Rise of the Tomb Raider

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8.0

Generally favorable reviews- based on 2055 Ratings

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  1. MiZanthr0pe
    Jan 29, 2016
    1
    Game is very good - interesting, beautiful graphics. 1/10 because of:
    1. denuvo - craziest lags and freezes, although it can be cause no one can in to optimization of PC-ports.
    2. price just after release is 10% smaller than pre-sale price - wtf?.

    Square Enix wants to look like WB Games? Dumbest wish in the world.
  2. BFM
    Aug 26, 2016
    4
    To scripted. I expexted more freedom. Lara does everything on her own - if the game doesn`t take over control.

    The climbing is like in Assasins Creed - just hold forward and watch.
  3. persimmon
    Aug 12, 2016
    2
    Disgusting experience: a bad game scenario and, consequently, no story; boring gameplay; Some hideous physics objects, but in contrast, it is worth noting graphics, but it clearly does not cover the above-mentioned disadvantages.
  4. Wiebe
    Feb 26, 2020
    4
    Boring platforming stuff and grinding elements are a waste of time and effort
  5. addartist
    Aug 15, 2016
    3
    A poor sequel to Tomb Raider 2013. TR 2013 achieved the same quality graphics with less strain on your graphic card. Story and challenges are poorly conceived, with bad physics.
  6. RAWLiNGS
    Mar 26, 2016
    3
    The gameplay is so easy and repetitive. The game doesn't require any skill or thinking to finish. For example: Lara goes stealth automatically, so you know well ahead that enemy is nearby. The game, of course, has been openworldified so you can do many uninteresting and repetitive side quests, that has absolutely no added value to the main story. The story is weak, gameplay is linear andThe gameplay is so easy and repetitive. The game doesn't require any skill or thinking to finish. For example: Lara goes stealth automatically, so you know well ahead that enemy is nearby. The game, of course, has been openworldified so you can do many uninteresting and repetitive side quests, that has absolutely no added value to the main story. The story is weak, gameplay is linear and very easy... All the puzzles in the game are based on the same physics scheme, there was one in particular where I had to think for a full minute to solve it.

    I liked to previous a lot more, I feel like this game was developed to the masses, and I see no progress here compared to 2013. Too bad.

    The graphics are excellent, but I wish it wasn’t: I have a 4670k+8GB RAM+SSD+R9 380 4GB, and have been experiencing terrible micro stutter. Tried various settings, low, medium, full screen, windows, previous AMD drivers etc., but the problem still persist.    … Expand
  7. ICDP
    Feb 4, 2016
    3
    This game looks great but is so linear it is literally mind-numbingly boring. Atrociously poor and contrived storyline and plot drivers, idiotic AI. The gameplay is super easy even on the maximum difficulty as Lara is some awesome super soldier with superhuman abilities. I couldn't take another scripted purely linear action sequence interspersed with hideously contrived cutscene and hadThis game looks great but is so linear it is literally mind-numbingly boring. Atrociously poor and contrived storyline and plot drivers, idiotic AI. The gameplay is super easy even on the maximum difficulty as Lara is some awesome super soldier with superhuman abilities. I couldn't take another scripted purely linear action sequence interspersed with hideously contrived cutscene and had to stop playing.… Expand
  8. dracoalnatural
    May 10, 2016
    0
    The gameplay is so easy and repetitive. The game doesn't require any skill or thinking to finish. For example: Lara goes stealth automatically, so you know well ahead that enemy is nearby. The game, of course, has been openworldified so you can do many uninteresting and repetitive side quests, that has absolutely no added value to the main story. The story is weak, gameplay is linear andThe gameplay is so easy and repetitive. The game doesn't require any skill or thinking to finish. For example: Lara goes stealth automatically, so you know well ahead that enemy is nearby. The game, of course, has been openworldified so you can do many uninteresting and repetitive side quests, that has absolutely no added value to the main story. The story is weak, gameplay is linear and very easy... All the puzzles in the game are based on the same physics scheme, there was one in particular where I had to think for a full minute to solve it.

