best story in the series...but everything else is wrong!
it has a great story,like you're watching a movie,a psychological thriller but when you play it,pain comes in great doses!it has a very bad gameplay.the graphics are glitchy & broken!the music is barely notable except for the main theme that is superb,it gives you the chills.
this game is the conclusion of the trilogy started in TR4-the last revelation but i don't know the ending because i couldn't finish the game!it's very hard.this is the first time when i'm reviewing a game that i haven't finished.i couldn't get pass an horible creature called boaz,near the end of the game.
the game begins with a scene where lara & her ex-mentor werner von croy were in an apartment arguing about the fact that von croy left her in egypt to be burried under the pyramid...& other stuff.suddenly,something kills von croy & lara is hit too leaving her unconscious.after she wakes up,she hears the police coming.she is considered to be the murderer.lara is chased by the police in 60% of the game in the towns paris & prague.people were talking about the monstrum,a creature that kills people & the story expands,it also involves some obscura paintings from the 15th or 16 century etc.
during the game,you will have engagin dialogues with people where you have to choose an answer or question that best fits the situation.the first level of the game sees lara on the parisian buildings beeing chased by the police,with dogs,helicopters etc.then,you she will arrive at madam's carvier apartament,on the streets of paris,at the louvre museum for the paintings,then she goes to prague,to a factory etc,etc.the main bad guy is called eckhard,the equivalent of marco bartolli from tomb raider 2.this game is unique in the tomb raider series because you will play for the first time with another character-kurtis.in 3 levels.one of them is the fight with boaz.
another inovation in the TR series is the energy bar for resistance.for example,when you hang or walk on a wire,the energy bar starts to drain.when it's exhausted,you will automatically fall.this makes the game more realistic.in the other TR games,you could have been suspended by the ledge & eternity.another interesting new feature in the gameplay is the power.to open some doors or push some objects,you need an amount of power.you gain power by pushing some blocks or pulling some levers.lara will attention you when she must gain more power to open a specific door for example...
this game has serious technical problems.sometimes,everything turns black except lara,you fall in the floor like it's an abyss & other terrible stuff.lara moves in slow motion,you should avoid this game if you don't want to go crazy,mad!also,the water in this game looks like oil!you know,oil that you put in the frying pan to make eggs or something.it really makes me sick!:(
cristal dynamics saved the TR series in the nick of time-this game almost killed this legendary series & i don't know if i'll ever be able to finish this game.