The Tomb Raider Times (#1) - English version

S H A D O W O F T H E T O M B R A I D E R D E M O V E R S I O N
This addition could be actually great—if you are the same kind of player as I am, the careful explorer searching
all corners, you might avoid more than one death and more than thousands of frustrations. Even if there will
certainly be parts that the only way to survive will be with wits and speed. What a warm welcome!
Lara is now in the entrance of the huge underground space, which is dominated by three things: darkness,
platforms and a pyramid on the far end, certainly the way we need to go.
Let‘s do first things first then: darkness is solved swiftly with Lara‘s personal light source similar to Legend
and Underworld. So we barely knew where to go. But how to cross the abyss? To explore her surroundings
meant for Lara to fall to her death few times. We did use the Survival instinct then, showing us the
way, much more weakly than before, not a glare on a half of the screen anymore. Hmm… hanging
platforms on the ropes above… are the right way, but not as easy as it seems. Lara‘s weight will show its
effects sooner than we can make a jump… so let‘s try it again. Well… a rope, a cart with rope-wrapped
handles, some fallen debris and wooden beams. Rope arrows are already equipped. THAT COULD DO A
THING. Lara do what she is ordered to silently, only in the moment where it´s obvious that I am acting
wrong, she will express her opinion. She will much less comment on the progress. A fact that more than
one tomb raiding player will very appreciate, I think.
Without any further details on the tomb, the most important is the atmosphere, which is breathtaking
again, greatly mixed with the soundtrack and effects. By the way, those are not that obvious, but important
details that opened the way forward, the excitement and dynamics, and those majestic moments. All
of it mixed brilliantly, presented already in the first tomb, so just imagine what we haven‘t seen yet and
what remains to be discovered!
The path up the pyramid was rightly derived as a way forward. I will not go further in the description of
what was going to be next, just enough to say would be that Lara must escape from the arms of death at
the last minute.