Tomb Raider 2013 – A hands-on Review

Gaming Shiva Subramanian

Tomb Raider is the first game to redefine how games worked and what the player saw. It was the first game that introduced 3D mechanics. It was available on the PlayStation One and was the most famous game of its generation. Tomb Raider 2 and 3 improved upon that. The Angel of Darkness brought a new turn to the game and some heavy criticism and altered the rest of the games. Legend onwards saw some realistic graphics and places where the players died easily and sort of took time to cross. Anniversary brought out killing of dinosaurs- T-Rex and so on. Underworld was rather a very much improved game and I loved it very much. There were also many spin-offs (side versions) such as Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light which dropped the Tomb raider name and was a camera specific game. It is like a two and a half dimension game.

The latest version of Tomb Raider is the Tomb Raider 2013 which is like a time travel back to the past with some advanced graphics and a very much beautiful Lara Croft. I fell in love with her at first sight. The story exploits Lara to a wide range of brutal attacks which hurts her (and me too) deeply.

Tomb Raider 2013

 Gameplay:

The story begins with Lara listening to music on her ship and suddenly a storm coming and wrecking her ship. This then results in her jumping aboard another ship to save herself but not able to reach it and fall into the water. She is then washed ashore but is stranded off from the rest of her group. This leads to another cut scene where she is beaten up and tied upside down in the ceiling of a cave. This is where the game starts. The player gets to control Lara and follow her adventures. I wont tell the rest of the story and spoil your gameplay. You get to play, enjoy and understand that yourself.

Graphics/Specification:

The Graphics of the game is very much amazing and makes full utilization of any customized and heavy hardware, specific for gaming.  The minimum system requirements are as follows.

  • Windows XP Service Pack 3, Windows Vista,7,8 (32bit/64bit)
  • DirectX 9 graphics card with 512Mb Video RAM: AMD Radeon HD 2600 XT, nVidia 8600
  • Dual core CPU: AMD Athlon64 X2 2.1 Ghz (4050+), Intel Core2 Duo 1.86 Ghz (E6300)
  • 1GB Memory (2GB on Vista)

If you find your game really lagging, connect your laptop (if you are using one) to a power source and change the resolution of the screen in the Graphics section. If you are using a desktop, changing the screen resolution might help, but, if it doesn’t, you might need to invest a few bucks and get a new Graphics/Video card.

I know the review is quite late in comparison to when the game was released but I rather downloaded the game very late and hence the review is late.

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