She can climb certain surfaces with her pickaxes, rappel down, wall run, fire rope arrows and generally do all the things I wish I could do to keep up with my two-year-old in the local soft play centre. And that's a good thing, because it adds a sense of variety to her progress. Speaking of many mechanics, Lara has a lot. Who knew? All the climbing and swinging you'd expect from a Tomb Raider game is present and correct. It turns out it's really nice to raid tombs as Lara Croft. Inside the cave, it's just Lara, you and her occasional spoken thought (audio hints for those who struggle to work out what's going on). To work your way to the artifact you have to swim, jump, climb and solve a clever rope puzzle before unlocking the prize. The cave is a huge place, impressively detailed and smartly designed to familiarise the player with Lara's many mechanics.
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After Lara comes up on Dominguez' dig-site, she discovers a Mayan pyramid inside a flooded cave. Lo and behold, the village ends up destroyed by a flood, leaving poor Lara to wonder: "what have I done?" The Tomb Raider games are at their best when Lara's raiding tombs and Shadow is no exception.Īlso good: Shadow of the Tomb Raider has tomb raiding. The villain, this Dominguez chap, is convinced of this, and after capturing Lara says the apocalypse starts with a tsunami.
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Lara nicks an ancient dagger and in so doing appears to trigger the end of the world. Shadow of the Tomb Raider's story ticks all my Maya mystery boxes: ancient powers, a lost civilisation, magical pyramids and all sorts of fun with the sun. I've always been fascinated with the Maya civilisation and some of the more eccentric stories associated with it (one of my favourite childhood cartoons is The Mysterious Cities of Gold). I quite like the story set-up this time around. Shadow of the Tomb Raider is quite the looker - and packed with detail. Lara slowly shuffles through the throng like Drake does in all those calm-before-the-storm walking pace bits in the Uncharted games. Candles and altars and bread and fruit and pictures and all sorts of clutter combine to make the town feel real. While tailing the game's bad guy, a chap called Dominguez who's digging up a bit of Mexico on the hunt for an ancient Mayan artifact, you can't help but notice how densely packed the place is. The level I played began in a Mexican town celebrating Día de Muertos - the Day of the Dead. A huge amount of work has been put into making the environments packed with detail, too. The characters are incredibly detailed and move naturally in cutscenes (Lara's eyes are perhaps the most realistic I've seen in a game). Shadow of the Tomb Raider is a pretty game. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Let's start with the good. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior.
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