Tomb Raider: Underworld

This game surprised me, I didn't expect it to be as enjoyable due to not hearing much about it in the fandom. Minus the janky camera and skipping of frame rates during parkour animations - it's a fun game overall and the most similar to classic Tomb Raider out of the CD games in my opinion. The feeling of isolation is there and the puzzles are just as complex compared to the easy puzzles from Legend and Anniversary.

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So is the game fun? Yes, yes it is. You get much bigger levels than in the previous two games. The puzzles and the platforming is nice and makes you think sometimes. The graphical improvements compared to Legend and Anniversary is big. The gameplay is mostly the same with Lara still using her trusty handguns for most of the problems that face her. There can be problems with the camera movement sometimes, but it’s not a big deal. You get to ride a motorbike around a few areas, even inside the ruins. You get to fight zombie like creatures, you wield Thor’s hammer. It’s a good game. The only minus is that it's short, just like Legend and Anniversary 5/5

When Lady Croft was still out and about without a bow and bicycle ! That was wonderful

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☐ Potato
☑ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☑ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☑ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

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☐ 1
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Things get dark for Lara - This is the best TR games of it's era, in my opinion.

I remember this game wasn't as polished gameplay wise when I first played it but playing it again man this is some jankkkk. Also the story feels rushed at the end and the final level is bad. With all its flaws it's still a good game. Hopefully next year it is remastered and given some much needed attention, also we need DLCs on PC.

incredibly jank, gun play feels weak, and is worst then TB legends

best one out of the mid 2000s trilogy. Last level was ass, but overall a very good puzzle game.

BIG BOOBA

good

Hands down it was a great experience,but whoever designed that camera can go to hell

Fun so far, some frame rate issues after getting stuck sometimes but reloading last save fixes

Glitches and bugs aside, if you liked Legend and Anniversary, you should definitely give this one a try.

This is a rough pc port, inconsistent and glitchy physics, input delays, unfair and confusing puzzles and random crashes plague this otherwise 6/10 kind of game. Combat is just lock on and shoot enemy with zero variation of fun. The movement, while great so see so much movement control and fluid animations, the delay from button press to action makes it impossible to do quick movements. I don't have a problem with tough puzzles but this game makes it just frustrating, where things are hidden that you had no idea you had to interact with or platforms and paths you took many times before leading to a dead end or a death. you will die many times from no fault of your own. This game is another case of good idea but bad execution. It was a slog to go through and you are better off playing the reboot trilogy instead. This constantly goes on sale for 99 cents and thats about how much this game is worth

smash

Finally some good gameplay

really good game, i love it

Great game, It's mostly climbing and jumping it might be boring to some, but I enjoyed it. Controls can be frustrating until you get the hang of it. The story is so good.

7.3/10 gg

gg

My favourite Lara, best Lara model and the most underrated Tomb Raider game imo.

was fun to play but now can any of you still get this game to run ??? thumbs up for yes an down for no lol pc specs are intel 13900k-4090 win 11

The game and story has been a blast from start to finish.

The climbing and camera movement are worse compared to Legend and Anniversary, but overall, it’s a fun experience

Nostalgia

Great action and strong female lead

This game has lots of problems to solve, albeit not very difficult, good graphics and atmosphere. much easier to play than legend.

Another day, another ancient civilization reduced to rubble.

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hottie in pixels

my first tomb raider game in a long time. I love playing this with an xbox controller.

AMAZINGO (LARAKINDASECSY)

Pretty good. Cyrstal Dynamics struggles to make good characters and story, but everything else is great.

Buggy as hell. Shit mechanics. Too parkour-focused gameplay. Only good thing is Lara's character model.

Lara Croft's final modern game before the series and character became something far removed from what it was. This one feels like a Tomb Raider game where feedback was taken seriously after Legend and Anniversary, bringing the series more in line with classic Tomb Raider. Out is the constant radio chatter and dated visuals, in is a more atmospheric adventure with a darker tone that respects it's audience's intelligence and love for the series a lot more.

