Tomb Raider: Underworld

Лучшая! 🫰

Rien à dire c'est le jeu de mon enfance

Una mejora grafica importante, dinamico y si tenes problemas con los bugs en el segundo puzle de cajas, lo cambias en sincro vertical, la tenes que activar. Un cierre sin mucho a destacar de la trilogia (aniversario y legend) pero a nivel narrativo funciona.

bad camera thats it.. the rest of the game pretty is good

if you're wanna buy tomb raider just buy the trilogy it's not comperable with this

the controls in this game are so dysfunctional that it makes my family look like the model american nuclear family, playing doom on ao3 on my phone was less rage inducing

the camera really sucks, but its an otherwise great tomb raider game.

Tomb Raider Underworld is the evolution of TR Legend and TR Anniversary formula, in that it tries to keeps the best parts of them both. The block-buster movie feeling is reserved only for cutscenes and the constant radio chatter during missions is gone. That, along with the expansive level design, underwater spelunking and Lara Croft's general badassery returns Underworld to its roots - to the feeling of eerie exploration of labyrinthine tombs. Combat is again mostly floaty and extremely easy (as the AI basically just runs at you) but it resembles older TR games as there are less arenas here and encounters are reserved mostly for ambushes to keep you on your toes (ala TR1). The new animations are also noticeable and appreciated, giving weight to Lara's athletic moves while also keeping her smooth and responsive - it just makes platforming feel better. When it comes to story though, even with good voice acting and better cutscenes, Underworld seems to take a step back as the returning villains feel almost cartoonish (frenemies never make sense), sidekicks are underdeveloped as a side effect of the radio chatter reduction and the final sequence ends up resolving itself extremely fast - not meshing well narratively with Lara's drive and motive as it was so strongly introduced in TR legend. It makes the whole story feel weak and anti climactic in the end. Game length also doesn't do any favor to the story, as it is only 10-12 hours. Then again Tomb Raider games tend to lack in the story department anyway and the one we get here is better that Anniversary so... yay? It definitely ties all loose ends though so maybe that's good. Anyway, there are more important things than mediocre story telling that hold this game back, the first being that abomination of a camera. It's extremely jerky (even on lower sensitivity) and tends to re-orient itself to the center making you feel like it's resisting your inputs. Maybe on a controller it would feel better but on mouse and keyboard it definitely takes some time to adjust to it. Along with the bad camera comes poor optimization, specifically stuttering. It is prevalent on bigger levels and it seems to always occur after alt tabbing and that nasty camera only exacerbates the issue, making TR Underworld feel jankier that it really is. Another issue is the lack of puzzles/secrets as it makes these well designed levels feel empty and underused, even if platforming in this game is excellent. The devs ended up scattering artifacts around the map in pots and the placement of these things are extremely close to each other. Them not serving any purpose, not even for unlocking costumes or a dps increase makes me think that they were tacked on as an afterthought. Lastly this game has 2 DLC missions exclusive to XBOX360 and apparently it was one of the reasons that this game didn't sell well back in 2008 (oh Microslop). Thankfully there's youtube and the mission themselves aren't needed but they seem well made. In conclusion Tomb Raider Underworld is a good game TR game. Other that the scattered artifacts, all its issues can be ignored after some getting used to as it mostly lacks polish. I really liked the feeling that it gives when played, that of an older Tomb Raider on better graphics. If nothing else I appreciate its ambition and honestly, after playing the whole LAU trilogy I am kind of excited to see where Lara goes from here with TR Catalyst.