Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition

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Generally favorable reviews- based on 1954 Ratings

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  1. the_great_owl
    Mar 24, 2015
    3
    A huge disappointment.

    Tomb Raider with literally no tombs to explore, no riddles to solve, no challenge at all. What do we get in return? Endless hordes of enemies, QTE festival and "hit L1 because I am dumb and have no idea where should I go". Story is somewhat interesting in the beginning, but it gets lost in one of about 100 explosions you will witness during gameplay. If I    A huge disappointment.

    Tomb Raider with literally no tombs to explore, no riddles to solve, no challenge at all.
    What do we get in return? Endless hordes of enemies, QTE festival and "hit L1 because I am dumb and have no idea where should I go".
    Story is somewhat interesting in the beginning, but it gets lost in one of about 100 explosions you will witness during gameplay.

    If I were to give a score another Uncharted, that would be 7/10 - nothing I have not seen in 3 Uncharteds so far. 3/10 for Tomb Raider, just for the ability to play as Lara.
    If by rebooting the series TR will now look like that, I am out.

    tl:dr this is not a real Tomb Raider.    … Expand
  2. scuba_dog
    Apr 16, 2020
    1
    Juddery and just unplayable in general. The game almost plays itself, you just gotta keep pushing forward and press X every few minutes basically. Graphics are terrible. Visible frame rate drops. Store of TR is absolutely ridiculous. There's about 4 plane crashes in it
  3. TomRoller
    Apr 21, 2014
    4
    Three quarters into the game, three questions come to mind. Will one ever be able to re-sell a digital copy? How does an anemic, lobotomized Uncharted clone earn 85 on Metacritic? And where did the actual tombs and raiding go?

    One will never know. What stays for sure is poor writing, bland characters, clunky controls, dull levels and unremarkable gunplay. All the frosting can't quite    Three quarters into the game, three questions come to mind. Will one ever be able to re-sell a digital copy? How does an anemic, lobotomized Uncharted clone earn 85 on Metacritic? And where did the actual tombs and raiding go?

    One will never know. What stays for sure is poor writing, bland characters, clunky controls, dull levels and unremarkable gunplay. All the frosting can't quite obscure a dud.    … Expand
  4. CoffeeGuy22
    Jan 28, 2014
    4
    Upgrading the graphics doesn't make the game better, it's still a boring game full of QTEs, **** cover shooting and puzzles that you can just get the anwser to by pressing a single button.
  5. GanymedeJupiter
    Jan 28, 2014
    4
    Personally I found the game to be mediocre last year, but this is a new low. It's a blatant cashgrab made to exploit the empty window of next-gen titles by releasing the same game again at full price with a few tweaks. If you've already played the game, don't bother with this. If you have yet to play it, either get it on PC, the older systems, or just wait for this to drop to thePersonally I found the game to be mediocre last year, but this is a new low. It's a blatant cashgrab made to exploit the empty window of next-gen titles by releasing the same game again at full price with a few tweaks. If you've already played the game, don't bother with this. If you have yet to play it, either get it on PC, the older systems, or just wait for this to drop to the affordable price that something like this should actually be. 'Definitive', perhaps but 'Essential'? No.… Expand
  6. jbeatty_48
    Dec 31, 2017
    0
    I hate to give this game such a bad review because I enjoyed it a lot... Up until I got Error CE-34878-0, my save got corrupted and I was very close to the end. I hear that there are lot of people who have experienced this issue and I find it appalling that this still hasn't been fixed.

    If it wasn't for this I would have given this game a good score.
  7. SilkyNoah
    Jan 30, 2014
    0
    Just a quick cash grab. The game was only decent to begin with but now it is just a shameful display of the current gaming industry. Same game is before, slightly better graphics...
  8. Turbodowg
    Jan 31, 2014
    4
    Tomb Raider at one time was a great game series. I remember the thrill of playing Tomb Raider 2 for the first time on PC and thinking it was something special. Now: the series is stale and really should have fade out by now. Tomb Raider tries so hard to be edgy, gritty and fresh that it falls flat on its face. The game feels more like just a video game than any other in the series. TheTomb Raider at one time was a great game series. I remember the thrill of playing Tomb Raider 2 for the first time on PC and thinking it was something special. Now: the series is stale and really should have fade out by now. Tomb Raider tries so hard to be edgy, gritty and fresh that it falls flat on its face. The game feels more like just a video game than any other in the series. The levels (or fake open world) are so badly designed that I (for the first time in my gaming life) just pushed forward and ran past every enemy just to try beat the game so I could trade it. The weapons are useless the enemies hilarious and the plot and cut scenes feel like a deliberately badly made comedy. One section had a locked door and you had to run around a square section of forest with perfectly placed video game platforms to gather wood to upgrade a weapon. I honestly nearly fell asleep.