It's an 8/10 as is and without a doubt Crystal Dynamics most faithful attempt at a Tomb Raider game. Probably a 9/10 if it had a bit more polish and the missing Xbox exclusive content, which gave the game it's true ending. It's a very underrated (and still very beautiful looking) gem and I highly recommend it for a taste of what once was, but with some of the newer visuals and effects that came with it's younger age.

lala croft!!!!

THIS GAME SUCKS!!!!!

Pros:
- feet
- lara croft's 32,816 polygons

Cons:
whoever designed the climbing mechanics along with the camera must be the biggest lobotomized mongoloids ever

best lara croft interpretation imo and right before legend. i lovee that amanda and natla made a comeback, and i love the whole thor's artifact hunting storyline.

my god theres a lot like a lot of underwater sequence... and lara's arms oh god

graphics are wonderful for a 2008 game, sad that it dont support steam screenshot, i mean good for my memory tho cause i'd be taking tons of screenshots if i could lol

oh and the puzzle... i'd say its more complicated than the last two games, ig its bcs the graphics are getting better so its more harder to really see where should i go or the right way to go, cuz they really made it harder to know where to jump and all like the ledges i mean. yeah i definitely got a bit of headache playing this, or maybe im just that dumb

Chronological continuation after Tomb Raider Legend and final entry in Legend trilogy. I enjoyed this more than Tomb Raider Anniversary and a bit more than Tomb Raider Legend.
The game is a bit longer than Tomb Raider Legend, but it is still so short. I liked the story and love how they included Tomb Raider Anniversary into this trilogy's canon, so it does not feel like it is excluded from this set and still makes sense in the story. The game feels more polished than Legend and Anniversary, which includes visuals and gameplay. Parkour controls feel more polished than before, although once in a while there are still some oddities. Lara has more weapon options than it was in Legend, she can also use a bike for travelling through the levels and using it for puzzle solving. The game finally got rid of boring and basic quick time events. Instead of clicking a button, now certain sections slow down time and you can play through it, which allows different approaches to dangerous situation.
From things that I did not like much are Lara's animations. The game was done with motion capture and in behind the scenes you can see how talented the motion capture actresses are and how it looks so good. Unfortunately it did not translate well to the game, as they have been edited in a way that looks souless, especially swan dive, which looks so stiff and artificially spedup, while Legend and Anniversary had it more graceful. Camera at times is very annoying, zooming on Lara extremely close in tight spaces or going crazy when just doing parkour to traverse the level. Sprint also zooms in on her butt all the time, which is very baffling considering what kind of outfit she is wearing in first level of the game. Fight controls in this game remind of Angel of Darkness, with shooting and strafing. While dual targeting and adrenaline time slow is amazing, combat itself does not feel that good, even though you can roll and dodge like in Legend and Anniversary, but here it is so much stiffer. I am also not a fan of having extremely a lot of secrets in each level. It does not make them special if there are so many of them, especially if it is just some silver object collectible all the time. First half of the game was so cool and pretty and then second one was a bit disappointing, which most likely can be attributed to troubling development.
But despite all negatives, I did really enjoy it and it is sad seeing the series ending... until next reboot.

Rating: 3/5

This game is mostly good. It's nothing new really, it's nothing bad either. It's just "mid" for a Tomb Raider I guess. It can get annoying at times if you dare to not hit a surface precisely with the angle and speed the game wants you to.


---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it
☐ MS-DOS

---{ Gameplay }---
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Watch paint dry instead
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☐ Eargasm
☐ Very good
☑ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐ Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☐ Floppy Disk
☑ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☑ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☐ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☐ Some lore
☑ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☑ Average
☐ Long
☐ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☐ Worth the price
☑ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☐ Never heard of
☑ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
☐ 2
☐ 3
☐ 4
☐ 5
☐ 6
☑ 7
☐ 8
☐ 9
☐ 10

I love the story and Character progression of Laura.

good graphics, i prefer the level 1 to level 4 and then it becomes less interesting, but overall is a good game for 2008.

