
VERY disappointing, Glitchy, and plain dull.

I Gave it a three star becuase the graphics are impressive. However, the story and gameplay was very weak.
First off, let me start with the glitches. the whole game is a one big glitch party. Lara can get stuck in places. you can die but your ride could be left in an area where you can't go back to. everytime you load back to a game point, if you've killed an enemy, sometimes they appear but suddenly die as if the game suddenly remembered that you killed it.
There are TOO many secrets in this game. Lara can find one in the corner, then take 5 steps and find another one. there are at least 20 to 50 in a level and they are at VERY obvious places. so there's really no point to having them. Plus the only thing they unlock is pictures, no cutscenes, no extra items or clothes, just pictures.
Lara does not have much to choose from when it comes to weapons or outfits, becuase at the very beginning of each level, it will give you a choice between two outfits (same outfits over and over) and maybe 4 to 5 weapons.
after the game is done, you can't reply any levels. the only way you can go back to the desired place, is to play from point one ----> the very beginning and work your way up.
You kill the same things over and over and over, spiders, bats, thralls, goons. almost on every level, thats about it.
Lara's mansion blows up, but they could have given us the option to play the Mansion level, where we could just walk around or something. you don't get to see much of it.
Okay, on with the story. This tomb Raider is about Lara getting closure about her mother disappearing for almost 40 years. Lara doesnt really expect her mother to be alive, she just wanted to understand what happened. but near the end, when she finds Ameilia, her mother standing near the edge in the underworld, she comes to find that her mother is dead and that she's just walking shell in the form of a Thrall. some suspect that she must have accidentally touched or fell into the Thrall poison or was probably attacked by one. but anyway, the thing that really disappointed me, was the fact that THAT little moment lasted less then a minute. When her mother seemed to be unresponsive but instead savage-like, Lara shoots her off the edge and thats the last you will see of her mother. After all Lara's work, she comes to a less-than-a-minute reunion with her mother. They could have had Lara charged at her and press down on the ground and tried yelling at her concious to see if she would recognize her own daughter. only half of her body appeared to be infected, plus she looked far different from the rest of the thralls.
The ending is pretty averaged, however they cut out the ending where Lara leaves Amanda for dead. So i'm guessing thats a sign that mabye Amanda will appear in the last one or both future Tomb Raider games.
overall, i quite disappointed. i wasted 50+ bucks when i could have just rented it.
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