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Leaded Power Girl a la Croft

Tomb Raider (computer game)

Customer Review

Tomb Raider The names go games veterans immediately abandoned (?!) Tombs, archaeological site or mazes, tons of deadly traps, smart-complicated machine and switch puzzles massive climbing documents and occasional fights against humans, animals, or even fantasy-beings through the head or you thinks if Aforementioned only then follows first and foremost to Lara Croft, busty and acrobatic very talented lady who shuns any obstacles and dangers, to quench their thirst for knowledge archaeological. This is Tomb Raider, as we know, understand and love it since 1996.
After their last adventure Underworld, it had become very quiet around the sexy grave robber. They had allowed themselves an extended break and thus quasi voluntarily left the genre competition field. 2012 then a new sign of life, with ner thick surprise. The developers of Crystal Dynamics (CD) since Tomb Raider Legend for Franchise responsible wanted to free the buxom polygon dolls per reboot of his familiar Sexbomb image and redefine as serious, vulnerable and very young as inexperienced character, plus the familiar game concept umkrempeln duly made climbing locations, puzzles and action. And they have kept their word!
The new Tomb Raider (TR) is a totchices and exciting action adventure, which, however, and here to stay strong Croft fans the very first hour - a large piece of his playful roots removed. But whoever the changes does not look quite so tight, experienced in return an action fireworks at its best and a Lara, how she has never experienced.

Story:
The freshly baked archaeologist wants to earn their spurs and take part in an expedition (on board the ship Endurance), to search for the mysterious island Yamatai that for somewhere to lie in an unexplored area of ​​the Pacific to the legend. The search ends abruptly when the ship caught in a storm and breaks apart the center. Lara and a few survivors of the expedition will be flushed on an unknown island. As misfortune would not be big enough, Lara device still in the clutches of a cult from which they can free themselves. Now she has to do and find a way to look for the leftover research team, again to escape from the island on which it is not approaching with natural things and seek crazy islanders seek their lives

The times in which our good old Lara embarks from pure explorer spirits and with the courage of a lion in darkest catacombs, caves and feral historic buildings are gone. This entirely new chapter in the long history of the TR-well built adventurer wants only one thing: survival.
And she has to go to extremes. Unlike in the past it does not come from any dangerous situation out heal and always peeled as from the egg, not at all:
Mrs Croft collected in this playable Survival Drama more bruises and injuries as her film role model John Rambo in all his films together, crashes Felt thousand times into the depths, to keep predators and exclusively male opponents at bay and after some hardships completely at the end their powers and yet she gets up again and again. CD presents the icon among female video game heroes as hard Survival campaigner who plastered in just over 15 hours of play Hundreds of cultists for breakfast. TR's action in cinematic proportions, only one is just right in the middle, not just a bystander.
Grave robbers-friends among the TR fans however should be prepared that the imposing staged action which will pay greater attention. A little collection fever is present through numerous scattered relics, may do research a bit Lara meantime also, if they do not just have to put up a fight with Wumme and bow, but a lot of explorable graves there is not really only 7 of them. These are badly manageable, scarcely bigger than a double garage, almost sober kept simple and with no right to claim (difficulty? Puzzle complexity? Hey, where are you ???). Nix which is likely to seriously meet the puzzle enthusiasts. Perhaps the lack of quality or quantity of the graves is due only to Lara's not yet well-developed taste for Selbige (quote from the game: Tombs Tombs ... I hate!) Who knows, who knows;)
Otherwise makes TR as concentrated actioner everything absolutely right. The first 2-3 hours of play a good tune, are first of (still) dominated frequent Quick Time Events. But it should not put you off, because in the following game time TR is honestly better and better. An action packed climax follows the other, partly you can even work your way in stealth manner, regularly to a new venues open with great, sometimes breathtaking spectacle values ​​and panoramas, and there are some very well-known scenes from films like "The Lost World", " The Descent "Aliens among others cited that guarantee explosive and schockige moments. With ongoing storyline to take the climbing sections important, also for the first time there is not a strict level structure, ie it opens up a little by freely accessible islands. Already explored areas can be visited again by fast travel function when an packs the collecting mania for cleverly hidden items. This TR is a bit more open than all the previous Lara Croft- games, less strictly linear, but still no open-world game, as interested players might assume incorrectly.

