Tomb Raider GOTY

Thank you GOG! You made me so happy. I'm just out of words right now. It's perfect!

I purchased this game elsewhere but can't bring myself to spend money on it again, even at GOG. Tomb Raider has a reputation for fun this game (and #2 that came afterward) doesn't uphold. There are some aspects of the gameplay that are very good, and the graphics engine is okay, but the game is severely lacking for the main character, story and setting. There's nothing about this game that would place it as an actual Tomb Raider series game, so it's essentially only Tomb Raider in name, nothing else. There are some great things about the gameplay mechanisms that would be nice to see in a Tomb Raider game that was more true to the story/themes and gameplay of the historical Tomb Raider games. Playing the game is a unenjoyable punishment after a certain point, it gets lame and boring fast once you play it through about half way. Rather than being a Tomb Raider adventure game with puzzles and ancient ruins, this game is more gristly, unpleasant, jarring and scary as if developers were attempting to place the game into the same genre as Resident Evil.

This is not Lara Croft but some distant psychotic relative of her that escaped from some sort of a rehabilitation program right into the jaws of some cult, where they teach her how to become a sadistic killer. If you realy want to experiance Tomb Raider which in reality is an adventure comperable to Indiana Jones movies and Lara in her full glory and beauty then go for TR Legend and TR Aniversary. This TR 2013 would not recommend it even if it was free... at least not under the title Tomb Rider and certainly not introducing younger Lara Croft.

Recently bought an ASUS Radeon RX 6800 XT and unfortunately the game can't even be played with it. 😓 If I'm lucky I can get past the intro movie before the game crashes. Otherwise it crashes after a couple of seconds in the menus. This game works perfectly on Steam though with the same computer and graphic driver which makes no sense at all. And other people reports this as well. Please fix this GOG - I rather play games here instead of Steam!

This is a console game ported to PC. Expect SEVERE problems with 'keyboard & mouse' input. The input problem will kill you routinely. Get used to using the 'reload checkpoint' option. Also, with the keys not registering when pressed, getting past the QuickTime Action scenes is almost impossible.