What is it about a Tomb Raider game that makes it so much fun?
The story starts when Lara was young and activating some ancient device that resembles a sword in a stone. When Lara's mother approaches the device she ends up vanishing. In the present day Lara has found a similar device Bolivia, from there on she goes globe trotting in search of fragments from the fabled Excalibur sword, which will activate the device.
The story serves to set up new locations in which to find the artifacts and is interesting enough to move you through the games 7 stages. Starting in Bolivia, moving to Peru, then Japan, Ghana, Kazakhstan, King Arthur's Tomb in England, then to Nepal, and back to Bolivia for the final boss fight.
The controls are pretty tight and the stages are all well designed offering some pretty good puzzles. Once you start playing you're going to want to play all the way through the game, because of the classic game play.
The game doesn't have any bad things about it, what it does have is some not so good, but even these have a silver lining. The platforming isn't really a challenge, and is sometimes seems too easy, but when they make it part of a puzzle that's where it really shines. The regular enemies however offer no challenge at all to beat even in large numbers but thankfully it's not to big a problem since your not always confronted with them, so it never becomes a chore to get past them.
The motorcycle stages offer a nice change of pace but the controls aren't as smooth as they should be, it feels as if you in control of a rectangle and not a Ducati.
The graphics are great but they lose so of the smoothness close up, one stage has you unblocking a waterfall so it will turn a wheel and the water in one area come down like a cube which just looked really weird.
Some people are complaining about the length of the game I had no problems with it however each stage seems to take about an hour to finish so your in for about an eight game. I didn't feel it lacked however I felt very satisfied after I had completed it. It's also hard to see what else they really could have done to make it longer without making the storyline convoluted or resorting to more item collection.
Tomb Raider Legend is just Instant fun.