The new tomb raider game

lee32uk · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:11

ajgoodfellow said:
Interesting bit of news (sorry if it's old but it's new for me!) - they've changed developers for this version

They've changed to Crystal Dynamics whereas the previous 6 games have all been developed by Core Design (Tomb Raider, Tomb Raider 2, Tomb Raider 3, Tomb Raider: The Last Relevation, Tomb Raider Chronicles and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness)

Not really old news...only about 3 years

They ditched core design after the fiasco that was AOD

Drizmod · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:18

james.miller said:
xbox360. best pad you can get on the pc

Would a PC pad be one that is designed exactly like the xbox360 one or can you you use the official xbox360 pad on your pc?

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:19

you can use the official wired pad on the pc. Bloody brilliant mate.

ajgoodfellow · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:22

lee32uk said:
Not really old news...only about 3 years They ditched core design after the fiasco that was AOD

lol

Just shows how closely I've been following the series lately!

Tommer · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:28

Couple screens for you guys..

theres 2 modes here one with 'next gen features' on and the other off, must say it looks amazing with all next gen on but the frame rate hit for me is huge so i stick to x4aa and 1600x1200 and that runs fine on my rig.

without

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ajgoodfellow · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:31

It does look really nice with the next gen content on - thanks for the comparison

How'd you get hold of it early?

lee32uk · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:32

ive been following this game since it was announced, being a huge fan of the original TR1 game.Sadly it went downhill after that.I believe this game is gonna rock though and i hope it does well for them

Hopefully get my pre-ordered copy a day early too

lee32uk · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:34

ajgoodfellow said:
It does look really nice with the next gen content on - thanks for the comparison

How'd you get hold of it early?

The game is already out in Italy.
Ive seen quite a few ingame screenshots on a TR board that i visit and it looks gorgeous.

ajgoodfellow · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:36

I'm going to have to import it from Italy - hope they've got an option to select English as the language though!

Drizmod · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:36

james.miller said:
you can use the official wired pad on the pc. Bloody brilliant mate.

Cool! I think I will get me one of them.

SiD the Turtle · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:39

Tommer said:
Couple screens for you guys..

theres 2 modes here one with 'next gen features' on and the other off, must say it looks amazing with all next gen on but the frame rate hit for me is huge so i stick to x4aa and 1600x1200 and that runs fine on my rig.

What kind of unholy machine would you need to get that running at 30fps?!

james.miller · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:40

dunno but 1280x1024 is causing my rig some grief with fsaa (overclocked gto2 @ 3ghzs opteron)

Drizmod · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:40

Already out in Italy!? Man those news servers must be busy...

I preordered mine and cant wait

lee32uk · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:42

ajgoodfellow said:
I'm going to have to import it from Italy - hope they've got an option to select English as the language though!

if not then you could always wait till 7th april till the english version comes out

FirebarUK · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:50

Anyone else with a Dual-Core CPU notice that you have to set the affinity to a single core otherwise the game runs at about x5 speed.

Tommer · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:58

First impressions:

Havent played tomb raider in quite a long time, since ps1 and to be honest i've never been a fan. I found that the combat was always a random frenzy and really cut throat. Also i detested the perfect jumps you had to make i.e one pixel out and you fall to your death and have to go back 10 minutes to where you died.

Fortunately, an hour in, these problems have been ironed out, im playing with the 360 pad (which works flawlessly with this) and find the combat system is now really good, you lock on nicely and can take quite a few shots, also the game is a little more forgiving if you dont time a jump just right.

It seems like a fun action adventure, nothing more, one of those play for 30 minutes at a time games.

As for gfx, im playing 1600x1200 aa all at max and its running really nice, if i turn on the 'next gen' features the framerate falls to single figures even at lower res, still looks good even without it.

its one dvd5 and install at 7gb!

ajgoodfellow · 3 Apr 2006 at 01:12

Tommer said:
As for gfx, im playing 1600x1200 aa all at max and its running really nice, if i turn on the 'next gen' features the framerate falls to single figures even at lower res, still looks good even without it.

Ouch!

Rather naively I was hoping to play it with next gen on on my X800Pro!

It's odd how much it hurts framerates though - perhaps this'll be the game that'll force me to finally upgrade!

Dave85 · 3 Apr 2006 at 06:06

running basic mode on a pci mx 440 lol

1280 by 1025 widescreen rox and its pretty steady....rest of my pc must be doing the work lol

check this bad boy screenshot

size was mucked up in paint soz

MiGSY · 3 Apr 2006 at 06:15

*Hopes someone will release a naked Lara mod*

I've never really been a fan of the Tomb Raider games, but I think I'll check this one out. Should put my x1900xtx to the test...

FirebarUK · 3 Apr 2006 at 07:46

Rather naively I was hoping to play it with next gen on on my X800Pro!

Don't forget this is probably a console port with the next gen stuff bolted on, no optimisation in code etc.