Lara still doesn't have good games.
Lara's latest adventure here was supposed to mend all the scars we have from her past, but that didn't happen. In fact, they just got deeper. She's the same old Lara and she's got nothing fun to present to us. Well there are two things...anyways.
In this adventure they tried to make the platforming and the tomb exploring the main focus, as they probably should, but they didn't make it any fun. There's also no worthwhile story going on here to keep me interested and wanting to know more. The gameplay has a bit of that acrobatic feel from the Prince, but it also has this realistic physics system incorporated that just doesn't work. The fact that when your moving a block or a boulder (whoever came up with the pushing boulder's idea needs fired) that if you aren't right in the middle it turns instead of pushing straight causes insane amounts of frustration. Not to mention having to think about physics and how much things weigh to solve puzzles is not I want to spend my freetime.
Now don't think of me as a physics hater, I like physics, really. But for as long as I've been pushing blocks and putting them on pressure switches I've been taught that pushing on a side pushes it in that direction. Putting it on a switch puts down the switch, if it doesn't just get another. Not trying to get right in the middle so it doesn't turn on me and weighing out how much each one ways to balance a series of switches.
Lara also carries two guns, like Dante per say, but not good. Her two guns are virtually worthless and her grenades are inaccurate. Her guns do basically no damage and it reminds of DMC2 in the fact that you just stand there shooting. Period. You don't aim, run around, platform while shooting, you just do shootouts. On top of that there are motorcycle sequences that remind me of riding motorcycles on the Genesis. It's stiff and touchy. To make matters even worse you get to do gun shooting while on the bike. Two bad things make a good thing? No, they make it worse. I don't like this game, if you didn't notice, I'm upset I wasted money on it thinking it was good. In that same sort of way that they keep releasing Sonic titles acting like they are going to be good, but they never are. I beg the creators to stop making Tomb Raider games and I beg the consumers to realize they are never going to get better. Don't buy this game, just go buy Prince of Persia if you're looking for this sort of thrill, even if you already own them and have played them, buying them again would be a better use of your money.