    I liked to previous a lot more, I feel like this game was developed to the masses, and I see no progress here compared to 2013. Too bad.

    The graphics are excellent, but I wish it wasn’t: I have a 4670k+8GB RAM+SSD+R9 380 4GB, and have been experiencing terrible micro stutter. Tried various settings, low, medium, full screen, windows, previous AMD drivers etc., but the problem still persist.    … Expand
  9. Boonah
    Jan 31, 2016
    4
    Pros = the game looks and plays and runs amazingly well. Sadly that's it.

    Cons = Same old same old yawnathon. Linear on a scale that's unimaginable. You're essentially just playing the story the devs wanted. Not crafted a specific item the devs wanted you to craft? you can't progress. There are no surprises here. You can't use your imagination at all. Essentially this game is all    Pros = the game looks and plays and runs amazingly well. Sadly that's it.

    Cons = Same old same old yawnathon. Linear on a scale that's unimaginable. You're essentially just playing the story the devs wanted. Not crafted a specific item the devs wanted you to craft? you can't progress. There are no surprises here. You can't use your imagination at all.

    Essentially this game is all suited up beautifully but has no underpants on, there is literally no depth. If you like linear hand holding games, wait for the sale.    … Expand
  10. Andante
    Oct 31, 2016
    4
    Graphics and building/interior designs are fantastic but lets be honest this is not a TOMB RAIDER game....It is a mix of Metal Gear Solid, Modern Resident Evil and Dragon Age Inquisition....Violence is overwhelming and all you do is following a relative straight path headshooting and killing everything that moves. Once in a while you reach certain save areas called "base camps" where youGraphics and building/interior designs are fantastic but lets be honest this is not a TOMB RAIDER game....It is a mix of Metal Gear Solid, Modern Resident Evil and Dragon Age Inquisition....Violence is overwhelming and all you do is following a relative straight path headshooting and killing everything that moves. Once in a while you reach certain save areas called "base camps" where you have many options to upgrade your gear and abilities...just like in Resident Evil 4. Story is not so good, environments tend to become monotonous after a while, and tombs dont feel special...It is a relative good game for a casual gamer who just wants to kill some time after work but not for the old school TR player. He may enjoy it but not as a TR game....Sadly, the TR spirit is long gone....… Expand
  11. nhguapo
    Feb 19, 2017
    3
    It's boring. It's really just the same game as the last one. Wondering around collecting resources and working out how to do the same old puzzles. I've got a few hours into it and I just don't find the repetitive nature fun. I scored it a few points because the graphics took a leap forward. I like direct x12. Visually, it's nice. Graphics will only get you so far.
  12. aliant72
    Aug 15, 2017
    0
    BORING.
    That's it.
    The Same EXACT experience of its predecessor.
    Same mechanics, same gameplay, same enemies.......
    This is just a long DLC not a new game.
  13. AngryIgor
    Jan 6, 2018
    0
    cheap clone of uncharted but with worse combat, boring characters and cliché story... gunplay is terrible and locations are boring. Probably most overrated game i have ever played
  14. eldumloido
    Mar 14, 2016
    0
    Windows store version. .
  15. ChosenOne
    Feb 21, 2016
    0
    played it for a while. Great game. But now it just doesn't work. Can't connect to a serwer it says. And it seems there is no customer support at all. The only option is to request a refund on steam.
  16. oilreg
    Jan 7, 2017
    2
    I bought in on a Sale for 25 Bucks, so damage wasnt that great at least. Well first of all, Great Graphics, and thats all good which there is to the game, the story is boring, the maps look nice graphics wise, but are stupid designed at best. Several buidling really just have been taken 1 to 1 from TR3 which was by far a better game, The Riddles / Tombs are way to easy. But what annoyed meI bought in on a Sale for 25 Bucks, so damage wasnt that great at least. Well first of all, Great Graphics, and thats all good which there is to the game, the story is boring, the maps look nice graphics wise, but are stupid designed at best. Several buidling really just have been taken 1 to 1 from TR3 which was by far a better game, The Riddles / Tombs are way to easy. But what annoyed me the most that in order to craft your weapons you have to revisit a completly empty map again and again and again, just cause a new coin cache have been revealed. Whats the point of finding Tombs where you need equipment which you only get very late in the game. As for the technical site, i didnt had any crashes but its lagging a lot here and there and it cant be my rig. TR3 was a far better game then this piece of...… Expand
