just can't get enough of. The contrast is only so irksome because the game goes to such great lengths to legitimize Lara's struggle in the first place, but regardless, it sometimes feels like a constant process of two steps forward, one step back. Here's one egregious example. In an early cutscene, Lara visibly shivers by a campfire at night in a forest somewhere around sea level. Two hours later, you're high up in the mountains in near-blizzard conditions, making absurd death-defying leaps between radio towers wearing nothing but a tank top (and by this time you've clearly gotten over that earlier compunction about taking a human life, since you're now taking scores of them as a matter of course). To the story's credit, once Lara becomes visibly fed up with everything the bad guys are putting her through, and starts flinging back harsh words as readily as bullets, it became a lot easier to buy into her character arc, and the game ultimately does leave Lara a changed person who could believably kick off a whole new franchise. But in the first half, that strained dichotomy between beset young girl and invincible killer made me wish the developers had picked one style of characterization or the other and really focused on it.

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Storytelling quibbles aside, Tomb Raider plays quite well by modern action standards. The game offers an unusual structure that straddles the line between a couple of distinctive genres, though it took me some time to come to grips with what the game actually is. That's because the big island map--split into little subsections with names like "Coastal Forest" and "Base Approach," each with an exhaustive lists of challenges and collectibles--gives one the impression of an open-world game with a fair amount of freedom to dally and explore. (Some of the game's marketing has not exactly dispelled this notion.) In actuality, Tomb Raider is a mostly linear game whose story propels you through those discrete regions one after the other, often with some sort of larger-than-life action sequence bridging the transition. Many of the game's combat sequences are also rigidly linear, though a few (which not coincidentally were my favorite) take place in wider areas and let you sneak around and get more creative with the ways you approach them. At least you're free to fast travel back to previous areas to check off all those collectibles and earn extra upgrade points after the fact, though.

In addition to revisiting previously explored regions at will to look for shiny baubles, you'll also come back to some of the larger levels for a second or occasionally even third time at the behest of the story. Thankfully, the mandatory backtracking avoids feeling like a cheap rehash and instead helps create a cohesive sense of place, since the designers usually have you reenter these areas from a different, previously inaccessible point, and then go on to send you along a different route than you took the first time. There are also new things for you to look for when you backtrack, since the game doles out new gear and abilities consistently over the course of the story, like a rope-arrow you can fire to make a bridge across chasms, that lets you get into new parts of the levels you couldn't get to previously. This system isn't as integral to the flow of the game as in your average Metroidvania--you're often only gaining access to more collectibles or some very brief "optional tombs" to raid--but it's still satisfying to wring a bit more out of the game world as you move back and forth.

Parts of Tomb Raider--potentially too many parts, depending on your taste--come off as the developers doing their best Uncharted impression, as you Quick Time Event your way through a large number of barely interactive action sequences that have everything around you exploding in a hail of splinters and fire that magically leaves you without a scratch. Actually, no, Lara comes out with plenty of visible scratches--the game pulls the effective trick of distressing her clothes and appearance more and more as the game goes on, a la Arkham Asylum. But you never once feel like she's in true danger, which can make the whole thing feel a bit like it's just going through the cinematic-action-game motions. I wish less time and effort had been devoted to these bombastic scenes and more put into the old Tomb Raider standby of climbing around on old ruins, giving you the chance to feel a more tactile connection to the mystical past that forms the backbone of this game's storyline. Those combat-free optional tombs are the closest you get to solving any ancient Rube Goldberg machines, but they're insultingly short--I bet the handful included here constitute no more than half an hour of gameplay, collectively--and largely just made me wish there were a lot more of them included.

The robust upgrade system lets you deeply customize your combat options.
The robust upgrade system lets you deeply customize your combat options.

If you're going to spend a lot of time fighting, at least the combat and attendant character-progression mechanics are implemented well, giving you a ton of options as to which weapons you want to enhance with better basic stats and a few interesting extra abilities, and which extra combat maneuvers, such as an array of dodge-counters, you want to unlock. There's a long list of extra abilities not related to combat, as well, including an enhancement to your show-me-everything-I-can-interact-with vision mode that reveals those scores of collectibles through walls, and annotates them on your map in a really smart way. If you're the type of person who enjoys going back and collecting every last thing, you'll get a whole lot of mileage out of Tomb Raider. But even if you're a one-and-done sort of player, the game is still quite long and doesn't exactly skimp on content in the first place.

