Posted on: October 16, 2016

sbester1

Spiele: 251 Rezensionen: 11

Awful. Pure and simple.

This is, without a doubt, one of the worst games ever created by a major game studio. The story about how the devs had very little time to do what they wanted to with it is infamous by now, and it's all lies. The truth of the matter is that they couldn't even get the controls to work decently, which should have been step one (of ALL possible things). The biggest complaint about the first five games was how clunky the directional pad movements were, and yet with this first attempt at a series update, they were made even clunkier. It's pretty much unplayable if you don't have a huge amount of patience and a willingness to re-load saves over and over. In my first hour, I came across a ridiculous amount of bugs in the opening levels. At one point, while riding an elevator, Lara glitches through the top of it and was held floating endlessly in mid-air, forcing me to re-load. I can't even comprehend how this made it to store shelves. The Angel of Darkness will forever be remembered as the game that almost killed the Tomb Raider franchise, and for very good reason. Only play this out of curiosity and if doing a binge play through the series, as most will probably deem it worthy of being skipped over completely.

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Posted on: September 1, 2012

Mazegami

Spiele: 56 Rezensionen: 1

Wasted Potential

I'll be honest, I liked this entry in the series. This game was the most interesting and different game in the tomb raider series and was scrapped because of it. As the review below states, it's an unfinished game that was supposed to be a trilogy and it's such a shame they were too scared to at least delay this one until it was finished properly. Since this game I have been more and more disappointed in Lara's adventures, which is such a shame because I grew up with her, i'm still hoping the latest one will be a little better. I would recommend buying this, but maybe from eBay for about a £1 for ps2.

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Posted on: May 10, 2013

Ganerumo

Spiele: 205 Rezensionen: 1

Flop goes the CORE boat

With a Tomb Raider 5 that was really no more than a Tomb Raider 4 expansion pack sold full price, CORE Design really had to get their head straight with that one. The game was full of promises during its development and got a lot of people excited - melee combat, a new playable character, a more define and open story, sounds amazing! But as we all know today, CORE failed this really hard, and the title fell so flat on its bottom that the dev team never got another chance. Where do I begin about what is wrong with this game ? There is so much to tell. Is it that Lara spends most of the game in a generic denim jacket and jeans, only to get into an even more disappointing black goth inspired outfit ? Is it that the game has terrible controls (especially on PC, the mouse controls still haunt me to this day) ? Is it the visual aspect of the game that utterly fails at producing anything memorable or even take advantage of the PS2's raw power compared to an aging PS1 ? Is it the stamina bar that depletes when trying to even climb something ? Or is it the random unexplained and nonsensical RPG elements such as pushing a crate to get stronger so you can break a lock ? Angel of Darkness is really a full failure, that made no sense and feels like a waste of time more than anything else. Even if you are a full fan of the series, this is still a very bad title to avoid altogether. Thankfully Crystal Dynamics saved the Franchise with Legend and the amazing Anniversary.

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Posted on: August 29, 2014

TheScorpion

Spiele: 371 Rezensionen: 19

Despite all it's flaws....

I'm on the side of those TR fans that enjoyed it despite all its flaws. The graphics are quite nice and a huge improvement over the previous games, and the scenarios are quite nice too. There is a good level of exploration involved, and quite a lot of shooting, and that made it enough to make it at least enjoyable to me. That said, let's go with the bads. The story is a mess, and the most clear indication that this game was not finished. Characters are just not being introduced into the story, they just show up, and you should know who they are, and the biggest WTF for me was the end boss. When it revels it's true identity, Lara pronounces his name like they already met before, which never happened!!. It's just impossible to follow, and the RPG element, full of silly dialogues, don't make it easier. More often than not, it just makes you waste your time. But story telling was never the strong point of any TR for me, but complex level design and tight controls. As I said, the levels are pretty cool, although for a game called Tomb Raider, there should be some more tombs... but I guess that was the idea of the game, to change scenarios a little bit. Controls on the other hands ARE NOT!!. Lara now runs so slow that feels like she is jogging, and is very hard to calculate the appropriate distance for a long jump. Let alone the fact that the same Lara Croft that was able to move blocks 10 times her weight, now can't hang from a rope or wall for more than a few seconds. It feels very different, but still feels like a TR games. But paying 9.99 bucks for this game alone, is just a scam. If it were included with LR and Chronicles, it would be different story, but standalone, I wouldn't pay more than 1 buck for it.

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Posted on: March 9, 2022

Meka868

Bestätigter Besitzer

Spiele: 144 Rezensionen: 2

The controls kills my ability to play

I played this game on PS2 multiple times and even with its jank I enjoyed it for what it was. I thought I would go back again and play it on PC, but I CANNOT play this game with MnK. I tried using a controller on PC, but that just does not work out the box. Google/The Internet seems to have "fixes" for using a controller, but its just too complicated for me to try for such an old and janky game, so I gave up trying. Disappointed I couldn't go back and play this, as I was able to go back and play TR 1 to Chronicles with no issue on PC.

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