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[SmartWaffles]

Huh, at Pax Prime I met some of the people behind that site.

Back on Tomb Raider, I hope the PC release is up to par. This looks like a game worth playing.

Nixxes is doing the PC port and their job at TR 2013 and the X360 version of RoTR are phenomenal.

 

[Walpurgis]

Hahaha!

 

[R0C]

Game length?

 

[BluenoseGames]

You mean tomorrow.

No, U.K. date is Friday

 

[Aztechnology]

I just got an Xbox One so I'm in. GCU will make this an easy buy, I'll probably even be able to trade it back or sell it for more than I ended up paying for it.

I'm getting paid to play games too reviewers! 10/10 would do it again.

 

[Grief51]

Wow really good reviews so far! I'm starting to become hyped for the release. I love the reboot. The consensus among all the reviews seems to be this is basically an evolved version of TR2013.
I'm lucky enough to have a XB1 kinda feel bad for PS4 and pc players though. The hype for Rise would be a lot higher, if everyone could play from the start, instead of this timed exclusive BS.
Big probs to Crystal Dynamics for what sounds like an excellent product.

 

[takriel]

I would like to play it this year, but will have to wait as I have no cash for an Xbone right now

 

[Gunslinger]

Ma man kaz stepping his troll game up i see.

 

[GlamFM]

10/10. Pure genius. Do we know who´s behind this account?

 

[Obliterator]

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

 

[Loudninja]

Great reviews.

 

[Aux717]

rocketchainsaw - 4.5 / 5 http://www.rocketchainsaw.com.au/xbox-one/rise-of-the-tomb-raider-review-65780/

press-start - 9 / 10 http://press-start.com.au/2015/11/09/review-rise-of-the-tomb-raider/

 

[Linkyn]

Getting the sense if you didn't like the last one, this won't change your mind. I'm out then.

I like TR 2013, and while it was flawed, it was so in a way that can be forgiven for new IPs or reboots. The core gameplay is absolutely sound, it was more the presentation (especially facial animation, or lack thereof, as well as VO) and the story that bothered me.

Still, one always hopes that the sequel is going to smooth over most of those things. In that sense, hearing that it's mostly more of the same is a bit disappointing. That said, I doubt this'll stop me from buying the PC version next year.

 

[OrbitalBeard]

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

Definitely.

Overall, this has been a really good year.

 

[skLaFarebear]

Barely any story - overblown story. Reviewers, I am confused.

I'd rather have less cutscenes with the back story in the diaries. I don't play a game like this for long cutscenes about unimportant things I don't need to care about. At least this way its optional for the people who want all the story.

 

[TI82]

Cool, will get definitive PC version

 

[bananafactory]

I'm too busy updating this thread to actually read the damn reviews

Do they mention if the story is improved? I found it to be complete dogshit in 2013

 

[Obliterator]

Definitely.

Overall, this has been a really good year.

It really has which is great because 2014 was pretty meh imo.

2015 has kicked ass

 

[painey]

the best game no one will pay full price for

 

[Kenzodielocke]

PCGames (ger) 86 %

 

[Jwebster24]

hahaha! I would love to know who runs that account.

 

[VanCityGamer]

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

Don't think a serious contender, but perhaps in the conversation.

 

[Rembrandt]

bwhahaha that dude's comedic gold

Normally his tweets are solid but this one definitely isn't funny enough to be posted endlessly in here, imo.

Great reviews, though. I loved the first so I'm excited for this. What a turnaround for the series.

 

[mrklaw]

How bloody is it? Is it standard TPS with some death, or crazy house of horrors like the first TR with insane random death animations?

I'd like to play in the living room while my kids are around. Uncharted was fine (but sweary but ok) but TR2013 was definitely not. Would probably have been fine without posts through heads etc.

 

[SmartWaffles]

Game length?

Takes our reviewer about 16 hours to finish the story with a bit of exploring, pure main story playthrough should be quicker.

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

From what I've seen and played I'd consider it when it comes to best action game of the year

Spoiler

(sorry it is MGSV)

, but GotY? Nah.

 

[Sitris]

Excellent reviews! Seriously impressive looking game they have made here, happy to see they have delivered the goods.

 

[justsomeguy]

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

Looking like it. A handful of 7s pulling down what is otherwise a solid blast of 9s. Wonderful work by CD.

Edit: Someone below pointed out other strong candidates, witcher 3 for starters

 

[Lime]

Eurogamer puts it the best way:

Nevertheless - and as fans will surely have predicted - it's when the game simply remembers to be Tomb Raider that it's at its best. In nine optional Challenge Tombs and at a couple of junctures in the story, Lara finds herself gingerly exploring lonely ruins, gorgeous in their centuries-old decay. Here she solves cleverly assembled, if relatively simple, physics puzzles to gain access to a treasure trove. (In this game, the treasures are new skills - the designers clearly knew what they were getting right.) Quiet descends, all the firefights and resource nodes and progress tickers recede, and the game drinks from a well too few contemporaries bother to seek out. Just a woman and her wit, unlocking the secrets of the distant past.

