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The Best Before 'Anniversary'

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

So many people say TRIII is 'too hard', 'too many puzzles', waaaah... Before Anniversary came out, I considered TRIII to be the best one of all. The levels included India, South Pacific Islands, Nevada Desert, London, and Antarctica.

INDIA: While some may say the levels made no sense, they are my favorite. With some cunning and a little looking around, I have found shortcuts, solutions, and secrets without help from a guide, although at times I had to look online for walkthroughs. 'Jungle' is the easiest and my favorite; 'Temple Ruins' amps the difficulty level so that you cheer when you finish it; 'River Ganges' is straightforward and a lot of fun; and 'Caves of Kaliya' is claustrophobic, and I usually just skipped it.

SOUTH PACIFIC ISLANDS: The beauty of the levels is breathtaking, even now in our days of 100,000+ polygon cliffs. There are whitewater rapids to manuever with a kayak, dinosaurs to kill, mind-bending puzzles to overcome, and plenty of surprises on the way. 'Coastal Village' features a few 'heart attack' moments and plenty of puzzles to overcome; 'Crash Site' features dinosaurs, swamps, and gloomy jungles with back-then impressive misting effects; 'Madabu Gorge' features whitewater rapids and the tugging need to remain above water; and 'Temple of Puna' features rolling traps, spinning blades, more 'heart attack' moments and the return of the rolling boulder.

NEVADA DESERT: With a little ingenuity and curiousity, these levels can be found to be easy once you find the correct paths. However, these levels are extremely challenging. When playing on the PC, you may want to download a Savegame for Area 51 due to the difficulty. 'Nevada Desert' is easy and lots of fun to play, featuring high dives off cliffs, plenty of nooks and crannies to explore, and lots of pickups. 'High Security Compound' is the more difficult of the levels as you bust your way past guards, convicts, machineguns, 'wrong buttons', high drops, and deadly trapdoors. 'Area 51' is a curious, alien level of mysterious buttons, weird doors, and more guns as you battle your way deep inside to reach the ultimate pickup, Element 115.

LONDON: While expansive and taking command of an old version of the now-frequently-in-use Skybox for Tomb Raider, the London levels are tough and feature long drops, barbed wire, rats, guards, dogs, a machine that has short-circuited, spinning underwater blade traps, etc. 'Thames Warf' is one of the most difficult, although it's funny to see the end of the level from where you begin the level - a bit of trickery and teasing; 'Aldwych' is very difficult, taking place in the subways beneath London - keep on your toes or get crunches by a passing train; 'Lud's Gate' takes you deep within a museum in search of embalming fluid for a faceless man; and 'City' features a battle against a Natla lookalike, Sophia Leigh, in search of the Eye of Isis.

ANTARCTICA: The entire group of levels takes place either in the RX Tech Mines below ground or on the frozen surface above. 'Antarctica' forces you to travel downstream in search of the key that unlocks the hut near the start; 'RX Tech Mines' features battles against mutants with seriously bad breath; 'Lost City of Tinnos' is a bizarre level where it will take a walkthrough to find your way out of the starting room; and 'Meteorite Cavern', where you face a giant spider mutant.

Well, that's my review for Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft. I hope this is helpful to you in your various Tomb Raiding adventures!

I love this game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 23, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I am a HUGE Tomb Raider fan! I love playing the games! This was actually my first game that I bought and I fell in love with it. The graphics may not be that good to others, but the graphics are one of my favorite things about the game.

EXTREMELY challenging!!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Tomb Raider 3 is the hardest of the Tomb Raider series (at least in my opinion). It has a very complicated plot, decent graphics, and a moderate amount of action--although I have not completed it myself. It could use more action and less puzzles, however. The biggest problem with it that I've faced is that it has a lot of bugs and errors throughout. Some errors can be fixed without a lot of hassle, others can be fixed but with a lot of hassle, and some can't be fixed at all. Myself, I don't have a lot of patience, I just play the game because I love challenges. So, unless you have a LOT of patience, or enjoy tough challenges like I do, TR3 is not for you.

TOO HARD

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 13, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Tomb Raider 3 was by far the most difficult Tomb Raider I have ever played. I'll admit, I used every cheat in the book in order to beat the game. But can you really blame me?

The game first starts off with an incredibly difficult jungle level, in which you have the option of finding a few secrets and then beginning the level, but regardless, you'll be jumping to a slope and then jumping over a set of spikes, and then (surprise!) jumping over another set of spikes, and finally landing at the bottom with a save crystal and a bunch of different directions to go. Don't go into the sinking sand and watch out for anything that looks dangerous because chances are, it'll be the last dangerous think you look at.

Finally, after a period of a week to a year, you've finally beat the jungle levels... WITHOUT CHEATS! Well I bet you were quite tempted! Now choose your destination. The strategy guides all tell you to go to the Nevada Desert, and then to the South Pacific, and then London. If you watch the entire "Story So far..." feature, you'll notice that the game plays the scenes with South Pacific first and Nevada Desert last. So nobody cares what order you do it in, it doesn't matter much. And believe me; you WILL get frustrated either way, so go to the one you want to go to first because it will take you FOREVER to finish that section of levels.

Finally, after God-knows-how-long, you finished the whole globe, and get this; you did it ALL WITHOUT CHEAT CODES! I congratulate you. NOW WE GET TO GO TO ANTARTICA!!!

Yippee.

