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"Lara Croft"

What the programme said

Lara is every teenage boy's wet dream and every girl's idol and role model.She's appeared on magazines,adverts and even has her own film.The film really lives up to the tomb raider games.

What i say

First off the games are nothing like what you see in the lucazade adverts and the film, it's lining up a jump,step back then jump,grab you get the idea it's slow paced except for a few swan dives and monster beatings here and there.

To me someone thought of a fairly good game and to market it further shoved something in that would grab people's attention, a porn star with brains aka Lara.
Lara wonders through many levels of very dangerous suroundings all without breaking a sweat,catching hypothermia and immunity to cuts and bruises.

The progamme went on about how obbsessed people got with her by playing the game too much. Like producing PC mods to have her completly in the nud,writing love letters and keeping on trying that fake nude cheat for the PSone.One of my old friends had as his desktop wallpaper a pic of lara that he edited to remove her clothes but it was awful.please nude cheat work i want to see the 2 square niples on lara's triangler breasts, oh please i'm dying here. These people are completly obsessed!! not with the game but with Lara just Lara.

This game had awful graphics which you couldn't see a single clear thing in any of the levels i mean the real challenge of the game is to find the path or hole to go through all amonst a doubled amount of squares that you have in your maths excercise book. Texture mapping does a alot to sharpen out the graphics and does a fine job, I've played through the first one twice and i think it's an interesting game in some extreme enviroments but some of the puzzles are a bit ambisious and yeah having complete 3D roaming is great but there is a limit.

I'm sure most of us prefer the style of the first level of Tomb raider 2 where you dodge spikes,go down a zip line,shoot loads of monsters,solve some short but effective puzzles, do an amazing dive and run from boulders Res evil style.Most of the other levels are like trying to find a needle in a haystack and when you go off track "wow" your gona be there for weeks untill you get bored and think it's not worth the bother.


The game was a revoution when it first appeared on the sega saturn but I still think the game tomb raider wouldn't be anywhere near as succesfull without it's main appeal
A double d with tight trousers and a bad attitude.


(( my opinion ))

Resevilfan

Dringo wrote:
> I hate tomb raider!!!!

Only cause you can't get passed the first level! :)

I hate tomb raider!!!!

I can draw Lara Croft

o|o

Stick man's body and big.....

Edgy wrote:
> Wouldn't you prefer it if in games like
> Duke Nukem, where when you fire a rocket towards a wall, the wall
> actually collapses and the area fills with smoke?

Yes.

That's why I bought Red faction! :-)

you mean those large pixels?

Even in high res mode the game is a pixelated as Teletext on an analogue TV!

I agree that tomb raider is as boring as you say, the worst bit is when you get headaches from the bad graphics.

Meka_Dragon wrote:
> Edgy wrote:

> Anyway,
> how could Dinosaurs, bears,
> aligators and more survive inside sealed
> tombs for all that
> time! Surely they'd die of a Vitamin D
> defficiency!

I
> cannot believe this statement.

It's a game, it's not supposed to
> absolutely 100% realistic, and quite possible, is it!

Would you
> like to play a game in which all of the rules of the natural world
> DID have to be obeyed? Would you like to make sure that your
> character ate some well balanced meals, so they didn't get sick.
> Would you ensure that they had plenty of fibre in their diet, and
> play out the consequences if they didn't?

Would you like to have
> to clean up your in-game wounds with TCP so they didn't get
> infected, and visit the doctor for a few vaccinations before taking
> your character into the jungle?

Would you like to get stopped
> going through customs in a game, and have your character subjected
> to a body cavity search?

Pokemon is cruel, how can you make those
> lovely monsters fight each other? How come when they get knocked out
> they can get fixed up at a Pokecentre in just seconds, why don't
> they need proper medical attention....

See my point?

um....well first of all, this topic is about Lara Croft, not Pokémon.

Secondly, I'd rather games be more realistic if they are going to be based upon life-like (or supposed to be life-like) characters.

Wouldn't you prefer it if in games like Duke Nukem, where when you fire a rocket towards a wall, the wall actually collapses and the area fills with smoke? That would make the game more interesting.

Or maybe in games when you have energy meters, when your energy is low, your character(s) don't react so quickly (Like in F-Zero Maximum Velocity...the vehicles don't go so fast when energy is low)

Slaveunit wrote:
> I saw the film last night,Theres this completely unneccesary scene
> when she is in the shower, yet noone complained...

I complained.

You were supposed to see her @rse, but you didn't!

I enjoyed the TR games until the puzzle in the underwater room with the mirror.

And then my head exploded, I vented my frustration on my fat stupid ginger dog and promptly tried to climb up my own fudge tunnel.

I hate these games now, and refuse to play them.

I mean, WHO KNEW THE WAY OUT WAS REFLECTED????

Utter, utter cats nipples.

Pokemon not real but only realistic, but I thought my pet Rattata was only doing hibernate attack!