That means 14 card and outfit packs right from the off, and several pieces of add-on content including the short but excellent Lara’s Nightmare. In addition to the vanilla campaign, the 20 Year Celebration edition also ships with the DLC. Crystal Dynamics nailed the over-the-shoulder gunplay and breakneck platforming right from the start.

The gameplay itself hasn’t really changed since the 2012 reboot, but it didn’t need to. A solid supporting cast and another star turn from Lara actress Camilla Luddington ensure that even when you’re not blowing stuff up or scaling mountains, you remain captivated.Īn always compelling upgrade system keeps you searching for secrets and going out of your way to rinse areas of collectibles, and the steady drip-feed of new equipment means you’ll often backtrack to finish areas off or raid that tomb you couldn’t reach before. It suffers now and then from being too “gamey”, thanks to Lara’s bottomless pockets and ability to totally modify automatic weapons at a campfire with no tools, but the gameplay is just so effortlessly cool. If you happened to read our original Xbox One review you’ll know we loved this game at launch, and we still do.

It’s action with impact it’s what we bought the ticket for and why we’ll stay until the credits roll. Every edge-of-your-seat moment is its own blessing, every time Lara barely survives a jump, gets slammed into a wall or floor, or almost gets shot again, you feel it in your gut. You see, it’s all about the adventure, the adrenaline, the razzle-dazzle. Like Uncharted or Indiana Jones, the plot isn’t important it’s just a solid framework upon which to build a string of back-to-back set-pieces and gunfights. Stranded in the Siberian wilderness on a quest to realise her late father’s dream and find the source of eternal life, Lara faces off against a private army of highly trained mercenaries in a desperate fight for… Actually, you know what? If you’ve played any Tomb Raider before then you’ll be familiar with the setup. Someone is feeling that one.įor those who have been waiting patiently and havent had a chance to even try Rise yet, you’re in for a real treat. Well, now it seems that the shoe is on the other side of their faces, since Lara’s Siberian adventure is hitting PS4 with a huge big pile of extras for the same price as it originally launched on Xbox One. Roughly a year ago, Rise of the Tomb Raider launched exclusively on Xbox One, much to the chagrin of PlayStation 4 owners who had to endure months of gloating from Xbox gamers who felt that they were somehow the favoured group. They might give one particular type of console owner some kind of misguided bragging rights for a while, but it’s really only the publisher who gets anything out of the deal. Timed platform exclusives rarely benefit the consumer in any tangible way.

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