Rise of the Tomb Raider

Overall, an improvement on its predecessor. Once again, it takes a little while to really get going, but its more open hub areas make exploration much more satisfying when you gain enough tools. Combat easy and fine. No more QTEs a big improvement. Good graphics, but I didn't find the locales as striking for the most part. Voice acting not stellar but better than in the first game. Story pretty basic with the ubiquitous supernatural nonsense, but fine enough.

I enjoyed the gameplay and the plot of the game is ok too. But level design, mapping, side quest system made me get bored and quit the game. Wasnt as smooth as the previous game. It's less buggy and a bit more realistic than 1st one but it lacked fluent gameplay. It's unnecessarily grindy.

The fake action scenes are back. Much script. Jumping off cliff and dying doesn't have dramatic yell like the first game. Pretty fun goofing around and just charge straight in and kill dem enemies. The many stupid ways to die is pretty funny lol. I like the open area of the abandoned village. The final moments is disappointing. Crafting feels like extra steps to get ammo. Predictable story. The supernatural enemy is a copy and paste from the first game.

Not as good as the first instalment in the reboot and the story feels a bit copy paste from the first game. The map is also harder to use but there are some nice new additions with additional missions you can undertake. However the linear game experience is a bit messed up. You have to double back to a already explored area almost when the game is over because you can’t solve it before. Seems illogical and you need to be a die hard fan to do this.. But overall still a good game

[PS4] A fairly good sequel and a well-balanced game in its own right. Occasionally the gameplay gets a bit repetitive, but it is engaging otherwise with decent progression between weapons (though I can't say I used the shotgun). There is definitely a sense of satisfaction had from solving one of the challenge tombs' puzzles.

In some ways better than the previous game, but the story and characters felt weaker, which is a shame.

More engaging than last adventure, especially DLC.

I think it was the same as the first.

The writing is surprisingly awful. The story, the journal entries and nearly all of the dialogue is absolutely terrible, some of the voice acting is embarrassing and the range of accents doesn't make any sense whatsoever. The combat doesn't get interesting until pretty deep into the game either. Most of my fun came from the exploration and puzzle solving, but when those things were good, they were great.

Another good TR game.