Tomb Raider: Anniversary

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Tomb Raider Anniversary was the first remake of the original Tomb Raider game which will be getting a new coat of paint in the forthcoming game Legend of Atlantis. Coming off the heels of Tomb Raider Legend I found that this game took more steps back than forward. I have played through some of the original and I am not sure this is a great improvement. While the graphics, environments, controls, and animations are greatly improved it is let down by poor platforming. I enjoy puzzle games, however, I am not a huge fan of games where you have to repeatedly run through environments looking for clues and something you missed. Legend did a great job streamlining everything and while Anniversary offers this awesome sense of scale and adventure it also lacked agency. Specifically, there is only one way forward which can make exploring these huge environments feel tiresome given that you know there is only one solution as compared to something like Splinter Cell or Ghost Recon that allow more fluidity and openness to the player. All in all I did enjoy the game, but it was a far more frustrating experience. To often I found the game to be clunky with Lara Croft falling and not jumping where I wanted based on herky jerky camera movements and unreliable player input. Even when you figure out the way forward that does not mean Lara is going to do what the player wants. I have been having a lot of fun lately playing through older games in my library that I am familiar with from when I grew up but never got the chance to playthrough. If you have nostalgia for that era (2000s) this game is worth playing, but if you just want an adventure platformer it is harder to recommend unless you really enjoy the Tomb Raider franchise (which is awesome) simply due to the weird platforming bugs.

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Haven't finished yet but here is my worthless impression after 5 hours: You can feel it's age. It didn't age terribly, but it clearly doesn't feel like a modern game. This generation of TR games is imo the worst one. It's this middle step from a grid based puzzle platformer to a cinematic action game. They basically got rid of 90% of the gameplay to make it control and look better. What we're left with, gameplay wise: - Walking around a lot - Lots of really, really boring climbing (can't fall off, go wrong or otherwise mess up - just press left for 10 seconds, press X, now press right for 3 seconds, press X, ...) - Occasionally pulling out your guns to make endangered species more endangered The puzzles in and off themselves are alright, but they require SO MUCH CLIMBING. And don't you dare miss a jump, then you have to climb all that ♥♥♥♥ again. 50% of this game is climbing and it's the most boring, uninspired and unfun climbing you have ever done in a game. The combat is okay'ish ... not exactly thrilling but not annoying, either. The game generally controls fine. There are a ton of bugs where you e.g. visually just keep climbing sideways past the end of the ledge into mid-air before snapping back to where you're actually supposed to be. I wanna like this game but truthfully I really don't. The old TRs had grid based precision platforming puzzle solving, which was interesting because it required skill and careful planning/alignment. The new TRs just control well and climbing is at least not a complete chore. Anniversary and probably the other two entries from this era feel like the worst of both worlds. All the gameplay from the early entries gone while lacking the polish to make it actually fun to move around. I'm sure people who played it when it came out have a different perspective, but as someone who played TR1-3 back in the days, then the new games and now wanted to check out the missing link I feel like Anniversary and it's era colleagues are genuinely hard to stomach.

Excelente juego, entretenido, con buenos gráficos aun a pesar de los años que tiene. El único problema que tuve fue para guardar partidas, que pude solucionar leyendo foros en algunas paginas.

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Like the other games in the LAU trilogy, Anniversary is still janky at times with movement and physics on newer hardware, but the game is otherwise great and I would definitely recommend getting this on one of its frequent deep sales.

I recommend Tomb Raider: Anniversary. It is a blend of the original and some new ideas. I played this title a few weeks after finishing the original remastered. I enjoyed both and TRA did a good job of honoring the original while exploring new ideas. Overall, the action sequences were good, making me feel heroic. There are boss fights and they forced me to improve to overcome the challenge. Unlike some other games, no part felt unwelcome or tedious. Everything flowed in the game from one segment to the next. Tomb Raider Anniversary is also packed with content for the fans, including the Croft Manor, multiple outfits, promotional material and extra commentaries and cheats.

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