Lara, Lara, you take my breath away.
You are Lara Croft, a woman who puts 98% of men to shame. Your mission is to find artifacts. I won't go too deep into the story (Atlantis, pyramid monsters, cool stuff), but the cut scenes are engaging and very pretty. The cut scenes were remade so you can interact a la Resident Evil 4, but not near as hard, which is nice, because Leon got stabbed way too many times by me.
The graphics are really polished and clean. I wanted to show you a few especially nice locales but it seems that is not possible while writing a review. Just a good note: the cut scenes are pretty much in game, so the actually game itself does not suffer in the visuals.
The best thing about this game, is its level design. Ingenious platforming, extremely tough puzzles (when you figure out a Tomb Raider puzzle, it feels good) and nice selection of enemies at the appropiate times. This is not an action game as it is platforming. You love to see Lara fly through the air. You hate to see her fall, you fee as you fail more then when you get shot in the face in a FPS. Tomb Raider does an awesome job of making you feel imersed.
The game is not without its faults. Sometimes the camera just does not cooperate, and you will see pretty Lara fall to a extremely sucky death. But you can look past this, as the game brings in close to 15 hours of gameplay the first play through for a newbie. It is fun, it is the best Tomb Raider out there, nudged ahead by the great Legend.
If you are a platform game lover, play this game. It runs smooth on the PC, no framerate issues, and is capatable with the 360 controller. Relive one of the greatest video games adventures.