Welcome to the new Laura Croft as she is more realistic than ever! She still carries the guns and goes through ruins in search of treasure but you have to see to believe what she does:
SHE STUMBLES!!! SHE LOSES HER BALANCE!!! SHE GETS KNOCKED AROUND BY THE ENEMIES!!! SHE SEEMINGLY JUMPS IN RANDOM DIRECTIONS TO HER OWN DEATH!!! SHE IS HARDER TO CONTROL THAN EVER BEFORE!!! SHE HAS TO WANDER AROUND BECAUSE MOST TIMES IT IS UNAPPARENT WHAT TO DO!!!
Seriously, overall I enjoyed the game, but it was also very annoying at times. There are elements of the game that have been improved as this game is essentially a remake of the 1996 game that started it all. The graphics have been improved as this world is very nicely detailed now, the characters look a bit better too. There are also elements of the story that have been improved as well as near the beginning Laura does not try to kill the competition right off the bat. As far as overall game play though I have to say the original is still better than this one. Laura is very hard to control in this one, the controls at times do not feel like you are controlling Laura, but rather sending signals to her telling her what to do and sometimes she does something completely off the wall such as jump off a ledge. The original also moved more slowly, the game is basically the same plot and location wise, but they did change a lot of the puzzles around and add very annoying timing traps that had me cussing and getting the urge to throw the controller at the television. When I was not in a rage over those traps I was at a total loss about where the heck I should jump to or go. This game surprised me also about how long it took, I mean Legends was essentially over before I knew it, this one just seemed to take to long. Though I have to say that the first level with the dinosaurs and the last level where you have the final battle are not to bad and rather fun. The second level was a bit annoying, but it was annoying in the original, the one that caused me the most headaches though was the third level in Egypt. I hated that level with a passion this time around. Also, the makers of this series have fallen way to in love with the grapple gun, which is okay, but really adds nothing. Well it does add another stupid way for you to dispatch enemies in the form of two horsemen that really had my blood pressure skyrocketing.
