Man I love the Tomb Raider reboots! I mean, I loved the first two games. But The Shadow of the Tomb Raider is like....bogus man. The story revolves around Lara and her pal Jonah (who I'm pretty sure fucking died in Rise) for to find more magical bullshit to save the world from Trinity. On paper that's fine, I expected that because of what happened in Rise. But Shadow somehow manages to make this escalation of the conflict of Trinity boring and anti-climatic as fuck. Lara herself shows no real growth, outside of being a better murder machine, she remains a selfish ***** in a lot of ways.
I was really hoping for more, I wanted to see Lara be more mature about her exploration of tombs, about how she handles combat, about everything really. And she just doesn't. This was supposed to be the game where Lara becomes the confident, calm, cool and collected badass she is in the original games. Instead she is basically the same, though I swear her voice actress has lost her accent most of the time.
Perhaps Shadow was a rush job of a game. Rather than develop Lara and her story, they created all these bogus and bullshit reasons for her to do shit, without really providing a satisfying resolution.
On the bright side Shadow does do some things well. The puzzle tombs are much better than any previous game, which I would assume. The combat is a lot cooler, especially in regards to stealth capabilities and you really can play "Lara Croft: Predator" in this game which is awesome.
I mean I guess I'm just sad that the story failed me. Gameplay, combat, graphics, everything else is fine. Just the story is soooooo fucking....meh.
Shadow was supposed to be in my top games of the year list. Instead it's gonna end up on the Disappointment list and that just sucks.
I was really hoping for more, I wanted to see Lara be more mature about her exploration of tombs, about how she handles combat, about everything really. And she just doesn't. This was supposed to be the game where Lara becomes the confident, calm, cool and collected badass she is in the original games. Instead she is basically the same, though I swear her voice actress has lost her accent most of the time.
Perhaps Shadow was a rush job of a game. Rather than develop Lara and her story, they created all these bogus and bullshit reasons for her to do shit, without really providing a satisfying resolution.
On the bright side Shadow does do some things well. The puzzle tombs are much better than any previous game, which I would assume. The combat is a lot cooler, especially in regards to stealth capabilities and you really can play "Lara Croft: Predator" in this game which is awesome.
I mean I guess I'm just sad that the story failed me. Gameplay, combat, graphics, everything else is fine. Just the story is soooooo fucking....meh.
Shadow was supposed to be in my top games of the year list. Instead it's gonna end up on the Disappointment list and that just sucks.
