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She's fast and she's furious!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 64 / 83
Date: July 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

I obviously haven't played this game yet but I've loved all the Tomb Raider games and this one looks great! I've seen all the trailers and clips that are available. It's faster with great Max Payne type effects. Now you can fully use her ability to fight by sneaking up on guards and killing them (sort of got to do that in Tomb Raider chronicles). Great new outfit, great weapons and great levels are going to be available. Problem solving is gonna be even harder and the game features new strategies. Lara now has improved flip-jumping abilities as well as having the ability for stronger brainpower. Her fighting capabilty (even without guns) has also been improved! She can now have hand-to hand conflict! And she can grab people and can choke them more often than before. The levels of gameplay have also improved to make them more interesting!

Another new thing (that you would have seen in the "Star Wars episode 1" game) is that Lara can now talk to people and you make the choices. What happens next depends on the choices you make and what you choose to say! Also according to real information the edge graphics are ten times as good as the old ones.

Story? For those of you who've finished Tomb Raider Chronicles you know that Lara is alive! A sinister Alchemist comes to conflict with Lara after a series of bloody murders. The former mentor of Lara "Von Croy" died. Lara was blamed for his dead after a series of events (see Tomb Raider: The last revelation). Lara then gets furious. She's a fugitive. A criminal in the eyes of the police! Lara barely escapes a lot of the police chases that have dogs barking behind her back wherever she looks. It is up to Lara to reveal the truth and stop the Alchemist as well as the secret powerful alliance. If the alliance regains it's power-trouble will occur. It is up to Lara to stop it from unleashing it's power!

Does the game sound good so far? Yes? Well it's even better. Be sure to check out the Tomb Raider trailer for the game that you can find in various places on the Internet!...

NOT TOMB RAIDER in any sense of the word

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 16 / 16
Date: May 22, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Wow, am I gullible. I read all the other bad reviews about slow game play, glitches, and an awkward Laura. I thought, no, it can't be that bad; after all, it's Tomb Raider, and they've all been a lot of fun. Big mistake. First, the levels are boring! No surprises at all, and while there is a lot of area to explore there isn't much going on at all. There are about 1000 doors that don't do anything, so I'm stopping at all these pointless doors. There are also several timed puzzles where you only have 30 seconds or so to do something, which was fun and challenging in the previous episodes, but with such lousy controls its frustrating as heck to make her do what she needs to do.
Second, the controls are horrible. Laura does a few new things, like climb things by herself, but its annoying not helpful. The movement is slow, even on a fast computer, like driving a car with both front tires gone flat. You press the button and wait around for her to start moving. I have noticed that if you start moving forward while trying to turn, she starts off walking, which is horrible when trying to line up a jump.
Third, it looks like the developers went to great length to do away with the square world Laura was living in before. The result, however, is that you never know if you'll make a jump, and the vertical distances are horribly distorted.
Fourth, the camera is unbearable. When Laura is close to a wall preparing to leap to another ledge, for example, it's very common to be looking at the top of her head. There are numerous times when the camera won't realign on its own or even if you try to force it. More than once, I was looking at Laura from the front, and the camera was on the ledge she needed to jump to.
Fifth, the glitches are embarrassing. If car manufactures tried to get away with shipping a product that worked okay most of the time, people would freak out and manufactures would be scrambling to improve the product or just go out of business. Laura stands in mid air, gets stuck to walls, and when I try to quit the game, half the time it hangs and I have to power down and restart. I know its possible to make games without glitches.
Like the other reviewer I found myself screaming at the computer. If the game were fun, it would be easier to forgive the glitches, but its just boring. It's just going through the motions, not playing. Please, buy it used if you have to own it, but don't say I didn't warn you. The one good thing is that you can play from the hard drive. Makes me wonder why so many are available used, hmmm?
Thanks for reading

waste of money!!!!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 9 / 9
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Oh man, this is horrible! I'm a Lara junkie, and I'm completely embarassed by this horrid game. The PC controls are a joke, you just seem to spin in circles when you're just trying to make a simple turn. I feel completely ripped off by the folks at Eidos for releasing such a bug filled game. Game locks up at the worst possible moments, cut screnes are too long and dull, just let us play the game without the need to watch a movie every level...put all that energy into fixing the movement controls and lock up issues. Please, don't waste your hard earned cash on this!!! Maybe Eidos will get the message.

wow!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 20
Date: October 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I don't know why everyone hates this game so much. I've been playing Tomb Raider on Playstation since it came out. I decided to get this for the PC because I'm on the computer more than Playstation. Anyway, the graphics are AMAZING. There was one or two glitches in the game with the graphics for me, but nothing too distracting and it didn't take away from gameplay. I always thought the previous games were lacking in the graphics department so I was pleased. Secondly, the controls are different in some ways, but you can fully customize them. This came in handy! Lara moves more realisticly, and I know some people are hating how slow she is. But it isn't THAT slow, you get used to it quickly. Also, the strength power ups are fun to achieve, and adds a new demension to the game. The story line is also interesting, and I like how you can choose what to say. In this game you can also play a different male character, which I didn't enjoy as much, simply because I like being a kick butt girl.

Well, I gave this game FIVE stars for being a fun, not TOO challenging game. Just so you know, I run this on a 2.4 gig Athlon, 512 meg memory with Windows XP, and I have a 64 meg radeon graphics card - it runs perfectly. NO crashes, no freeze-ups.

Better writers, worse programmers

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 10 / 11
Date: July 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

It seems clear that being involved in the movie business has gotten Lara's creators access to much better writers and actors than they ever had before. AOD has some of the most believable dialogue I've ever heard in a TR game (remember TR 1's bad guy yelling, "I'll heal and hide you to a barn door yet!"?). The story is likewise well-crafted, exciting and logical. Marvelous movie-quality acting, music, and graphics. Thanks, guys.

