Author Topic: Rent Tomb Raider Underworld! (Read 1560 times)

Greatness Gone · « **on:** November 25, 2008, 03:43:59 AM »

- The camera sucks

+ Everything else is good to great

RENT IT!

bork · « **Reply #1 on:** November 25, 2008, 05:02:15 AM »

Naw imma buy it

FatalT · « **Reply #2 on:** November 25, 2008, 05:44:27 AM »

I downloaded it for PC. I'm actually impressed that it doesn't suck!

y2kev · « **Reply #3 on:** November 25, 2008, 04:30:15 AM »

No, you shall buy it.

demi · « **Reply #4 on:** November 25, 2008, 04:30:39 AM »

Consider it RENTED... as soon as I get 1000 on Mirror's Edge

Jansen · « **Reply #5 on:** November 25, 2008, 09:59:50 AM »

gamefly shipped me a copy today

CHOW CHOW · « **Reply #6 on:** November 25, 2008, 10:02:30 AM »

I'm gonna head out to Blockbuster tonight and see if they got it in yet. The camera is fine. Game is gonna be a spectacular thrill ride all the way through.

siamesedreamer · « **Reply #7 on:** November 27, 2008, 08:19:53 PM »

Beat it twice in a week. Insanely short. Got all 1000 points.

It was good while it lasted, but I've no interest in the forthcoming DLC.

I wish the TR series would completely ditch all combat from now on. It completely sucks balls.

Bebpo · « **Reply #8 on:** November 27, 2008, 08:36:03 PM »

Quote from: siamesedreamer on November 27, 2008, 08:19:53 PM

Beat it twice in a week. Insanely short. Got all 1000 points.

It was good while it lasted, but I've no interest in the forthcoming DLC.

I wish the TR series would completely ditch all combat from now on. It completely sucks balls.

How short are we talking about here? Legend was only 6 hours maybe without the bike parts (or maybe with the bike parts?).

Also are there any stupid mini-game sections like the Bikes?

drew · « **Reply #9 on:** November 27, 2008, 08:56:51 PM »

tomb raider

y2kev · « **Reply #10 on:** November 27, 2008, 09:38:45 PM »

Quote from: Bebpo on November 27, 2008, 08:36:03 PM

Quote from: siamesedreamer on November 27, 2008, 08:19:53 PM
Beat it twice in a week. Insanely short. Got all 1000 points.

It was good while it lasted, but I've no interest in the forthcoming DLC.

I wish the TR series would completely ditch all combat from now on. It completely sucks balls.

How short are we talking about here? Legend was only 6 hours maybe without the bike parts (or maybe with the bike parts?).

Also are there any stupid mini-game sections like the Bikes?

It's longer than Legend. The game was shorter than I thought it would be because the last two levels are like beatable in under an hour. This is coming off two 2-3 hour levels if you were looking for everything.

There's no minigame parts per se, but there is Lara's bike-- but you actually use it to go from place to place within a level instead of it just breaking up action. Two levels use Lara's bike.

^_^

siamesedreamer · « **Reply #11 on:** November 27, 2008, 10:12:54 PM »

I bought it, so I was hoping to get more length out of it. Usually game length doesn't bother me either. This game was just so awesome that I didn't want it to end.

y2kev · « **Reply #12 on:** November 27, 2008, 10:22:50 PM »

It definitely could serve to be longer. Anniversary was the right length. But it was also low budget, so that's why it existed. Underworld does not strike me as low budget despite Eidos having no money.

The DLC on the 360 ver should be great.

demi · « **Reply #13 on:** November 28, 2008, 01:53:38 AM »

IS the story good? Do they wrap things up or is it open to another sequel?

CHOW CHOW · « **Reply #14 on:** November 28, 2008, 09:47:37 AM »

Quote from: Bebpo on November 27, 2008, 08:36:03 PM

Quote from: siamesedreamer on November 27, 2008, 08:19:53 PM
Beat it twice in a week. Insanely short. Got all 1000 points.

It was good while it lasted, but I've no interest in the forthcoming DLC.

I wish the TR series would completely ditch all combat from now on. It completely sucks balls.

How short are we talking about here? Legend was only 6 hours maybe without the bike parts (or maybe with the bike parts?).

Also are there any stupid mini-game sections like the Bikes?

