Great game, but too short...

Reviewed by i_love_games11 on October 27, 2006  |  report this review

Tomb Raider: Legend is a game where you play as Lara Croft, a tomb raiding bad ***. She totes around dual pisols and swings around with a grappling hook. Tomb Raider takes place in numerous locations including Japan, England, and Bolivia. You must roam around these locations in search for an ancient artifact. Tomb Raider: Legend is a great game with ok graphics, good gameplay, good story, and awesome environments.

As you play you must scower around various dungeons and ruins in search of artifacts. To get where you want you will have to engage in many puzzles and jump, swing, and swim your way to the end. Lara is very acrobatic and you will be jumping from rock to rock and alot of other slick moves that look great. The graphics arent great but the environments you are in are always unique and interesting. The character models arent the best (except for Lara ofcourse) but otherwise the great gameplay really adds the the gaming experience.

The gameplay is great! The controls really work out and are easily maneuvered. When you play, you will drive vehicles (a black motorcycle) and mainly jump from rock to rock and swing your way deeper into ruins. The puzzles in Tomb Raider are sometimes tricky and can be hard. But this game is mainly about puzzles than fighting, although you will have to fight numerous bosses and you will fight mercs. You can use around 5 different weapons, pistols, smgs, shotguns, assaults, and grenade launchers. But as I said before you will be walking more than shooting (thankfully because combat is kinda dry, with a bad lock on system.)

Overall this game is great and I highly recommend that you RENT it because the story mode is short (i beat it in one day.) The game is very fun, challenging and sometimes puzzling.

Good Points: Great gameplay, really fun and addicting, neat ways to maneuver around runes, beautifull environments, and really well done.

Bad Points: Some puzzles get tricky, loading times after dying are long, character models are bad, too short, and fighting is kinda lame (with crappy lock on.)

Finally, a good Tomb Raider

Reviewed by viperxsniper on March 18, 2007  |  report this review

After being disappointed with the Tomb Raider series after the second one (especially after that Angel of Darkness crap that could have killed the series), Tomb Raider: Legend gives the Tomb Raider series a whole new life. Eidos and Crystal Dynamics basically threw out everything the engine that AOD used and rebuilt it from scratch. No more polygonal graphics anymore. This game even gives it a whole new story from the past one.

The only complaint I have about this game is that it is too short and that it leaves off with a cliff hanger. But the cliff hanger ending only guarantees a new one in the future, so all is forgiven there. The reason I think it is too short is because the other systems could not handle the data needed to make it a long game as well as a beautiful game. More then likely, the next one will be longer since it will be on the next gen systems.

If you have already played this on the XBox, PS2, Gamecube, or PSP and you have a 360, it is still worth it to play it on there also. Even though it is the same game, the graphics are amazing. They did not simply port it over from the lesser versions like some of the early 360 games did, they gave it a complete graphics update.

Very fun, but short...

Reviewed by andy4theherd on April 01, 2007  |  report this review

This was the first Tomb Raider game I ever bought and completed. It was very fun. The graphics and sound are great. The only bad thing I could say is that its too short.