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Tomb Raider (2013)
A Survivor has been born.
Tomb Raider was never really my cup of tea. Back in the old days of the older Tomb Raider games, I was never really interested in even trying to play the games. Seeing the character then, I got a bad image of Lara Croft. To me, and please don't judge me for saying this, she seemed like another big bosom bimbo with high powered pistols, blasting away the poor creatures of the wilds and the underbelly of the society. This preconception was why I never played the old Tomb Raider games and after a few years, they made a movie about it. After seeing the movie, my preconception of the character, Lara Croft, was sadly confirmed. I didn't like the way they showed Lara Croft as. Sure she was tough and all, perhaps a little too tough, I really couldn't imagine Lara Croft as a realistic person.
Searching in the internet, I ended up in watching trailers for various upcoming games, I noticed a trailer for this reboot for Tomb Raider. The word "reboot" caught my eye and I watched the trailer. Immediately after seeing the fantastic trailer of the game, I knew I had to try this game out. I played the entire game through and my earlier vision of Lara Croft died and was replaced by the far better one I got from this game. The fact that this game is the origin story of how Lara Croft became who she is now, appealed to me the most.
Starting out as the 21-year old Lara Croft, fresh out college, wanting to make her mark in the world by searching for the mythical land of Yamatai near Japan. After being caught in a massive storm and shipwrecking on a mysterious island, she is forced to survive with the remaining survivors of the horrible shipwreck. Inexperienced and afraid, she is determined to get off the island alive. To survive on the terrifying island of Yamatai, Lara has to transform from the innocent and scared girl to the beautiful and strong girl she becomes in the end.
The game was an amazing experience. The creators took the difficult task of recreating an iconic and legendary character, to make Lara Croft into an entirely new person. And the creators sure did manage to do that, far better than I could have ever imagined. The creators and Camilla Luddington, who is the actress for Lara Croft, managed to bring out entirely new emotions to the character. The situations like for example Lara's first kill in the game, was an extremely emotional scene. The feelings she expressed in the game were extremely realistic, emotions that a normal person would have in a situations like that. Those were the things that made the game so good. The emotions it brought and the realistic aspect of them all. The graphics of the game were astonishing. The scenery the creators made blew my mind away even more. The movements and the details the creators created for the game made the experience even more realistic and wonderful. Definitely worthy of a sequel or a few.
The sound department succeeded in so many ways. Again, the little details of the sounds and the excellent soundtracks made the game feel so realistic. The mind-blowing soundtrack composed by Jason Graves perfected the game. Like in most reboots, the composer sticks to the original soundtrack, but the fact that an entirely new theme created from scratch, fitted best for the game. Since they were recreating the entire character, recreating the theme for her seemed to me like the best idea. The intense sound effects and the soundtracks made the game worthwhile and exciting
To name a downside in the game, I would say it was the way, if you fail to press a specific button during a struggle or otherwise get killed in the game, the way they show Lara die was a big turn off. The, in my opinion, unnecessarily, extremely brutal ways she dies, really make me feel a little sick, because the creators made the game so realistic, the fact when you see the poor girl, scared and alone, get killed in a most horrible way imaginable, made me very uncomfortable. You can see the sadness and the pain in her eyes alone and that is also why the death scenes are horrible to watch. If Lara dies in the game and after seeing the way she dies, makes me sad. I hate to see an innocent, scared girl die, who just wants to save her friends and leave the accursed island. If it was up to me, I wouldn't have made the death scenes so horrible. Nobody wants to see their hero die like that.
This new Tomb Raider takes the player into an entirely new world and introduces the recreated character for the iconic Lara Croft. After playing the game through, the new Lara Croft definitely deserves a place in my all time favorite characters. The game is a powerful emotional and physical adventure and a new, far better and far more realistic Lara Croft has been created and hopefully is now the absolute true and incontrovertible Tomb Raider and remains that way from now on.
Searching in the internet, I ended up in watching trailers for various upcoming games, I noticed a trailer for this reboot for Tomb Raider. The word "reboot" caught my eye and I watched the trailer. Immediately after seeing the fantastic trailer of the game, I knew I had to try this game out. I played the entire game through and my earlier vision of Lara Croft died and was replaced by the far better one I got from this game. The fact that this game is the origin story of how Lara Croft became who she is now, appealed to me the most.
Starting out as the 21-year old Lara Croft, fresh out college, wanting to make her mark in the world by searching for the mythical land of Yamatai near Japan. After being caught in a massive storm and shipwrecking on a mysterious island, she is forced to survive with the remaining survivors of the horrible shipwreck. Inexperienced and afraid, she is determined to get off the island alive. To survive on the terrifying island of Yamatai, Lara has to transform from the innocent and scared girl to the beautiful and strong girl she becomes in the end.
The game was an amazing experience. The creators took the difficult task of recreating an iconic and legendary character, to make Lara Croft into an entirely new person. And the creators sure did manage to do that, far better than I could have ever imagined. The creators and Camilla Luddington, who is the actress for Lara Croft, managed to bring out entirely new emotions to the character. The situations like for example Lara's first kill in the game, was an extremely emotional scene. The feelings she expressed in the game were extremely realistic, emotions that a normal person would have in a situations like that. Those were the things that made the game so good. The emotions it brought and the realistic aspect of them all. The graphics of the game were astonishing. The scenery the creators made blew my mind away even more. The movements and the details the creators created for the game made the experience even more realistic and wonderful. Definitely worthy of a sequel or a few.
The sound department succeeded in so many ways. Again, the little details of the sounds and the excellent soundtracks made the game feel so realistic. The mind-blowing soundtrack composed by Jason Graves perfected the game. Like in most reboots, the composer sticks to the original soundtrack, but the fact that an entirely new theme created from scratch, fitted best for the game. Since they were recreating the entire character, recreating the theme for her seemed to me like the best idea. The intense sound effects and the soundtracks made the game worthwhile and exciting
To name a downside in the game, I would say it was the way, if you fail to press a specific button during a struggle or otherwise get killed in the game, the way they show Lara die was a big turn off. The, in my opinion, unnecessarily, extremely brutal ways she dies, really make me feel a little sick, because the creators made the game so realistic, the fact when you see the poor girl, scared and alone, get killed in a most horrible way imaginable, made me very uncomfortable. You can see the sadness and the pain in her eyes alone and that is also why the death scenes are horrible to watch. If Lara dies in the game and after seeing the way she dies, makes me sad. I hate to see an innocent, scared girl die, who just wants to save her friends and leave the accursed island. If it was up to me, I wouldn't have made the death scenes so horrible. Nobody wants to see their hero die like that.
This new Tomb Raider takes the player into an entirely new world and introduces the recreated character for the iconic Lara Croft. After playing the game through, the new Lara Croft definitely deserves a place in my all time favorite characters. The game is a powerful emotional and physical adventure and a new, far better and far more realistic Lara Croft has been created and hopefully is now the absolute true and incontrovertible Tomb Raider and remains that way from now on.