Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration

I remember LOVING Rise of the Tomb Raider when I first played it. I went for 100% straight away, and the DLC ended up being the icing on the cake - a bunch of new modes, great extra content for the main game, genuinely a fantastic example of DLC done right. I picked the trilogy up as soon as it came out on GOG, and got to playing it. TR2013 was still great, and I 100% completed it. Rise turned out to be much buggier than I remember - Lara will often ignore ledges and ropes when jumping, causing unnecessary deaths. I've clipped through walls, had the camera zoom in and stop functioning, had a "press F to attack" prompt stuck on the screen until I restarted... None of this happened when I last played the game (on Steam). Maybe I got lucky in my last playthrough, but this definitely tarnished my experience replaying it. Other than that, the game is still great. It takes the foundation from TR2013 and builds on it, improving virtually everything. There's a bigger emphasis on exploration, survival, and crafting this time around, and all of it works great. There's proper side quests with meaningful rewards, which is a huge step up over the first game. Combat is improved, with more stealth options, the ability to craft traps and bombs on the fly, as well as more enemy variety with the addition of more hostile wildlife. Set pieces are as impressive as ever, puzzles are better, but tombs still suffer from mostly being single rooms with no real evolution on the initial ideas shown off. Weapon variety is marginally better - you've still got the same 4 weapons, but each slot has different types available, such as handguns including revolvers and semi-automatic pistols. Upgrades apply to all weapons of a specific type, thankfully, and there's a few that are unique to each type - upgrades for magazines wouldn't make much sense on revolvers, after all! The story's much better presented, but it's not exactly the most memorable. It's not what you're here for, though - the exploration, combat, stealth, and puzzles are all mostly excellent. If you liked Tomb Raider 2013, you'll love Rise. And Shadow's pretty good too! Well worth it for the absolute steal of a price at 90% off (at time of writing). I'd have given it five stars if not for how often I ran into obnoxious (but not game-breaking) bugs. Once or twice here and there isn't too bad, but the frequency of the issues I was having was really off-putting.

fast paced action ,not exploration at all like the olders tomb rider.but afterall a very good game

Cool game. My favorite Tomb Raider

I am so happy to play this wonderfull game. Even on my old Laptop it will work without problems! It is easy to play and not to difficult.Great to have it here on GOG

Ran into some problems running it in 2025, but nothing that could not be fixed by switching off DX12 mode.