Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend (PS2)

A very generous score, I'd have given it a B I think, as enjoyable as it is to play, it's still lacking in many areas. (tedious boss battles - AAARGH!!)

I hope the inevitable sequel, that the game's ending points to, has less gunplay and more of the puzzle solving and climbing/jumping in exotic locales that made the series great back in the day.

I found the boss battles to be much less frustrating than usual. If you go back and play the abomonation from the first game, now that was a tedious battle, with much falling off and just blasting away.

I won't go into specifics to avoid spoiling the game for those that haven't played it, or got to the bosses, but I found the battles in Legend quite good, some of them were inventive, but best of all they were usually quite short.


That is the main hope I have for the sequel too. It's really very illogical to have Lara fight her way through traps and hard to navigate rooms just to find a small army has been there before her and set up camp at the end of the level. The levels in Nepal and England handled this the best I though, Ghana and Bolivia the worst.

One thing, I'm sure we're all contemplating, is where are Shelley Blond, Judith Gibbins and Jonell Elliott now? IMDB tells us this...

Shelley Blond was in Episode 3.1 of Peep Show.

Judith Gibbins has only ever been in Tomb Raider (developer's cousin, anybody???)

Jonell Elliott has been in nothing since Tomb Raider.

As voice acting goes, being the "Voice of Lara Croft" seems to be as much of a career boost as being the "Face of Lara Croft" is for bimbo self-promotion girls.

yeah, man, how could I have forgotten that one.
actually, I think Legend was the first TR game were I never got to the point of throwing every expletive imaginable at Lara. That's got to be an improvement.

But isn't that what make it a Tomb Raider game? I'll miss those moments...

It is a very good game, the environments look more believable, and the gameplay has also improved, all in all it's a solid title.

The only thing that spoils it for me is the voice acting, it can be god-awful in places, especially during the flashback.

The learning curve is also a mixed bag, some of the puzzles are relatively easy, but theres this one level in Japan I am completely stuck on (the one where you have to get the bike from under the glass roof, but I digress)

On the whole, its a great game and well worth the price.

It's by far the best Tomb Raider. At least now I can play it for 30 minutes without being put off by the UTTER S**TE "turn-on-spot", "side-step" control method of the previous games.

That sounds like a cry for help, I can hint if you post where you are stuck.

It was a cry for help, but i've managed to solve it now, cheers anyways!

No problem, I can hint again later if you wish, to stop you having to read a walkthrough.

I personally hate having to see full walkthroughs because I'm always tempted to read ahead and see what I need to do next. Whereas hints just encourage you to think a bit for yourself.

Maybe we should gave a game hints forum?

Lost person: "hey, does anyoen know how to beat that weird water monster in kameo, it sure is a toughy"

Helpfull gamer: "god you noob, first off dont play such stupid fag games. secondly all you have to do to beat it is not suck DICK! powned!"

Inspite of what you may be thinking that was not lifted directly from gamefaqs, although it could have been. I dunno if having a hint forum on here would be nice cause we could potentialy maintaine a nice usefull forum, or if it would be terrible because it would infest these generaly pleasnt forums with the worst kind of people.

Either way im keeping my opinion out of that executive decision cause i don't want any part of it if/when you have to hire a full time staff just to ban assholes.

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