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Would have thought this was a GBA game!! Excellent

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 10 / 10
Date: July 17, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Wicked game!! Excellent large graphics...Fluid animation... This has some of the best graphical tricks I've seen on the Gameboy. I thought it was a GBA game when I first saw it. Big bacground graphics and lots of them. Parallax scrolling and HUGE bosses make this a stunning looking game. Check out the rooftop level ( IT ROCKS ). You have 5 minutes to get across the top of the New York skyline then you fight the boss witl the Statue of Libery in the background. Nice skyline colors too!! . I love the pace of this game. Much faster and more FUN than the first. Great controls and Lara moves soooo fluidly its unbeleivable. The BEST Gameboy Color game ever!!!!! I'm HOOKED!!

The first was good, the second is better!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: August 25, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I've been a fan of the Tomb Raider games for a while, so naturally I got Tomb Raider: Starring Lara Croft for my Game Boy Color. I loved that game, and it was probably my favorite, but it was really easy and really short. I've already beaten it more then 10 times, and I wanted more challenges. Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword gave me just what I wanted. The levels are more challenging, and the graphics are really fluid. This is an excellent game, and it's well worth the 30 bucks I paid for it!

So Much More Than Before-Lara Takes The Gold

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: July 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Since the arrival of Game Boy Advance, the average gamer might think that the original Game Boy has become defunct. Well-that's not true and this is the game that proves it. Lara Croft:Tomb Raider-Curse of The Sword shines more brightly than any other game in recent memory, and improves upon itself in so many ways. First, the graphic prowess of this game is more stunning than last years title(Tomb Raider Starring Lara Croft), Activision, Core and Edois have really worked hard. The backgrounds scroll with more ease and looks a heck of a lot better too. Enemy sprites have improved too-check out the big guard dogs and see what I mean! The game engine is the same, so expect the same Lara animation from the first. Don't think that's a complaint-it is (and was)excellent. It plays identical too. If you have mastered Lara you'll be able to jump and swing with the best of them. The first game was sort of a hackeyed story, now Lara is out to save herself, in a more contemporary setting, and the story progress from there(the second level is intense!). The levels are big and involve switches and keys, but the fun is never absent. This game is simply not to miss. It is also compatible with Game Boy Advance, so if you have that system and are looking for a good game then this is your ticket. And unlike the first, the color is better and it doesn't show up so dark on the GBA screen(that's what I play it on). Tomb Raider-Curse of The Sword is a game that just can't be pass up. It's challenging, involved, and a blast to play. It may enticed younger kids to play but make no mistake, older players will find this Tomb Raider adventure a definate hit.

Adventure awaits!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: October 28, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'll say this is a great game. i mean it doesn't have to be rated T to be enjoyable. I will say that it is quite challenging but a load of fun. If you like a challenge this is for you!

Excellent game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: November 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I found this game to be almost as enjoyable as the first Tomb Raider game for Gameboy Colour. The action was plentiful, and there were some interesting puzzles to work through in the process of getting through the game.
I have only given it three stars though for two particular reasons.
Firstly, I found it irritating that little prompts kept popping up throughout the game whenever Lara approached an item or a doorway. Perhaps others have found this helpful - I expect it would be to anyone for whom this was their first experience with a Tomb Raider game.
Secondly, and most major: I encountered a major glitch during the sequence when Lara was on the speeding train. Once the train started moving, and Lara begins making her way to the front, you will come across a save diamond. I used this the first time I played the game, and when I had to restart the game due to crashing and burning (I think I actually decapitated Lara that time round), I discovered the graphics were all warped. I don't mean that they were illegible. The graphics appear normal - until Lara starts running across empty spaces, and falls through holes where there doesn't appear to be any holes. You jump her across what you think is the gap between carriages, only to have her fall through an apparently non-existent hole and die.
No matter what I did I could not fix the problem, and I could not reach the front of the train to complete the sequence. Ultimately I had to start over from the beginning again.
I don't know if anyone else has encountered this problem, but to play it safe, use the last available save diamond before talking to the old man and getting on the train. Do not use the diamond that is on the train itself.
That aside, there is a wonderful assortment of scenery in the game. It starts off in a museum, which Lara must escape from in order to pursue the thieves.
From there, after 'defeating' a mini boss on the rooftops of New York, she must negotiate an underground maze of rail tunnels, and then make her way through two hazardous warehouses on the wharf, find her way into an underwater lab filled with zombies and collect and charge all the batteries she needs to operate a mini-sub, which she must negotiate through a dangerous maze underwater. (Hint, save as many of your health packs as you can for this part - you're going to need them)
From this last section, you will jump to the last scenes of the game, set on a distant island.
Some may feel that the final boss is something of a let down compared to the rest of the game, but it all depends on your point of view. It was extraordinarily easy to defeat the boss, but the real fun was in getting to that final battle, not in the battle itself.

The Real Cuse of the Sword

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: March 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is better than some people give it credit for... The only thing that isn't that great is that there is NO BACKGROUND MUSIC! Everything else rules! Personally I find the level RUNAWAY TRAIN the best.

Good game!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: July 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

There should be more games like this, what would be great is if they improved the graphics and made it for GBA. I actually got this when I got my GBA. It is really fun, and not too hard to figure out. This is especially recommended to any Tomb Raider fans. Plus, I got this for a pretty good price.
Pros:
1) Pretty good price (used anyway)
2) Lots of puzzles, not to easy nor to hard to figure out
3) People with GBC still can play it
4) Fairly good graphics
Cons:
1) Some controls are difficult
2) Only one slot for one saved game
3) Some people may get bored early in the game

a piece of my mind

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 2 / 10
Date: July 18, 2001
Author: Amazon User

How can a tomb raider game have an E rating. Its has to be non-action packed if it doesnt have the T rating. Take my advise an dont get this corny game.

Tomb Raider

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: August 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This is one of my favorite games. You start out trying to get from room to room, looking for your gun. There's limited places to go without your gun, because you are not able to get buy the police. This game is perfect with the difficulty levels-they are not to hard and not to easy. I highly recommend this game.

Collector's items

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: December 16, 2005
Author: Amazon User

The Tomb Raider franchise has had its ups and downs, so the three forays onto the miniscule Game Boy proscenium are understandably received with eyebrow raised. The first Tomb Raider for Game Boy Color (simply called Tomb Raider) was an immense surprise, since I did not expect to see Lara Croft rendered in such convincing animation. Reviewers seem to give that game high marks, and I have to agree - the game is playable, and actually fun. Then this one, Curse of the Sword, comes along. The animations are nearly as well done as the original, but seem slightly stodgy, as though some of the subtlety has been dropped out in favor of clarity. GBC TR1 sometimes hides items behind the scenery, making them hard to see; GBC TR2 actually blinks the medipaks and other items with a white flash, making cognitive skills hardwon in the first game unnecessary in the second. But what is done well, is done well. By contrast, the Game Boy Advance offering in the series, Prophecy, has bad graphics - Lara Croft is a cartoon who runs like a dork, with unvarying 90 degree leg bends like a swastika. The GBA character is not Lara, but an idea of Lara utterly lacking charm or nuance. The GBC characters, by contrast, transcend their tiny frames with brilliantly conceived animations that actually suggest a human being, or at the very least, the Playstation or Macintosh Lara viewed small. These are all collector's items.

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