    The game really is a snooze fest I didn’t even bother to complete it. Compared to the last few games I've played The Last Of Us, Bioshock Infinite, GTA 5 (All on ps3). This feels like it belongs on the PS2. Okay, the graphics are nice in places but that doesn’t matter because you spend half the time looking at them in black and white. Yes, they may have spent hours upon hours creating some quite stunning environments but then some idiot though it was a good idea to give you survival sense which takes away all the lovely colors and makes you feel as if your playing the game on an old black and white TV. Why? They could use a GPS system like in Dead Space which doesn’t affect the colour on screen and is not intrusive.. For me this was a real game breaker, it really pulled me out of the game and made me realise, this is just a game.

    The plot is not really there either. I skipped half the cut scenes because they were so dull (not something I’d usually do). Also the characters were bland, the script laughable and Lara was dam annoying.

    I really wouldn’t recommend this game to anyone who has been playing games for the last twenty years. Kids and new players will no doubt find it fun and challenging but to any seasoned gamers it’s a stale game from a dying series.    … Expand
  9. UngodDeimos
    Feb 3, 2014
    3
    This game is a prettier version of a dull game. If you are a graphic junkie, then this is worth it...maybe. Last year's edition was suppose to be emotionally engaging, and was up until the point where the person you're supposed to want to protect picks up an Ak47 and starts mowing bad dudes over like a overgrown lawn. The story is pretty mediocre, nothing you can't get from a hundred otherThis game is a prettier version of a dull game. If you are a graphic junkie, then this is worth it...maybe. Last year's edition was suppose to be emotionally engaging, and was up until the point where the person you're supposed to want to protect picks up an Ak47 and starts mowing bad dudes over like a overgrown lawn. The story is pretty mediocre, nothing you can't get from a hundred other games, movies, TV, books, or talking to an old drunk at a bar.… Expand
  10. Richjaco
    May 31, 2014
    2
    Great game with great graphics and a great story.... For about 6 hours. Then it is and empty open world game with boring collectibles and NO side quests. There are some tombs that give it a little more play time but don't do much. Could have been great but lacks in replayability and overall length. Its like watching a TV show that only has one very short but powerful episode. Great andGreat game with great graphics and a great story.... For about 6 hours. Then it is and empty open world game with boring collectibles and NO side quests. There are some tombs that give it a little more play time but don't do much. Could have been great but lacks in replayability and overall length. Its like watching a TV show that only has one very short but powerful episode. Great and all, but if its shorter than most tutorials... why bother?… Expand
  11. J-VIk
    Jan 28, 2014
    0
    its just a port, i mean its okey if games ask 10 euros so you can play a last gen game on a next gen but, but not 60! also, i the game still looks better on pc :P the chances to this game are minimal and i didnt like the original to begin with so with version isnt much better. if u liked the game, still dont buy it, you have already had your fun with it and as i said the chances areits just a port, i mean its okey if games ask 10 euros so you can play a last gen game on a next gen but, but not 60! also, i the game still looks better on pc :P the chances to this game are minimal and i didnt like the original to begin with so with version isnt much better. if u liked the game, still dont buy it, you have already had your fun with it and as i said the chances are minimal so dont buy this cheap cash grap.… Expand
  12. Awman
    Jun 24, 2015
    0
    I hated so much this game, i was hyped by the reboot but it has nothing to do with a tomb raider game. No tropical/luxurious/antique sites, no puzzles, no adventure...just a generic/boring TPS, just "ouch, ouch i take a stick in my womb and fall every 10 seconds but can still walk, run etc." and "bam bam tatata bang" worse than a COD. I don't get all the hype for this game.
  13. hunkybaby
    Jan 28, 2014
    0
    the game is mediocre alright, I don't get it, instead of making an 'upscale' port why not just make a new game already? 60 bucks for a port? fan or not I think people would pass on this, I'm not paying just to see the difference in graphics. This game barely has any unlockables or rewarding achievements, I could finish in less than a week for a none gamer! I used to play Tomb Raider gamesthe game is mediocre alright, I don't get it, instead of making an 'upscale' port why not just make a new game already? 60 bucks for a port? fan or not I think people would pass on this, I'm not paying just to see the difference in graphics. This game barely has any unlockables or rewarding achievements, I could finish in less than a week for a none gamer! I used to play Tomb Raider games for months lol, this game is so short it hardly worth your time, moreover your MONEY.… Expand
  14. jpgarcia7787
    Feb 7, 2014
    4
    It crashed on me during a cut-scene, corrupting my file, and I lost all progress. Be prepared for that reality.

