What do you expect in a game of action-adventure? Beautiful pictures? Or sound? Diverse gameplay? All of which can be found in Tomb Raider. Over time silence for about five years of mainstream product lines, her Lara Croft is back with its 11th edition in 2013.
If you were familiar with the image of Lara "flying" freedom a slightly "unmatched" as the previous section, then maybe this time you will be a little "shock". She is now just a "normal" literally, ie no phase both flying and shooting, just dodge "rain missiles" of a skilled enemy, etc. During an expedition in the Pacific Ocean, Endurance carrying Lara and friends suddenly a huge storm struck and split in half. Her friends are kidnapped by local people, myself Lara also captured for the Aboriginal ritual sacrifice. What is going on here? Why Lara and friends are kidnapped? The purpose of the kidnappers? All will turn to be answered during the adventure.
As mentioned, instead apply the gameplay "fly-dance-fight" as before, but now Crystal Dynamics Lara direction style play "stalking" Assassin's Creed usual. You will have limited clash, because the enemy often travel in groups, but the strength of Lara is quite fragile, so just stick a few shots of "warning" she said as "target"! (Most of the time players will find her extremely "miserable", full of his injury rather than "violent" as before!)
Actually, that said, "stalking" here is not a "stealth" to overcome, but now the player will play the role of a "Hunter" brand of the most useful weapon is the bow, which can ability to defeat the enemy with a most on target and no noise! Sense of "defeat" the enemy soldiers while they do not know where you are truly indescribable excitement! Sometimes, you can also hunt wild animals to increase experience points and upgrade new skills for themselves, or simply get food "temporary".
Play "stalking" has been successfully applied, the longer each when Lara detected? Tomb Raider became a shooter game 3rd class! With flexible camera system moving through the shoulder view when aiming quite convenient, the phase of confrontation between her and the enemy took place very lively and diverse. You can shoot blow up a tank with a few soldiers standing nearby, or work near them and "gave" him a single shot-gun. Character animation is equally vivid and taigame.org itself witnessed a bandit trapeze wires from the cliff side to find the approach. So "doang!" An hour and he fall "autumn leaves"! Ammunition is distributed everywhere and you can fully upgrade weapons, the number of bullets to bring, etc. through the collection of debris (savages) scattered in treasure chests or in the barrel map.
Another feature makes Lara this time different than the previous Countess, is the ability to melee, also is a major factor pushing the violence of the game on very high, no less than the line games like Gears of War or Dead Space. After making a perfect dodge attack phase, Lara can respond with a complementary ice ax straight into the opponent, or pick up one of the nearby arrow and throat plugged into the enemy! You can also access and "discharging" a whole magazine into him after he stunned immediately. The opinion own taigame.org, the action scenes like this keeps our game was pushed up, but accidentally makes Tomb Raider became a shooting game "smell" violence usually seen recently.
The puzzle aspect this time is reduced quite a lot, mostly revolving around the "find your way" or collecting items (which is nothing to do), or tracing the treasure chest to make a few dozen pieces of savages to upgrade weapons. Thus, the way is even more simple by Lara have a special ability that can "scan" through the game screen navigation system's Batman! But veteran gamers may not be satisfied, but with the current market trend, then think, the manufacturer retains the puzzle was an encouraging!
Texture which is Crystal Dynamics "modest" statement is just stops in mid-range, and actual exposure, may be identified which need to be considered. By the fact that said, even on the limited hardware of the Xbox 360, the image of the game was great! The scene is diverse island is built, all kinds of different terrain from the murky cave, to the dense forest with all sorts of animals, etc. all alive!
Shape and movement of the characters, especially Lara made her very delicate, smooth and realistic, rather than a "lady" body "hourglass 90-30-90" as before more! Even maker also cleverly "show" the beauty of the graphics through the QTE segments are spectacular, full of cinematic scenes Lara avoiding a plane crash or cave collapsed underground scene extremely overwhelmed!
Background music is not bring nuanced overwhelmed or pressed as the previous section, but with a sound effects slowly mysterious space suited to the island's mysterious horror. At the same time, the stage of the voice of each character is shown very well and once again, she Lara to shine with excellent vocals of actress Camilla Luddington. Let's experience the return of her Countess Lara Croft you.
Minimum System Requirements:
OS: Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista, 7.8 (32bit/64bit)
