A million sexy points from Angelina Jolie couldn’t do much for the Tomb Raider’s first few installments. While other video games had gone places, Lara Croft could only dream of getting there. But credits to a whole decade of fixing uncomfortable controls and choppy motion graphics, she’s at last arrived. Legend props the series up to parity with sweeping evolutions and the courage that survived its forerunners.
Tomb Raider: Legend anchors on Lara Croft’s unquenchable thirst for her past and a passion for solving the mystery of her mother’s death. Somehow, she snarls with the legend of King Arthur and ends up pursuing a magical sword’s fragments that have been scattered around the world – great justice to all that plat forming and box-pushing that take you everywhere from one exotic neighborhood in Ghana to another in Kazakhstan.
Principally, Lara’s artifact-chasing exploits will have you working with switch puzzles through every level at the same time as looking for the artifact. But you’ll want to know there’s certain cunning to these puzzles lest you fall for them and lose. The whole effect is as cunning since you’d always want to beat those puzzles and while your adrenaline rushes to the point you actually figure them out, it drops because now there’s nothing much to do but find the hidden pieces.
The story also tends to be just a little bit jumbled, even though it does make ideal excuse for Lara’s global itineraries. If you have an attraction for guns, there’s nothing renowned about the guns in Legend. But save for these minor dissatisfaction, you get to pump some real adrenaline just the same.
In between destruction and tombs, you could lock on to an enemy and squash him to death, throw grenades, launch air strikes, or leap onto to a speeding Ducati which is so ideal because the controls have just become more liquid and, by all chance, more cooperative. Camera woes are just about over as well, although it still could get bothersome when you miscalculate a jump because of a wrong position. You’ll appreciate those powerful designs that progress to a more intense feel of danger as you outdo one level onto the next.
Absolutely fantastic register on the Xbox 360 with all that crisp visual detail and all too compelling scenes. This advanced illusion is created by the console’s 720p with anti-aliasing coupled with Crystal Dynamic’s sound that creates an overall unique dimension to the game it practically pulls you right over into scene with Lara- whether she’s bouncing off rock walls, fighting crooks in an Arcadian village or colliding with cars.
Tomb Raider: Legend has positively nailed it down at last and obviously deserves every good video game review it has gotten so far.
