Rise of the Tomb Raider is an upcoming action-adventure video game releasing exclusively for Microsoft Corporation’s (NASDAQ:MSFT) Xbox One and Xbox 360.
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The story takes place across five distinct environments, with the level select menu collating them under different coloured journals within Lara’s pack.
Square Enix Montreal, that’s who, and it’s testament to the team behind a $4.99 iOS game that bears comparison to chess that it feels so kinetic and fluid.
Square Enix has announced that a Collector’s Edition for Rise of the Tomb Raider is now available exclusively from the Square Enix e-store and the official Tomb Raider store.
You also have the standard wall saws, rolling boulders out straight out of Raiders of the Lost Ark, and collapsing floors and walls to deal with, and it becomes increasingly important to plan out your moves ahead of time.
Like Hitman GO before it, Lara Croft GO proves to be a brilliant reimagining of a classic franchise. Lara Croft GO’s levels are layered with treasures to find.
Lara Croft Go, by contrast, arrives fully animated, allowing 1996-era Lara (in tee and counterintuitive short-shorts) to dash athletically along room-for-one-only paths that range in straight lines or intersectional clusters through tropical forests, Mesoamerican ruins, and cavernous labyrinths.
You might have to work your way through a pit of snakes – realising that you can only shoot them from behind or the side. It is a good decision by Square Enix to make the game a timed exclusive and give Microsoft the responsibility of handling the marketing of the game.
Here’s the setup: Famed explorer Lara Croft has found another archeological site that she is more than happy to relieve of its riches and deadly monsters. “Slowly, you understand each and every one of them in a simple context, but then the combination is what makes it interesting and where the challenge comes from”, Routon said.
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What’s great about Lara Croft Go is that it’s a mobile game that hasn’t forgotten its routes. You have Co-Op Lara, who shows up in Guardian of Light and Temple of Osiris, cracking jokes and mowing down hordes and hordes of enemies alongside ancient Mayan warriors and Egyptian demigods. It can be easy to miss a few as you first take care of a level’s puzzles, but keeping an eagle-eyed look out for them behind the game’s attractive geometric backdrops is an enjoyable way to pad out the somewhat lithe journey.
