Tomb Raider: Legend

Pros: -platforming is fun -Lara has some cool athletic moves like handstands and different jumps, rolls, etc. -object physics and ragdolls help create a spectacle, especially during fights and bike chases -this game gets straight to business, no need to wait for 15 hours until the game gets good -Lara's cute british accent and banter -perfect length, game doesn't feel too dragged out (took me 7 hours) -Lara's cool and sexy costume designs Cons: -bossfights suck (they're frustrating and unenjoyable) -autoaim and camera can get janky sometimes -story is boring, as well as Lara's two sidekicks Zip and Allister Technical state: This being an old PC game, some tinkering may be needed. Reading an article on Pcgamingwiki helped me avoid potential crashes and graphical issues. Also it took me a while to figure out how to make the controller button prompts appear instead of the keyboard buttons during gameplay. But overall I'd say this port is in a good technical state. Conclusion: This is a solid game. It's full of spectacles and badass moments. I feel like people who've worked on this game just wanted to make something cool, and they've succeeded in doing that.

The game has some advantages, a few interesting puzzles, but graphically it's repulsive, and it's not a matter of old graphics, but rather the design of the appearance of some locations, most of it is quite monotonous, the same goes for the gameplay, and the bosses are repetitive only for TR desperados or fans of this type of gameplay, i.e. jumping and shooting alternately. The AI ​​doesn't have even a little intelligence, and the opponents are bullet sponges, the fight is boring and repetitive, as are the arcade elements, pluses are fairly interesting puzzles and the variety of locations, the plot is also not impressive, it's just there. Typical average.

While these 360 era outings are not held in such high regard as the og trilogy, I believe theyre actually better. Controller works well enough but annoyingly the prompts are all fir keyboard & mouse. A fine outing for Croft. played with no issues on ROG Ally z1 extreme.

At the time of my writing this, Tomb Raider: Legend is nearly two decades old. As such, the gameplay and mechanics have aged, but not too badly. This game is a snapshot of the late sixth and early seventh console generations--more grown-up than games were a few years prior but still unabashedly fun and escapist. Lara Croft herself was a likable and enigmatic character in this trilogy of games. I was too young for the originals, so this was "my" Tomb Raider. I don't know if I can evaluate this game objectively, but it is a lot of fun. Also, all of the female characters (even side characters and villains) actually look like attractive women, which is a far cry from today's gaming landscape.

Pros: - Story. Compared to Anniversary, I like the story in Legend better - Dialogues. With Lara gaining new friends in Legend, there's bound to be more dialogues between Lara and her colleagues. This also provided an opportunity for Lara to show the player her quick-wittedness through her remarks whenever she's conversing with the other characters in the game. One thing I wish could be reduced is the exclamations her friends shout out whenever Lara does a stunt. The "Woohoo! Yeah" parts. Not all of them, but make them less frequent please - Combat Decent: - Soundtracks - Motorbike levels. I find the controls to be pretty responsive when it comes to these levels, but it can get pretty overwhelming at times when the enemies just kept on coming. And the placement of the medkits are always random each run, meaning after you die, there's a chance you won't encounter the same medkits at the same spot you last saw them. Heck, you can even make a roguelike game out of this segment of the game lol - Cutscenes. It's an "either you hate it or love it" relationship. On one hand I like their quality, but at the same time, there's just too many of it Cons: - The camera, just like in Anniversary (meaning the devs still hadn't fixed the obnoxious camera controls). Like sometimes you just have to hope that there's a ledge across Lara because you can't move the camera in that direction to make sure - Lack of puzzles - Crashes in the Kazakhstan level (or even in the other levels after that, I'm not too sure). The game would crash and exit you to your desktop, not until you disable the new generation content option in the display settings. Sure you might not like the brighter look of the game now (since I believe the new generation content adds more shadows into the game, making the graphics darker and more gritty), but if that's what you need to do to get the game running, then so be it I still love this game though despite everything :)