Shadow of the Tomb Raider is the best TR in a long time.

FYI: Dragon doesn't own a PS4!

All of his "experience" with those games are let's plays from YouTube.

I have a PS3 with the aformentioned games, but thanks for your concern. ;)

@DragonfireXZ95: TLOU, Uncharted, TR all feel and play much bettter on PS4.

I can’t stand the PS3 controller after playing PS4 for so long now

Uncharted has better combat. There's more motion, more verticality and the arenas are bigger. You're jumping and climbing during combat, the melees are quicker and I prefer picking up random guns. I also miss running and gunning with hipfire. Uncharted's hipfire has low accuracy at a distance, but at least it has the option, unlike the new Tomb Raiders. Tomb Raider is far too stiff overall. I put together this comparison video earlier in the year:

I realize I didn't use all of Lara's abilities, but the Uncharted parts would still have more going on anyway. I didn't use any stealth because it was just a combat comparison.

Great review. Actually now inclined to get the game and try it myself.

Its simple for me if you were to make a better combination of these games you would do this. Gun mechanics feel of TR (you could see the difference in that video. UC shooting mechanics have always been all over the place. Howerver there more work to stuff like recoils in UC4. Its just the aiming sucks. UC4 lacks good pacing but gameplay improved a lot), Exploration because you spend a lot of time doing this TR (Tomb raiding and lara utilises her tools better. UC is not even close to TR on this). Enemy encounters UC4 (borrows from TLOU with combination of all whats said above). Character story UC series (Lara needs those ND writer for f**k sake.). The closest games to complete this is UC LL (The prolbem is its half expansion half game that borrows the greatest hits from previous games. They also still have not fixed the aiming. Game needs to be 60fps maybe. That one large exploration area to which you actually solve environmental puzzles and get an item that adds to gameplay was almost TR like) Finally all of these games could use better AI.

Overall TR has the better gameplay because of exploration IMO. These games need this more then the shooting stuff. UC4 decided to do nothing on this front.

Not sure what you're going on about with Uncharted 4's aiming. Red Dead 2 has bad aiming. Uncharted's is fine, for a controller. Tomb Raider's exploration is underwhelming. Collecting doesn't make good exploration. It can enhance it, but there needs to be a good core already in place. The platforming mechanics of the reboots are too simplistic and automated. Too many of the puzzles involve boring axe climbing. Uncharted gets the edge for being better in other areas, including combat. Tomb Raider should go back to being Tomb Raider.

And I didn't even play it on DX12 API which gives the game huge performance boost. Since my wifi doesn't work on Win10, so I was forced to play on DX11 (on Win 7), yet I had almost no issues on PC. But it's understandable if it didn't run well on Consoles as the game was built from ground up for DX12 and high end PCs.

I expected so much animation improvement closer to Uncharted 4. What a letdown in that department. The combat was very weird, like lara teleporting in and out of animations and ai baiting is really weird too specially later in the game where you meet newer types.

Was a fun ride still. We don't have enough games like these IMO.

That's why I got a 3rd party 360-style controller for the PS3. It's wonderful when used in the Uncharted games.

Uncharted is a cover shooter, Tomb Raider is not. Plus there are way more enemies than humans with guns in TR.

I liked the game, but Rise is the better game. The most annoying thing about Shadow is when you die (playing it on the hardest difficulty) the game nearly always takes you back to just before a cutscene that you cannot skip, which is insanely stupid and made me hate the game for periods of time.

Shadow looks better but just about everything else Rise did better. I found Shadows gameplay to be a little bit on the been there done that side of things & when it came to weapons i mostly only ever stuck to the bow or shotgun, where as with Rise I used a mix of weapons depending on the level, and the "upgrades" for Lara herself felt like they mostly never worked or to say that you never really noticed them too much.

Don't see what your point is. I barely used cover in my video. Also, Tomb Raider does have a cover mechanic. It's just automatic.

This. In fact:

Rise > TR >> Shadow

For some reason, i bought Shadow, having loved the last two games, and i find shadow to be a huge step backwards for the series. The animations are stiff and cut in odd ways between them. The shooting mechanics feels like the old school TR games, which was horrendous. The graphics have definitely taken a hit also, with lower res textures and level design that once again looks like barricaded linear paths with little tree style offshoots. I played like 5 hours and then quit of boredom.

A bit old for a bump.