Tomb Raider - Rise of the Raider PC

VincentHanna · 24 Jan 2016 at 22:06

The storyline was mainly getting off the Island, and something about a cult who worshipped the spirit of a godess trapped in a body.

HAz · 24 Jan 2016 at 22:28

5960xNvidiaGamer said:
Agree with skeeter, physical copies are a waste of time and have no value once installed.

Not when you got 2 meg Internet

Jock7 · 24 Jan 2016 at 22:34

Thanks All, Went with CDKeys after all. Don't see anything on the main game websites about this game except for a package of under £99 and I do not use Game. I liked having a hard copy and I have quite a lot of my games on disc, its a lot faster to re-install than downloading, but then again I have a few which are downloaded only.

Minstadave · 24 Jan 2016 at 22:50

VincentHanna said:
The storyline was mainly getting off the Island, and something about a cult who worshipped the spirit of a godess trapped in a body.

Pretty much all I can remember. Can't recall a single character other than Lara.

5960xNvidiaGamer · 25 Jan 2016 at 14:12

HAz said:
Not when you got 2 meg Internet

Haha, yeah that's shocking, but they are still worthless once installed.

VincentHanna · 25 Jan 2016 at 14:36

If you have lots of HDD storage though, you can always do a steam backup.

Luckily my fibre is fast enough not to matter when I re-download games.

BananaDunka · 25 Jan 2016 at 14:37

This game along with Farcry Primal use Denuvo DRM. The EULA for Farcry state sthat even after uninstallation, Denuvo may remain on the system

I hope there's an uninstaller for Denuvo like there is with SecuROM. I hate crap being left behind from an uninstalled piece of software. There is nothing that annoys me more.

BriT · 25 Jan 2016 at 14:59

When does this release? noticed cdkeys says 29th and steam says 28th?

meldarthx · 25 Jan 2016 at 14:59

Gregster said:
TR was deffo my fav game of 2014 (I know it came out in 2013). Great story and some really good GFX to boot.

TR was my game of the year until The Last of Us came out; and that was game of generation for then.

Love TR; will have this asap and be doing videos on it

markoboyo11 · 25 Jan 2016 at 15:24

Can't wait for this but knowing square Enix it will be £3 pretty soon. Hopefully wait a month and get it for 10-15 quid.

agnes · 25 Jan 2016 at 15:25

Any PC reviews/comparison vids?

Seanspeed · 25 Jan 2016 at 15:39

VincentHanna said:
The storyline was mainly getting off the Island, and something about a cult who worshipped the spirit of a godess trapped in a body.

Shame it was such a step back from the old Tomb Raider games in terms of story. Ya know, those classic plotlines where you........uh..........raided tombs.......and stuff.

agnes · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:22

Seanspeed said:
Shame it was such a step back from the old Tomb Raider games in terms of story. Ya know, those classic plotlines where you........uh..........raided tombs.......and stuff.

It was one of my top 2014 games. As for the story, I liked it. Yes, the actual tomb raiding was missing, but it was the story of how she begun.

I'm REALLY hoping this new one is a lot more focused on tomb raiding.

Seanspeed · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:27

agnes said:
It was one of my top 2014 games. As for the story, I liked it. Yes, the actual tomb raiding was missing, but it was the story of how she begun.

I'm REALLY hoping this new one is a lot more focused on tomb raiding.

Story was definitely passable. I just think it's funny people are criticizing it when story has hardly ever been a major selling point of the series.

Amatsubu · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:31

Seanspeed said:
Shame it was such a step back from the old Tomb Raider games in terms of story. Ya know, those classic plotlines where you........uh..........raided tombs.......and stuff.

Lol

And lol at people expecting a deep/memorable storyline from a TR game. The focal point lies elsewhere and I'd much rather have a simple plot that ties up the gameplay reasonably well than a fantastically convoluted one that even the devs can't follow (just look what happened to AC).

I don't think anyone with their heads screwed on the right way round spends time analysing the story of Indiana Jones movies and the like

VincentHanna · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:39

Seanspeed said:
Shame it was such a step back from the old Tomb Raider games in terms of story. Ya know, those classic plotlines where you........uh..........raided tombs.......and stuff.

Hehe, well played.

I wasn't criticising the story by the way, I was responding to other posters who were.

Mark A · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:52

It wasn't a bad game, just wasn't great either. I liked the new look to Lara, loved the addition of the bow. The gameplay was fun for a while before it became repetitive.

The old games might not have had an amazing story, but they were more about adventure, exploration and puzzle solving. There was nothing else like it at the time. That can't be said about the rebooted TR, it's pretty much a re-skinned Uncharted. It could have done with something to set it apart as it was sorely lacking in the puzzle department.

Nate75 · 25 Jan 2016 at 16:56

Mark A said:
It wasn't a bad game, just wasn't great either. I liked the new look to Lara, loved the addition of the bow. The gameplay was fun for a while before it became repetitive.

The old games might not have had an amazing story, but they were more about adventure, exploration and puzzle solving. There was nothing else like it at the time. That can't be said about the rebooted TR, it's pretty much a re-skinned Uncharted. It could have done with something to set it apart as it was sorely lacking in the puzzle department.

100% this.

Such a bland game that did nothing or even entertain the idea of doing anything new.

I wouldn't be surprised now if they bring one out every year akin to the CODs and FIFAs of the this world.

Gregster · 25 Jan 2016 at 17:07

I am genuinely surprised to see the lack of love for TR. Each to their own of course but I really did enjoy it and went through it twice (3D second time). I also did all the little side secrets as well but never bothered with the MP part.

I was gutted to see Square sign a timed exclusive with Microsoft but at least glad I will be playing this by the 29th

markoboyo11 · 25 Jan 2016 at 17:26

Yeh me too! :confused:

It was one of only two games ive done twice in the last few years (the other being The Evil Within)