A good action game with an Identity Crisis ...
This reboot isnt really what you are looking for when you think of tomb raider, in fact its nothing like tomb raider.
It's a decent action game, molded by the generation of shooters.
It's more of a action packed Uncharted, in my personally opinion Uncharted does a better job of being tomb raider than this tomb raider its self.
This reboot takes place in an open world island, kind of like what you wanted to do in Tomb raider underworld, getting to that one island on the boat surrounded by sharks , beautiful water and wanting to explore the island.
But this is not the case for this game, and you also die if you go into the ocean in this reboot, thats not to say you cant go in any water, you can only go into water thats scripted for you.
Tomb raider reboot is filled with killing enemy after enemy in order to progress farther and to move forward in your linear path to your destination, only to climb for a few seconds to shoot some more baddies.
There are tombs to raid and explore, but the size of them are so tiny and the puzzles are easy and take no time at all an 8 year old can do it with a blind fold in under 3 minutes. For example, on puzzle, as like many of the puzzles in most of the tombs, are an entrence to the tomb, a lift puzzle to remove blocks or add blocks to weight out a lift and climb up to a room, the only room, where the treasure is, but its not treasure...its, some exp points and treasure map to find added on little relics that do nothing for you except some cool little trinkets to look at.
Which leads to another problem in this tomb raider, they incorperated rpg elements. These elements are tact on to keep you going for little upgrades to your guns and other skills like do more damage and edgy QTE kills.
You only get 4 weapons, a bow, shotgun, one pistol,SPOILER***( get to use two pistols only one time for a QTE event)** and an automatic rifle with an attached nade launcher.
During your story, if thats what you can call it, there is very little story to it, infact if you've played far cry 3, you already know the story without even playing it.
I am tired of writing and wasting time with this review for the game, it isnt much of a review,it isnt much of a tomb raider game, if you are expecting a tomb raider game, look else where, this isnt tomb raider, it is a good action game, if you look at it as just that.