    The combat was smooth, the graphics were very impressive, exploring was okay (it was another Easter egg hunt), the puzzles were not memorable, and the story was weak with characters being unrelatable. It was sold as "Lara's first adventure in an story of survival!" This is    It crashed on me during a cut-scene, corrupting my file, and I lost all progress. Be prepared for that reality.

    The combat was smooth, the graphics were very impressive, exploring was okay (it was another Easter egg hunt), the puzzles were not memorable, and the story was weak with characters being unrelatable. It was sold as "Lara's first adventure in an story of survival!" This is your typical cliche action game where the character always takes Option A and it works. "Oh, but there's crying!"

    People make decisions based on objectives, and we choose paths that are most useful to ourselves via cost/benefit analysis. It's a weighing process of truths and possibilities. The objectives in the game are cliche; "You'll have to go to the ___ to turn on the ___, in that abandoned ___."
    Why go there? What are the odds of success? What dangers could be there? How does a character never setting foot in the story's location know where to go, if there is equipment there, let alone if it works properly? There is a lot of this contrived junk in the story. When the objectives don't prove to be logical or significant, then you're convinced the character just acts because someone else tells them and they lose believability. Ironically, she continues to say, "Oh my god, this is so stupid." Yes, it is. How does a college girl survive the wild again? At least we could imagine the first Lara spent her riches on some military training. There were some use of 'deus ex machina' too. "How is Lara ever going to get out of this one?!" Oh, there is a grenade launcher at her feet. Triumph ensues.

    In conclusion, it's a pretty game with a pretty female for fan-boys to marvel and fill their fantasies with... and their socks. If this game wasn't full of decision-making found in a slasher horror flick, I might have enjoyed it more; not forgetting the game crash. I always appreciate unstable games; they always remind me of my precious time and then I remind sellers by returning them. It's bittersweet, really.    … Expand
  15. mastermehdi
    Jan 1, 2018
    0
    شاید برا ده سال پیش خوب بوده باشه ولی به نسبت بازی های امروزی به هیچ عنوان حرفی برا گفتن نداره
  16. HerrQwertz
    Nov 12, 2021
    3
    Yesterday I completed this game on the PS4.

    First the positive things: the graphic still looks nice. The climbing parts were sadly very rare and short, but felt good. And I somehow liked the death animations of Lara, when she (or better: the player) failed again some stupid reaction test or quick time event (= QTE). The neutral: the story is.. Okay... I can life with that. Nothing to    Yesterday I completed this game on the PS4.

    First the positive things: the graphic still looks nice. The climbing parts were sadly very rare and short, but felt good. And I somehow liked the death animations of Lara, when she (or better: the player) failed again some stupid reaction test or quick time event (= QTE).

    The neutral: the story is.. Okay... I can life with that. Nothing to complain about.
    The characters are often times living clichés and the intentions of the characters and the way how the story unfolds is apparent.
    You get achievements for almost everything.

    The negatives:
    If you expected a classical Tomb Raider with lots of jumping and climbing, moving boxes around, searching for ridiculously hard to spot leavers... Forget it. I can only remember two puzzle at the end of the game, and they worked not like that and they drove me insane. (Other puzzles might have been present, but were not memorable)
    The shaky cam made me almost puke. Every little movement made the camera shake like a small boat on the open sea.
    Laras character development was "interesting". When she killed her first deer, she almost cried. Half an hour later she started to murder other humans in dozends without a problem. The amount of corpses in this game was insane. Our injured Lara even waded through waters, filled with body parts. This might give her a deadly infection later.
    And of course there are the already mentioned QTE. Nothing makes you feel more stupid than repeating a sequence of this interactive game movie for the fourth time, because you screwed up the timing or pressed the wrong button.
    And then we are having awful things like this immersion destroying pseudo open world. Lots of stuff you can find and collect for unlocking other stuff is scattered everywhere in those places. A classic case of stretching the game time. I tried to collect as few stuff as possible, because I quit playing the successor of this game, because of too much collecting and loosing motivation.
    All your weapons can be upgradet with ridiculous upgrades. But they always feel underpowered, no matter how many upgrades you invested into them. And of course Lara got some soft-rpg abilities for leveling up her skills. Does she really need that? (and because I already played the successor the answer of the developer seems to be "yes")
    The enemies are mostly humanoid, usually stupid, blind and only a danger for your life, when they are attacking with a dozend people at once. Akd they often appear in huge quantities. The second enemy type (or group) that is introduced at the end of the game and seemed to be overpowered and frightening at first, felt like weaker than the standard enemies, when I had to fight them. The final fights were underwhelming.