There's also a reasonably full-featured multiplayer mode, but I didn't get much out of it since it's so similar to other third-person multiplayer modes, most notably the one in the Uncharted games. There's a fully realized leveling and loadout system that gives you tons of options for customizing the way you play, but this long after Call of Duty 4 it's just hard to get excited about that sort of thing anymore. The most interesting part of the multiplayer is the handful of traps, like rope snares and lightning rods, you can set to trip up other players when they unwittingly run over them, but that's small comfort when you've seen most of this stuff before. The multiplayer in the 360 version also suffered from an absolutely abysmal frame rate when firing while zoomed in, but that's such a specific problem I'd like to believe it will promptly be addressed with a patch. In single-player, the 360 game is quite a looker, though it does tend to chop up a bit here and there. We weren't provided PS3 or PC copies of the game prior to release, but with Nixxes, the studio behind the PC port of Deus Ex: Human Revolution, also handling porting duties on this game, it's easy to imagine the PC version will be the one to get.

Tomb Raider might be guilty of trying to do too many things at once, but the relative quality of each one of those individual things is high enough that the whole is still pretty satisfying. The game deftly rises above the unpleasant tone of the marketing that preceded it, recasting Lara Croft as a capable young heroine for whom many new adventures inevitably await.

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A 4 out of 5 even with the lackluster multiplayer and story/character flaws seems to indicate just how entertaining the majority of the game is. Well written review.

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The story is pretty ridiculous in a bad way. Early on I just started listening to podcasts while I played since it was clear I wasn't missing much. That said the game-play was solid and satisfying.

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Fabulous, I assure this game is worth playing one more time.

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I just played this through and wanted to comment on the review. I think the review overemphasizes the somewhat implausible transformation Lara undergoes from hot scientist to hot survivalist. While this disconnect is present, I thought it was secondary to the main story line of discovering the mysteries of the island she crashed on. I thought the main storyline was great and dwarves the character development issues. I would have given the game 5/5.

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Oh god this game is nauseating, why the constant shaky cam???

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Anyone else find there's a whole lot of ass shots in the early parts of this? Like, just center of the screen, all up in yo face. Before you first see the guardians, it gets better afterwards (in that there aren't lingering camera pans or climbing sequences seemingly zoomed in on her butt).

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I enjoyed the game immensely, particularly the game play and environments. Good stuff. However, I didn't like any of the characters, especially Lara. Voice acting is poor and the writing sucks for the most part. The premise is cool, but to call the game Tomb Raider is a contradiction. The game is about escaping an island, preferably in one piece. Why would Lara take the time to raid tombs under these circumstances? How does Lara go from being a sweet, naive, and innocent girl to a bad-ass expert in firearms, killing hundreds of armored mercenaries within hours? "Because she has to" is not an argument. If I'm stuck on an island, I'm never going to be able to modify a compound bow complete with explosive tips no matter how badly I need to survive. Of course, it's obvious why they called this game Tomb Raider (money is good), but for my two cents, this could have been a new IP.

The new Tomb Raider isn't about swashbuckling adventure, it's about gritty survival, and the game makes no bones about it (no pun intended). And because most people can universally agree that Tomb Raider is a pulp adventure series in the vein of Uncharted, this reboot's deliberate upending of tone and theme is completely disconnecting for me. There's some really serious shit in this game (all cool in its own right), but to call it Tomb Raider? That's like making Apocalypse Now and titling it Indiana Jones. Doesn't make sense, unless you have absolutely zero knowledge of the franchise's 17-year history. Don't get me wrong, if you're over 18, I recommend you play it, especially if an R-rated Uncharted sounds right up your alley. Just be sure to divorce yourself of any preconceived notions of the old franchise, boobs and all.

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Oh and I should add I like this game more than any uncharted game . Gasp! I'm sure many will disagree but I just think Tomb Raider has a better overall tone of adventure to it . I kinda think Nathan drake is a jack ass as to Lara seeming sincere and Ernest .

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I am having a absolute blast with this game! I'm about halfway through I think (48 %) at load screen . And I'm having Fun! Every step of the way . 5 Stars for me . I don't have the same gripes brad does with the game . I don't think it would have been fun if I had to wait even longer to kill the creeps after me

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I'm about 10 hours in and I'm not sure I totally agree with the whole "identity crisis" critic. After Lara's first kill she is visibly shaken. Just after that she states to another survivor that she had "no choice" which tells me that she immediately realizes what lines she'll need to cross to survive. There are several other lines of dialogue (and in her journal entries) which hint at a past with survival training and adventuring with her father. Is it a little weird that she's getting head shots and taking down dozens of enemies with ease? Sure. But it would also make for a pretty weak action adventure game if she couldn't shoot straight and started crying after every kill.

