Tomb Raider explores the intense and gritty origin story of Lara Croft and her ascent from a young woman to a hardened survivor. Armed only with raw instincts and the ability to push beyond the limits of human endurance, Lara must fight to unravel the dark history of a forgotten island to escape its relentless hold.
he game begins with Lara setting out on her first expedition aboard the ship Endurance, with the intention of finding the lost kingdom of Yamatai. By her suggestion and against Whitman's advice, the expedition ventures into the Dragon's Triangle, east of Japan. The ship is struck by a violent storm and shipwrecked, leaving the survivors stranded on an isolated island. Lara is separated from the others and captured by a strange, savage man. She manages to escape while her captor is killed as the cave collapses due to her actions. As Lara tries to locate the other survivors, she finds more evidence that the island is inhabited, such as strange carvings, dead bodies, and animal sacrifices. She eventually finds her friend Sam and a man called Mathias, who claims to be a teacher who was shipwrecked on the island. As Sam tells Mathias the legends of Himiko, Lara passes out; when she wakes, Mathias and Sam are nowhere in sight. When Lara regroups with the other survivors, Whitman decides to go with Lara and search for the still-missing Roth, while the rest of the group (Reyes, Jonah, Alex and Grim) set out to find Sam and Mathias. As Lara and Whitman explore, they discover that the island's inhabitants are worshipping Himiko, confirming that the island is Yamatai. Upon discovering a shrine erected in Himiko's name, they are captured by the islanders and taken to a settlement along with several other survivors from the Endurance. When the survivors attempt an escape, the captors turn on them. Lara is separated from Whitman and tries to hide, but is found by one of the islanders and forced to kill him. She fights off the remainder of the attackers and reunites with Roth, saving him from a wolf attack.
Lara manages to activate a radio tower and call for help, but the plane that answers the call is struck by a freak storm, and Lara hears a mysterious voice saying "No one leaves" in Japanese. Unable to save the surviving pilots, Lara is contacted by Alex and Reyes, who reveal that Sam has been kidnapped by the islanders, a violent cult known as the Solarii Brotherhood. Lara tries to rescue her, but is stopped by Mathias, leader of the Solarii, and ordered killed: she is saved by an attack from samurai-like Oni. Escaping the ancient monastery where she is taken by the Oni, she hears from Sam that Mathias is going to put her through the "Ascension", a "fire ritual" to find the next Sun Queen that will burn her to death if it is unsuccessful. Lara follows them to the Solarii fortress and is aided by Grim. The Solarii take Grim hostage, but he sacrifices himself so Lara can escape. With Roth's aid, Lara infiltrates the fortress and sees the ritual begin. When the fires are lit, a great wind blows them out, showing Sam to be the next Sun Queen. Lara escapes again and reunites with her friends, forming a plan to rescue Sam and escape. Aided by Whitman—who has managed to negotiate some degree of freedom with the Solarii—Lara returns to the palace to rescue Sam as Roth commandeers a helicopter to get them out. Lara succeeds, but persuades Sam to escape by land when she sees another storm gathering as the helicopter approaches. As Lara tries to force the helicopter pilot to land, they are brought down, with Lara nearly dying. Roth revives Lara, then takes a fatal blow from Mathias meant for Lara. While mourning Roth, Lara accepts that the storms are not natural, but are somehow connected to the Sun Queen and designed to prevent anyone from leaving the island. She meets up with the other survivors, who have evaded the Solarii long enough to secure a boat for escaping the island, provided that it can be repaired. They are joined by Whitman, who claims to have escaped, though Lara begins to suspect him of working with the cultists. Lara and Alex find parts for the boat in the wreck of the Endurance. They come under attack by the Solarii and Alex triggers an explosion, sacrificing himself so that Lara can escape with the tools.
