Tomb Raider: Legend brings back the gaming world's sexiest and most intrepid adventurer. Follow Lara down a path of discovery as she travels the globe to remote, exotic locales in search of one of history's greatest artifacts that unleash unwelcome figures from Lara's mysterious past. Use her skills to explore vast, treacherous tombs, riddled with challenging puzzles and deadly traps. Physics, Water and Fire systems bring the perilous environments of Lara's world alive, and challenge the player to improvise solutions to obstacles. Jump into the future of adrenaline-fueled adventure.
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Lara is more realistic than ever - the sexy, dual-pistol wielding heroine has new graphics & animation sets
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Discover and explore living breathing, lost ancient realms that hold clues to the secrets of Lara's past
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Intuitive, fluid control system keeps Lara in continuous motion; handle any obstacle and interact with any surface
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Use strength and intelligence to uncover ancient treasures -- Use the grappling hook, an arsenal of new weapons, Communications devices, and other tools to achieve your goals
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Travel to the world's most exotic locales - Treacherous jungles, snowy mountain ranges and more
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Awful Controls Ruin The GameJan 03, 2010 OK, Laura looks pretty good. The graphics are not half bad. The save system divides the game up into a series of short mini-levels that are saved automatically as you complete. This is good. There are also some cool things you can do, including using your grappling hook thingy to open windows, swing, pull yourself forward on a raft, etc.
Why should you avoid this game? It's the controls. I don't know if it's just me, but I couldn't take the jump button. I'd press it and a half to a full second later, Laura would jump...if she felt like it. And whether this was a glitch or not I don't know, but often when I should have fallen to my death from a failed jump, it ended up with Laura making a sort of half jump thing with her leg down as she hit the ground, surviving the fall. Odd.
Another problem is that Laura cannot even crouch. She has to stand to fight all the enemies. To get in tight areas, she sort of rolls into a ball and goes through, sort of like in a Metroid game. WTF? Hit detection is also tragically bad. In some places you're supposed to slide down ropes, but getting to just the right place so she'll grab on can be trying.
This is the first and only cartridge I've been mad enough at to destroy. It was ever so satisfying to stomp it into the pavement after 20 minutes of trying to make the same stupid jump and falling every time. Not fun.
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Fun, albeit empty, side scrolling with Lara CroftDec 19, 2006 Buxom adventurer Lara Croft makes a somewhat triumphant return to the GBA with Tomb Raider: Legend, which like many titles has been transformed into a side scrolling romp. The first thing you'll notice is that the game looks very sharp, especially for a GBA side scroller. Lara herself is very nicely animated, and the environments and terrains look good as well. The platforming and gunplay elements are almost the same as the console versions, which is surprising as well, and the puzzle elements peppered throughout are challenging as well. There's a few motorcycle based areas as well to spice up the gameplay, which will become somewhat stagnant as you progress through the eight surprisingly massive levels. The biggest drawback of Tomb Raider: Legend is that you can't really explore the 2-D side scrolling levels, which is the whole point of a Tomb Raider game. That's what really hurts the overall package, but Tomb Raider: Legend is still a more than solid GBA game that is definitely worth checking out for those still holding on to their GBA's.
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