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NOT FOR GROWN-UPS

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: August 14, 2007
Author: Amazon User

If you're a kid with finely-honed, millisecond-sharp gaming instincts, developed over years of repetitive play, you'll probably have a great time. If you're a grown up who, like me, thought you were buying an enjoyable game whose primary challenge is puzzle-solving, then you're screwed. The game is gorgeous, easy to learn, and easy to play. The levels and puzzles are challenging and fun. But when I came to the first BIG boss, the T-Rex, I got destroyed. And then again. And again. And on and on and on... It's one of those shooting sequences where you have to hit EXACTLY the right sequence of keys, at EXACTLY the right millisecond, and then do the whole thing over again several times. If you make the slightest mistake (there's ZERO margin of error here), you're dead, and have to start all over. After 30 or 40 tries, I said "screw it," and packed up the game. Thirty bucks, flushed. Oh well, live and learn. Grown-ups: stay away. Everyone else: I'll be selling mine on eBay.

Wait for patches: there are still some buggs!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 9
Date: June 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Argh! I just bought the game, played for 2 hours enjoying the game... I took a break and tried to load my previous game and suddenly I got the error "Unable to load profile!". Hum.. some googleing and I realized that many persons were in the same case than I and that the problem has been noticed beginning of June...3 weeks later, Eidos hasn't released a patch yet!! What the heck? Their only answer for now is to overwrite a folder WHILE the game is running! Nice, I'm not playing at the same resolution than my desktop so each time I alt-tab, my icons on my Desktop are getting foobar. Moreover, their "solution" does not resolve the problem for the autosave in the manor: all the progress I made seem lost. This is probably an easy patch and I'm very disappointed than Eidos released a game not fully debugged. Advice: wait and see!

Save your money!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 10
Date: September 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I remember, fondly, the early Tomb Raider games; I still have Tomb Raider III around here somewhere.

Tomb Raider Anniversary is simply, a huge waste of your hard earned cash. Laura is uncontrollable; WASD does not send her in a predetermined NWSE direction but depends, instead on which way she's facing. If she changes direction, so the the direction in which she will be sent by the WASD keys. Why anyone would decide this was a good thing, I do not know.

Using the grapple hook is an exercise in frustration as the Q key sits right next to the TAB key. If you miss the Q key even slightly, Laura is in mid jump and, suddenly, you're greeted with her inventory.

Save your cash. This one was a hard $30.00 lesson.

I'm going to uninstall this one and replay TR3. Do the same.

Purely Frustrating

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 8
Date: September 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Save yourself some money. Don't buy this game, because it is too hard to control.

I have tried a gamepad, an optical mouse, and a keyboard. Forget it!

Maybe they have a keyboard just for the game... similar to a control panel on a jet!

On the other hand, the puzzles were designed by "Special Ed".

Laura Croft fall down

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: April 17, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Too many tricks to figure out the game. The author needed to put in a save game button. The author will save the game but where he wants to save the game. Every new site requires a different trick to escape. You need help to complete this game the author gives no clues.

Fighting Your Problems For A Long Time

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 20
Date: June 10, 2007
Author: Amazon User

My first game for the original Playstation was Tomb Raider 2, back in 1998, and I played that game through several times, despite the repetition, box moving, and sense of sadness at Lara Croft's lonely adventures. When I figured out that the monks at the temple wouldn't attack "me" if "we" didn't shoot them, I finally realized what I was missing in my real life, friends.

It's been over a year since I played any video games, since I finished the missions and quit GTA: San Andreas with still only 60% completed. I picked up TR: Anniversary for old time's sake, just to see if I could capture the feeling of the original. I'd tried the demo of TR: Legend some time ago but wasn't really interested. I always thought playing a game on the PC just wasn't the same as using a controller, but GTA got me over that hurdle.

At first I was enthralled by the beautiful graphics and limited number of animals to shoot, instead the focus being on climbing, jumping, leaping, swinging, and trying to figure out where to go next. But besides looking for relics and artifacts, shooting a few animals and monsters, and a few "interactive" cut scenes, that's all the game really is. The puzzles aren't that difficult, and there's always only one way to go.

