After playing Rise of the Tomb Raider for three hours, I know more about Lara Croft as a character than I’ve learned over the course of nearly two decades. She’s still young, at the very beginning of her adventures, but a lot of time and care is spent exploring her psychology. What drives her? What makes Lara put herself repeatedly in these life-threatening situations?
Watch the video above to see nine minutes of brand-new gameplay from Rise of the Tomb Raider.
This doesn’t make for a dry character piece either. There’s tremendous variety and more spectacle than ever before. In just over three hours, I scaled a mountain, explored wolf-infested caves, climbed a frozen Byzantine galleon, polished up on my Greek, nearly drowned, and there was even time to fight a bear. While this is obviously a continuation of 2013’s reboot, it feels much more confident in terms of structure and scope.
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Watch the video above to see nine minutes of brand-new gameplay from Rise of the Tomb Raider.
This doesn’t make for a dry character piece either. There’s tremendous variety and more spectacle than ever before. In just over three hours, I scaled a mountain, explored wolf-infested caves, climbed a frozen Byzantine galleon, polished up on my Greek, nearly drowned, and there was even time to fight a bear. While this is obviously a continuation of 2013’s reboot, it feels much more confident in terms of structure and scope.
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