Instead of sticky cover, for example, the game attempts to do context-sensitive cover usage, so every time enemies are around Lara goes into a half crouching position and uses any potential cover when she gets near it.

It suffers from a lot of the problems its main influence has, but unlike Uncharted they are less noticeable, I suppose. But the game managed to make it more or less alright and, at least, not obnoxious. Yet, while Uncharted is a linear action adventure about characters and awesome scenes, Tomb Raider remains a game about jumping, mythology, cool looking locations and solving problems.Īction, like in all Tomb Raider games I suppose, is a really annoying thing every time it pops up. Even crouching is automatic and instead of a roll you get a “play the monkey” button which is meant to be the dodge. Pretty much everything about the original moveset has been changed. You don’t even get a single key or an artifact to use. You don’t enter the room and then analyze it to figure out how to move around it to solve the puzzle. Yes, there are lots of action packed scenes, lots of shooting and without the auto-aim, lots of context-sensitive actions and barely any complex platforming. But luckily Crystal Dynamics did try hard to keep the feel of Tomb Raider even with the change of how the game works and feels. Uncharted started to outshine the series, so it was selected as the main inspiration. And when that stopped being fun for the audience, especially when Prince of Persia itself evolved with Sands of Time, TR had to change. The classic Tomb Raider was in many ways the original Prince of Persia, but in 3D.

Happy birthday yet again, Lara.ĭon’t think a lot will be surprised at what games were used as the inspiration for the game this time around. Except, this time they had a chance to finish the game before releasing it. Ten years later, the new development studio currently responsible for the series Crystal Dynamics (a studio I admire a lot) approached the “refresh” in a very similar way. And the main reason for the failure was brutally simple – the game was only about 60% finished on release and played horribly. It became the last title from the original TR developers Core Design and the studio was closed soon after. It was called Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness and it failed miserably. Add characters, make it more story-driven, include RPG elements and make it about Lara Croft learning to become Lara Croft (again). Almost exactly 10 years ago Tomb Raider series was meant to be “refreshed”.

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