  17. shenzeyu
    Jun 22, 2020
    4
    I gave a 10/10 to tomb raider 9 (2013), but I am really disappointed with the successor. Ths graphics is still top level. Plot and storytelling is good. The biggest issue is the bugs. I encounter too many bugs during the game play, some of them is very annoying, especially the Baba Yaga boss fight bug. It wasted me about 30 minutes to find out that it was actually a bug.
  18. Glemial
    Jun 23, 2021
    0
    This was my first experience with Tomb Raider since the ps2 games.
    I started to play with high expectations, and this was attended in the beginning, but after a few minutes the problems starts to show up.
    The first thing i don't like about this game was the pace. This game is too slow if compared with the ps1 and ps2 games. They basically have transformed Lara from a badass who run and    This was my first experience with Tomb Raider since the ps2 games.
    I started to play with high expectations, and this was attended in the beginning, but after a few minutes the problems starts to show up.
    The first thing i don't like about this game was the pace. This game is too slow if compared with the ps1 and ps2 games. They basically have transformed Lara from a badass who run and gun everyone in her eye sight, to a scared average girl who needs to hide in bushes and stealth kill the enemies
    The exploration in this game is not good also, as you have too many boring things to do like:
    -Hunting animals (that's so **** boring)
    -Ton of collectables to catch
    -Exploring tombs that the majority looks all the same
    -Boring side quests
    The story of this game begins nice, but also fall shortly after a few hours, when stupid things starts to happens. A lost village hidden in a mountain that doesn't feel like is hidden at all? Seriously? How in the **** hell trinity with a ton of helicopters can't see it? That's so **** stupid.
    And now the worst of all things: The anti USSR sentiment in this game.
    This game has a load of **** about USSR, and that's funny because there is a lot of propaganda about Lara Croft being a strong women representation in games and they forgot that USSR was the first country to give equal rights to men and women in the world. Before Soviet Union women can't go work like men and because of this i will give this game no more than a 0 out of 10    … Expand
  19. Aerokiller
    Jul 1, 2021
    4
    When I started playing this game, I was looking forward to a new, exciting and atmospheric adventure full of dangers. I was just delighted with the first part and expected that the second part would be at least no worse. I really liked the beginning. Of the advantages, I immediately want to note the graphics, which, compared to the first part, has stepped far ahead. Otherwise...eitherWhen I started playing this game, I was looking forward to a new, exciting and atmospheric adventure full of dangers. I was just delighted with the first part and expected that the second part would be at least no worse. I really liked the beginning. Of the advantages, I immediately want to note the graphics, which, compared to the first part, has stepped far ahead. Otherwise...either Crystal Dynamics did not take any risks and decided to go down the beaten path, which led the first part to success, or they were simply unable to come up with something fundamentally new, different from the first part. Again a mythical legend, again an expedition to nowhere, which is in distress and again an isolated society. Lara herself is no longer a young, sweet and inexperienced girl who wants to feel sorry for after every new scratch she received. She is already a fat, cheeky, seasoned woman of Balzac's age, which, in my personal opinion, is not a plus for the whole game. The game mechanics are the same as in the 2013 game, but with minor innovations. Again, this is a plus or minus, judge for yourself. It is now possible to interact with NPCs and take secondary quests from them, which are rewarded with various items of equipment. The problem is that the rewards are very useful, but all these quests are terribly tedious and boring, like "Bring, give, kill 10 squirrels", in the style