Finding an account of a World War II-era Japanese military and Nazi scientific expedition to the island that sought a way to harness the storms as a weapon, Lara decides to explore a coastal tomb, where she finds the remains of a samurai general who committed seppuku. It is revealed in a message he left that he led the Queen's Stormguard, the Oni that defend the monastery, and that the Queen's successor took her own life rather than receive the Sun Queen's power. Lara realizes that the Ascension is not a ceremony to crown a new queen, but rather a ritual that transfers the original Sun Queen's soul into a new body; the Sun Queen had learned to become effectively immortal by transferring her soul into a young girl's body each time she grew old. The last priestess' suicide had interrupted the ritual, and left the Queen's soul trapped in her old decaying body, and Himiko's spirit has wanted to escape that corpse ever since. As a descendant of Yamatai, Sam is a viable candidate, and Mathias plans to offer Sam as a new host in exchange for his freedom. Lara returns to the survivors on the beach to find that Whitman has betrayed them, abducting Sam and handing her over to Mathias. Lara, Jonah and Reyes give chase, heading up a river to the monastery, with Lara arriving just in time to see Mathias trick Whitman into approaching and speaking to the Oni: the Oni kill Whitman. After fighting her way through both the Solarii and the Stormguard, Lara arrives at the top of the monastery where Mathias is performing the Ascension ritual. Lara fights her way to the central platform, and after a struggle, knocks Mathias off the platform to his death. Symbolically, she does so using both her pistol and his in a dual-wield style that will later become one of her signatures. Despite Mathias' death, the ritual is already underway, with Himiko's soul starting to pour into Sam, but Lara then destroys Himiko's ancient remains, saving Sam and dispersing the storms. Lara, Sam, Reyes and Jonah then leave the island and are picked up by a cargo ship: as they sail home, Lara realizes that the mythical stories her father told her were more than stories, deciding not to return home just yet, and the screen fades to white with a proclamation of "A Survivor is Born."
Minimum System Requirements | Recommended System Requirements | |
CPU | Pentium 60MHz Processor | INTEL Core i5-750S 2.4GHz |
VRAM | 512 MB | 1 GB |
RAM | 8MB RAM | 4 GB |
OS | DOS 6.0/Windows 95 | Windows XP/Vista/7 |
Graphics Card | SVGA Video Card | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480 or ATI Radeon HD 4870 |
Direct X | 10 | 11 |
SOUND CARD | DirectX Compatible | DirectX Compatible |
HDD Space | 12 GB free | 12 GB free |
CD-ROM | 2X CD-ROM Drive |
Realistic take and gritty
Challenging puzzle
Good CGI acting
pointless dlc
dead multiplayer
One thing that surprises me that when my wife told me about most of games I play involve killing people. And that is not good thing.
So it #just me. I just recently finished this game, a brave unskilled young lady stranded in mysterious island with her peers in searching artifacts where my wife likes watching me playing the game.
My wife likes Lara Croft and told she is beautiful and told the game is so unrealistic, yeah ofcourse,,, her soap opera is more unrealistic with lowest common denominator of plot writing. But, we enjoy this video game movie where most of time my wife just say some stupid ♥♥♥♥♥ about how I play. (
Also, one thing I will remember in one scene where one of Lara friends dying get shot by enemies and she tries to wake him up and said “Wake Up, you Northener Bastard!!!!” Wow, For me, its like peak of dialogue writing. Imagine you say same thing in real life XD
Game is 8/10 will play the next sequel.
