I am in two minds about this, one is that it is a lot more fluid than previous incarnations, however it feels arcadey as a result of this, especially comat, infact I would say I hate the combat. The vehicle bits suck beyond belief... I think the fluidity is a blessing and a huge curse, I used to enjoy having to press buttons so our old-school retarded lara could be bothered to grab ledges. However when clues about puzzles are blatently obvious with your two radio gimps telling you what to do, it kind of ruins the satisfaction you got in the older ones after walking around for 2 hours going "WTF!?" you finally nail it and get a move on.
I think TR3 was the last really good one; Legend is a step in the right direction, it is just way to easy, not enough "adventure" seems to be more action, plus it needs to be much longer, I am on the last level at the moment after a casual weekend. There seems to be 8 missions. The older TRs would had about 6 "countries" with about 3-4 or missions in each giving a good months worth of play.
Edit: Finished it now:
I decided to fire up TR2 and have a go, despite being damn harder to control, its a much, much better game.
I would say positive points about TRL are:
>More fluid action
>Better Graphics (I know this is important for some, but personally I don't care in this case)
>Some stunning level designs, and great planning and acting to make the game cinematic in feel.
>Ragdoll norks.
Negative Points:
>Too easy (gimpy radio buddies, grappling hook and binoculars can sod off, also that light source, I preferred salvaging flares and treasuring them)
>Emphasis placed on shooting a clone army of mercenaries rather than solving puzzles and **gasp** raiding tombs.
>Horrendously, horrendously short game
>Lack of weapons, this irritated me really, you had about 4 weapons, you could only carry one and the ammo for it was abundant. I wish for a return of the harpoon gun to shoot dogs with.
I was pretty damn disappointed really, I would not give it a low mark as it is a good game, but when TR1, TR2 and TR3 got 9/10 quite commonly and this is scoring on about the same level, it is nowhere near as good a game imho.
I would probably give it about 7.5, not quite an 8 but a bit above being a 'good' game.
