The Lara Croft game is all kinds of awesome. Best XBLA game I've played in months.
Yeah, wow, holy shit is this game
POLISHED. The game play is fantastic (and the combat is like 1000 times better than the traditional Tomb Raider games) and feels like a great mix between Tomb Raider with a bit of Diablo thrown in. I like that there's a bit of a loot system going on and that there's optional challenge rooms to unlock (from the demo they open when you beat some of the larger enemies that can be avoided), where you use your jumping/shooting/pushing skills to get to items or upgrades. There's also additional rewards for performing certain actions and beating levels within a certain amount of time. Someone on GAF said a stage he completed in around 51 minutes had a nine minute completion challenge bonus.
At 2GB, I was thinking of waiting to buy until the PSN version is released (or if it would run decently enough on my netbook), but since they are promising the first set of DLC to 360 owners for free, I decided to just go ahead and get it on 360. Tried the demo and purchased it soon after.
Sceneman, the DLC co-op is going to be free (and it's not the free DLC they are promising; the game is supposed to be getting additional leves/playable characters).
Also it's really nice to have a TR game without any camera problem bullshit.