Legend took me 10-11 hours to beat. I dunno how you people blow through these games in 6 hours.

siamesedreamer · « **Reply #15 on:** November 28, 2008, 11:15:19 AM »

Quote from: demi on November 28, 2008, 01:53:38 AM

IS the story good? Do they wrap things up or is it open to another sequel?

It ends rather abruptly without tying up the loose ends. I would argue that it was done on purpose because

1) they want more revenue from DLC you have to buy to get the true ending
2) they don't want you to trade it in because you're waiting for the DLC

Yeah, its the 1up Yours theory. I think this game satisfies all requirements for it.

y2kev · « **Reply #16 on:** November 28, 2008, 11:26:30 AM »

It doesn't end abruptly. What loose ends are left? The Amanda and Avalon plotlines are completely resolved.

If you're following the story, it makes sense to end where it does-- she collects the artifacts she needs and then it's time to use them.

demi · « **Reply #17 on:** November 28, 2008, 11:28:19 AM »

I just sent back Mirror's Edge and put Underworld at the top of my list

Third · « **Reply #18 on:** November 29, 2008, 09:25:17 AM »

Finally finished it. Pretty disappointed by it. But it was still enjoyable. Never had issues with the camera but the game was buggy as hell.

I'd give it a 7.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #19 on:** November 29, 2008, 12:00:13 PM »

just beat it last night. i'd give it an 8, or a "better than uncharted".

i have no idea what the plot was about -- had the sound down so my wife could sleep -- so i just skipped the cutscenes towards the end.

MrAngryFace · « **Reply #20 on:** November 29, 2008, 12:55:53 PM »

Yeah I just got it yesterday, played through the whole first level and part of the second. Way better than uncharted so far

cool breeze · « **Reply #21 on:** November 29, 2008, 12:59:29 PM »

How long is it? I wonder if I could finish before Prince of Peria or if I should just wait until it's cheap.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #22 on:** November 29, 2008, 01:01:26 PM »

took me almost 10 hours, although i was stumped for about an hour at the end of xilbamba

and for about thirty minutes at the beginning of xilbamba

Third · « **Reply #23 on:** November 29, 2008, 01:05:33 PM »

I was getting owned by ONE puzzle. It wasn't even a puzzle. There were some moving chains where I had to tap the button Y to swing faster to get to the other side. I didn't knew you could swing faster with Y.

I first thought it was a bug and started the chapter again.

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #24 on:** November 29, 2008, 01:14:30 PM »

oh, in the level before the last one, in the rooms with the counterweights?

Van Cruncheon · « **Reply #25 on:** November 29, 2008, 01:16:22 PM »

i was stuck

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at the beginning of xilbamba, where you hafta set the calendar wheels -- i didn't know you could move the pillars you put the skulls on to "unlock" the center wheel, lol wat

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and

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getting out of the ice pit where thor's belt was kept, i thought there just had to be a non-backtrack route somehow and i stalled until i accepted reality and slowly climbed back out

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y2kev · « **Reply #26 on:** November 29, 2008, 01:38:26 PM »

That room at the bottom of Xibalba (dear god prole, lol) is where I moved Thor's hammer to get a relic and had to reset it to climb out. Took me a good 2 hours to climb out of it when you consider I had to move the hammer twice.

edit: wait, that's not xibalba. I think...I don't know.

Anyway, the Yggdrasil looking tree in Thailand was sweet. Thailand was another massive level.

Third · « **Reply #27 on:** November 29, 2008, 01:58:08 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on November 29, 2008, 01:14:30 PM

oh, in the level before the last one, in the rooms with the counterweights?

Yeah, just after you beat the

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yeti.

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Was stuck for a long time there. You really can't get to the other side without pressing Y. I tried so many ways.

Third · « **Reply #28 on:** November 29, 2008, 02:02:07 PM »

Quote from: Professor Prole on November 29, 2008, 01:16:22 PM

i was stuck

spoiler (click to show/hide)
at the beginning of xilbamba, where you hafta set the calendar wheels -- i didn't know you could move the pillars you put the skulls on to "unlock" the center wheel, lol wat
[close]

and

spoiler (click to show/hide)
getting out of the ice pit where thor's belt was kept, i thought there just had to be a non-backtrack route somehow and i stalled until i accepted reality and slowly climbed back out
[close]

I really hated those those places too. Especially the time trial with the bike. URGH. Made me nervous.

And what the hell was the blue water stuff? Blue lava or what. I fell so many times in that crap.

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Author Topic: Rent Tomb Raider Underworld! (Read 1560 times)