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Exiting game, new concept of choose your own path to finish

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: June 24, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I like the new concept of being able to play the middle three levels in any order you want. This lets the user feel like they have more control over the destiny of the game. You still have to achieve certain goals, but it adds to the excitement. London was simply amazing with Lara in her black leather body suit, rain pouring down around her on the scaffolds.....very entertaining and exciting. I have all four of the series, still have not finished this one, but I'm looking forward to how it all turns out in the end.

Truly Repugnant!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 31, 2000
Author: Amazon User

The objective of this game is to plunder Third World art treasures while brutally wiping out as much endangered wildlife and indigenous people as possible. It's a truly repugnant scenario and I would not let a young person anywhere near this game.

On the other hand, if you don't necessarily look to computer games for political vision and leadership, you may want to play it anyway. The game is incredibly large with plenty of beautiful and varied scenery to explore, but most players will probably find the gameplay very difficult indeed. I personally found the most enjoyable way to play was with a complete walkthrough solution plus the cheat codes to maximise all items and scores. The game is still a challenge even then!

Excellent but also hard

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 16, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Before you get the game and play it, you get the impession that you need to use a gun a lot because in most of her pictures you see her with guns. She does use her wide range of guns quite a lot but not as much as you might of thought. It is deffinetly not easy so don't buy the game if you are not very good at strategy games. But if you played Tomb Raider 1 and 2 and you liked them then you deffinetly want to get this game. It takes a long time to finish it. The new vehicles that she gets are also really cool.

Frustraiting, but stick with it!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I loved both TR1 and 2, so for Christmas I got TR3. I new it was going to be a bad one from the start, but I kept playing. Sometimes I wanted to throw the controller across the room because the controls on the game aren't that good, but because of the good atmosphere and backround, I would walk around in areas just looking at the scenery. I stuck with it. After getting past India I got to choose where I wanted to go. I stuck with it. The beautiful islands and underwater creatures that swam with you, and the dinosaurs that chased you were so awsome. I stuck with it. London was well done and the cathedrals were too cool! I stuck with it. Nevada was well done with the dry scenery, and the cool UFO and whole alien vibe was scary. I stuck with it. Getting to Antartica finally came, and I loved it there! You travel around in snow (DUH!) and the whole TITANIC boat thing was cool too.

Yes, this game got bad reviews, and sometimes the puzzles get boring and the controls are bad, but if you stick with it, you'll like it. I know I liked it more than TR1! I hope you take a chance and buy this game. I think you'll enjoy it if you have the patience.

This game is the best.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 12, 1999
Author: Amazon User

I love the Tomb Raider series,but this game is the best in my opinion. The music is really great, and the worlds are awesome. Tomb Raider is also very challenging. I don't like those easy games you can finish in one day. The character is great too. There will never be another Lara Croft.

Not the best to begin the series with.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 21, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is my fav Tomb Raider game (the 1st is a close 2nd), but.... It's way too hard for people just starting with the series. You really have to check out all of your options, because secrets are often irretrievable once you passed a certain point (The level River Ganges even has 2 alternative routes, one of which makes you miss out on a secret!) and in other points you really start to think the makers of this game are a sadistic bunch hellbent on annoying the hell out of you.
Some, in retrospect fairly easy, moves kept me occupied for hours. But, all in all, a game isn't a game if it isn't challenging. And this game is challenging to the max!

