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User Rating: 9 | Tomb Raider: Legend PC
By CarCrazy709 | Review Date:
It was late 2005 and the Tomb Raider hype had died down. Despite Angelina Jolie's perfect representation of the popular video game heroine in the Tomb Raider movies, it seemed as if the long-running franchise had gasped its last breath with Angel of Darkness. Overall a good game but nowhere near Tomb Raider standards, decisions were to be made by Eidos. Although Core Design will live on in the memories of many hardcore Tomb Raider fans and myself, they were replaced by a newcomer in Crystal Dynamics, set to rebuild the franchise from the ground up and rekindle the flame of Lara Croft. The result was Tomb Raider: Legend.

And Legend delivered.

Tomb Raider: Legend thrusts players into deep, beautiful, and exotic locales with a brand-new, ultra-realistic Lara Croft. Featuring all new animations, enemies, combat system, locations, and storyline, Legend succeeded in creating a wonderful rendition of Lara Croft and stunned players with its amazing next-generation graphics content on the PC. Gone are the days of linear platforming. Although Legend is an excellent and strong addition that no doubt revived the franchise, the gameplay unfortunately would not last you longer than 7 hours, unless you are a hardcore fan that replays levels to find all the secrets and unlock wonderful bonus content. Legend also features interactive cut-scenes which force the player to press buttons in sequence to get through some rather dangerous situations. Press the right buttons and Lara will escape unharmed. Press the wrong buttons and...just look away and try again. Although Legend doesn't quite capture the feeling of solitude and actual tomb raiding as well as the previous games, it is worthy of being called "the game that started it all...again." But be ready to curse the two annoying bobbleheads that constantly bark nonsense into Lara's headset from her Croft Manor. I'm surprised she didn't throw her headset down a gigantic waterfall in Ghana when she had the chance. Unsurprisingly though, she does tell them to zip it (no pun intended as one of the annoying chatters is named Zip) on a few occasions when she needs full concentration trying to clear an ice-cold river in Nepal.

In conclusion, Legend is a stunning game and quickly became a fan-favorite among the faithful Tomb Raider community. The only things that stop this game from reaching a perfect 10 would be the disappointingly short length of the adventure and the annoying chatter from Lara's tech team. All in all, you should definitely look forward to being taken on an amazing ride with Legend.

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