Tomb Raider SEVEN

[el Chi]

Seven!? What d'you think? Do you think that they can revive the old girl or do you think the franchise was finished ages ago?

My feelings are a mixture of the two. If they can be a bit more up-to-date with their gameplay (even mouselook would be nice:hmph: ) then maybe. But you do get that sound echoing in your ears, from somewhere not too far away, of a dead horse being flogged.

 

[kiwii]

hey, if her boobies are as big as they usuale are im going to buy it

 

[KagePrototype]

The last one was pure rubbish. The last truly good Tomb Raider game was the fourth one, the fifth smelt a bit and the sixth was horrible stuff. They'd have to perform some sort of miracle to redeem the series.

 

[Alig]

I got Tomb Raider:Angel of Darkness with my X800pro, played it once and it sucks. :|

I can remember playing the original Tomb Raider on my ps1 and it was hella fun back then so yeah i guess Tomb Raider died a long time ago.

 

[Axyon]

Somehow, the words 'Horse, Beating, Dead and A' come to mind.

 

[Gorgon]

TR: 4, was the best and the hardest game ever.

 

[Dux]

Certainly wringing it dry for everything it's worth.

 

[Seppo]

They should do Tomb Raider with some cool engine, like Doom 3 or Source.

 

[Sui]

i recently bought Tomb raider 4 (my PS2 in kinda broken... so instead of buying new Ps2 games only to find out my PS2 has suddenly died, i decided to get some old PS1 games ) and i have to say i think its crap.

Why you say? because it has no MANSION!!!!
all i ever did in tomb raider 2 was mess about at her home! then when i bought tomb raider 3 i picked up the guns and started shooting the butler! AND LOCKING HIM IN THE FREEZER WAS SO F'ING FUN!!! I used to play hide and seek with him... this sounds strange, but i was genuinley scared when i found out he was catching up with me... the slow groans... chink of the tray... dammit, that game rocked!

but i never actually got past the first level of any Tomb raider game i played lol, i just bought it for the mansion so when i found out TR4 dint have a mansion i was thinking of giving it back... then i found out it was ONLY SET IN EGYPT :X i cant be bothered to play it if its just in one deungeon :/

but i bought Syphon filter 2 with it, and that rocks brings back fond memories...

 

[AcousticToad]

TR2 + 3 Were my favorites, 4 was good but ended too quick, 1 wasn't bad but it also wasn't good, 5 was fun while it lasted but went too supernatural. 2 was good because of the Moria Doria wreck underwater and 3 was good because of Area 51.

 

[blahblahblah]

Somehow, the words 'Horse, Beating, Dead and A' come to mind.

lol. That's the sad truth. They should let the storyline die.

 

[el Chi]

TR2 + 3 Were my favorites, 4 was good but ended too quick, 1 wasn't bad but it also wasn't good, 5 was fun while it lasted but went too supernatural. 2 was good because of the Moria Doria wreck underwater and 3 was good because of Area 51.

Yeah I felt the same - the shipwreck really frightened me Area51 was a bit arse though really. India was good and London was great.

 

[dawdler]

I must be one of the few that thought AoD was pretty neat (once one get past the first level, that's not very interesting).

Personally I think its a very good idea to continue the series, but it definetly needs a rather big revival in terms of gameplay and control... And I dont really know how they could pull that off.

 

[<RJMC>]

I remenber the first tomb raiders and is nice to know that iit not hav die

 

[The Monkey]

Yeah, ANgel of Darkness sucks. In the textlines, for example, they can write ' but has to do an empty cube.

 

[JimmehH]

Angel of Darkness was the first part of a trilogy IIRC so expect a TR8 too.

2 and 3 were the best. Underwater bits scare the hell out of me so you can imagine what that Underwater wreck was like!

 

[Bad^Hat]

Tomb Raider 2 was awesome. The last level in Lara's home is pretty freaky.

 

[el Chi]

Eeeee, I'm gettin' all nostalgiac, like

I've found the box for Tomb Raider 3, but I think I may have sold 2... I'm tempted to replay it, but I know the absence of mouse-look will just piss me off and I'll get bored.

Tomb Raider 3 Minimum System Requirements:
Windows 95/98
16 Mb RAM (32 Mb recommended)
Direct X 6
P 166MHz processor (200 recommended)
4X CD-ROM drive

 

[Fletch]

i recently bought Tomb raider 4 (my PS2 in kinda broken... so instead of buying new Ps2 games only to find out my PS2 has suddenly died, i decided to get some old PS1 games ) and i have to say i think its crap.

Why you say? because it has no MANSION!!!!
all i ever did in tomb raider 2 was mess about at her home! then when i bought tomb raider 3 i picked up the guns and started shooting the butler! AND LOCKING HIM IN THE FREEZER WAS SO F'ING FUN!!! I used to play hide and seek with him... this sounds strange, but i was genuinley scared when i found out he was catching up with me... the slow groans... chink of the tray... dammit, that game rocked!

but i never actually got past the first level of any Tomb raider game i played lol, i just bought it for the mansion so when i found out TR4 dint have a mansion i was thinking of giving it back... then i found out it was ONLY SET IN EGYPT :X i cant be bothered to play it if its just in one deungeon :/

but i bought Syphon filter 2 with it, and that rocks brings back fond memories...

wow - you have no idea how much i can relate to your post! you jus bought loads of fond memories rushing back...

 

[snark^]

TR2 and 3 were the best. TR3 was pretty much 'TR for experts' though seeing as the puzzles were despicably fiendish and not for the beginner. TR1 was a bit dull with not as much action (at least to those of use who started out of TR2). TR2 had the best mix of action, exotic locations and puzzle/level design though IMO.

TR4 (The Last Revelation) went on and on and on -- you'd retrieve the fabbo contrafabulastic artifact of X-Goddess, and all it did was open a tiny boring little door to the next region where you'd set about getting the key which opens the door which lets you pull the switch which, etc, etc, etc and finally you retrieve the amazing splendiferous artifact of Y-God... which opens an obscure boring little door that leads to the next area... rinse, repeat as necessary. Didn't help that it was all set in the same texture set too: as Terry Pratchett wrote on alt.games.tombraider "it was all onto the tomb-of-the-next-guy which looks just like the tomb-of-the-last-guy".

TR5 (Chronicles) was good because they reduced the (by then stale) formula to bite sized chunks which made it palatable again.

TR6 (Angel of Darkness) is an enigma (I did the review at Gameplanet): basically it was unfinished. If you use cheats on the Paris levels you can find all sorts of empty rooms where lotsa stuff was meant to happen... only they never got time to finish through Eidos wanting it 6 months ahead of schedule. It had partial mouse look/control, but no sidestepping on the A and D keys ruins it. Very pretty game though (check out that 'Le Serpent Rouge' nightclub level), and complete with the usual excellent animations for Lara, which were themselves ruined by un-TR-like laggy slow controls.

TR7 got taken off Core by Eidos (bit strange as it was Eidos's demand for quick cash which ruined TRAOD, not Core) and it's now in the hands of Crystal Dynamics, who are best known as the makers of the Soul Reaver games. This is good and bad: good because they'll produce a good quality game in terms of gameplay, controls and the like; but will they miss the boat regards the TR 'feel' and Brit ambience? Maybe make it too simple like the Soul Cal games? Rumours have it that Toby Gard might be back for it and that Warren Spector might be overseeing it. Hope both are true.

Basically the series as a whole is crying out for a 3rd-person full RPG/action/adventure mix, ala Deus Ex, and they missed with TRAOD... but they were getting there. Just too much baggage from the old games.