Posted on: August 16, 2012
Athrix255
Игр: 64 Отзывов: 1
Horrible controls aside...
I feel weird when I say that I like this game, but I can't help it, I just do. I was chomping at the bit to play it when I witnessed the preview at the end of Chronicles and bought it the very day it was released- I couldn't put it down until the credits were rolling. Sure, there were glitches, some of them game breaking, others funny, and the controls were wonky as hell (hence the two star reduction) but I pressed on regardless, and as a result I found a beautiful game (this game looks absolutely astounding on the maximum settings...real time shadows and reflections on wet surfaces and water in the year 2003? simply amazing!) with an intriguing plot, near perfect atmospherics, challenging puzzles, and the Tomb Raider gameplay that we all know and love...or maybe I just love. The biggest thing weighing this game down (aside from the aforementioned horrendously awful controls) is the fact that it is a mere fraction of what it could have been, coupled with a prematurely ended plot that will never see a conclusion or additional and much needed explicating. This game is a prime example of why a bad publisher can completely screw over a developer's efforts purely over greed and impatience. Had this game been given even just a year's worth more of development time, I doubt very seriously this game would have the current two and half star rating it holds at the moment and Core may still be developing the series to this day. To think, if this unfinished product is at the very least decent in its current form, imagine what its true form would have been like. But I suppose there's no sense in conjecturing at this point seeing as the game is nearing ten years of age, for in the end all that can be done is to look at what is provided: a game that, while not bad, could have been so much more. Perhaps my strange affinity and endurance for it is more out of pity (and the fact that I am quite the Tomb Raider fanatic) than anything else, yet I will continue to stand by it, until the end, and support this little engine that could...n't.
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