of antediluvian MMORPGs. At the initial stage of familiarization with the game, it is even more or less interesting to do this, it is a novelty, but it abruptly begins to bother after 2-3 such quests. Even before the game went on sale, after learning that the events would take place in the Siberian region of Russia, and the plot was based on an old Russian legend, I was very happy and hoped that the game would introduce people from all over the world to Russian culture and mythology. And here lies the biggest disappointment. All that we learn about the thousand-year-old Russian culture and mythology from this game is GULAGs, GULAGs and GULAGs again. As in the first part, documents, notes and audio recordings of various characters are scattered around the locations, from which we can learn details about various events and characters. Here, all the documents and audio recordings are endless lamentations about heartless Russian barbarians, robbing, oppressing, snatching babies from their hands, stealing women and children to work in the mines, and so on and so forth. There are absolutely no artifacts, locations or events that would introduce players to Russian culture or history in the game. Russian have endless sickles and hammers on the walls, incomprehensible inscriptions in Cyrillic, mistakes in Russian words that the Russians themselves can't read, cage beds in which the Russians kept their slaves, endless devastation and despondency. And there is also the opportunity to destroy the flags of the Soviet Union, just like the Nazi ones, well, and get a reward for it. The Overton window is working, guys. But the bottom was broken by another mini-task - to destroy posters "promoting Soviet cosmonautics" and shoot targets with the state emblem of Russia painted on them. After that, it became frankly disgusting to play. As a result, we get another cheap, propaganda cranberry in the style of the Cold War. This is not just some shortcomings due to the absolute lack of any knowledge about Russia, except for the fact that the population of the West was drummed into their heads from school. This is outright chauvinism and xenophobia with knowledge of the matter. The scum from Crystal Dynamics, and they can not be called otherwise, should not have tried to recoup the space race that the Americans lost to pieces, but redirect their hatred, anger, intolerance, xenophobia, chauvinism towards Russia and Russians, into energy and enthusiasm for creating a realistic and informative game that will bring people from all over the world closer, erasing stupid stereotypes, fears and making this world a little better and brighter, introducing people from all over the world, with one of the most ancient and rich cultures in the history of mankind - Russian.… Expand
  20. oso
    Feb 16, 2019
    4
    Sadly the sequel to 2013s Tomb Raider is only a subpar TR title. Somehow they managed to neglect every aspect that made its predecessor once so good. The core gameplay elements like climbing, gunfights and sneaking are so dumbed down they already get boring while only a few hours ingame. Character design seems to be done by some sjw maniacs which would be ok if they weren't hair tearinglySadly the sequel to 2013s Tomb Raider is only a subpar TR title. Somehow they managed to neglect every aspect that made its predecessor once so good. The core gameplay elements like climbing, gunfights and sneaking are so dumbed down they already get boring while only a few hours ingame. Character design seems to be done by some sjw maniacs which would be ok if they weren't hair tearingly stupid/boring. Also the new semi openworld features nothing but repetitive and boring sidequests you wish to avoid at any given moment. Overall a very disappointing experience.… Expand
  21. SRKNZ
    Jun 27, 2018
    4
    The reason I'm not a big fan of games like Rise of the Tomb Raider is the same reason I dislike the latest Far Cry games. Effectively in both cases you have very little freedom to actually play the game your way. You are shoe horned into a series of linear set pieces where you are asked to repeat a series of tedious key combinations until a desired outcome in achieved and the gameThe reason I'm not a big fan of games like Rise of the Tomb Raider is the same reason I dislike the latest Far Cry games. Effectively in both cases you have very little freedom to actually play the game your way. You are shoe horned into a series of linear set pieces where you are asked to repeat a series of tedious key combinations until a desired outcome in achieved and the game progresses.

