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Introduction

The first time I played Tomb Raider, it wasn’t the action that struck me most. It was the rapid progression of Lara from naive adventurer into someone who is forced to improvise, to ascend, to struggle, to fight and to survive – because the island offers her nothing convenient.

That transformation is what provides this game its identity. One moment you’re prowling around an abandoned building, the next you’re trying to scale a mountain or bargain with a nasty Cthulhu-thing.

What Tomb Raider Is All About

Tomb Raider is an action-adventure game that transports Lara Croft to one of her many adventures that will turn her into the kind of relentless investigator she is over the course of this series. And in this adventure, her plane is shot down on a strange island called Yamatai and she’s the only survivor along with her crew. That’s where everything takes place.

The island is not the set dressing in between missions. Forests, cliffs, ruins, caves, villages and centuries of history are all linked, and in many cases, exploration and peril are in the same areas. Although Lara begins with few tools, she must adapt to her environment to survive, using what she comes across. As she progresses, she unlocks new weapons, tools, gadgets, skills and other items to add to her expanding arsenal.

And that’s where the scale of things begin to really expand. Rather than progressing through a wholly linear set of rooms, you can revisit previous sections, look for collectibles, seek out optional areas, or explore the side tombs with environmental puzzles and the like.

How the Adventure Works

The game combines hunting, exploration, traversal, combat, puzzle solving, and progression seamlessly. As Lara, you traverse the island using your climbing skills, tools, and the environment itself as you encounter hostile factions and environments. There are multiple approaches to combat. You can use your bow for quieter shots or change your tactics on the fly with your guns if you need to get up close and personal.

Movement is also key, especially when enemies are spread out across the environment. However, combat is only part of the game; much of the game consists of navigating your way through the landscape. Whether it’s climbing, rope swinging, environmental interaction, or destructible environments, the terrain becomes something you work to conquer rather than something you walk through.

It’s in the Base Camps that Lara can spend skill points that she accumulates, upgrade her gear, and travel between locations that you’ve previously explored. The upgrade system gives exploration some purpose. The items you scavenge on your adventures can be used to upgrade your weapons and gear, and the xp you earn on your journey will go toward new skills. So, every time you’re scouring a location for something optional, you’re actually working toward making Lara more powerful.

Key Features

• Action-adventure genre focusing on the early tomb raider Lara Croft’s change to a survivor
• A large island environment based on the mysterious landscape of Yamatai
• Exploration forests, caves, ruins, cliffs, settlements, and secret areas
• Third person movement with climbing, jumping, traversing and interaction with environment
• Bow, pistol, shotgun, rifle and others for separate combat circumstances
• Direct aim giving you more control in battle
• Potential strategies to sneak up to various fight encounters more cautiously
• Skill progression for ability trees related to survival, hunting, and combat
• Weapon and equipment upgrades using collected salvage

Base Camps for Skills, Gear Upgrades and Fast Travel

• Optional side tombs with environmental challenges and rewards
• Items and easter eggs throughout the island
• Physics-based environmental puzzles integrated into exploration
• Slow progression in Lara’s growth and equipment.
• PC support on graphics settings and mouse and keyboard controls
• Multiplayer content with maps and playable characters (included in the overall game package)
• Game of the Year extras include even more single-player and multiplayer content

Why the Gameplay Holds Together

Tomb Raider succeeds because its systems are always overlapping. Exploration yields resources. Resources upgrade equipment. Upgraded gear makes some encounters much more manageable. New skills and gear can also recontextualize old environments you’ve already explored. It’s a good cycle. Take the bow. It isn’t just some other weapons in Lara’s menu. It can seamlessly be integrated with your stealth and combat systems, as well as exploration and even traversal in some circumstances.

Rope arrows are able to draw value from the environment in addition to shooting bad guys. Base Camps sprinkle in another element without turning progression into a grind. You’re not stopping every few seconds and trawling through a bajillion options. They’re handy checkpoints for incremental upgrades to the game’s open-world formula, before returning to the action. And then there are the optional tombs.

They break up the pace – after a series of combat or traversal, discovering a tomb can give you a quieter puzzle to work through. Some tombs are easier than others, but may involve using the game’s environment, or the interactions between various objects, in order to succeed. I think that is one of the great things about the game. It knows when to go for it and when to slow down.

Common Ways to Play

• Storyline: The story follows Lara’s journey through the land of Yamatai and as she progresses through the game and unlocks what happened on the island.
• Exploration: Search the area for secret routes, secrets, collectibles, items, documentation, and optional places.
• Enemy Fights: Approach enemy with certain weapons and other movements abilities.
• Stealth Technique: Use the environment and the bow to minimize your time spent in certain encounters and use more caution when getting close.
• Tomb Investigation: Discover optional tombs and fix environmental puzzles to receive prizes.
• Skill Development: Gain experience and consume skill points to acquire skills that enhance Lara’s survival, hunting, and combat abilities.
• Equipment Upgrades: Salvage and use it to upgrade weapons and equipment during the adventure.
• Base Camp Services: Purchase upgrades for Lara at the Base Camps, change your equipment and fast travel between locations you have already found.
• Complete World Exploration: Revisit areas you’ve already explored with your new items and skills to discover things you couldn’t before.
• Multiplayer: Play multiplayer games and access a variety of other map and character playables, aside from the adventure.

Final Thoughts

Tomb Raider is nice and breezy. It doesn’t just blast Lara from one action sequence to the next. The slower segments have weight too.

Exploring an empty structure, scaling a treacherous ledge, locating a hidden tomb, or scraping together enough salvage for an upgrade might make a more significant set-piece that comes next.

And Lara’s evolution provides some cohesion to the whole adventure.

No, she doesn’t come in as an invincible action star. She has to learn. She has to make it up as she goes along.

She has to squeeze what she can from the island.

That is what makes this progression compelling. The fact that there are elements of exploration, climbing, fighting, puzzle solving, collectables, upgrades and optional locations means that it adds a lot more depth than a simple action-shooter game. You can follow the story, meander off the beaten track, go looking for upgrades, or spend some time investigating earlier locations.

Honestly, it is. Tomb Raider still stands up because it is a tight, action-adventure package, where its mechanics don’t feel disjointed from each other, but work with each other. Every new skill that Lara learns has the potential to shake up how you go about traversing the world, every upgrade offers a new reason to keep hunting, and it all clicks when the game unleashes all its powers at once.