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Lara does battle with this play-world itself, and not simply just the enemies within it. The lighting, the shadows, the flutter of the leaves, the ripples of the water and the shifting of the snow, indeed, these are the richest in-game graphics I’ve ever seen. You will find yourself pausing to simply take in how beautiful a job the developers have done.
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On full detail, the PC pushes well past what next-gen consoles are capable of to produce some truly gobsmacking vistas and play-realms. The most immediately striking aspect of RotTR are the environments themselves. Hidden in each level are these puzzle-tombs just like the old days, where Lara will explore huge ancient spaces littered with deadly traps, solve dramatic environmental puzzles, and decipher ancient texts to reveal crypts of useful loot (in the form of an extra perk or item). Yes, tombs are back, and they’re bigger and better than ever. On top of this main narrative quest is also the return of tomb raiding itself. She’s Indiana Jones, Hermione Granger, and Bear Grylls all rolled into one (and with great hair).Įach level in RotTR is a mini-open world adventure hub where Lara makes her way about discovering secrets, navigating tricky environments and doing away with every living thing that isn’t her. Far more confident than she was in game one, Lara has come into her own now as the Tomb Raider we all know and love – pistol-totting, animal shooting, murdering with abandon, and a veritable well-spring of information on all things archaeological. Lara organises an expedition to Siberia hoping to uncover the tomb of the Prophet of Constantinople, a key figure in the legend of Kitezh. But why? What is their EVIL agenda?! Dammit, Lara must know! Wanting to get to the bottom of it all, she turns to her late father’s research into the lost city of Kitezh and the promise of immortality. Especially frustrating because the nefarious think-tank/secret society/global bad-guy organisation known as Trinity went out of their way to cover up and debunk all said goofiness. The plot is set one year after the 2013 Tomb Raider game, with a restless Lara Croft still bugging over all that supernatural goofiness with the Yamatai (a mystical, lost Japanese civilisation) that went down in game one. Indeed, in Rise of the Tomb Raider, you won’t know when to pick up the controller and when to put it down – the graphics are so sharp, crisp and detailed the gameplay truly looks like one giant CG movie. And only on a PC do they have the tools to polish this gem of a game up until it’s almost blinding. So like any other proud member of the PC Master Race, when I heard Rise of the Tomb Raider would be released on Xbox One in 2015, I immediately thought, “Who cares?! I’ll wait for the superior PC version to be released in 2016!” And I was right.Ĭrystal Dynamics/Square Enix have put together a marvellous and graphically astounding sequel to their already fantastic reboot of Tomb Raider from 2013. I’m sure you’ve noticed it by now – PCs are just better.