On every level are several rooms, connected by trapped, animal filled, or empty hallways, and each room is essentially the same: Figure out how to climb up or climb down, empty the water or fill the water, pull the lever to gain access to another room, find the key(s) to finish the level, and repeat. Sure, as the game progresses it becomes necessary to master several moves in order to continue, but I finally admitted to myself, what's the point?, and I quit somewhere in the Great Pyramid where you have to shoot two demons and then swing around the room on poles, crevices and two hooks, with an 18 second time limit. A previous stunt (the snapping block - pillar jump) proved so frustratingly difficult that I had to die and try again over 100 times before getting it (randomly?) just right. Uninstalled, saves erased and shelved.

And just like TR2 this game is depressingly lonely. It may be pretty and challenging, but there is no one to share it with along the way.

Buggy w/extended "timed" obstacles on top of poor control

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 7
Date: August 28, 2007
Author: Amazon User

At first game was smooth visuals, like the one before it, "Legend" was too, but offered more fun and better controls. Saving the game can only happens at certain intervals and several times conditions were so hard to accomplish I would have to play a hundred times or more to finally pass the exercise or choose to bypass it due to extreme problems with improper control or it just being too hard to accomplish. Many times I checked for updates but none to be found. Touched upon a blog for help and a few suggestions were found from new friends, but seemed mostly like buggy glitches in the game were worked around somehow, other than won by sharpening ones expertise in the game. About half way through, I decided to uninstall the game as it became so increasing difficult I was soon just trying to move on without accomplishing very hard tasks that were needed to find relics and such. No sense in continuing if having to leave behind all the relics. The new "wall traversing", was sorely buggy and hard to manage as I think it was really intended. I would have to get past that, which didn't work correctly, even after a myraid of prevously hard jumps and grabs, and then the event was even "timed" on top of it all! I felt like some cruel game producer was trying to torture me. That which started as fun entertainment, soon became torturous and painstaking!
Not to mention that the puzzles can't just be solved by oneself anymore, they are so hard I found them impossible to do without a guide from the internet or a book. What fun is that if you have to read how to solve something "ALL THE TIME!"...... it should be do-able without having to use a guide. Just too hard and a problem instead of a fun mystery, sorry, I just gave up. Very dissapointed, but Legend was great so I may go back in a year or so and get some of the older Tomb Raiders that were just before Legend and play them. Right now I am disgusted that I paid some $30 for this one and disenchanted from trying others for some time to come for now! I will probably just not play them anymore, the way I feel right now. She didn't even look sexy with some top on up to her neck. Couldn't change her apparel, she would get dirty as time went on. Was like she needed a shower and clean clothes, disgusting. Sorry, maybe I can sell it ........ no, wouldn't want to ask money for something as frustrating as this, guess I will just eat it. Too bad, was expecting something way better. How they can go to so much trouble to ruin a good game is beyond me? Why do they do that? Something with so much potential and just ruin it? Sad!

Save your money!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 09, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I was expecting great things for this game since Crystal Dynamics was the developer for this game and was responsible for the great Tomb Raider Legend that I really liked. I played and enjoyed the game up until the Centaur boss level and after spending several days trying to figure out the move combo that would get rid of them, I gave up, and uninstalled the game. A few weeks later I reinstalled it, started at the beginning, and played right up to same level only to be frustrated again. I've played many a game recently, including Quake 4, Prey, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 Episode 1, Brothers in Arms-Road to Hill 30, and the great Tomb Raider Legend; all were fun and had frustrating moments as most games do, but those moments were eventually overcome, without the help of cheats or downloaded save games, and you continued on with the game. Not with this one though. I hear Crystal Dynamics has another Tomb Raider in the works. I hope they go back to Tomb Raider Legend for inspiration and dump whatever they did wrong with this one.

Frustrating

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 6 / 7
Date: July 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The game alternates between acrobatic maneuvers that are somewhat difficult but managable, and battles that are nearly impossible to win. Overall, I found it very frustrating to get to the big battles and get killed repeatedly, and finally gave up without completing the game.

It could have been better

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

The graphics are truly gorgeous, the puzzles are interesting (though not THAT challenging), and though sometimes frustrating (with regards to controls and save system), the game is still quite fun. However, I can only give the whole purchase experience 3 stars, simply because the packaging was of quite low quality. Even though I bought a new game from this site, when I received it, the box was broken and wrinkled, and the disk was already damaged (with burns in the center area, so it did not prevent the game from running). I've been waiting this game for well over a year, and it simply doesn't strike me as satisfying when I look at my video game collection and my supposed-favorite is already damaged (I strive to keep all my games as "good as new" as possible). I caution anyone who is about to purchase this game; you may buy it, but perhaps you might wait till it's not so expensive and the price is the one that a damaged disk is worth of.

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