Recent reviews by Gozzim

Top Spiel

If you haven't played the first few Tomb Raiders (I-IV), you might not find this review very helpful.
But for the fans of the early stages of the Tomb Raider franchise, my points will be very reasonable.


Performance:
Frame drops with Top GPU. (GTX980TI)
Crashes due to "Not enough RAM". Since when are 16GB not enough?
The performance of the Game is clearly terrible.

We already know that the developers get cheaper and cheaper and instead of giving us a good performance they just say "buy better equipment".

Bugs:
Already in the first hour of playing this game there have been lot's of bugs.
At one point Lara even had a stone attached to her body, which was stuck there for about 15 minutes.
Even though these small bugs are not very annoying or game breaking, they exist and there are not just a few.
Therefore they have to be mentioned. Bugs like that aren't acceptable in a full price game.

The game itself:
There has been alot of recycling in this game. I didn't see any big new features or ideas in this game. Even parts of the design and story have been ripped out of earlier games or even the movies.
Of course people like it when there are things in the game that remembers them of something they know, but if the whole game is made out of those things, it's just annoying.

The really bad thing about this game though is that they just use the name of the Tomb Raider franchise. It's not really Tomb Raider anymore. Not even Lara's looks are how they used to be.
Lara's background story is messed up as well.
The puzzles are too easy.
The game is too short
The performance is too bad.
All things that used to be way better in the earlier games of the Tomb Raider franchise.

Don't understand me wrong. It's not a bad game, it's just not Tomb Raider anymore. With any other name, character and story it would be more than just acceptable, but this is just a cheap use of the name of the franchise.

I still prefer Tomb Raider I - IV above all the others. Those were the original ones and not those action bound games that have nothing to do with Tomb Raider but using the name.

In conclusion: Alot of game magazines already state at the beginning of each year that it's "the best game of the year". I can already tell that this is one of the most disappointing games 2016.
I highly recommend not to buy it and not to help them destroy the franchise even more. Just buy the first few Tomb Raiders for much less money and have a way longer and bigger game.

EDIT: This is a review about the game and how it was programmed. I got alot of comments about how to improve the performance. I deleted all of them and will continue so since this is not a help forum and simply about the game. The end-user shouldn't be responsible for fixing any kind of issues or bugs.