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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Buy it used, 13 Aug 2003
When this game FINALLY arrived, (after having it's release delayed by god knows how long,) I was really happy. I started my PS2, whacked the game in, wowed at the impressively dark and moody intro. When the I was finally given control of Lara... Well, I had expected the controls to be a LITTLE different, but these took me by surprise. After spending a few shaky minuites trying to hop onto a trash can, I started to feel at ease. It was going well so far: the graphics were amazing, Lara was much more versatile, able to pull off more fancy moves than before. Ten minuites later, I wanted to phone sony and tell them that My playstation had suddenly started playing games bad. It couldn't have been the game itself: it's Tomb raider for god's sake!
But no, the sad reality is that the new Tomb raider is Lara with a really bad makeover. Sure the graphics are great, and the music genuinely stirs, but the gameplay that made all the other tomb raiders so fun has been buried. Even with the addition of some character interaction and a new playable character, (Kurtis, and no, you don't get to use that cool flying disk of his,) it's duller than a rainy day at a pensioner's cricket match. The inclusion of having to do something in each level to build up Lara's strengh in her legs, arms etc. really kills the game too. Basically, you wouldn't want to buy this game unless you were quite an avid Lara fan, and even then, it's better to get it used,(which won't be hard, considering the number of people that will want to get rid of their copy.) I won't put the game down completly though, it does have it's moments...just not very many of them.
In short, it could have been much, much better but is an overall disapointment, seeing as we had to wait so friggin' long for it to arrive.
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
I can't Believe I waited 3 years for this..., 7 Jul 2003
By A Customer
I must admit I was extremely excited for the this title. I mean Lara Croft in her own right is a Legend. After putting the disk into my PS2, I was expecting a game that would surpass my expectations and hopefully set new standards.Boy.., I was VERY VERY WRONG!Nothing at all feels finished. Everything, is sub-standard. By that I mean controls are useless and puzzles are just not puzzles.There's horrendous slowdown when more than two characters are moving on screen. Clippings everywhere, and you can get stuck behind boxes. Items can literally disappear if they're not picked up in a timely fashion (making progression impossible), game logic is ridiculous at best (you can take out a dog with a couple of kicks, but 100 bullets won't knock it out of commission). Enemies disappear when killed. The game has an obscene number of load times. Even the documentation is wrong.Bosses, or whatever they are, are just plain stupid. Just circle 'round them while shooting, and you'll win nearly every battle. Only one of the boss fights is challenging, and that's simply because the game's target system does not work properly. However, much I try to like this game, I just can't. I just went out to buy the PC version, and that to put it bluntly "sucks as well".The narrative and set pieces could be the best thing about this game, but overall the game lacks in the key ingredient.., game play!
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Glitchy but worth a play, 10 Feb 2004
As a huge TR fan, I was so excited to finally get it home I put it on straight away without having any lunch, and was initially disgusted at the analogue only controls - 1st mistake, makes the game uncontrolable coupled with horrible camera angles, this leads to a frustrating time. I did give the game a chance though, but looping screams, missing puzzle items, "falling into oblivion and getting stuck there", people disappearing, vanishing security passes, going from too easy to impossible (the jumps that is) and that horrible slow lumbering Curtis Trent and that is to name just a few of the bugs and annoyances, I played it until about 2/3rds of the way through, and put it down until several months later when I decided to try and finish it, and failed as the game bogged down so badly it was slower on sprint than on the normal run mode in TR1!. As I could not bear to hear that looping scream one more time or watch Ms. Croft plummit to the ground and die melodramatically, away it went and it will probably never get finished. I normally start a Tomb Raider game and do not stop until completed, but this one is nowhere near as good as its predecessors - why three stars? It is still Tomb Raider and it does have some redeeming factors, graphics are pretty good, the water effect is excellent and the the Hall of Seasons level was good old fashioned Tomb Raiding (very TR4). If you have not tried it, it's worth picking up now as there are plenty of second hand bargains to be had, and there is a level select availible if things get too much (or you have pulled out all your hair), personally I prefered Silent Hill 2 & 3, and the game Shadow of Memories is worth picking up second hand if you want something different, relaxing and more like an interactive film, not frustrating like AOD.
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