These are sprawling, intricate environments, and, for the most part, you can leisurely pick through them-the only distractions coming from the occasional wolf, bear or big cat that's taken a disliking to your continued existence. When you're not fighting for your life-be it against soldiers or the crumbling ruins of an action set piece-you're exploring one of a handful of large, open hub areas. Scaling giant buildings or huge cliff faces still feels risky, even as the interactions involved are slim. The presentation does a lot of the heavy lifting. It gives combat a welcome feeling of fluidity. As a result, scrabbling between cover while grabbing and arming a can is a frictionless process. You craft combat tools by holding the middle-mouse button, thus keeping your keyboard hand free to control Lara's movements. Doing so costs resources found out in the world, but I was never so low on them that I was unable to set light to a clustered group of soldiers. A bottle can be turned into a molotov cocktail an empty can an IED. Arrows and special ammo can be created at any point, but you can also make use of things found around enemy camps. New for this outing is Lara's ability to craft combat tools on-the-fly. Aimed correctly, and you can down even heavily armed guards with a single salvo. I especially enjoy the feel of the rapid fire skills, which let you instantly fire off fully charged follow up arrows after your initial shot. Having to draw back and charge shots provides a nice rhythm to the combat, especially in conjunction with some of the skill upgrades available as Lara levels up. Once again, though, the bow is star of the show. Pistols feel lightweight and clinical, while the pump-action shotgun is a chunky and gratifyingly deadly option. Most feel good to fire, the panicked inaccuracy of the automatic rifle being the only real exception. Lara has access to a small selection of weapon types-pistol, rifle and shotgun-with a variety of styles available in each category. While things quickly spiral out of control, particularly after the appearance of militaristic cult Trinity, she's no longer an unwilling participant in events. There's an important difference in the plots of RotTR and its predecessor. Lara is on the hunt for the Divine Source, an artifact that her father had obsessed over before his death. Lara's latest adventure opens in Siberia, and-aside from an early sojourn in Syria-that's where it stays. They're all still there, but take up significantly less of 15-or-so hour running time. There are fewer slow-mo QTE sequences, fewer awkward conversations, fewer by-the-numbers miniboss fights. It's not that Tomb Raider's missteps have been eradicated, but they've been dramatically reduced. There's a level of artifice to these sequences, but they operate within the framework of established interactions. There's still plenty of set-piece spectacle, but these pace-breaking action segments trust you to read the visual clues of the environment and react using the appropriate controls. From then on, Rise of the Tomb Raider sticks to a mostly consistent level of interactivity. You can view some more direct feed images from the game here.The opener is frustrating, but over quickly. Rise of The Tomb Raider is stated for a holiday 2015 release on the Xbox One and Xbox 360 platforms. I am looking forward to new information, and as soon as anything comes to light we will bring it to you. It will certainly be exciting to see what the team at Crystal Dynamics will show at E3 later this year, as we have not yet seen any gameplay footage of the game. This could potentially provide some more traditional Tomb Raider, focus for the heroine, with exciting new discoveries and exploration segments that will take the game back to its roots. The environment of Siberia, as well as the larger tombs could provide a much more dynamic world with much more detail. The game follows Lara Croft and Jonah Maiava as they discover an ancient city built by the Grand Prince of Vladimir in the 13th century. It seems that Rise of The Tomb Raider has been given a facelift, compared to 2013's Tomb Raider, and given that its primary development is done on the Xbox One it should take advantage of the new hardware to much better extend. Rise of The Tomb Raider is a timed exclusive for the Xbox platforms, which means that it will most likely come to the PC sometime in the future.
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