>Tombs are fun and challenging
>Amazing visual presentation, with diverse environments
>Terrible character development
>Way to easy for a game about survival
>Uninteresting and basic story
>Forgettable side characters
>Upgrade system could have been better
A survivor is born, and it grows up to be a bloodthirsty killing machine. “Tomb Raider” is an action adventure in which you take the role of the legendary Lara Croft and survive on a mysterious island after being shipwrecked in a storm off the coast. The island is full of dangers and it is up to Lara to face them, find her friends and escape the island. As you may have already known “Tomb Raider” takes place as a prequel, this being Lara’s first “real” adventure. So this opened up possibilities for greater character development for Lara since little was known of her beginnings before. And it starts out very well actually, we see Lara for what she is at the moment, an actual frightened human being, who was thrown into a situation she didn’t even ask for. She just wants this nightmare to end. At one point she is caught in a trap and has to fight off hungry wolves using only her bow and arrow, the entire sequence is quite intense and fun. She is even thrown into a situation where she has to kill a man in self-defense, which would be a terrible and traumatizing event for anyone. In Lara’s case that event lasted only one cutscene, and after that here comes a shitload of killing sprees. This was the point when the character development just goes down the toilet. There is no transition from “oh, god… what have I done” to “COME AND GET ME YOU BASTARDS!”, yeah very subtle transformation, didn’t even notice it, did you? The jump from self-defense to outright murder is just way to quick to be realistic. There is even a scene where Lara has to jump into a river of blood to escape her captors, when she emerges there isn’t even a whimper on her side, she just shrugs it off. The character development was the main grudge I had with the whole narrative department,
I didn’t even mind the basic plot, to be honest I wasn’t really expecting anything spectacular, just enough to get me from point A to point B.
But story isn’t everything, gameplay is very important as well. So how does the game hold up in the gameplay department? Not bad actually, not amazing, but fun enough to keep you going. Combat is the same thing you’ve seen in every other third person action adventure shooter, and there’s nothing wrong with that, that’s actually good. Lara has a standard assortment of weapons with the obligatory survivalist bow, which is fun to upgrade, and a neat little climbing axe she uses for, well, climbing and of course killing. Another addition to combat is her “survival instincts” which helps you pinpoint enemies you can’t see. While the mechanics are functional there is another aspect of combat, which is very important, difficulty, and this is another thing I’m just mad at. On its hardest setting the game is just way to easy, there is little to no challenge when fighting enemies, the only times when I did manage to get killed were when my whole screen was filled with enemies all rushing to blow my face off.
To put it shortly, it didn’t feel as if Lara was in any danger, it felt as if it was an obstacle to pass. But there is great side activity that keeps your mind working, tombs. These fun little brainteasers brake up the monotony, and there is just the right amount of them. The game offers a neat little level up screen and an upgrade bench but that feels a bit rushed, and a bit unbalanced, you will find some upgrades completely useless and some you will just abuse.
Okay, so you get how the game feels, but how does it look? Amazing. The game looks amazing. The environments are very diverse and detailed and some scenes were actually breathtaking. The first time you exit a cave and see your ship on the beach of the island was very reminiscent of the moment you leave the vault in Fallout 3, it’s the kind of moment that lingers on and on.
Conclusion: “Tomb Raider” is a game that has its ups and downs. It’s a nice addition to the series, but it doesn’t offer enough to make me want more. The game doesn’t really have a clear focus, the story doesn’t offer anything rememberable, the characters are forgettable, the combat is very basic. Survival would be the focus if Lara had to do more “surviving” and not have an unlimited arsenal of weapons and no fear for her own safety. All in all, it’s an okay game.
I had great fun. Soundtrack was great. Atmosphere was awesome. I liked the graphic a lot. The puzzles were ok though some were sometimes challenge 🙂 I enjoyed the story and atmosphere more then the puzzles, which were nice destraction 🙂
I liked the game a lot. Would be awesome to have another one 🙂
Rating: 9/10
-Great story
-No controller mishaps
This game is awesome. The story is fantastic. Very intense and action packed. It’s like watching a movie. The story is that great. Lara Croft makes Indiana Jones look weak. The pain she endures and the nonsense she goes through is crazy. The gameplay was nice. No annoying controlling mishaps. And it flowed nicely.
The graphics were fantastic. And I was on 360. I can only imagine for next gen consoles. And the music was good. It really helps. When the music starts playing then enemies are aware of your location. Which was something that all games seem to do. Once they know you’re in the area they all flood around and instantly know where to shoot.
Conclusion: But overall, it’s a fantastic game. Long story line to complete and lots of other collectables and tombs to find. Certainly worth playing if you haven’t already.