Tomb Raider 2013, best adventure game of the year by George N Quentin

Tomb raider 2013 underwent many changes from the previous titles but more significantly

as you wouldn’t imagine a brand new Lara Croft is born. From Tomb raider Anniversary

(2007), underworld (2008), then boom, she’s back, the baddest girl on the planet is back,

fresh, younger, hungry, ruthless in what’s to be an exhilarating action adventure. It’s just

outstanding, brilliant work from Crystal Dynamics.

The game brings a fresh new take on the Tomb Raider series as the player takes control of

the new reconstructed, Lara Croft.

Prepare to be amazed with the countless amounts of the challenges she encounters, the

outnumbered amount of enemies she slaughters, yet alone the way she overcome the most

dangerous life threatening moments you can ever imagine, her ability to strive and survive

in certainly the most vicious of places is just inspiring.

She’s just the ultimate adventurer, the tomb raider, the explorer of the underworld and the

exterminator of evil. On a cruise mission to explore the one of the creepiest island known to

man, “the Dragon’s triangle” known to possess evil spirits and constraining any living being

within and away from the island.

New Lara croft

Publisher: Square Enix

Developers: Crystal Dynamics,

Eidos Montreal (multiplayer)

Rating: 18+

Genre: Action, Adventure

Platform : PS3, Xbox 360, PC

Lara mission starts in doubts as a result of an unforeseen crash on the island, watched

ashore, ship destroyed, friends missing, breathless, hungry and clueless of her environment.

Her extraordinary adventure sets off, in what’s to be an explosive action thriller, a challenge

to rescue her friends and a battle against evil to flee from the island.

The new Lara is much younger than her predecessors, bringing a fresh intake to the game

that just refined the series setting it off for a promising sequel. She’s much more inspiring

than her predecessors from the series, more brave, with a non quitting attitude and

willingness to survive, push on and overcome her enemies. She’s just aspire-ring to watch

and play with, you can just feels her frustration and pain throughout her adventure while

uncovering how she learns her crafts been a croft, best known to have skill-set to diminish

any being in the planet, having that ability to survive and make her way around any sort of

environment, utilizing gears while specialising with many sort of weaponries that you can

think of to overcome anything that’s in her way.

Although she wasn’t much of a badass like the preceding characters best known for blasting

enemies away with double hand guns, She however got more comfy, less worried and

believed in herself and abilities that she can utilize her skill-set to climb walls using her axe,

jump between platforms, sneaking around buildings and reservoirs, coasting down

waterfalls, rope running between platforms and using her survival instinct to find paths

making her ways around her surroundings.

As she progresses she’s develops from a scared young girl to a much determined, relentless

adventurer with a non quitting attitude to progress, find her friends and find a way out of

the island. As the old man Roth kept repeating and encouraging her to believe in what she

is, “been a croft”. She became more of a threat to her enemies showing the deadliest side of

Lara taking a leap toward ladder

her using her handgun, crossbow, shotguns, grenade launcher and rifle to diminish anyone

on her way. She also shows the clever side of her, using her weapons to her advantage to

make her way around her environment like the shotgun and grenade launcher which she

uses to blast through doors or equipments, using her axe to open doors and killing enemies

while also scrolling around with the crossbow rope. All of which makes an unforeseen and

unpredictable adventure that you will ever witness.

The game is well balanced with great stability. You hardly have to complain about anything,

the controls were intact, the graphics is outstanding with marvellous display and gameplay

is flawless filled with drama and action all the way. The game is at a good difficulty setting

that does a lot of thinking for you and helps you play with ease, like slowing down scenes in

slow motion for you to correctly click a certain button. These helps you play with easy and

enjoy the adventure comfortably. It also does some basic elements for you like lighting up a

torch as you approach dark areas, or automatically duck, hide and takes cover as Lara spots

an enemy nearby.

The game brings a mixture of fascinating die hard actions, more like the diehard series

comprised with Indiana Jones specialities filled with epic, jaw dropping action. In

comparison, Tomb Raider 2013 is more like an uncharted game due to the vast amount of

speed runs and action taking place. Furthermore the game offers a healthy amount of open

world exploration, sort of like Assassins Creed as your killing animals, using a crossbow to

make your way around the environment. Most of all the ability to explore tombs, ongoing

multiple side quests and revisiting places are the main similarities in both games but more

explicitly in Tomb Raider, Lara is a raider, built for discovery and adventure with an

enthusiasm for finding treasures, analysing them to understand her surrounding, by

exploring the island you also gain XP and salvage for all your findings like ancient scrolls,

dairies and much more which in turns give you points and weapon upgrades to make Lara

more Powerful as well as helping her understand her environment and prepare for what’s

ahead. These all make an extraordinary campaign that bound to grasp you all the way to

end.

Uncharted 3: Drakes Deception Gameplay Tomb Raider Gameplay

There is more to it that would grasp your attention. You would barely blink which is why it’s

undoubtedly the best action adventure of the year so far. The rebirth of the adventure, the

story and the new Lara croft made it such a success and for the first time its playable in

multiplayer allowing you to play several different game modes in several different maps. it’s

definitely something to look forward to from the Canadian developer ‘Eidos Montreal’ in the

next series as to how they would refurnish it and make it better or even distinct from other

titles like Uncharted.

Tomb Raider 2013 definitely sets the standards for action adventure genre and remarkably

outclassed all previous releases of the title, adding changes and bringing an inspiring new

look to the leading character ‘Camilla Luddington’ as Lara Croft. This is definitely something

called “work of a genius”, bringing the rebirth of the franchise in extraordinary fashion.

There much to be excited about the game and if you love exploratory, adventurous games

mixed with action, stealth play and side quests, then this is the game f the year for you.

Tomb Raider Multiplayer gameplay

The Good

Stunning visuals

Exhilarating story and adventure

Fluent action

Good mixture of different type of game-play

The Bad

Very dull multiplayer

No mission select

Deprived Lara

No dual wielding Pistols as her predecessor