Tom Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (1998)

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 22, 2006
Author: Amazon User

In 1996, the brilliant TOMB RAIDER was released. Although the graphics weren't great, the gameplay was. The puzzles were difficult but intriguing and fun, the pace was fast, the amount of action kept things going and there wasn't one bad level.
The next year, TOMB RAIDER II was introduced to the world, and God, it was good! It improved upon the original, with each level longer and more action-packed. Even the first level was a treat!
Then in 1998, there was TOMB RAIDER III, and it really fails to reach the height of the first two games. Although everybody likes a challenge, this game is just far too difficult. I've only got as far as Level 2, so I had to use cheats, and I couldn't complete any of the other levels. It's still a good, fun little game, but it's very disappointing.
This time, Lara Croft must find different artifacts dotted around the globes. All of the artifacts are connected to a meteorite that struck the Earth long ago.
Once again, the graphics aren't perfect, although not entirely bad, but it doesn't matter anyway.
To conclude, the first two games were fantastic - so enjoyable - but TOMB RAIDER III can be very boring in parts, and it's just too difficult for alot of people. It's not really the best way to start the series if your new to TOMB RAIDER.

Gameplay: 3/5
Graphics: 3/5
Overrall: 3/5

A review by Dale White.

Not difficult, impossible. However...

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 28, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yes, TR3 is a bear (so to speak ;-). E.g., there's a particular spot at the very outset of the game, hiding under the leaves, which you have to make a blind leap to find, and would never guess is there if someone hadn't told you. But that is in the grand old tradition of Adventure -- the one point remainder (a postage stamp, usually, in the old days, or dropping the magazine in a particular place when you're at your wit's end). The impossible puzzle drags you out of the game and forces you to kickstart your social life, and ASK REAL PEOPLE for the answer. Very legitimate. Same as, "Don't kill monks at Barkhang Monastery" (TR2), and don't kill monkeys either (TR3)! This game is a heckuva lot of fun on a great many levels OTHER THAN gameplay. It's full of visual splendors that rival the next to last discontinuous maze of TR2, and I enjoy everything about it ... except playing. The game part is tedious, unfair and annoying beyond belief. But it's a real collector's item, especially on PlayStation 2 (be sure to keep your PS1 memory card!), and in our family, it's in its second generation of total immersion.

Excessively difficult even with guide book!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Don't get me wrong, I am a big TR fan. I have every single game. But TR3 sucks big time. Although visually rich and detailed, it's extremely and unnecessarily hard to play even with the guide book. The method of saving is excessively awkward, as bad if not worse than the first game. Even with the walkthrough, much of the jumps and leaps require a great deal of trial and error to get the specific angle or character position just right or you die. That's rough! Although the backgrounds are beautiful to look at, they often look so similar from point to point, you can easily get lost or end up running in circles. And to make things worse, there appears to be a glitch in the game's programing. When I finally finished the first section (India), instead of moving onto Arizona or some other section, the game starts me all over again from the VERY beginning in India (level 1)!!! Now I cannot move beyond the first section, and cannot finish the game!!! I was successful the very first time, and moved onto the next section. But unfortunately, when I realized after looking at my book, I had forgotten to pick up the grenade launcher after defeating the boss, I replayed that last level again, picking up the grenade launcher, but then not being able to move beyond to the next section. One can argue that it's just my particular CD that's defective, but when I went to my local Game Express store, I was told by the salesperson that AT LEAST THREE OTHER customers have made the EXACT same complaint about TR3 - the exact same complaint!!!! So I suspect this problem is a design flaw that may be widespread. I know for certain I followed the guide book exactly, and didn't miss anything. I am very, very disappointed!

This game is challenging, but it rocks!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: May 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I wanna' defend Tomb Raider III. I read everybody else's and I've concluded that most of them are whimps. It's very hard, but the graphics are the best out of the three, The levels are cooler, and the guns rock(I like the Desert Eagle)! The The games that I think need work are TR:2,and TR:the last revalation. TR:2 has an OK storyline,but the same graphics as TR:1, and they tried to decorate more and it was too confusing to enjoy. TR:TLR is nothing but a TR:3 imitation with a good storyline, and more puzzles. The revolver is an ugly desert eagle and all graphics are the same. TR:3 had original guns, and graphics. I think if TR:1 had TR:3's graphics it would be better than "The Last Revalation" anyday, but I've gotta' say TR:3 has gotta' be my favorite.

(You even get to blow that annyoing butler away)

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