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Special Items can also be unlocked by completing missions from quest-givers. This makes it possible to switch up your style, fancy going a while with an automatic weapon? It’s a goal to work toward by discovering all the correct pieces. As for bad language, Tomb Raider is peppered with naughty words - usually sh*t and f*ck when things don't go according to plan.Rise of The Tomb Raider also provides new weapons that are collected through discovering parts while exploring caves and opening boxes. Things can also get a little bit creepy at times, seeing as the islanders seem to be a tribe of blood-thirsty cultists, and there's plenty of pitch black caves to pass through. As there's an emphasis on 'survival' here, you do have to kill a deer in an early section in the game - although that's the only time in the game you'll be forced to kill an animal.

Parents may also want to know about the animal hunting scenes in the game. Nothing more happens (despite the initial massive media outcry), with the whole scene being over in about 30 seconds, leaving her assailant lying on the floor, having been shot dead.

While Lara, with hands tied behind her back garners the attention of one of her captors, who proceeds to run his hands up and down her body as she struggles to get away, thing come to a quick halt thanks to a swift knee to the crotch. Parents will likely be relieved to know that the controversial 'rape' scene isn't as controversial as it first appeared. Miss a button press in a scripted event, or venture somewhere you shouldn't, and poor Miss Croft comes a cropper - impaling herself on trees, having her head crushed by a boulder or having a cultist's sword go straight through her mid-section and out the other side. Everything in Tomb Raider is designed for shock value - one scene sees Lara held down by a gang of men and beaten up later in the game, resulting in a face covered in blood, while there's even a bizarre room filled with skinned corpses and severed body parts, which you have to wade through. Get the popcorn - this one's going to be a long one.įirst and foremost, the game features gratuitous amounts of gore - cutscenes and interactive sequences feature Lara slicing into a deer with blood spurting out, shooting half a man's face off and wading through rivers of blood. It's also the first 18 rated game in the whole series.

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Tomb Raider is a gritty retelling of gaming's leading lady Lara Croft's 'origin story', following her shipwreck on an island full of loonies. With it's insight into what made Lara the adventurer we know, Tomb Raider is definitely more of a game for the older players. There's also plenty of things to find and collect scattered around the island too, many of which reveal more titbits of the game's story. Some puzzles also require you to use Lara's weapons in different ways, whether it's attaching a rope arrow to a box and tugging it to make it swing, blasting through a metal wall with a grenade launcher or making yourself a tightrope bridge to shimmy across a ravine. One particular puzzle stood out as being a bit on the tricky side because of the timing involved - you needed to open some shutters to let the wind in, before raising a platform in time to be blown across to the opposite wall so Lara could leap onto a high up ledge.

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Puzzles, while mostly fairly simple, do require some trial and error to get right, and are mostly centred around either basic real-world physics, or setting fire to explosive barrels.

What also doesn't help when it comes to easing in newcomers is the fact that the game frequently throws large amounts of enemies at you, all with a seemingly limitless supply of Molotov cocktails and dynamite - coupled with Lara's fragile health bar, things can get pretty frustrating pretty quickly. And while previous Tomb Raider games were fairly forgiving, with an automatic aim that meant you could just hold down the shoot button and backflip all over the place to avoid damage, the new game has none of it - you need to manually aim all of your shots with the right trigger, whilst moving Lara with the left, something we still struggle with to this day.

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Tomb Raider tends to assume you're familiar with the usual third person shooter controls and foibles before you start playing, and while it does attempt a tutorial of sorts, it also omits some basic things - such as how to fire Lara's bow (hold the left trigger to zoom in, before firing off arrows with the right trigger).