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"Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness"

I have pre - ordered this game, but i have no clue when it is coming out. It has been delayed so much, i'm about to explode. Does anyone know the exact or rough release date?

IGN scored it 5.3, basically it's getting caned by the reviewers in the USA for having so many poor qualities.

The dilemma:

I'm a big TR fan, do I buy the game anyway because I want to see how the storyline progresses? Or do I abstain and hope other fans do as well to hit Core Design where it hurts in an effort to show them that they can't get away with releasing shoddy crud hoping it'll sell on the back of Lara's popularity?

I think GTA3 unfortunately set the trend of developer's not bothering to make sure things worked properly. The difference is GTA3 was a lot of fun to play regardless.

You can get to it via Gamerankings.com but it does contain a lot of swearing which suggests to me that they are either rednecks who want to "blast da foolz" or are interlectually challenged. Either way they aren't going to like it because it is a thinking mans game.

I'd post a link to an American review of the game that gave it 3/10 but there's so much swearing in it about the control system I'd get banned for doing so.

They cannot release the game if it's got as many blatant bugs in it as the reviewers are saying it has e.g.:

Speech cutting off for no reason
Clipping
Shadows projected into thin air

But in this day and age, and seeing as how Enter The Matrix and The Getaway got away with it, they're going to release it anyhow.

:(

C'mon Core, surprise us, delay it another year.
Please.

Darwock, I think your spot on, Gamespot gave 6.5 out of 10, I love this quote which sums it all up

"The numerous human enemies you'll face are stupid and easily killed by shooting them full of lead from out of their range (Lara is deadly accurate, at least)"

link to full review

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/ (space) tombraidertheangelod/review.html

I saw a bus advertising the game this morning, made me laugh out loud at 8.00 this morning, this game is going to be "poor" even if Core spent another 10 years on it.

Release date is now 4th July I believe .....

Bit like Vice City then :)

This game is gonna suck so much...!

Interview on C+VG with Co founder of Core, discussing the release of new Tomb Raider game...

CVG: And you've had enough time to iron out all major bugs before it went Gold?

Heath-Smith: There's fifty hours of gameplay - we're not going to get every bug out of it. How can I emulate two million people playing it differently in a day? I can tell you this: we can't find any crash bugs. Are there times when things may go a bit weird? Yeah, course there are, but you show me a game that doesn't do that. So yes, I'm very, very happy with the quality.

*nods*

Heh....Herc can't even setup his PC with an ftp server so there's no hope of him getting his PS2 online ;)

I have SOCOM, but I dont have PS2 Online.