It's not as though Lara Croft, fictional or not, is unaccustomed to the spotlight, and her new venture to rediscover herself is certainly one that has made headlines, but there's a good chance the buxom adventurer and her handlers, Crystal Dynamics, have only scratched the surface.

At least that's the sense James "Jickle" O'Connor gave us with his review of the game, and dammit if the guys isn't more often right, we've no choice but to trust that this new Lara Croft opus has touched him in a positive way.

Click here for his full review to see what we're on about.

i guess i'll be buying this game

Clueless Gamer: Conan O'Brien Reviews "Tomb Raider"

http://teamcoco.com/video/clueless-gamer-conan-obrien-reviews-tomb-raider

Clueless Gamer: Conan O'Brien Reviews "Tomb Raider"http://teamcoco.com/video/clueless-gamer-conan-obrien-reviews-tomb-raider

Ch-asm... WTF...

Apparently AMD users get some new hair rendering system as well which is interesting.

tressfx? i didn't know it was being used in tomb raider.

Regarding something said in the locked thread, is the FOV really bad? And can it be changed?

I played TR: Underworld the other day and the FOV was worse than I remembered!

After the epic fail that was Syndicate, I'm really not paying for a game that can't get the damn FOV right. Third or first person, it's a deal breaker. Get it right, game companies!

Yeah just grabbed it from CJS as well, instant delivery too which was nice for once. I'm quite eager to try it out as from what I've seen it looks great.

Played for a small fraction of time during lunch, from what I have played though this game is definitely marketed wrong. All the trailers seemed to focus on the quicktime events and showing very little of anything else, but there are quite a few puzzles and surviving is quite big plus its also open world-ish which I didn't even know.

Definitely quite intense at some points and I've killed Lara a few times which are gruesome. Seems to be a fair few side stuff to collect as well like trophies and journals etc. Can see myself spending a fair bit of time on this title.

I am about three hours in (for a gumby gamer), which is a LONG time for me to game these days, and I'm very keen to get some more in.

It's "Uncharted done right"

There is nothing that is annoying me so far, plenty impressing me, and I'm very easily annoyed.

It's been a while since I've jumped about and sweated a scene in a game I'm usually just not that interested/involved, but there's been a couple of times that I've done that so far in TombRaider -> putting down the mote going PHEW!!

Unlike that Assassins Creed BS I didn't feel like I was skipping through crap waiting for things to start, I was involved in the game from the very beginning.

Really well done.

There is nothing that is annoying me so far, plenty impressing me, and I'm very easily annoyed.

The only thing that has annoyed me so far was the "rape" scene where it is probably the first serious use of quick-time events. It pissed me off because I had no idea which keys to press, which until then every qt event told you which key to press and I died like 5 times just trying to work out which key they wanted me to press for which part.

I didn't work it out until later but apparently the symbols they replaced the keys with, "!" and the hand are meant to represent kick and grab or "F" and "E" but at the time I was just mashing shit and dying and remembering how much I hate quick-time events.

I'm glad I struck it at that scene though since I had already seen it in videos when the media were overreacting to it. Now that I know what's going on hopefully future qt events wont completely ruin an otherwise intense moment in the game.

I played this game all weekend on the PS3... This is such a fantastic game.. whilst it's easily comparable to the Uncharted series it is still very much a Tomb Raider game, it has sooo many great Tomb Raider elements, the only modern feature would be the quick time events, which are implemented perfectly.

Watching Lara Croft transform from a naive young girl to a strong woman with each brutal blow has been an amazing experience, The whole family is watching on rooting for her and falling in love with this mysterious island.

I can not praise this game enough.

If i had to fault it, it would be that some of the puzzles don't live up to the rage quitting puzzles of the original tomb raider games... at the same time, they are challenging enough to keep me doing them and they don't keep you bogged down from the story.

Bought it this afternoon and played it for a couple of hours tonight and love it!!! Hated all the other Tomb Raiders but this one is good!

Just a heads up, this is ~$19.50AU from GMG this weekend. (50% off weekend deal, then use 20% off code GMG20-GGN5D-FC3NA )

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/au/en/pc/games/action/tomb-raider/