CD reinhaut all good ingredients of Deckungsshooter- and action-adventure genre, what an extraordinarily fun promotional package yields. The automatic cover system works perfectly, and otherwise you Miss Croft always well controlled. The control is free from every kind of censure, whether via gamepad or mouse / keyboard combo. The only thing one could criticize the developers, the fact that they do not really understand it, the conversion of Lara Croft from the picture of misery for weapons defying superwoman is credible to explain. Of course, one does not expect a pronounced character study, but that Lara to the killing of her first deer gets almost a crying fit, fifteen minutes later but felt no remorse, edit human opponents with arrows and bullets, the character takes the intended by the developers authenticity. Fortunately, the only point where Crystal Dynamics has verhoben.

Technically TR shows visually and acoustically from its best side.
After what felt like half an eternity we have here finally a multiplatform game itself that can reveal its true potential on the PC. Instead of a marginally-backed ports with standard console optical drives CD all conceivable graphics feature guns on there and can look clearly superior to the PC over the console versions. The island offers with its size regular variety for the eye, the lands are to detail to the max-no-more, the light and shadow effects are among the most beautiful since Dead Space, plus textures of incredible quality, first-class water, heat Flimme and fog effects , very elaborate animations and fabulous faces of Lara and Co. In addition, here the brand new PC-exclusive TressTX technology is presented, showing hair and their movements very realistic, almost supple and silky. An impressive (but still very hardware hungry) technology that will probably prevail for the new graphics standard. Concrete hairstyles Goodbye? Could well come so far.
(Note: In the meantime runs TR thanks nachgereichter patches consistently stable and has hardly any significant bugs, unlike in the original condition, an update of the graphics card driver showed amazing effect with my old Quad Core and ner GTX 460, the frame rate slipped only in very large areas.. down a bit, otherwise it played lighter than sufficiently liquid.)
The ears are blessed with allerbestem sound. The music comes from the same man, who is also the Dead Space series missed those distinctive score, in which a rose, the entire body hair on end and I mean that only in the most positive sense. In TR voltage and shock moments to underline skillfully, and even the music supporting always matches the current situation. The diverse soundscape like also, often rich sounds and bass are rausgedrückt that an almost ears fall off. The acoustic enjoyment is rounded off with a very good German-Synchro, especially the famous comedienne Nora Tschirner sets here as Lara's new voice, a more than decent debut towards what I would not have expected it.
The sound options nor a slight criticism: The volume of voice and sound effects, unfortunately, can not be controlled separately from each other, with the result that at very loud game moments, the dialogue track a little goes down, that is suffering from evident problems. But really comes only in very extreme individual cases.

Conclusion:
Whether I have fallen in love again? Yes, you may well say. The new, young Lara Croft has already what. Okay, you could have better manage dramatically to justify its development from faint-hearted and vulnerable young girl for martial fighting machine, which here really quite like lightning proceeds, but sponge drum, the female answer to predominantly masculine videogame action hero shows in this reboot how to celebrate a visually stunning action game experience with a high adrenaline content, besides, I am glad that they finally may be more than just a computer-generated beauty with thick horns. That makes an impression, and it leaves you wanting more. For a sequel, I am more than willing, but then again, please make a small step back to the roots and pack an more graves, where one may also use his brains.

I love it 4 Rank: 5/5
April 8
Does not fit on a common handlebar Rank: 1/5
December 17
Soundtrack Music Forest Gump Rank: 5/5
October 4
Practical and comfortable 4 Rank: 5/5
March 27

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