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Tomb Raider Underworld
Published by: Eidos Interactive |
Tomb Raider Underworld - Game Review (PC)
By Flaviu Volosciuc
Published: November 28, 2008
Print Gameplay: 90
It's fast, spectacular and well balanced. You get huge exploring environments with lots of ways to choose from, melee fighting moments, shooting moments in Angelina Jolie's Wanted style, and logical puzzles with interesting solutions. Probably without the not so inspired fighting moments with huge spiders and thralls, the game would probably be noted much higher. Those are the only moments when you feel like the game was unpolished. Otherwise the gameplay is a Tomb Raider masterpiece, probably the best.
Graphics: 89
This is the first game featuring the new graphical engine which also will be used in Deus Ex 3, the fact being confirmed by Senior Producer and External Designer of the game. An engine that provides photo-realistic images in some instances and a high-end physics system. The diversity and hugeness of the environment suites perfectly the capabilities of the engine, altogether creating a beautiful visual feeling. The developers went even further in terms of environment, and besides the popular exotic sites, we get also an up-side-down level. At the end of the first chapter you will have to escape a wrecked ship, while it sinks at 90 degree angle. Several changes have been made to the so emblematic Lara character. Her costume has been redesigned and her hair is worn in a ponytail. Plus her body measures are look much more real than previous installments.
Sound: 89
Keeley Hawes provides again the voice of Lara, as she did in Legend and Anniversary. Troels Brun Folmann composed the main theme of the game, while O'Malley did most of the remaining music. This time the soundtrack is not so repetitive anymore, many musical fragments appearing only once in the game.
Hardware: 82
Normally we got around 40 - 50 fps on medium to high PC machine, but the new engine definitely requires more than previous installments. The framerate falls sometimes in the cutscenes.
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