On the other hand, the controls have gotten really buggy and jumpy. Sure, Lara can now sneak and look around corners -- but she has great difficulty just standing still. Try to turn around fast and you're likely to find yourself frozen to the spot. The endless pistols are gone; instead we have six different variations on basically the same gun. And all the controls are mapped to different keys than before. They're not really making her more versatile, just more ... confusing.

Excellent, not in this lifetime

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 7 / 7
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

After many frustrating attempts and long delays to buy this for PC, I feel like chucking the whole thing. Not only is the whole thing bug ridden, from having to CNTL/ALT/DELETE to get out of a bad security camera bug, to see through characters, falling through floors, and deadly sewer rats that you can't kill or run around. But I also get a character that walks like a druggie with bad posture. If I'm going to shell out $... I expect way more from a game.

This game reminds me of Word for windows, it spends all it's time trying to anticipate what I want, NOT just doing what I said. Ok so my grammer is poor, and I can't spell but can you please just walk in a straight line, and not spin around on the stairs like you're trying out for some kind of square dance marathon.

Sure the graphics are good, the dialog is good, but the cut scenes drive you absolutely crazy. Especially in those few situations where you have to "get out quick" before she blows up, and you're spending half the night clicking every button in sight to get it to "JUST LET ME PLAY!". Then there are the load times to get from one place to another. In the "Paris getto" section, every 1/2 block you're loading the next screen.

Don't expect an extremely enjoyable game, only those obsessed with finishing will truly enjoy the challenge. It could have been so much better. She's a great character, but this game makes you wish she'd stayed in the tomb.

Should have waited to release, rather than sacrifice quality

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 11
Date: June 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is, by far, the most bug filled game I have ever played. The new control system is extremely clumsy and will leave Lara die-hards wondering what the developers were thinking when they decided to revamp the old one. I hate to say it, but I think EIDOS was more concerned about not missing another promised release date and sent out an unfinished product; the obvious quality issues are apparent in the first chapter and get progressively worse. I would not be surprised if the company has to issue a recall for this defective product. On a positve note, the improved graphics are beautiful, but are hard to appreciate because of the frustrating gameplay.

Tomb Raider....Code Name Veronica

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: June 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Is more fitting as Lara's latest adventure plays more like a Resident Evil Game than a Tomb Raider Game. No, Cancel that, The Resident Evil Series is far more playable.
One of the beauties of the orginal games was the Gameplay, crisp , responsive controls..nearly glitch free. After playing the original games for a few hours, everything became intuitive, the control scheme, gameplay (jumps,running, sliding, climbing), what Lara could and Couldn't do
So what do we have with this game? Rubbery controls, a floating Camera that is truly annoying. I found my self centering the Camera behind Lara everytime I turned her, or jumped on a crate..tons of needless button mashing! and Glitches , Glitches, glitches, (e.g. sometimes Lara will not climb onto a crate for some reason, or she will get pinned against a wall, and can't move etc...)
The Stealth componenet is just silly as is the "Body part" power ups...("I feel Stronger). Note to Edios...Play Metal Gear to see how a true stealth game is made..and leave it out of the next game!!! Lara is NOT A Navy SEAL, she is an Archaeologist...!!
The Premise of the game is good, and i liked that aspect, very much, but as usual with Eidos..they get "wowed" by thier own cleverness in the graphics department and overkill it (See TR III's dynamic lighting effects)...so much so that the most important aspect suffers...gameplay!
We can only hope that the next game returns us to what we were expecting in this one..an actual Tomb Raider game! with GOOD Gameplay and Tight Crisp Controls.

Hello, Something's Wrong Here

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 8 / 10
Date: November 23, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Wow, I have never played a game with so many bugs straight out of the box! Problems with audio, graphics, controls, walking through walls... I could go on and on about all the little technical upsets in this game, but you've probably already heard them all. On the good side, AOD is a big leap in a new direction for Lara Croft. The new graphics look great (when they work properly), the music is amazing (although the dialogue sounds like chipmunks), and the controls are very simple (yet opiated). The plot is intriguing, the interaction is new and interesting, and Lara is still a major babe. But let's face it, Tomb Raider now has some awfully big shoes to fill, and this release was botched and completely unacceptable. Everything wrong with the game was a big distraction from the game itself. I was less disapointed when they animated Link as a queer looking cartoon. I give TR:AOD 1 star for original idea, but no more can be credited due to the incompetence of this games poor production. Shame on you EIDOS, shame on you.

Big Disappointment

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: July 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Well, what more can I say? I glanced at a few of the recent reviews just now before writing my own -- I won't add much, but wholeheartedly echo the feeling already expressed.
I haven't owned all the Tomb Raider games - just II & III before Angel of Darkness. The others were fun to play. This recent incarnation of Lara Croft is just plain bad! What a waste of money.
In its defense, the graphics are beautiful for the most part. Except when they don't render due to bugs in the game or whatever. The latest drivers for my ATI 8500 All-in-Wonder have helped a little, but there are still plenty of areas where Lara disappears, or charaters heads are gone, or walls blank out or something similar.
The worst part of the game has to be the antiquated controls. Why not something like most first-person-shooter games have adopted, using the mouse to control Lara? It's almost painful trying to move Lara around the screen! What about Max Payne's controls? Or Return to Castle Wolfenstein? Those games play beautifully.
EIDOS tried to do too much with this - an overhaul of the entire character of Lara Croft, an overhaul of how the game is played (when do I even get to fire a gun?) - without changing the control of the character. It used to be run or walk, jump, grab, climb, shoot. Now its's.... nothing! Seriously, I have no desire to play this game anymore. I play UT instead.
I don't recommend buying Angel of Darkness.

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