The game puts a limit to your exploration due to the fact that you need "food" in order to walk around the map. The food decreases when you do any kind of task. When the food reaches zero, you die. Because the food decreases at a rapid rate and the game economy is so limited and poor, you have to go back and forth between a few berry patches to progress in the game. You basically have to walk like 50 miles back to a berry patch to get food ind
The story is pretty cool and so is the battle system. I bought the CD version New In Box and now that CD is worth over $300+, but I gave it away many years ago. I can only buy it here again. It is that good of a game. The game art and style and world is colorful and fantastic. I would like to see a sequel because not many games today even approach the depth of this game.
Buying this game at around $1 to $3 is a bargain to own a piece of Lara Croft. This game was made in 2006 and stopped updates in that same year though it still runs on modern PCs. Most Croft games before this year are pretty atrocious in terms of manevouring the character. This game does a bit better, but the aim is very off. You can only hit an enemy standing about 5 feet away from you and at around 10 feet away, you are programed to miss the target 80% of the time. This is not really a shooting game because most of the spaces are devoid of any enemies. You are basically moving around jumping and solving puzzles. Unfortunately some of the puzzles are too difficult and you have to watch videos. I have about 12 hours on this game. 75% of the time was spent falling off cliffs and ledges or getting burned by hazards. I don't think you can play this game on your own without resorting to some outside videos so add about 2 hours to figure out how to beat the game. Game is very frustrating to play and has almost zero fun factor because of the constant dying. Some monsters require precise aiming in order to kill but the aim is so bad in this game that Lara can't survive if her life depended on it. This is more like an acrobatic simulator with cheesy gunplay.
Game does not run. I am not the only person to have this issue. Also, since this Tomb Raider game is from 2003, it probably is a lackluster version. The franchise is only starting to get good from around 2007.
Look I already paid once for this game. Now with "new voice acting", this game wants to charge another $15-30 to upgrade my now obsolete "Legacy" edition to the new version. This should be a free game update for those that already bought.
Stuck in the game due to game bugs. Because I couldn't progress, I gave up. This feels like an underground sewage pipe simulator because you have to pipe electricity lines all the time. The hints are non-existent and it isn't obvious how to progress in the game.
I spent two days farming trying to beat a pack of poisonous mushrooms and I am still dying to their spells. Without beating the mushrooms I am stuck, with no way to progress. You spend about 1 hour running circles ("playing") and you only get about 150 gold in this game, which buys you half a weak ring. You have 6 characters, so equipping them (about 60 pieces of equipment) is a pain. Enemies don't regenerate on map, leaving you to with NO option to level up on weaker enemies. Your food meter depletes constantly and if it hits zero, you're screwed with penalties. You have to buy food or farm it, which leads to a low economy game, where you are just running around trying to forage bushes. Most enemies you encounter are leagues above you. You run into a 4000HP Goblin that hits for 150HP when your party is about 60HP each. 6 swipes of the club and you're wiped out. The game progression is almost non-existent. The other reviewers must are crazy to say anything good about this game. I was hoping for an Albion clone, but this one is not.
This game doesn't seem to work on windows 7 64 bit systems. I don't think they bothered testing the game to see if it plays because it crashes on the campaign. If you are reading this review it may have been too late. As for the game itself, it is as good as Warcraft because instead of a hero you get a superhero in a RTS.
Even if you can get over the retro-graphics of this game, the controls are awful. In order to move you can't point-n-click, you have to hold the right mouse button down. Melee Combat is one-left-click per hit. Unfortunately, the enemies here, small imps that you have to chase around will be frustrating to defeat, because you have to hold pretty much one button down while trying to target a moving target and click on the right spot. There is no auto gold pick up, it is also 1-click per pick up. After 5-10 minutes into the game, you will give up on this game with its control implementation.
