Tomb Raider

Early quick-time events aside, this twelve hour adventure suffers so few missteps that it’s a genuine delight to play, even as the lead gets trampled into the seasoned pro we’ve come to know. Everyone take a bow… the first lady of gaming has returned.

The lackluster multiplayer is absolutely no reason to avoid what is otherwise one of the best action adventures I’ve ever played.

Tomb Raider is not just a reboot, but a revelation in a series that had long passed its prime.

Tomb Raider's reboot is definitely a success delivering a deep, adrenalinic and spectacular game with a new and charismatic Lara Croft. Our main complaint is with the lack of greater scale puzzles and more challenging ones, something the game should have retained from its predecessors.

A few things about the new Tomb Raider come across as wasted effort. The story of Lara’s transformation is sabotaged by the gameplay, and is frankly a little dorky, with an after-school special style multi-ethnic cast filled by lame sterotypes like angry black woman and scrap-happy Scotsman. Likewise a multiplayer mode, which nobody familiar with Tomb Raider would expect or even think to ask for, is competent but utterly unremarkable.

Crystal Dynamics built a gorgeous game, with a lot of good ideas and an astonishing artistic direction. Unfortunately, the game script is poor, and the lack of strong characters and design innovations make the latter part of Tomb Raider a spectacular third person shooter, but one without personality.

It’s really hard to be excited about the future of Tomb Raider after this game. It fails where more successful films and games of its kind succeed: in its characters. The way in which Lara goes from inexperienced to full-on action movie hero survivalist is so jarring that it’s near impossible as a player to remain on the same emotional wavelength as the story. Because of this the rest of the game falters.

I just love this game, the story, the characters and the fact that this game came out 12 years ago, but still looks awesome.

I love a good mystery puzzle solver adventure game and although they really tamed Lara Croft down a lot - this game doesn't hold back in the adventure! Really stayed true to the treasure-hunting adventure but the redesign really makes it feel like Uncharted and not Tomb Raider.

This game seems like a decent game, for example its gameplay is quite decent although games like uncharted I think it has better gameplay and better cinematics such as situations like the train or when you go by car, as for the story I think it has a decent narrative and decent cinematics but as I said it does not seem like one of the best because there are games like uncharted that improve them, in the graphic section it seems to me that it is one of the best sections since the game is beautiful and the caves and certain places look quite beautiful, for me the game starts quite boring but as soon as you spend a few hours playing the truth is that it becomes a quite fun game and the ending seems like an outrage because I find it very exciting and quite fun when it comes to playing in short it seems like a fun game but from my point of view it is not a game to play for many hours because the duration of the game is not that outrageous either and when you are playing for a while you get bored, it is a decent game so I give it a rating of 75

The game feels exhausting at times – you’re constantly running, falling, sinking, with explosions everywhere, always barely grabbing onto something like in an average action movie. It becomes very predictable. You end up feeling tired along with the character, and there isn’t much freedom in movement. Cutscenes are frequent, especially during some boss fights, so you don’t really feel like you accomplished anything – the game often resolves things for you instead of letting you play them out. Overall, it’s quite predictable, and honestly, I don’t really understand why it has such high ratings.

The only positive aspects of the game are the action scenes and vertical gameplay, which is pretty good for 2013, and which doesn't cause any burning. Otherwise, the shooting is bad and not intuitive, which the developers couldn't bring to a normal idea, the plot and characters are terrible, the locations themselves and their exploration are extremely uninteresting, and the locations themselves feel like just a cardboard polygon, where there is nothing to do. The hunting system in this game is also created through one place, and for the most part it is simply meaningless.