= to the original
Compared with the original game, this one was much brighter and not so full of atmosphere. I think I blame that on the background sounds - I think in that sense the original background mood-setting sounds were better as it was full of realistic cave sounds. I didn't notice that in this new version. But that was my only real complaint. It was fun to revisit some of the places I remembered from 11 years ago. The heights involved in a few places still made my palms sweat just as they did 11 years ago.
My only gripe was the difficulty in the acrobatics really escalated in the last stage. Everything was fine up until it got ridiculously hard at the end. Poor Lara must have died 1000+ times in that last stage. Yikes, that was tough! At least they had a lot of checkpoints so you didn't have to retrace too far, except suffer thru the loading screens each time.
I did finally finish in about 22 hours playing time of the main story - not including 2 more hours warming up first in the mansion, so I really got my money's worth out of this game (that I found at Bestbuy for $20).