Tomb Raider Legend: awesome platformer with decent action sequences
User Rating: 9.2 | Tomb Raider: Legend X360
Tomb Raider Legend was a game that I was looking forward to playing. My favorite type of game is action adventure with a heavy dose of platforming involved. Needless to say games like the Prince of Persia series are my favorite. I enjoy the action sequences, yes, but I enjoy so much the mental act of trying to figure out various puzzles. Getting from point A to point B through a round about way of jumping, swinging, hanging, etc. is pure bliss gaming for me. Tomb Raider Legend was supposed to be that kind of game, and I could not wait to get to it. I was not disappointed at all. Lara Croft is every bit as nimble as she should be and is a blast to control. Everything about the movement is relatively seamless and intuitive. For the most part two buttons take care of any kind of jumping, hanging, and swinging you do. The puzzles were sufficiently challenging without getting overly frustrating. The action sequences were a lot of fun to play too, because they gave the platforming element a nice break. One area was not typically stressed over the other, so what I got out of the game was a flip flop from frantic action to critically thinking through a puzzle. The story was great too. It was never hard to follow and understand, because Lara and her crew did a nice job of narrating, questioning, and solving problems as the story moved along. It was one of those stories that comes full circle and you finally understand where it all was leading to in the last moments of the game. I would recommend this game to anybody who enjoys the action adventure genre. 
