Regular forum-dwellers may have seen me rage about this travesty before but in case you haven't: DO NOT BUY THIS GAME! It is not worth $2.49. If you win a giveaway for it, refuse to accept it and insist that it be re-rolled in perpetuity until a war-criminal wins it.

It will make you hate Lara Croft, Tomb Raider, yourself. It will make you hate your loved ones, and it will make you hate computing. You will smash every electrical device in your home in an attempt to scour the hideous memory of this game from your mind. You will sell all your possessions and move to the country to live a pastoral existence as you try, gradually, to rebuild your shattered life, somewhere safe; somewhere you won't be reminded of Tomb Raider: Anniversary every time you see a familiar face or object. But late at night, as you lay cold and shivering in the dusk, as the last candle sputters out and you close your eyes, you will remember. Oh yes. You'll remember my friend...

You'll remember the 176th time you failed to make the same jump because the camera decided to spin round and because all movement is relative to the camera angle. You'll remember every time you had to replay the same 5 minutes of the game over and over and over again because they let a stoned, retarded chimpanzee decide where the checkpoints should go. You'll remember...oh yes; you'll remember. And you'll scream at the night as you do.

Zero Punctuation

tl;dr game sucks, don't buy.

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I'll take your word for it. Thanks for the heads up.

12 years ago
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Yes. Please send to me. I know JUST the war criminal you're looking for.

12 years ago
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I disagree. I played it a long time ago and really liked it. :/

12 years ago
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Yeah, I didn't think it was too bad either

12 years ago
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I thought it was an alright game. Nothing special, but certainly not that terrible either.

12 years ago
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I actually liked Anniversary quite a lot, and the game got some nice reviews when it came out. My only problem with it, it's boring at times, yet I still feel like replaying it sometimes.
Just don't get Underworld, it's so bugged it will make you cry.

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Huh? Really? Wait, I'll go beat it again while hardly missing any jumps... maybe I've missed the portion of the game you're describing. By your description since I don't remember such horrors I must have managed self hypnosis or something and made myself forget it all. Cool. :D

12 years ago
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You're a better gamer than I then. Come to think of it, I played it with mouse and keyboard, maybe I should try it again using a gamepad.

12 years ago
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definitely, played it a while ago on gamepad and dont remember such a problems..

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I play everything with mouse and keyboard(don't own a gamepad), so the problem isn't there. Are you sure you weren't just rushing everything too much? If the moment you grab a ledge you start randomly jumping with out looking around your surroundings I guess that would lead to unnecessary deaths. ^_^

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:-P

12 years ago
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Wow, sounds like TR:A trolled you hard. Yet I'd bet you're still strangely drawn back to beating the game. Must be the boobies. ;)

12 years ago
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I was weak. I played it over and over again. Over and over and over trying to beat it. I got to a certain point that I replayed 100s of times. Literally. At the end, just before I gave up for good, I could only play for <10 minutes at a time before the rage gripped me.

The part is in one of the pyramids I think...you run out onto a ledge over a large shaft and two flying beasties appear in front of you which you can dispatch pretty easily, but it's a massive pain because there isn't another checkpoint for ages. (I guess...because I never made it to that next checkpoint) You have to shoot a switch that causes poles to come out of the walls, and the ledge you're on to start retreating into the wall. You have to jump to a pole, swing over it to the next one, then the next one then the next one then grapple to a ring on the wall and do wall running before jumping off the wall to another pole and another and another all against the clock IIRC. I'd go to jump off the wall and the camera would inexplicably move causing me to jump into thin fucking air. Boom...back to the start to kill those two flying beasties....

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I admit, that part was an absolute nightmare and the devs should be whipped for it. But it hardly kill the game for me. The fun factor was higher than those frustrations.

12 years ago
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I'll take your word for it as that I've only ever played through the original Tomb Raider game. (which I enjoyed)

And from reading the posts of others, it seems like TR:A is a mixed bag. I've tried various incarnations of the Tomb Raider series but they've never hooked me in like the original one.

BTW thanks for the Zero Punctuation link. I recently rediscovered this guy and have been slowly going through his catalogue of videos. =)

12 years ago
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Too late, I just bought Tomb Raider: Anniversary, Tomb Raider: Legend and Tomb Raider: Underworld.
I Confess i am enjoying playing :)

12 years ago
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I bought the other TR games too when they were ridiculously cheap on sale but I've been too scared to play them.

12 years ago
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Try Legends, I remember it being awesome. I liked Anniversary but yes, that game cost me a lot of nerves. I played like 1 hour of Underworld and decided to screw it.

12 years ago
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I love all 3 TR games from the that trilogy. Hooray for me.

12 years ago
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Oh, but I love love love Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

12 years ago
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"176th time you failed to make the same jump" how can you not adapt to that damn camera after all those tries?! Lol! Do you suck by chance? :P

I finished that game three times and I do not agree with your opinion. Although this game playability is not as grand as the ones from first generation, it's still nice and enjoyable. Plus since it's remake of very first Tomb Raider, it brings out some memorable stuff.

But I am a Tomb Raider fan boy, I may not see some flaws in the game.

12 years ago
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Are you kidding? Anniversary is fucking awesome.

In fact, i think i'll go buy Legend because i didn't know it was on sale.

12 years ago
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It was hilarious to see it had a bug on the psp mode.In the last stages a piece was missing and i couldn't find a way to continue the stage(btw i found a downloadable content that worked on that so i finally made it to finish the game).Except from that bug, i think it is awesome.

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As someone who actually finished the first game, I gotta say that even though Anniversary doesn't come close to it, neither in content (1/3rd of the levels were not included in Anniversary) nor in experience (the old T-Rex gave me nearly a heart attack, while the new one looked more Jurassic Park), I still thought that it was a pretty great game. I appreciated the difficulty, because Legend felt particularly pansy as opposed to the old series. Still, both the original and Legend are way better though. Do get this game, but you should probably get Legend first.

12 years ago
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but it has boobs, can't go wrong with $2.49.

12 years ago
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Actually I loved the game, it make me love Tomb Raider even more.

12 years ago
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get it free in GMG (making trade-ins)
not sure if I will install capsule just to download it after reading this d:

12 years ago
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That's the standard Tomb Raider experience. I played several of them, though always got stuck and never finished any of them. I still enjoyed what I played.

12 years ago
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i personally loved aniversary, but then again, different people enjoy different things i guess

12 years ago
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tomb raider and camera positioning -_-

12 years ago
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I liked anniversary, so I went ahead and bought legend and underworld.

12 years ago
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I quite liked it. You need to learn the difference between opinion and fact

12 years ago
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Well, that's just like...your opinion...man.

12 years ago
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I hate the playstation games. :|

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Closed 12 years ago by adamofgreyskull.