Tomb Raider 2012 Review

“A young and innocent Lara Croft is ship-wrecked on a mysterious island in an open world survival game, leaving from the mood of prior games in the series.”

Game Plot

The game will tell an swap tale of Lara Croft’s first adventure, where she is young (21 years old) and inexperienced. When traveling on the ship Endurance towards an island off the coast of Japan, single-minded to make a name for herself in the world, a brutal storm destroys the ship and washes Lara ashore on a beach of an unknown island. Alone, scared and wounded, she has to learn to stay alive and eventually become the daring voyager she is destined to become.

The game focuses on Lara’s character arc from inexperienced adventurer to veteran explorer. The developers want the player to feel for Lara which explains why they redesigned the character to make her look more human being and less top replica. Her abilities have also been condensed. She no longer knows aerobics and maneuvers the environments with less assurance

Tomb Raider is the first Tomb Raider game to have an M rating. This is due to excessive blood (Lara often has to heal herself by manually putting bones back in place) but also due to the fact that Lara can die in brutal ways. Lara is not alone on the island and the indigenous population enjoys torture and execution people upside down to have them burn to death. 

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