Tomb Raider (Crystal Dynamics' 4th)

**Will** · 02 Apr 2013, 05:06 PM

Originally Posted by Pineapple

Came in the mail today. Did every copy come with the little hardcover art book? I think that's a wonderful addition, wish more games would do that. Very excited to dig in tonight!

Did you order a special edition?

**Pineapple** · 02 Apr 2013, 05:08 PM

Not as far as I know, I just got it from Amazon during its deal of the day thing I posted. Nothing on the box says LE or whatever, which is why I was wondering. It's a pleasant surprise, though!

**Will** · 02 Apr 2013, 05:15 PM

Originally Posted by Pineapple

Not as far as I know, I just got it from Amazon during its deal of the day thing I posted. Nothing on the box says LE or whatever, which is why I was wondering. It's a pleasant surprise, though!

Nice! How's the artwork?

**Pineapple** · 09 Apr 2013, 05:35 PM

Originally Posted by Will

Nice! How's the artwork?

The art is nice, mostly environments and stuff with some character sketches to round it out. Definitely a cool little addition.

So far I love this game. It does a really good job of giving you control of most things and then taking control away at times to make sure the presentation is intact. Good example would be when you have to duck under a bar or branch when wading through the water with your torch. You control where you're wading, but when you get to that branch the game takes control for a breif moment while Lara ducks under the branch and switches hands with the torch to keep it from going out. Its little things like that that help sell the immersion in the game world. Sound design is excellent as well, playing with stereo headphones on is my preferance for this game because all the little sounds work very well and acurately tell you where things are coming from. I'm not even that far in because I've just been scouring each area and enjoying jumping around and shooting deer and bunnies in the face. Taking out dudes with the bow is badass, too. Hell I even like the scrambles with the wolves, something I had no idea about but it's good shit.

**SamuraiMoogle** · 09 Apr 2013, 09:22 PM

The bow is so awesome. I used it as my main weapon all the way through to the end. Shooting bunnies in the head with an arrow is always fun.

**Pineapple** · 09 Apr 2013, 09:32 PM

Yeah, the first thing I did was shoot critters in the face until the game told me to move along.

**GohanX** · 10 Apr 2013, 02:10 AM

I got the bow and was all "WTF is this shit? When do I get a gun?" Then proceeded to hardly ever use the gun, as sniping with the bow was both more fun and efficient.