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Tomb Raider II Gold was surprisingly good

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 14 / 16
Date: November 17, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Tomb Raider II Gold was surprisingly good, considering all the reviews I had seen. Excellent graphics, excellent locations, and best of all, an excellent ending. It was very exotic and exciting.

Favorite of the Series

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: December 28, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I've completed the first three Tomb Raiders now and this is my favorite. The first Tomb Raider doesn't support my graphics card, so it's fun to play but looks horrible. Tomb Raider III was too confusing (had to rely a lot on walkthroughs). In Tomb Raider II, I have the excellent graphics from the third and the straight ahead game play of the first. And the epilogue level had the most wonderful ending. The bonus levels were also a challenge, with a bonus fifth level set in Las Vegas if you got all the secrets in the previous four levels.

Good game fun

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: September 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Somebody here said they could not get the sound to work on this game. For me, Tomb Raider 1's sound would not play on my Windows XP. But Tomb Raider 2 and up work fine for me. As for the game, it's a major graphical improvement from Tomb Raider 1. The graphics are much smoother than more detail and movement went into creating the environments and Lara. Lara now has a swinging ponytail and drops of water fall off her after she goes swimming. Other than that it's pretty much the same game as TR1. You run, jump, shoot and flip switches. If you're a fan of the first game you'll be a fan of this one. TR2 still has the control problem of TR1 though. Mainly in jumping. I've found that holding down the jump button a half a second before you press the direction you want to go works best. It's not the responsive control system I'd hope for. But it's not as bad as other games.

Graphics: 4.5 They're a lot better looking on the PC than Playstation.

Sound: 4.0 The music is pretty good and Lara's grunts can be nicely heard.

Control: 3.5 If only Lara would jump when I tell her to.

Fun Factor: 4.5 The levels are done so well that searching for the next switch to flip never gets boring.

An Excellent Game that Beats the Original - Plus New Levels!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: June 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

From the Great Wall of China to the canals of Venice, Tomb Raider II is the rare case in which a sequel is better than an original. In fact, I find this game to be my favorite of the series. In it the legendary Lara Croft sets out to find the Dagger of Xion. In her quest she navigates the globe, and even takes a couple of trips to strange and magical new worlds.

Tomb Raider II offers significant improvements over the original, and its game play exceeds the other games that follow in the series. The game has drastically overhauled weapons and artificial intelligence. Though the puzzles are not as hard as later versions, they still are quite difficult. Lara has new moves, many new weapons, and more dangerous foes. What more could a Tomb Raider fan - or even the casual gamer - ask for? And as a bonus, this version has extra levels. I found them to be as much fun as the actually game, if not more so. However, they added very little to the plot.

I highly recommend this game, whether you are an avid Tomb Raider fan or somebody new to the series. I don't believe you will be disappointed - in fact, you will probably find many hours of action filled entertainment. And if you do enjoy it, I strongly recommend other games in this series.

This game rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 5
Date: March 13, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I played demos for several different Tomb Raider games, but before long, it was clear that Tomb Raider 2 is the game for me. It is so awesome! I love the plot about the crazed cultists of the Fiama Nera under the leadership of the delightfully mad Marco Bartoli. And it isn't really all that hard. I would reccommend this game to anyone; it's so much fun! I haven't played the extra levels yet, but they're sure to be great! I only have two complaints: 1. whoever designed that spider cave sequence in the Dagger of Xian level should be shot! It gave me temporary arachniphobia! 2. I wish you didn't have to kill Marco at the end, he's the most awesome Tomb Raider badguy. Eidos should take a hint and resurrect him somehow.

This is a truly great pc game that is playable on Windows XP

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 11, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I would definitely recommend this great classic pc game for all lovers of great video games.

For anyone who cant get it to work on XP

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: July 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Hello. I have played the demo for this game and it seems fun exept for the controls. The graphics are great. Anyway, for anyone who cant get the sound to work, read on. About a month ago I bought Half Life for the PC, and it had a problem with XP. All I did was find Half Life's icon, right clicked it and clicked properties, clicked compatibility and changed it to Windows 98 mode and pressed okay. Since then, Half Life has been working fine. If it worked with other games with XP problems, it may work for tomb raider.

Great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 4
Date: March 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Great Game! It's fun, exciting and suprisingly not to violent! It's more than just bang-bang-shoot-'em-up, because it has logic involved! It's a all-around great game!

Think twice before buying for Windows 98 platform.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 10
Date: December 11, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Tomb Raider Gold does not work on all Win98 computers (it didn't on mine) and here is a partial response from tech support: "A single, isolated cause has not been determined in the few TRGold/Win'98 cases we have fielded. (Here they gave me a possible fix which didn't work.) This has worked for the game in two of the cases. We regret the inconvenience." So, just a warning. Tomb Raider III works great and is a lot of fun; I would try that instead.

Beware XP users

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is no doubt a great game, one of the best ever but it has a number of problems running on Windows XP. For me, the music would not play.

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