Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

THE GOOD:
New moves. The story takes us back to Egypt. New graphics. Huge storyline.

THE BAD:
Camera. The tutorial. Lots of bugs including the iris doors.

SUMMARY:
Lara is back. Only that this time she is trying to save the world from an old egyptian prophecy. The game starts with Lara a child learning from her master von Croy. Soon you'll find out that she unleashed a curse over the world and the evil good Set has possesed von Croy. Lara will have to explore some huge sites including Cleopatra's libraries and even a full size pyramid. The game is bigger that TR1 and uses the same basic stuff. Enemies are less but smarter and sometimes immune to damage. Puzzles are a bit hard for begginers but very soon you will be absorbed by this incredible universe. The FMVs are absolutly incredible and they have the meaning to give some important information about Lara's mission. The game is excelent and you can also download a stand alone mission called "The Times Level".

The fourth installment of a stable for a million sales game came out for young Lara Croft. With all of her fame in movies and a fifth game, all of which sold over one million copies, came out with Lara's.... face all over them. As Lara Croft you will go through many levels trying to save yourself as well as many other things. Playing Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation is similar to playing any other Tomb Raider game in that the controls are great and quite easy to learn. Although there has already been three games that came out before it is still a fun, but not quite the same as the second version of the game. With many voice overs and sound effects Tomb Raider is a great game and shoud be treated as one. Once you have played the other games in the series, the challenge slowly gets less and less. A fun and great game for just about any video game players.

THE GOOD:
Lara Croft. It has a storyline that explains some stuff. Did I mention Lara Croft?

THE BAD:
Same stuff. Same moves practically. Same graphics.

SUMMARY:
This installment of Tomb Raider is pretty much the same as all the others. It seems that Core was afraid to change a good thing. Or at least something that used to be great.

The storyline is a nice addition. It explains how Lara got into the business.

The first level where you learn how to move around is forced on you with no way out of the instructions.

Like the title says, just wait for a new engine and spend the money on the movie instead. There's no way they're gonna kill the franchise.

I like the game!!!

THE GOOD:
Lara is back. Support for almost all the 3D card API's in the world.

THE BAD:
Stupid patch makes you replay the game cuz it makes your saved games non-functional. Stupid tutorial mission is forced upon you and it unskipable. Gamepad LAG.

SUMMARY:
I was never a big fan of TR but I got this game because I found it for $7.99. Not only that, it was the Millenium Edition which comes with a Pewter figure (horrible quality, compared to the one which comes with Red Alert 2), a preview comic (not even standard comic size), and some TR Collectable Card Game limited edition card that I don't really care about.

So I bought it, I now understand why magazines didn't give this one the praise of the original TR. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. Only a couple extra moves which makes the game more complicated, and more puzzling like Riven.

Even worse: I used my Gravis XTerminator Digital Gamepad with this game and guess what? There's lag when I press the buttons. I'm using the latest version of Xperience wh...