    I am glad I was able to finish the game, but I will not replay this game a second time. I also don't want to rewatch a sub-mediocre movie. Some nice eye candy can not fix the issue. It is a crude mix of far too many genres. There is almost nothing left of the old Tomb Raider DNA.

    PS had one crash with blue screen during my playthrough.    … Expand
  17. david6612
    Mar 5, 2022
    3
    O jogo tem muita ação,porém fica claro o empoderamento e feminismo desse jogo,80 % das cutscenes do jogo é a Lara Croft se machucando,caindo de altas alturas,caindo em cima de um vidro de helicóptero,ficando de ponta cabeça,tudo ao seu redor se destruindo e ela nunca morre,jogo feito pra agradar feminista,uncharted nunca precisou disso tudo pra ser bom,além disso,eu tava jogando o jogo eO jogo tem muita ação,porém fica claro o empoderamento e feminismo desse jogo,80 % das cutscenes do jogo é a Lara Croft se machucando,caindo de altas alturas,caindo em cima de um vidro de helicóptero,ficando de ponta cabeça,tudo ao seu redor se destruindo e ela nunca morre,jogo feito pra agradar feminista,uncharted nunca precisou disso tudo pra ser bom,além disso,eu tava jogando o jogo e do nada deu dados corrompidos,e adivinha,tive que voltar um save anterior que estava 15% e quando deu dados corrompidos meu progresso estava 30% ate que com esse save Cheguei aos 30% de novo,e deu dados corrompidos novamente,é um fala na cara do consumidor,jogo muito mal otimizado pra PS4,deletei o jogo e nunca mais entro novamente.… Expand
  18. Ajbras
    Mar 10, 2019
    0
    I've never given anything a 0 before and didnt plan to. This game showed promise but I get a CE-34878-0 Error everytime I get to a certain part of the game about an hour in. I've tried every troubleshooting thing I can find online - which ultimately allowed me to progress about 10 minutes. I've owned my PS4 for a year and never ran into this error in the past. Unfortunately I'm notI've never given anything a 0 before and didnt plan to. This game showed promise but I get a CE-34878-0 Error everytime I get to a certain part of the game about an hour in. I've tried every troubleshooting thing I can find online - which ultimately allowed me to progress about 10 minutes. I've owned my PS4 for a year and never ran into this error in the past. Unfortunately I'm not going to play this buggy mess - I'll just have to continue hope and pray that it only occurs on this game.… Expand
  19. vanderpooldr
    Sep 2, 2019
    0
    This isn't Tomb Raider, this is garbage. Hey why don't you click this button as fast as you can? Why don't you do it when I say so? How about you not play and we play cutscenes until we tell you to smash (insert button here). This game is not tomb raider, this game is a tomb raider badge thats is actually a click bait movie. Don't waste your time with this. By the way; I can't believeThis isn't Tomb Raider, this is garbage. Hey why don't you click this button as fast as you can? Why don't you do it when I say so? How about you not play and we play cutscenes until we tell you to smash (insert button here). This game is not tomb raider, this game is a tomb raider badge thats is actually a click bait movie. Don't waste your time with this. By the way; I can't believe anyone with any gaming cred would give this anything more than 1 star. Yes I am speaking to you Meta (paid by gaming studios) critic (hah you obviously are not.) Complete waste of money and a trash of the series that once was great.… Expand
  20. dragosinsc
    Aug 10, 2020
    0
  21. Elite_Soldier
    Nov 21, 2020
    4
    Dropped this game 3 times and came back to it, every single time I came back I never enjoyed it, just too boring and feels too gimicky.

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#18 Best PS4 Game of 2014
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#16 Most Discussed PS4 Game of 2014
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#27 Most Shared PS4 Game of 2014

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Metascore
85

Generally favorable reviews - based on 54 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 50 out of 54
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 54
  3. Negative: 0 out of 54
  1. Pelit (Finland)
    May 11, 2014
    85
    It is better to be relaunched than forgotten. [March 2014]
  2. Games Master UK
    Mar 10, 2014
    87
    Not played the original? Then this is essential, but there's not enough new here for returners. [Apr 2014, p.69]
  3. Digitally Downloaded
    Mar 5, 2014
    70
    I was absolutely wowed by this game the first time I played it through because I was paying so much attention to the cut scenes and redesigned Lara Croft was a joy to behold...But having had a year to sit and consider the game's broader meaning, the second time around the game's flaws are all the more apparent.
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