Rather than take heavily armed opponents head on, you are encouraged to hide in the undergrowth and take them out one by one. Add to that the occasional skirmish with evil military organisation Trinity, plus plenty of hunting around in dusty caverns, and you have the game in a nutshell.Īs we alluded to above, gunplay is downplayed in Shadow of the Tomb Raider, with the game preferring stealth and puzzle solving than sheer muscle.

Cataclysmic disasters occur left, right and centre, providing major action sequences based on earthquakes, mud slides, storms and a tsunami. Her actions have started a chain of events that could lead to the end of the world as we know it.

Where it differs is in the size of the problem. And, as is traditional, this results in her spending the entire story fixing wrongs caused by her own naivety. Like most of her adventures, Shadow starts with Lara hunting for an artefact. You might be a little less enthused if you would prefer the firefights of the first, but we feel developer Eidos Montreal has the balance spot on. She's underground more often than a Womble and we're certainly not complaining.Īdd to that sequences that see Lara partake in more underwater swimming than a Blue Planet cameraman and you've got a Tomb Raider that hardcore fans will appreciate. In Shadow there are challenge tombs, crypts that are really just mini tombs, and story sequences that take place in, well, tombs. There were tombs in the previous chapter, Rise, but nothing on the scale of those in Croft's latest outing. (Pocket-lint) - We're three games into the Tomb Raider trilogy and the final chapter of this particular run does exactly what it says on the tin: for the most part of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, Lara Croft raids tombs.

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