You have no idea how fun this game really is.
User Rating: 9 | Tomb Raider II PC
This game is amazing. Just about everything, the plot, the creatures, the landscapes you name it. This thing did have a few flaws though. but first, lets get to the plot. You are Lara Croft tomb raider and you are about to start your second adventure. You begin at the great wall of china only to be attacked and nearly killed by a thug who you discover works for Marco Bartoli. Unfortunately, he drinks poison and you don't get more information. Luckily Lara manages to find that Bartoli is in Venice so you head down to Venice. Later in Venice Lara blows up one of Bartoli's buildings only to reveal a secret passage leading to Bartoli's base which is actually a opera house. Lara eventually after killing one of Bartoli's top workers sneaks on to his plane. She then is knocked unconscious in the plain and is taken prisoner. After waking up in the prison Lara manages to escape, get her pistols back, and continue with her adventure. You then find a monk who told you about a ship underwater that contained a key that you will need. Then he is shot by Bartoli and you run off and escape to a sub that is leaving in the base. You dive into the water and grab the sub to escape and go to the base. Then the sub crashes cause the driver was thrown off-course by a shark and now you follow lost supplies of what seems to be a ship crash. You then go into the sip which has been turned up-side down with many puzzles and traps. You then later get to the deck of the ship and after giant puzzles you find a key that lets you open a door with the key the monk was telling you about. You then float back up to the surface with the key and you are at Bartoli's base. This time Lara steals one of his planes and flies off to the monks monastery. After a 1 hour level you put the key in the door that you needed and proceed to weird ancient tombs in a frozen section. You eventually fight the guardian of another key which is a giant bird. After you kill it and have they key you leave the caves and steal on of Bartoli's cars and drive off in a race to the great wall. You get to the great wall and it turns out that the key goes to a door that Lara could not open when she first came to the great wall! You then enter the tomb of Xion which is probably the longest and most puzzling level in all of tomb raider games. After about one hundred puzzles and traps you see Marco Bartoli in some king of ritual! He then stabs himself and falls into his workers arms and is carried away. You then jump down and follow them. But when you go through the doorway the guards are nowhere in site and even worse you are out in the middle of some weird realm that is many floating islands! Eventually at the end of the level you get into a place that looks like a temple. After fighting off Bartoli's statues and ninjas you proceed to see him laying in the middle of a giant room bigger than you think with a dagger in his heart. He then begins to lift up then he turns into a dragon! As you saw in the first cut scene at the begging of the game you saw a dragon burning down a town with a dagger in his heart then someone pulled it out but was crushed in the process. So you know that when the dagger of Xion is put in your heart you become a dragon! So now it is an epic battle between you and Bartoli! When you pull the dagger of Xion out of his heart the building begins to collapse and you have to escape! You run out of the temple with a door that just opened and when you run down the hall out the door you jump out of the building which is actually shown to be a small part of the great wall of China! The part of the wall then explodes in which Lara escaped right before the part of the wall went kaboom! Lara then goes off to her house and is looking at the dagger of Xion when Bartoli's men break into your house and try to kill you! After you kill all of them one of Bartoli's top workers comes once again. After you kill him Lara is about to take a shower and shoots your screen. Then the credits roll. Now, about the things i didn't like. There are hardly any bosses. Only three bosses and four boss fights. Some levels are also dragged on and they have parts that just don't need to be there. That's about all of the bad things i can think of for this review.
-The Arena Master 