The game is honestly very average. Comparing it to Legend it's a massive step up in terms of quality with the graphics, gameplay elements, controls, additions etc. However, the level design is horrendous, you never have any idea of where to go and what to do, the amount of times i needed to bring up a guide to show me roughly what I needed to do is insane. There are no markings, some of the puzzles make no sense and the levels at times are enormous. The controls sometimes are awful as well with Lara just jumping wherever she wants and at times whilst playing the levels I just wanted to play something else cause it kept dragging on and the levels made no sense. However, this game for the most part is still really enjoyable and can be finished quite quickly whilst still playing for other parts of the game and finishes the original story before the reboot which this time around ended up being quite fun and the mechanics sometimes being good as well. If this game got a remaster with better maps and a couple of better placed items it would get a much better rating

5 / 10

wish I could write good things about this one, but it always crashes for me near the start in croft manner when you finished the tutorial once the screen goes white

TLDR: Don't play this, just watch a youtube video. The game is incomplete (two exclusive dlcs never got ported) anyways.

The game itself could be good. It's movement is pretty alright, and you can definitely figure things out for even more controlled movement. But, as you play, you're going to notice the game steadily decreasing in experience quality level by level. I am now quitting because of xibalba/southern mexico. This whole level is awful and highlights one of the biggest issues I have with this game. The lack of a true save mechanic.

In this game, you caaaaan technically save you progress, but it's the same as a checkpoint. So, what happens when you want to reload a save? Get booted right back to the start of a puzzle. For me, no true autosave was made, I messed up, and had to redo an already frustrating puzzle (the 4 tiles in the underground temple in xibalba). I quit here because, unbeknownst to me, I had to bring a motorbike down this tunnel. Now, I thought I heard the entrance close, so I figured I'd reload a save. Only, the save I made, before going in, took me back to the veeeeeery beginning of this whole area.

The climbing puzzles are mostly fine, but at times the jank has got some stank. The cutscenes are not skippable, so upon replays you're going to have to sit through every single one (which for puzzles can be a bit annoying, like when you get reset). The combat feels unnecessary as always. It works, but feels very repetitive after the first few encounters. Southern mexico, again, highlights this. Initially, oh, here's a panther. Okay, now two panthers. Now 3 panthers and 4 armed gunmen! It just feels a bit annoying, like the shooting is just a roadblock to getting to the next climbing puzzle, which is all I really want anyways.

The game, again, can be good. However the lack of barebones QoL save mechanics is going to screw you over if you mess up or reload for other reasons. No reason not to have that in the game anyways. The combat works, but isn't anything to write home about. And the climbing really gets to be repetative (by that, I mean that xibalba feels like a slightly reskinned thailand in look and feel). I'd recommend tomb raider legend honestly. That game still had a dropoff in quality, but it was still fun most of the time. Plus the saves felt like they worked in that game too. Seriously, if you want to see the conclusion to this storyline, just google the gameplay, you won't be missing much, and you'll save yourself a lot of time and disappointment/frustration.

This is the most difficult of the three "06" games to recommend but it's still worth it especially now that it's sold at a reasonable price. They had the least amount of time to work on and polish this one and it shows. The camera is a pain, the story is rushed, and there are less cool locations. Lara also shows some wear as they were experimenting with skin techniques that weren't quite ready.

It's a great game and worth the asking price sale or no but be aware that this is the jankiest of the three.

Love the raider series had no problem wit game

It's actually not that bad but I still prefer Legend because of the smooth physics engine and the infinite acrobatic combos. This game just feels stiff and stilted compared to Legend, although they did make a lot of improvements, it just does not feel as smooth as Legend

Why does this game go kinda hard tho?