While the original kicked down doors and made it hip to use lead female characters, and had female empowerment, the series was getting repetitive with the jump platforms and the limited fighting. Tomb Raider 2 and Legend were probably my two favorite original titles, both had a nice balance between fighting and exploring but regardless, it was time for a new more life like Lara and well a reboot, which is what CD did. This game features a very average looking young woman who learns to become very self reliant and empowered as the story moves forward, and more of an adventure than just tossing torches and repetitive platform jumping. My favorite will always be Tomb Raider 2 but this is a close second, and they get props for modernizing her and revitalizing the franchise, even spawned a new film featuring what appears to be a more life like Lara, unlike those bad Jolie films, need to still watch it however before I say its better or worse. In short, this game is solid, controls are fluid with a 360 gamepad, and as always with CD games, one can tweak tons of graphic settings, like being able to turn bloom, I hate bloom, and motion blur, bleh.
In short, great game, not perfect, but no video game is perfect expect for maybe New Vegas but only after downloading like 2 gigs worth of 3rd party mods. ;)