![]() ![]() With her new found skill as a survivor, Lara ventures on to locate and eventually rescue the remaining survivors from their captives. It’s actually physically impossible not to think of both Indian Jones and Uncharted 2 at some point during this game. Right off the bat Lara is blowing things up, sliding through or jumping over mud-riddled ravines, and barely escaping unstable, collapsing caverns with her life. This is where the gamer takes over in one of the more interesting tutorials in recent memory. Lara’s first task is to break free of her bonds. Lara wakes up after an unspecified amount of time only to be knocked out by an islander and carried away to a God-forsaken cave where she is tied up among piles and piles of disjointed skeletons and rotting corpses (seriously, there are enough defiled corpses in this game to make Schindler’s List blush). Endurance, wrecking her a shore, and leaving her crew stranded and incapacitated. Suddenly, out of nowhere, a ferocious storm sweeps up the U.S.S. Our new adventure begins when we meet up with Lara Croft and company out in the vast Pacific, just off the shores of a mysterious Japanese island. What I found was only a slightly more developed plot than per usual from these Raider games. Being an aspiring filmmaker means that story is important to me, so when I actually sat down to play this game, that’s where I focused a lot of my attention. But let’s face it, they lacked in the story department and compared to today’s cinematic standards, almost embarrassingly so. The old Tomb Raider games were fun… in their time. It’s probably also worth mentioning that I soon discovered the new reboot to be (almost) nothing like its predecessors. Much of my time is devoted either to school, work, or movies however, I made an exception for Tomb Raider because I am a sucker for nostalgia. Now it’s probably worth mentioning that I do not play a lot of video games. It took me four days to do so, but I have finally played through the story-line of the much-anticipated Tomb Raider reboot. Tomb Raider (2013): A video game review from a film nerd ![]()
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