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DO NOT BUY THIS GAME until you test it!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 11
Date: June 06, 2006
Author: Amazon User

DO NOT buy this game until you download the demo from somewhere and try it out. If you have the wrong graphics card, or are not completely sure your graphics card is up to date as of tomorrow, test first. Otherwise, like me, you end up with a useless game which will not even start up. Even driver updates to my card would not get this game to work. And I cannot return it or I would loose 50%, shipping back, as well as repaying super saver shipping. What a waste!

Good Times!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: June 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Short and sweet. My husband got and played this game in one 6 hour evening. He got home form work started playing and was finished by bed time. Althought there were some sections that actaully stumped him briefly, I have to say that for the price and anticipation of this game I am disappointed. But still gotta love Lara!

Real Pitty. Could have been great.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 7
Date: May 02, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Judging by the other reviews, I am one of the very few people with no previous TR exposure whatsoever. Yet I was attracted to this game by the great reviews. I bought the game, hoping to partake in the hype.

Boy was I in for a disappointment.

The game looks neat, it has great music and gfx, and probably also has a good story line. From what little I have seen (of Bolivia), Lara is cool, witty, sexy, and *should* be fun to move around. If only that was an option.

It is not because the controls are a NIGHTMARE. It is a complete myth to me how in 2006 A.D. a third person view can be so utterly useless. There have been games out there in third person perspective for ages, such as the venerable Oni or Max Payne. Oni just works, because there is no "camera" that is independent of the character's movement. The mouse moves Konoko (the main character in Oni) and the view at the same time. The direction keys don't *turn* Konoko, the make her *strafe*. You turn her with the mouse, on the spot and on the move alike. No frills, but it does the trick perfectly.

In TRL, the camera NEVER works the way you expect it to. What it does is showing you Lara, smack in the middle, and mostly her back or ... yeah, the butt. If you turn her around, all you get is ... the front side of her. If you want to see what's behind her, you have to move the mouse 180 degrees around, but then again be prepared for sluggish mouse movement, which if you're lucky gives you some angle, unless you have her standing in front of objects (such as walls, rocks, or vines, of which Bolivia is full). Then the camera cannot get away from her, because you cannot see through finger-thick vines, alright. Instead you get Lara again, or rather part of her, full-screen. My right hand joint started hurting after one evening of fruitless effort acquainting myself with the camera. I am a hard-core UT2K4 player, believe me, I know when joints *should* start hurting, and it's not after fifteen minutes into a game.

The camera movement *might* be bearable if this was a non-action title. Alas, it is not (and wouldn't be TR if it was). In fight scenes, I constantly ended up looking at Lara's back of head sitting square between me (the camera) and the enemy. Utterly frustrating.

I understand that some people do manage to play the game regardless of the control issues. I envy them. I also see that many other people are just as annoyed as I am. The *least* I would expect of a high-class game such as TRL is that you have *options* which let you adjust controls. All the more so since apparently the controls have been a major issue in previous games as well as during development of this game. It is beyond comprehension how Eidos (or Crystal Dynamics) could fail to incorporate an optional Oni-style link between movement and view, if not do away with the useless camera idea altogether.

What a pitty. This could have been a great experience. What I have left on my machine of TRL now is an mp3 with the main theme, available for free from a fansite.

Overall a good game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: July 14, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Overall this was a good game, not quite long enough, but a good game. The levels are fun and interesting to play. Some of the areas you visit are breathtaking, especially if you have a high end computer system. I just wish the game was longer and hope they make a sequel to finish the story.

A long expected come back of Lara's Tomb Raider adventures

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: August 10, 2006
Author: Amazon User

After years of disappointing games the Legend finally brings the pleasure of playing Tomb Raider.

Extremely hard to control her movements

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 03, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I owned the original Tomb Raider and played it with great wonder and satisfaction on a Pentium 1 & Voodoo 1 video card. Man those were the days (for Lara). This new game, while no doubt good to great on other platforms, has a serious flaw for PC users. Keyboard control of Lara is shameful. I spent six hours trying to get her to do what I wanted her to do without much luck. I press the forward key and she instantly turns left and runs off a cliff. Every time I tried to move straight ahead she turned left to walk or run 90* away from the direction I intended. There apparently is no more strafing left or right either which is limiting. Why couldn't they have kept the original's control functions (which were fine)? I couldn't even get her to turn left or right without trying to walk or run.

I suppose I should have given the game more time but after 6 hours of movement madness I have decided to uninstall this 9 gig game. You'd think with 9 gigabytes worth of game they would have... well, you get the idea. After trying to figure out the strange movement issues I went online and found many other people with the same complaint, but strangely a lot think it is fine. I suppose this is an indication that there is some type of setup, workaround, or patch that works. I may do some more digging before uninstalling after all, but I shouldn't have to. Beware...

Fun, not astounding!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 3
Date: May 20, 2007
Author: Amazon User

It's a good game. It was a decent diversion, but soon enough, I was sucked back into Battlefield 2142. This has great graphics though.

For God Sakes, get a new engine already!

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: May 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

With games like Half-Life,Fear and Far Cry out there, TR-L just cannot compete. For God Sakes, upgrade the graphics engine! This game look little differnt than all the previous ones. And the controls are God awful too.

The Best Game Of 2006!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 4
Date: June 13, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is the only Tomb Raider that really reflects what the game really was meant to be. Lara is great! and better than ever by the way... Buy this game on PS2 or PC (you'll have to get a strong graphics card)

this game pisses me off

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 16
Date: June 29, 2006
Author: Amazon User

i played this demo and at first, everything is wonderful... graphics? amazing. lara? hot. controls? great, and a great interactive tutorial. but then i get to this place where you push a rock on top of a branch. i tried a million times to climb to the top of this branch, but i can't because of this branch on it sticking out in the way. i'm certain this branch must be the way. why else would it be sticking up far in the air? i even uninstall the demo out of frustration. i download it again later and try again.. then it hits me - i'm not supposed to climb to the top of this stupid branch! it's there for no reason at all! i'm supposed to just use my whip from the rock next to it! oh my god! what are these game makers thinking? do they want to put useless branches in the way and make me this frustrated?? so i get past that part, and i come to a part where you run across a trap.. ok that's fine, but then when i run past it, i go out the other door and i end up somehow coming out the door i just came in, like some weird kind of time warp!!! what the hell???? i try different ways to get out of this part but can't find a way out. is this some incredibly weird bug, or what? i don't know, but if this game is this frustrating in the first 5 minutes, i can only imagine what it's like later on. also, while the graphics and gameplay are amazing, what's so special about a game where everything must be totally linear and laid-out for you anyway? come on, tomb raider..

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