Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration

1. athleos

   Dec 20, 2022

   10

   Very rare can a linear game dazzle with varied game play fun and feel dangerously immersive - play this in the middle of a cold snowy winterVery rare can a linear game dazzle with varied game play fun and feel dangerously immersive - play this in the middle of a cold snowy winter with a window left open and game through the icy torment. I like starting a fresh annual play-through in cold January. Boss fights are brazenly brutal on the highest difficulty setting - ouch! With fine graphics, a nice cinematic story and the excellent game engine stability – you will have a lot of fun - even the little things are thoughtfully fun. So (for $6 or $7 bucks at 'cdkeys') you just can’t go wrong. Keep it frosty out there.… Expand

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2. ScoreP10N

   Oct 14, 2020

   10

   Rise of the Tomb Raider is a masterpiece. This is what we want. and this game has great animations, great acting and great action.

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4. Ohad123

   Oct 12, 2016

   10

   Hell yea ! all dlc's and base game for 60$!
   new co op mod is fun still needs some work to do, Lara's nightmare is epic , blood ties will beHell yea ! all dlc's and base game for 60$!
   new co op mod is fun still needs some work to do, Lara's nightmare is epic , blood ties will be fun for people who like lore , puzzles and less COD staff , i think this is worth full price!… Expand

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5. AgentLvi

   Jun 19, 2023

   9

   Excellent game. The story is so enjoyable, scoring is really great, visual is decent, and the voice is stunning

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6. SuperkenGaming

   Oct 13, 2016

   8

   Rise of The Tomb Raider
   A Step Back From Greatness
   Tomb Raider 2013 is one of my most favorite games ever.. Needless to say I was excited toRise of The Tomb Raider
   A Step Back From Greatness
   Tomb Raider 2013 is one of my most favorite games ever.. Needless to say I was excited to play the sequel..
   Unfortunately, they dropped the gritty tone of the original to chase uncharted….
   Lara sets out to uncover a mystery her father was mocked for..
   This game starts out in the Serbian mountains and the majority of the game keeps you in the snow covered mountains…
   And of course there are bad guys after the same artifact you are..
   So youre not alone…
   The tomb raider reboot introduced a crafting system which has been brought back, but this time feels much more in the background..
   You can gather items and hunt animals for materials to craft bandages and upgrade your weapons…
   But none of this is forced…
   And much like the past game you upgrade your weapons at a campfire, which also acts as a fast travel point and a place for you to spend your skill points as you level up…
   Rise of the tomb raider feels much more linear this time around..
   The world doesn’t really feel as connected as the original…
   Its for the most part a linear path that you traverse with climbing aces and ropes..
   The game feels much more like assassins creed this time around because of this…
   It gives uncharted 4 a run for its money with how much climbing you actually do here…
   As well as the series as a whole during the few epic chase sequences qhich are easily some of my favorite moments in the entire game…
   When you aren’t climbing there are a few openish sections you can explore but the mistake the original made is back as well with secrets being locked off until you progress further in the story to unlock the needed tool and come back...
   This is a cheap tactic to prolong gameplay hours…
   but more so its frustrating and ironically discourages exploration…
   Why look around when 1 in 2 areas is going to tell me to come back later?
   I might as well just ignore everything and run forward..
   This is what I ended up doing..
   Fortunately rise of the tomb raider is gorgeous, and traversing the parquor sections and solving environmental puzzles old fans will be happy to see returned outside of just being secrets is a great deal of fun…
   And the 3rd person shooter combat feels decently nice, its not uncharted good, but its passable.. you have the option to stealth or shoot your way through most sections… you can also dodge attacks and counter….
   The puzzle pieces are all here for this to be a masterpiece of a game…
   except theyre missing the center piece… the one thing that makes all of this come together and work for uncharted in such a beautiful way…
   And that’s character…
   Theres not a single well written character in this entire game…
   This includes lara…
   The original this wasn’t so.. the game felt so real and you felt so vulnerable.. not only having to survive enemies but the environment.. I cared the entire way.. here however youre just a girl Nathan drake with 0 personality…
   Which ultimately makes this feel like just a generic third person shooter experience…
   There was no reason to stray away from the unique gritty adventure they had going on with tomb raider 2013, but they did and the feel of the game suffered for it
   And Im not sure if this story was game of thrones inspired, but it felt pretty copy and paste making every turn so predictable, which isn’t necessarily a bad thing if again the characters had character, but they didn’t.. I wasn’t invested in the story at all…
   The PS4 20 year celebration version also comes with all of the dlc…
   Endurance which can be played either single or co op where youre tasked with surviving by eating food and gathering resources.. Very fun idea, but the challenges for the trophies wont unlock unless they are an active challenge, which if youre trophy hunting kills all reason to continue if there are no more trophy related challenges to do…
   cold darkness which is a stealth zombie dlc where you have to infiltrate a research base for a chemical weapon
   as well as Baba Yaga and Blood ties which ill be reviewing on their own as they are each about an hour long expansion with their own stories..
   While I do wish the characters were better written in Rise of The Tomb Raider, I still feel is a quality experience, well worth your money if youre a fan of action adventure…
   I Give Rise of The Tomb Raider..
   an 8/10… Expand

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7. episode

   Mar 4, 2019

   8

   75/100 - A good game indeed.
   
   Great graphics, great mechanics, some challenging (only the optionals, the obligatory ones are easy which is75/100 - A good game indeed.
   
   Great graphics, great mechanics, some challenging (only the optionals, the obligatory ones are easy which is ok, gives people choice). The story is ok too, the premise is good, but the execution could be a little bit better. The level design could be a bit better too. And some of the "too cliché" moments that ruins Uncharted to me are here in some extent. But it doesn't gets to the point of being annoying.
   
   The Baba Yaga DLC is very good!… Expand

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8. shepard75

   Dec 31, 2018

   6

   The Game itself is really good, but on PC it's so buggy, almost unplayable.

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