Customer Reviews

Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

5 star:		(20)
4 star:		(21)
3 star:		(16)
2 star:		(14)
1 star:		(32)

 

 

After many frustrating attempts and long delays to buy this for PC, I feel like chucking the whole thing. Not only is the whole thing bug ridden, from having to CNTL/ALT/DELETE to get out of a bad security camera bug, to see through characters, falling through floors, and deadly sewer rats that you can't kill or run around. But I also get a character that walks like a druggie with bad posture. If I'm going to shell out $... I expect way more from a game.

This game reminds me of Word for windows, it spends all it's time trying to anticipate what I want, NOT just doing what I said. Ok so my grammer is poor, and I can't spell but can you please just walk in a straight line, and not spin around on the stairs like you're trying out for some kind of square dance marathon.

Sure the graphics are good, the dialog is good, but the cut scenes drive you absolutely crazy. Especially in those few situations where you have to "get out quick" before she blows up, and you're spending half the night clicking every button in sight to get it to "JUST LET ME PLAY!". Then there are the load times to get from one place to another. In the "Paris getto" section, every 1/2 block you're loading the next screen.

Don't expect an extremely enjoyable game, only those obsessed with finishing will truly enjoy the challenge. It could have been so much better. She's a great character, but this game makes you wish she'd stayed in the tomb.

Oh man, this is horrible! I'm a Lara junkie, and I'm completely embarassed by this horrid game. The PC controls are a joke, you just seem to spin in circles when you're just trying to make a simple turn. I feel completely ripped off by the folks at Eidos for releasing such a bug filled game. Game locks up at the worst possible moments, cut screnes are too long and dull, just let us play the game without the need to watch a movie every level...put all that energy into fixing the movement controls and lock up issues. Please, don't waste your hard earned cash on this!!! Maybe Eidos will get the message.

Okay, so I'm not a gamer but seriously there cannot be a more frustrating game out there. Well, maybe...Here's the thing: Tomb Raider is such a big stinking deal among gamers I figured since I have a pretty good PC I'd invest in some cool (used)games for my past time. I got very lucky or so I thought when the price was marked down to $4.99 with an additional 30% off. This is more of a challenge than I care for. Ditto to most reviews that I read.

The one thing that I would say is if you Google this game for tips, walkthroughs and cheats it may help immensely. I got a few walkthroughs from various sites. I really like not having to go to doors that are locked. Very annoying!!

If you decide to buy this make sure of a few things:
1. You are not tired or in a bad mood.
2. You don't mind a challenge-although not mind boggling fun as it is cumbersome-then you may enjoy it after all.

I'm going to tough it out for at least 3 levels. There are 29 levels to this game. It's almost risky to continue but I refuse give up this early.

GOOD LUCK!!

The highly anticipated Tomb Raider title, it's release was rushed to concide with the movie, and the bugs are horrendous.

Even with the latest patches, moving Lara only slightly easier than teaching an elephant gymnastics. Sidestepping is impossible, turning 90 degrees is excruciatingly painful-- even running is slow, with Lara having to walk several paces first before any speed is developed. The most amusing move I've ever seen is turning while navigating stairs: Lara will do a psychotic cha-cha and invariably end up facing anywhere but where you wanted her to.

Clipping problems are the worst I've ever seen, with Lara's body parts often polygonally shooting through floors and walls. This is the most disappointing Tomb Raider ever, and I've played them all. Once Lara even headed out-of-control through walls, locked on some object in the level.

The graphics are the best of any in the 'Raider series. Voice acting is horribly performed, making any Hollywood 'B' movie seem polished. Cut scenes are good.

On the Monty Python scale, this game rates: "Run Away! Run Away!"

Well, what more can I say? I glanced at a few of the recent reviews just now before writing my own -- I won't add much, but wholeheartedly echo the feeling already expressed.
I haven't owned all the Tomb Raider games - just II & III before Angel of Darkness. The others were fun to play. This recent incarnation of Lara Croft is just plain bad! What a waste of money.
In its defense, the graphics are beautiful for the most part. Except when they don't render due to bugs in the game or whatever. The latest drivers for my ATI 8500 All-in-Wonder have helped a little, but there are still plenty of areas where Lara disappears, or charaters heads are gone, or walls blank out or something similar.
The worst part of the game has to be the antiquated controls. Why not something like most first-person-shooter games have adopted, using the mouse to control Lara? It's almost painful trying to move Lara around the screen! What about Max Payne's controls? Or Return to Castle Wolfenstein? Those games play beautifully.
EIDOS tried to do too much with this - an overhaul of the entire character of Lara Croft, an overhaul of how the game is played (when do I even get to fire a gun?) - without changing the control of the character. It used to be run or walk, jump, grab, climb, shoot. Now its's.... nothing! Seriously, I have no desire to play this game anymore. I play UT instead.
I don't recommend buying Angel of Darkness.