Antarctica is incredibly difficult, and it ends with a big, mumbo-jumbo mother-of-all-spiders human-headed thing. Oh, and one shot with the rocket launcher just won't kill it! And one thing to keep on mind, one-hit K.O. As in, if it hits you once, it will kill you. Good luck!

But in spite of all of that, I really enjoyed seeing Lara in new costumes and playing in her new house. It was a lot of fun to get the racetrack key and find the shortcut at the racetrack. I must say, I really did enjoy Tomb Raider 3.

If you like challenges, then Tomb Raider 3 is definitely for you. And regardless, the Mansion is definitely worth the 5 dollars that Tomb Raider 3 now cost at Game Crazy. But, if you're anything like me and do not enjoy getting so frustrated over a horribly pixilated British woman in a jungle tomb, then get ready to memorize " Draw a flare, take one step forward, one step back, turn around three times, then jump forward" if you want to beat this game!

Too hard....

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played all the tomb raider games over the last couple of years. Though this game offers the best range of weapons and environments but is clearly the hardest. There is more puzzle-solving than firefights and NO hand to hand combat!

POSITIVE ASPECTS: New, improved Lara
New weapons (Isreali Desert Eagle, Rocket Launcher)
New moves (Sprint, double flip, handstand, monkey swing)
Cool environments (Antarctica, Indian Jungle, Area 51)
Intelligent enemy AI (survive the challenge of wolves, giant ravens, a mutated spider, Area 51 guards, etc...)
Brilliant engine and graphics (you can even run this with a 200MHz pentium 2)
Lara looks sexy!

NEGATIVE ASPECTS: The game is actually too difficult. You need to buy the strategy guide (nowadays this probably costs more than the game)
There is no hand to hand fighting system (Lara relies totally on her weapons)
It is a bit outdated (if you want to buy a modern game wait for the Angel of Darkness)

FINAL VERDICT: Though better than the first Tomb Raider games its diificulty rules. It is for this that it loses two stars. Generally with the TR series, I find it is a copy of Indiana Jones and lacks ideas of its own. However, I would reccommend this game to anyone who likes adventure games!

XP Please

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: April 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Can't get this to run correctly under XP and no patches available from Eidos. Game collects dust now...

Great imagination but lacking realism.

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Better than TR2 for sure. It has some brain taxing levels filled with puzzles, secrets and some enemies. I'm glad to see they have cut back on the enemies and focused on the puzzles and scenery. They have definatly picked some good locations for the game, with brilliant details that are authentic in style. Unfortunatly that is where the authenticity ends.
The level makers should have done some research on these locations and made them more like they are in real life. OK, I know it's an adventure game that is meant to be fantasy, but I do feel they could have checked things out first.
Examples; India dosn't have pyrannas(Brazil does), the Ganges dosn't end in a pond, St.Pauls Cathedral looks nothing like that(that must be the worst rendition of it yet), the British Museum is not next to the Lloyds building, and Area 51 is more spacious than that(I saw it on a TV programme, I swear). I won't judge the Pacific levels though, I don't know enough about them. They realy do need to watch their locations more.
Enjoyable game though.

The best!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 21, 2002
Author: Amazon User

It is one of the best tr games.It has a well built story line{ok not better than tr4 but this is an other matter.It is very good.That's all!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Great grahics and gameplay, but too HARD

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Ok, I have never tried out any of the other Tomb Raider games, but after playing this game, I'm tempted to start purchasing them, based on their good reviews. This game has great graphics. Lara never gets stuck in walls or have any graphical deformations. The enemy creatures look very cool, but don't get me wrong, those pesky monkeys get very annoying. Well, actually, I've only seen very few creatures, because I can't get past the second part of the 1st level. Which brings me to my next point-(This could take a while, so try not to fall asleep from my rambling) THE DIFFICULTY LEVEL IS EXTREMELY HIGH. They give you no clues what so ever about the puzzles, they just expect you to put your thinking caps on and figure it out. There are switches on walls in the middle of nowhere, and all you here is a door opening, and you have about 15 seconds before it closes. Or, switches that rig boulders so you have to sprint , stop, turn and climb into a secret alcove ten feet above your head Oh, and say you want to take a little swim? CHECK THE WATER FIRST! Because sometimes, the water will be infested with little fishies...PIRANAHS. The split-second you climb into the water, you will be attacked by a mini-school of them. Feel free to sit there motionless while your health goes down all the way in 0.09 seconds. Confusing- You get more health drained when you get bit by fish then when you get attacked by a tiger or cobra. Hmm, intresting. Oh , also, if you get to the second part of INDIA, the TEMPLE RUINS (the farthest I've gotten) as you explore, watch out for cobras hidden in the grass, almot totally camoflauged. Which brings me to my next point. (sigh) I find myself using up flares in almost every tunnel or tiny space I am in. Every space is so dark. You could either use flares, or turn the brightness on your moniter way up. Those little flames go fast. They should provide you with a flashlight. Well, I would recommend this game to anyone who can sit through this game without crying\screaming\bashing in computer with a sledgehammer.

Few Tasks Too Many

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Yes, I did find this a bit cumbersome. I wanted a more puzzle oridented game. I kept getting stuck in seemingly absurd situations and go to a walk-through forum to make progress. One of the comforts is that a cheat code can take you to the next level, if you get frustrated through not being able to figure out some trick to advance. Lara is a great character. But in this game she is faced with too many obstacles and impossible-to-discover secrets to make the game truly enjoyable.

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