The set pieces are incredible creations, making the most of the jungle setting but also sweeping you off to sparkling mountain vistas and rappelling into cavernous underground labyrinths. It's a gorgeous backdrop, lush and teeming with life. The majority of Shadow of the Tomb Raider takes place in the Peruvian jungle, which deftly steals the show from the off. Other characters are more interesting, including an Incan queen whose blend of lofty imperiousness and sense of selfless duty is far more compelling than Lara's own, and a young but capable prince eager to prove himself. He's also her employee, if that gives you any indication as to the current state of Ms Croft's extensive social circle. The story relies heavily on players caring about him, but it's hard to when the one facet of his personality we're beat around the head with is that he is Lara's best (and only) friend and seems willing to risk almost certain death just to humour even her most taciturn of whims. This effort mostly falls on the broad shoulders of her friend, Jonah. It only serves to render Lara more morose, which would be fine if the game ever found an effective channel for her grief other than the two extremes of murderous rampage and awkward sulk.Īnd while Eidos Montreal has doubled down on the character's ferocity, it's led the studio to cast around for other ways in which to ground and humanise her. This interpretation of Lara already felt far too one-note, and it turns out taking an already stony-faced character and then loading them with the guilt of causing the death of hundreds of people does not a dynamic, relatable or likeable heroine make. We're promised a darker take on both Lara's personality and her treasure-hunting impulses, but it never pays off and things quickly take on the same narrative beats we've seen before in the previous two games. But this single-mindedness betrays her, as in her hurry to stop Trinity from possessing a ritual Mayan dagger, she takes it herself and in doing so sets the lead-up to an honest to goodness apocalypse in motion. Since revelations involving the Croft family that came to light at the close of Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara has become ever more obsessed by vaguely evil and omnipotent corporation Trinity. Shadow of the Tomb Raider starts with an interesting idea - to explore the negative repercussions to all this selfish snatching and storing of ancient artefacts that simply don't belong to you. After playing this, the third of the prequel trilogy and the first from Eidos Montreal, I'm sadly still waiting. This chain of events supposedly started her down the path to becoming an iconic adventurer, but ever since that outing, I've been waiting for her to regain that thrill-seeking bravado that I fell in love with, which coincidentally happened to be the reason she's willing to put herself in any of these ridiculous life-threatening situations in the first place. That Lara was dead and buried in her tiny 90s sunglasses with 2013's Tomb Raider reboot, which cast Croft as a frightened and shaken ingenue thrust into horrific circumstances on the island of Yamatai, where she was forced to do whatever she could to survive. Availability: Out 14th September on PC, PS4 and Xbox One.That's why I loved her she did it all and risked everything just for the thrill of the hunt, and had a damn good time while she did it. She was also a millionaire who could afford home gyms and butlers and walk-in freezers - she didn't need the money or the infamy that all these dusty old relics provided. She was beautiful and curvaceous, yes, and intelligent too. Lara Croft was an unstoppable force, smirking in the face of danger and racing forward to the next challenge. Please don't flair text posts as 'Self-submission'.Slick and overly downbeat, Lara's latest sees the reboot trilogy end just as it began.Ĭare of a battered hand-me-down disc, Tomb Raider 2 is one of the very first games I remember playing that had something resembling character. 'Self-submission' flair: This flair is reserved for artwork or videos created by you.This subreddit is for all eras of the fandom, gatekeeping will not be tolerated.Moderators can remove posts and comments at their discretion.Games, Movies, Comics, Animated shows, mobile games & everything related to Lara Croft and Tomb Raider Welcome to the Tomb Raider Subreddit where we discuss everything related to Tomb Raider starring Lara Croft - from her adventures in video-games to her expeditions in movies or perhaps expedition in comics and novels and stories in animated shows, this is the place to discuss the Tomb Raider franchise!
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