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Im halfway through the game now, and this far Ive really liked it. I agree that most of the custom deaths are unnecessary brutal, but they do have the desired effect. I really try not to die with Lara now, more then in any other game Ive played in a while. The whole afraid and carefull in cutsceens, and a trained killer when player controlled is nothing i find bothersome. Thats just nitpicking. How else should they accomplish this? Having her handle horribly half the game fun.

Last weekend i finally started playing DX Human Revolution. Its a really good game. Now that i can play this insted, Im not even considering picking up DX. The new Tomb Raider might be the best one this far.

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I'm really liking this game from a game play side of things, the way you traverse the locale and combat mechanics as well as upgrading skills and weapons.

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a sub par uncharted game getting a 4/5

I guarantee this game wont even be mentioned in the GOTY discussions

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TressFX takes my fps from a solid 60 to 20 all by itself. That's OK though, I can live without it. I'm just impressed that the GeForce 460 GTX based PC I built around 3 years ago still plays games like this and still let's them look amazing. thumbs up for the PC port of this game.

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Solid action title that looks fun. Count me in, I haven't really played one since last year, so call me ready.

Could be a little more open world, but looks a lot more interesting than your standard COD campaign, which I am sick to death of now. BLOPs II put me to sleep playing that games SP.

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Really wish the review could have been for the PC version, but I imagine publishers demand the 360 version always run because publishers hate PCs or whatever dumb marketing reasons they have. Hope that version shows up in the quick look at least. There will be a quick look right?

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@iragequit: I would agree with most of your statement, but I think only two games in my opinion are the exception to the rule; Asuras Wrath and Heavy Rain. I felt that the QTE in those were entertaining.

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Looks interesting but im gonna hold off on it as im more interested in Simcity this week, might get it in a steam sale.

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Excellent review, Brad!

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Looks good, Thanks for the review

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Rofl, thats what made saints row 3 on the pc impossible to put down!

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I will dub this Laura "Farcry Laura". Barf.

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The charm of the original Tomb Raider was that Laura is a bit of a nut job. If she does get like that towards the end of the game, I will be cool with it.

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Someone broke street date around my area so I'm playing the game now and honestly unless you stop and think about it really hard, the whole part where you start shooting people is pretty seamless. Theres a part where shit starts going down, Lara has to defend herself and then the action doesn't let up. I didn't feel a gigantic narrative dissonance because you had to get out of a jam and there were people out there trying to kill you. It's almost kind of natural that she's basically defending herself - except it's a video game so instead of shooting like 10 guys in the course of this entire adventure you end up shooting hundreds but thats video games pretty much.

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I am an often-criticizer of Brad, but this is a very good review. Kudos, Brad. You helped me understand the shortcomings, but still showed my why I will probably really enjoy this game.

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It's just a given there will be a PC nude mod for this game. The only question is if it will have a dynamic dirt and wetness system to it.

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I know some reviewers say that Lara shouldn't turn into a killer right after half an hour of gameplay time, but to be honest, it doesn't bother me. Why? Gameplay. Especially if you replay your games. You don't want to be stuck, hamstrung by Lara's emotions for a couple of hours until the game ''opens up''.

That's why The Line succeeded; you still killed hundred of dudes before going apeshit. The gameplay was unharmed by the tone of the game.

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I guess my real hope for this is that by the end of New (Super?) Tomb Raider 3 or whatever they end up with Lara has reached the point of smooth-talking, mansion-owning cool cat that resembles old Ms. Croft.

They could do it a different way and have it work, but if they could reach that point in a convincing fashion then I'd love to see it. That said, I'm certainly interested to get my hands on this, regardless of whether some of those death animations are a little much (honestly coming from Dead Space I shouldn't be that shocked by them, I guess it's just that this feels tonally as though horrific injury should be less of a thing).

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@dark_lord_spam said:

I can't help but feel they only exacerbated the narrative dissonance Uncharted faced by focusing so much of the story on Lara's vulnerability as a character. They should have either stuck closer to the formula they're aping and have it be a more comfortable experience or just gone for broke. How incredible could this game have been if it had featured more exploration, the main obstacle was the environment itself, and every human enemy was at the level of a boss encounter in terms of difficulty?

that's actually a really compelling (and more appealing to me personally) notion- the idea that other humans on the island are few and far between. in fact it could even dip into thriller/suspense/horror territory if it gave the impression you were being watched and/or stalked. but that game wouldn't have been made. because this one will need to sell a boatload to recoup the investment.

