Tomb Raider Anniversary is a remake of the original Tomb Raider with a few twists and minor changes. Overall, it is a very decent game that will grab you and hold you in front of your computer until you finish it. The game is very solid, very nice graphics ( sometimes some effects look a bit weird and it feels as if they were just kind of glued on top of the screen and don’t adapt perfectly to the level), special the kind of blurry effect that it is used throughout the game. The shadows need a bit of work because I believe they are not processed in real time ( sometimes you are hanging from a pillar and you can see your shadow on the floor but you don’t see the one from the pillar, which is kind of weird since it looks as if Lara is just floating in the air). Sound is also cool. The background sound and music are nice, they do their job really well since it never really bother but you can hear it at the right moments. A good point is when you enter a room or start fighting a animal a really nice soundtrack kicks in and it helps a bit for the atmosphere of the game and for the rush of those particular moments. Controls are ok. They were not flawless and I felt that there was a bit of lag between the moment you press and the moment Lara reacts (be aware of that on those precise timing parts) but it is not something that will make you throw your keyboard to the floor in a rage. I played with keyboard and mouse the whole time so I can not say anything about playing the game with a game pad. The one thing that felt kind of weird in the game was the combat. I don’t mean the boss fights (they were cool even though they relied too much on the Adrenaline Shoot feature) but the fights with the wolfs and other animal that seem to came out of nowhere. You never really understand how did those animal survived in those rooms with no food for so many years or why they are there at all. But besides all of the small flaws, Tomb Raider Anniversary is a very good game that has a good blend of a nostalgic feeling with some fresh innovations. If you liked the first, or if you want to kind of start to know a bit of Miss Croft a bit more, then this is the game for you.
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