Tomb Raider Copy?

Who the hell cares? Its still an awesome game. And its much better than any Tomb Raider game. Although I did love Legend and Tomb Raider III but this game is still kickass and the graphics are breathtaking.

Actually unless they made the gun fights more realistic in the last two Lara was always out in the open and far more athletic than Nate. I felt that the thing Nate does were far more reasonable and even accomplishable by a human. Save perhaps a very few very lucky jumps. Lara on the other hand would have to be a world class gymnast to pull off even half of her moves.

But come on. To be fair the concept is hardly new. Indiana Jones did if first. Lara stole from him first. And this game didn't feel like Tomb Raider at all until the Spanish started attacking in the underground city. And then it took on an eyrie Silent Hill vibe in the German base. But for the most part it felt more like Indiana Jones fighting the Germans for the Ark.

This message was edited by Koloth on Jan 08 2008.

quote Koloth

Actually unless they made the gun fights more realistic in the last two Lara was always out in the open and far more athletic than Nate. I felt that the thing Nate does were far more reasonable and even accomplishable by a human. Save perhaps a very few very lucky jumps. Lara on the other hand would have to be a world class gymnast to pull off even half of her moves.

<sub>Have you played the last two Tomb Raider games? What you say is true for the first 5 games, the moves Lara could do in those were pretty much impossible. But for the last two installments, her moves were very possible and reasonable and, like I said, exactly the same as the moves that can be done in this game. The whole game engine is a complete rip-off from the Legend engine and the whole climbing concept and animations are identical to those in Anniversary. I'm not comparing this game to the first Tomb Raider era, but to the Playstation 2 games.

As for the game concept, I know the adventure type exploring kind of game wasn't invented by Eidos, but the Tomb Raider games had their own unique atmosphere and this game gave me a very similar feeling while playing it. I'm not saying that's a bad thing, but it just seems like Naughty Dog took a lot of their inspiration for this game from Tomb Raider.

To the other people thinking I'm bashing this game, I'm not. Like I said, I still think it's an awesome game and I have a great time playing it. I didn't create this thread to say which I think is better, Tomb Raider or Drake's Fortune, and I'm not talking about graphics or fun factor or whatever, I created it to compare both gameplay styles and game engines and note how similar they are.</sub>

quote Enigma

Have you played the last two Tomb Raider games?

Honestly, no.

I doubt the animations were the same though. According the Naughty Dog Nate's animations were supposed to be procedural. Meaning the CPU was calculating how he should move on the fly. The PS2 couldn't do that. They might have looked similar simply because there are only so many realistic ways you can climb a cliff. But they couldn't be exactly the same.

Wasn't Anniversary announced after Uncharted?

And I honestly think you couldn't do the movements much different, too...

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like Naughty Dog took a lot of their inspiration for this game from Tomb Raider.

They actually said they got a lot of their inspiration from the indiana jones movies.

Well i think of this game as Lara Croft-turned Indiana Jones