Tomb Raider: Underworld

Play this, in a time where every launche sounds the same, is like remenber myself why i start play videogames. I love this old Lara. Please, bring her back.

The final entry in the Legend series is a disappointment, and it's a shame because I loved the prior two releases, especially Anniversary where it felt like platforming was a legitimate challenge. I appreciate some of the improvements CD made here though, such as the animations (when they work), graphics, and larger environments. As always, the ever-illustrious Keeley Hawes is welcome. However, this game is a chore to play. Each combat encounter feels like a needless slog, with enemies both taking forever to kill while still remaining easy to counter. I preferred the puzzle-like bosses in Anniversary. The climbing animations frequently glitch out, which makes managing Lara and coping with the camera feel like you're actively fighting the game while platforming. "The controls are floaty" is a cliché at this point, but no game demonstrates that more than TR: Underworld. To add insult to injury, these puzzles are so boring and simple, there's no hardly any challenge or lateral thinking to challenge you, instead the biggest trouble you'll have is with shoddy pathfinding. Simply navigating a route takes more effort to plan than anything else. I tapped out in Xibalba while trying to navigate the timed puzzles and forcing my bike down cramp corridors with dreadful handling. I'm usually quite open minded and forgiving of older games, but I realised that I simply wasn't having fun with this one at all. I don't think it's an age thing either, I recently beat Anniversary and felt the platforming was tight, polished and highly enjoyable in that title and it released a year earlier. This one could have used a little more dev time.

sometimes lara jumps off and dies

On WIndows 11. I'm not tech savvy enough to figure it out. I'm an AMD user and when games tell me to install Nvidia drivers I'm almost always screwed. Install this direct x... change this exe setting... nothing works... 1/5 until I figure something out or refund because I can't figure it out. All the other Tomb Raiders work just fine... Only this one crashes over and over after the 2nd cutscene.

what a great game, the puzzles the anamations, it is worlds better than the newer versions I played, where it seemed extremely buggy and Lara Croft looks like a dude