As such, it’s a combination of two game genres among those I dislike the most, so it starts off at a serious disadvantage. It’s an extremely gruesome cover-shooter heavily focussed on long and tedious combat sequences when it’s not that, it borders on walking simulator territory, holding players by the hand and telling them exactly which buttons they need to push to get from A to B. But for fairness’ sake, I will say that one of the main reasons I hated it is that Tomb Raider 2013 isn’t the type of game I would normally play. It was so bad that it killed the very trilogy it was supposed to inaugurate-and Lara with it, for a second time, although just figuratively. That’s how Angel of Darkness came to be, and it was a total trainwreck, rushed out the door incomplete and full of bugs. Their boss wasn’t too happy about a million-dollar franchise disappearing just like that, so he offered them the option to either find a way to bring Lara back from the grave (despite a metric fuckton’s worth of Egyptian temple ruins caving in on her) or follow her right into it. Lara Croft died a first time at the end of The Last Revelation, killed off by Core Design developers who didn’t know what to do with her anymore. Tomb Raider has a long history of reboots. (*takes deep breath*) Preamble: Rising from the grave tomb Don’t just buy the entire damn trilogy plus a ton of now-useless DLCs just because the whole bundle was on offer for the modest sum of 23.48 euros which you won’t be getting back because it’s too late for a refund. They mean you should never decide what games to buy based on Steam reviews alone, and if you have the chance to get a free demo, do it. The little I’d seen and heard about it told me I wouldn’t like it, but hey-all those overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam must mean something, right? Having completed and thoroughly loved the Legend trilogy over the past few weeks, I decided to give the 2013-rebooted trilogy a chance against my best judgement. After a fairly long break, I was recently bitten by the tomb-raiding bug again.
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