While a Shadow-of-the-Colossus-but-with-people sounds great, I imagine that would be very difficult to A) convince producers to support, and B) develop in the first place. This game sounds like it suffers from the recent-ish push behind making games more 'mature' emotionally, but no one was willing to sacrifice the expected type of gameplay for it - attempting two different things and thus not fully succeeding at either. So basically, almost always happens with gritty realistic reboots of inherently silly, comic-booky franchises.

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A good review, with plenty of legitimate criticisms. I just finished the game myself and really loved it in spite of the places where it stumbled. I thought it was pretty fantastic overall, and I'm really looking forward to seeing what Crystal Dynamics do with the series next.

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Nice review. Should read more of your reviews (I am more the QL-Fan) - learned 2 new words within one paragraph xD Though I would prefer that you'd read the reviews to us - I love your voice.

Btw. got the game myself yesterday and was pretty impressed - great atmosphere, nice action and real good graphics.

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looks quite good... but this is coming from someone who isn't into female sadism.

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@smokyexe said:

4/5 is okay.

4/5 is pretty damn good

you kids and your average 4/5s nowadays...

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@anund said:

There is something that has always bothered me about reviews like this. I mean, don't get me wrong, I think it was a well written, informative review, but for some reason there is always one game being punished for something which is basically a given in the industry. Let me explain.

When Uncharted 3 was released it was basically slammed in reviews for being "more Uncharted". How often has the third game in a series revolutionized the concept and done something truly new, changing the concept? Not often. Yet Uncharted 3 was the game where this was the focus, and the game was largely dismissed for this reason alone. Now the same thing is happening to Tomb Raider. There have been plenty of games where the tone changes between cutscenes and in-game, but Tomb Raider is the one that gets a star knocked off its grade because of it.

I'm just wondering if maybe a review is not the place for this kind of discussion. Is it fair to take one game to task for something so many games previously have gotten away with? At the same time I guess times are always changing. What was once OK and standard is not OK today and the line has to be drawn somewhere.

Still. It just seems a little harsh.

Uncharted with boobs sounds like my dream game, by the way. Consider me "in".

+1, personally I think the length of this console generation might have something to do with it. I think they have played so many games that are similar that the game no longer does it for them and they have to look deeper and find more flaws.

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Maybe it's just me but I have been so relieved that both this and MG Revengenencence are actually good. I have been so fearful both would turn out to be turkeys.

Now I just hope people buy them!

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I've been pretty back and forth on this game. Brad's review is enough to make me check it out.

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Thank you, sir

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@bunnymud said:

I was sold when I saw so many white knights blast the game.

getting a real "wears a fedora, lives with mom" vibe from this post

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First of all, while I appreciate story telling in video games, gameplay is 100% paramount. I honestly could not care less if the story doesn't match the actions of the character if the gameplay is good. GTA IV, Red Dead Redemption, Far Cry 3, Sleeping Dogs all come to mind as games in which the character is established one way but actually playing the game goes the other. Not a big deal.

Everyone here is entitled to their opinion but quoting everyone that disagrees with Brad's point of view and then saying why you won't be getting the game is pointless. No offense but the only people that really care are you and the publisher/developer. If you don't want to get the game, don't. I will be on day one. I've read enough reviews to suss out that the plot vs character action disparity will be relatively meaningless to me.

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Nixxes also did PC version of Hitman Absolution, and that game looks great as well.

Time to pre-order my pc copy I think.

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Patrick, where are all the female opinions on this game? Is it not sensationalist enough?

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Nice review Bradotron, really glad this game turned out great.

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Never finished a Tomb Raider game. Should start with this one I guess.

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The part where she gets her skull stuck on a spike while going through that downhill river thing was kind of disturbing.

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I don't seem to recall the same criticisms made of Red Dead Redemption. I had the same feeling going through that game, that I was killing far too many people to actually buy into John Marston's story... same dance with GTA 4 and Niko's story. Almost any action game is going to feature far more killing than human characters are really going to be capable of handling if we're ever to completely buy into their story.

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Steam got. Bosh!

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Good review Brad. I have heard nothing but good things about this game, I will get it when I'm back home in a month