I don't know why everyone hates this game so much. I've been playing Tomb Raider on Playstation since it came out. I decided to get this for the PC because I'm on the computer more than Playstation. Anyway, the graphics are AMAZING. There was one or two glitches in the game with the graphics for me, but nothing too distracting and it didn't take away from gameplay. I always thought the previous games were lacking in the graphics department so I was pleased. Secondly, the controls are different in some ways, but you can fully customize them. This came in handy! Lara moves more realisticly, and I know some people are hating how slow she is. But it isn't THAT slow, you get used to it quickly. Also, the strength power ups are fun to achieve, and adds a new demension to the game. The story line is also interesting, and I like how you can choose what to say. In this game you can also play a different male character, which I didn't enjoy as much, simply because I like being a kick butt girl.

Well, I gave this game FIVE stars for being a fun, not TOO challenging game. Just so you know, I run this on a 2.4 gig Athlon, 512 meg memory with Windows XP, and I have a 64 meg radeon graphics card - it runs perfectly. NO crashes, no freeze-ups.

This is, by far, the most bug filled game I have ever played. The new control system is extremely clumsy and will leave Lara die-hards wondering what the developers were thinking when they decided to revamp the old one. I hate to say it, but I think EIDOS was more concerned about not missing another promised release date and sent out an unfinished product; the obvious quality issues are apparent in the first chapter and get progressively worse. I would not be surprised if the company has to issue a recall for this defective product. On a positve note, the improved graphics are beautiful, but are hard to appreciate because of the frustrating gameplay.

i tried playing this game on a pc slightly above minimum requirements and i would have been generous if i have given it even 2 stars..all the previous complaints and bad reviews are justified HOWEVER on a powerful p4 based machine with plenty of ram(keep it 512 or up) a hot graphics card(ati radeon 9800pro) made the game come to life-great graphics and i didnt have to much of a problem guideing lara around and i'm really only a novice player-i did miss that slide sideways action lara had in the older games and didnt really like the default controller assignment(i reconfigured it)i had a good time playing it overall though-just remember DO NOT BUY THIS GAME TO USE ON AN OLDER,SLOWER PC!!!

Is more fitting as Lara's latest adventure plays more like a Resident Evil Game than a Tomb Raider Game. No, Cancel that, The Resident Evil Series is far more playable.
One of the beauties of the orginal games was the Gameplay, crisp , responsive controls..nearly glitch free. After playing the original games for a few hours, everything became intuitive, the control scheme, gameplay (jumps,running, sliding, climbing), what Lara could and Couldn't do
So what do we have with this game? Rubbery controls, a floating Camera that is truly annoying. I found my self centering the Camera behind Lara everytime I turned her, or jumped on a crate..tons of needless button mashing! and Glitches , Glitches, glitches, (e.g. sometimes Lara will not climb onto a crate for some reason, or she will get pinned against a wall, and can't move etc...)
The Stealth componenet is just silly as is the "Body part" power ups...("I feel Stronger). Note to Edios...Play Metal Gear to see how a true stealth game is made..and leave it out of the next game!!! Lara is NOT A Navy SEAL, she is an Archaeologist...!!
The Premise of the game is good, and i liked that aspect, very much, but as usual with Eidos..they get "wowed" by thier own cleverness in the graphics department and overkill it (See TR III's dynamic lighting effects)...so much so that the most important aspect suffers...gameplay!
We can only hope that the next game returns us to what we were expecting in this one..an actual Tomb Raider game! with GOOD Gameplay and Tight Crisp Controls.

Wow, I have never played a game with so many bugs straight out of the box! Problems with audio, graphics, controls, walking through walls... I could go on and on about all the little technical upsets in this game, but you've probably already heard them all. On the good side, AOD is a big leap in a new direction for Lara Croft. The new graphics look great (when they work properly), the music is amazing (although the dialogue sounds like chipmunks), and the controls are very simple (yet opiated). The plot is intriguing, the interaction is new and interesting, and Lara is still a major babe. But let's face it, Tomb Raider now has some awfully big shoes to fill, and this release was botched and completely unacceptable. Everything wrong with the game was a big distraction from the game itself. I was less disapointed when they animated Link as a queer looking cartoon. I give TR:AOD 1 star for original idea, but no more can be credited due to the incompetence of this games poor production. Shame on you EIDOS, shame on you.