Tomb Raider: Legend

The janky controls.. Shame really

I love this game, and honestly after spending hours Steam playing this I want to say that I am happy that this is out on GOG, thank you very much!

It's amazing how superior Legend is to its direct sequel Underworld despite releasing first. Lara jumps higher, swings faster, shoots better and generally controls much better. I like them both but this one has better story sequences and music, too. She's also less of a wimp from minor falls. It's also more straightforward with mechanics and clear where you're supposed to navigate, more often than not. The menus and UI are peak. Sure the graphics are dated and some people's patience may vary with the quick time events but there aren't many of those anyway. All around I have to say this is one of the best entires across all of Tomb Raider's eras and possibly the best by classic standards.

I usually don't like old games but this one was really good to play. It feels like Uncharted; a lot of puzzles, action and climbing. It runs great in a modern computer, I didn't have any crashes or bugs in my whole playtrough; just don't enable "Next Generation Content" nor "Fullscreen Anti-Aliasing". I played with a controller, it takes a bit of time to get used to the camera movement but is not difficult. And the puzzles are fun and "medium difficulty" I would say, you won't get stuck if you're able to think for 2 minutes. There's only 1 boss that didn't make much sense, the spirit. The graphics are old, obviously, but not unbearable, and the gameplay is still great for an old game. Play it if you like Tomb Raider or Uncharted.

Game is great in many ways but unfortenately there is a section in the game where you ride a bike chasing a train and have to fight enemies which is horribly unbalanced at least on hard difficulty I was playing at. No you can't change difficulty setting as you would have to restart the game from scratch. I did get pass it eventually but so many deaths in that section. That section I can imagine will make people quit the game and never look at it again. It ruined the experience of the game that I enjoyed otherwise. Game was fine otherwise but that section just ruined the full experience of the game for me.