A great game that ties in perfectly with Tomb Raider: Legend.
User Rating: 7.5 | Tomb Raider: Underworld DS
If you played through 2006's Tomb Raider: Legend and was left wondering what the spared Amanda and Lara Croft may do next this is a must buy. The game loses its predecessors' 3-D environment in favour of a 2-D one. The new environment makes Underworld feel more like a platformer than a shooter/action adventure. The game itself only takes about 3 hours to beat (4 hours to beat 100%) but cut scenes and ridiculously long load times make the game take about 10 hours to complete. When you actually are playing the game it's quite enjoyable. The puzzles are at an acceptable difficulty level and are somewhat addictive. The cut scenes are better than Legend's scenes visually but much poorer in the audio department. At many times you can't understand what's being said without reading the script which drastically takes away from the scenes. The game's story is ok by itself but quite strong when combined with Legend's. If you can live with long load times and the sloppy audio this a great buy that you will enjoy from start to finish.