    Whilst to my mind this is bland and Pavlovian in its own right its made worse by questionable design and poor ports that create software glitches in the key combinations making progressing the game frustrating and in some cases, as I found out in the first title, simply impossible.

    Suffice to say I walked away and like the Far Cry franchise I wont be back.    … Expand
  22. Zeeshan-Abid
    Nov 24, 2022
    0
    They have destroyed the lovable character of Lara Croft, and have made her a mass murderer. For the game play, it's extremely boring for Tomb Raider fans. I don't know if the critics were drunk or they were bought for rating this game so high. While Tomb Raider 2013 was a good game (considering it kind of a spin off of the main series), none of us came to play Tomb Raider for shooting,They have destroyed the lovable character of Lara Croft, and have made her a mass murderer. For the game play, it's extremely boring for Tomb Raider fans. I don't know if the critics were drunk or they were bought for rating this game so high. While Tomb Raider 2013 was a good game (considering it kind of a spin off of the main series), none of us came to play Tomb Raider for shooting, killing and assassinating people while hiding in the bushes. For that concept we have plenty of great games already available. For survival games we have an awesome Far Cry series. Tomb Raider games were always about puzzle solving adventures with some action here and there. This game is a big deviation from the main series.… Expand
  23. billyjones
    Sep 27, 2016
    2
    +Most of the scenarios are well designed

    -Major freezes and fps drops even on top systems. -Worst shooting mechanics i have ever seen in a game. When you are aiming, Lara points the gun really far from the crosshair as bullets did curves. -The story is a 'mix' between the successful elements in great games like Bioshock Infinite (Mysterious prophet of secret civilization who's    +Most of the scenarios are well designed

    -Major freezes and fps drops even on top systems.
    -Worst shooting mechanics i have ever seen in a game. When you are aiming, Lara points the gun really far from the crosshair as bullets did curves.
    -The story is a 'mix' between the successful elements in great games like Bioshock Infinite (Mysterious prophet of secret civilization who's identity is revealed), Witcher 3 (the witch and her house with legs) and Uncharted. (Of course)    … Expand
  24. critic9000
    Feb 24, 2019
    2
    Giving it 2 stars just because of good graphics, otherwise its a big zero for everything else, most boring Tomb Raider ever made. Couldn't even finish it.
  25. Alexav
    Nov 9, 2019
    3
    Bought it on sale for small price but even don not want to play. Game is good for benchmarks but the plot and characters are piece of crap invented by specially invited Rhianna Pratchett. And I think all future games (even without Rhianna Pratchett) will also be with bad delusional plots so as not to approach Uncharted.
  26. Gilladpeallaeon
    Nov 7, 2021
    2
    Awful piece of script with bad plot, idiotic parkour and boring characters. Just waste of time
  27. Kilio
    Jul 16, 2023
    1
    Disgusting experience: a bad game scenario and, consequently, no story; boring gameplay; Some hideous physics objects, but in contrast, it is worth noting graphics, but it clearly does not cover the above-mentioned disadvantages.
  28. Lostletri
    May 24, 2023
    4
    Haja paciência! o primeiro surra horrores esse. Se um jogo começa a ficar bom do meio pro final, pode ser considerado um bom jogo?

Awards & Rankings

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#18 Best PC Game of 2016
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#16 Most Discussed PC Game of 2016
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#58 Most Shared PC Game of 2016

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Metascore
86

Generally favorable reviews - based on 45 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 44 out of 45
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 45
  3. Negative: 0 out of 45
  1. GameSpew
    Apr 15, 2016
    90
    The thing that really stands out about Rise of the Tomb Raider is that you care about the characters at all.
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  2. IGN Denmark
    Apr 6, 2016
    80
    Lara Croft's latest adventure represents some of the best platforming in 3D you can get. A paradoxical mix of brutal reality and crazy Indiana Jones action.
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  3. CD-Action
    Mar 30, 2016
    95
    Hands down the finest version of the best Tomb Raider game. [03/2016, p.68]
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