It's not the lip-service the 2012 game paid to the tomb-raiding concept, but it's still barely more than a sideline for nouveau Tomb Raider. Given the tombs' strong flavour and Crystal Dynamics' comfortable command of the form, why couldn't there have been more of them, with harder puzzles, and why couldn't they have occupied some of the space filled with empty battles and vacant scrambles in the storyline? Was it a lack of corporate confidence or a surfeit of bitter experience that led to tomb raiding taking a back seat? I'm not sure I want to know the answer.

 

[Sakura]

Looking good. I wonder what will be higher this, or Fallout?

Spoiler

I'm thinking this.

I'd be pretty surprised if this beat Fallout considering the kind of scores previous Bethesda games have received.

 

[Trace]

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

Unlikely. Doesn't really matter how high it scores, unless it hits mid-high 90s it's not going to trump MGS5/Witcher/Bloodborne.

 

[RedRum]

Great reviews. Going to have to wait though. Fallout and SW's will take precedence for the next few months.

 

[CelticVegas]

Jesus i'm in train and i laughed hard.

 

[Lingitiz]

I'd be pretty surprised if this beat Fallout considering the kind of scores previous Bethesda games have received.

There are some serious red flags over Fallout 4 that have a lot of people wary. I wouldn't be surprise if it gets dinged hard or goes the other way and gets mass critical acclaim.

 

[Adam M]

My review is not completely ready yet, but I really liked the game. Of course if you didn't care about the 2013 reboot, forget about that one as it's the same basic gameplay just more refined and detailed basically.
A few technical issues though, the aliasing was already well known, but the framerate can be a bit low at times. It's never (imho) so bad that it's a detriment to the gameplay, but it's clear that at times the devs really wanted to do too much with the X1's hardware. And they certainly did a lot considering how big some environments can be, and how many effects (lighting, particles, motion blur and others are top notch) they are pushing.

Can you at least post few framerate analysis?

 

[Bold One]

really good reviews, sounds like Lara development isn't being held back by cardboard cut-outs for supporting characters

Her voice acting is sill nails on a chalkboard to my ears though

 

[Linkyn]

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

Hard to say. It looks good, but it takes a bit more than that in order for it to seriously compete with Witcher 3 or MGSV.

 

[bananafactory]

Unlikely. Doesn't really matter how high it scores, unless it hits mid-high 90s it's not going to trump MGS5/Witcher/Bloodborne.

That's not quite how GOTY works, it's not based on Metacritic - it's handed out by individual press. This looks like it could easily be in GOTY contention at a lot of the major publications

 

[dex3108]

Biogamer girl review?

 

[kraspkibble]

Good to see a lot of positive reviews. Loved the first game and can't wait to play this one. It was one of the games that made me decide on an XB1. I don't want to wait for the PC/PS4 version.

 

[OrbitalBeard]

Unlikely. Doesn't really matter how high it scores, unless it hits mid-high 90s it's not going to trump MGS5/Witcher/Bloodborne.

It'll definitely be a contender. It may not win a bunch of awards but it's absolutely going to be part of the conversation.

 

[grandwizard]

Metro 8/10

In Short: The old style Tomb Raider is never coming back, but this is a more satisfying compromise than the reboot and a fun alternative to the Uncharted series.

 

[naitosan]

Wow, great reviews! My copy got shipped and I just finished Assassin's Creed Syndicate (awesome game). I'm excited to start playing Rise of the Tomb Raider!

 

[Obliterator]

Hard to say. It looks good, but it takes a bit more than that in order for it to seriously compete with Witcher 3 or MGSV.

Witcher 3 is the hands down king for GOTY IMO. Dont see how anything could beat it.

I just kinda more meant it seems high enough quality to be in the convo / short list for some people

 

[Inuhanyou]

Stone cold xD

But yeah, glad to see its getting good reviews. Now the wait is on for the PS4 version. I'll get the 360 version soon enough for collection and Nixxes support purposes

 

[Trace]

That's not quite how GOTY works, it's not based on Metacritic, it's handed out by individual press. This looks like it could easily be in GOTY contention at a lot of the major publications

I'm talking about general acclaim. I would be very surprised if a major publication handed GotY to a game like Tomb Raider over MGS/Witcher/Bloodborne.

 

[User 479360]

I don't see this one:

We Got This Covered - 4/5

 

[cool_dude]

Knew it was going to review well. Preordered and ready to play!

 

[Sakura]

There are some serious red flags over Fallout 4 that have a lot of people wary. I wouldn't be surprise if it gets dinged hard or goes the other way and gets mass critical acclaim.

I guess.
But I didn't think Skyrim was a very good game and it's in the mid-90s. We'll see I suppose.
I can't imagine why they would bungle with the formula so much when it was already doing good.

 

[-MD-]

So it sounds like this could be another GOTY contender?

If you were one of those people that thought the first one was a legitimate GOTY contender, sounds like it.

 

[aspiegamer]

Ugh. The better this reviews the worse I'm going to feel. It deserves better than to have buried like a JRPG behind the industry's biggest brand name IPs with massive marketing budgets. A lot of blame is going to be placed on the very negative reception the game had at its reveal because of the exclusivity window, too. Those are 100% avoidable corporate decisions wrecking a game's destiny, and it sucks.