Enemy of my enemy tomb raider
But Lara isn’t just a better killer this time around, she also takes a much more scholarly approach to her new adventure. Our hero’s resilience is nice and makes her easy to sympathize with but at the same time I’m sure there are some who will have difficulty with a character who literally should have died twenty times before the opening credits have even rolled.ĭuring the events of the last game we watched Lara go from frightened little girl to unstoppable killing machine and she’s only become more formidable since then. The woman is a walking sponge for abuse and you can be guaranteed that if there’s a chance for her to take a hard fall off a cliff or an elbow to the face she’s going to bear it and grin. In fact even in the best of circumstances Lara wouldn’t have survived past the first twenty minutes of this game. If the original game distressed you with all the grisly ways they could show a young pretty girl being impaled, be warned that it’s still very possible for Lara to meet a number of less than appealing fates. That is to say getting the ever-loving shit beat out of her non-stop. Speaking of which it doesn’t take long for Lara to get back to her old ways. Yes that’s right, my highest praise for Lara is her foul mouth. Nathan Drake may flash his pearly whites and give a wink before jumping into a firefight, but you’ll never catch the guy screaming the F-word when he misses a ledge or calling his female opponent a cunt to her face.
#Enemy of my enemy tomb raider series#
While Rise of the Tomb Raider brings a little bit more levity to the series than was found in its predecessor this is still very much a straight faced affair, with Lara serving more as an exasperated punching bag than a plucky protagonist.What she lacks in charisma she makes up for in relatability though.
I hesitate to say that the plot is better than the original but despite being a little cliche I never found myself rolling my eyes, which isn’t something I could always say about the 2013 title. The story can feel a bit goofy at times and for the most part none of its beats are terribly original. She also has to contend with a shadowy organization called Trinity who will serve a persistent thorn in the side for the duration of the game. Now Lara can’t help but pick at the scabs of her family’s old wounds and decides to set off in search of the Divine Source herself. After a stream of ridicule tarnished his scholarly reputation Lara’s father ended up taking his own life. His belief in an artifact said to be capable of granting eternal life was of course scoffed at by his peers. During his final years Lord Croft buried himself in research surrounding the lost city of Kitezh or more specifically a mysterious artifact that resided within the city known as the “Divine Source”. Now her thoughts have turned to her deceased father, or rather the legacy he left behind. We rejoin Lara Croft one year after she found herself ship-wrecked and beaten to hell in a search for the lost island of Yamatai. But in a time where we have studios like Bioware and Ubisoft shitting out the same stuff every year (or sometimes actively making it worse), it’s nice to see someone actually get a sequel right. We shouldn’t be applauding a company for following fan feedback any more than I should be showered with praise every time I use a toilet successfully, this is something that should just be expected. You see, the best part about Rise Of The Tomb Raider is that its developer, Crystal Dynamics, took a sizable portion of the feedback they got with the release of the original and then they implemented what was reasonable into the next title. I should start by saying that I kind of resent the praise that I’m about to dump on this game. Luckily my status as “guy who has Xbox One” ultimately sealed that it was my game for the season. I enjoyed the Tomb Raider reboot from 2013, maybe not as much as some of the others on staff, which initially made me think I might not be the best person to review this one.
There was plenty of panic around the Enemy Slime halls until it was later clarified as a “timed” exclusive.
Many an eyebrow was raised when it was announced that Rise Of The Tomb Raider would be released as an Xbox One exclusive.