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The Best

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: March 29, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved tomb raider, it isnt a senselessly violent game, you actually have to think and explore. Put yourself to the test, I promise you, you won't regret it

This Is Still One of My Very Favorite Games!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 3
Date: November 12, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I haven't played Tomb Raider 1 in a long time but a month or so ago I found it at a used cd store and bought it. I just finished the game and am still thrilled at how exciting and tough this game still is. The plot is interesting enough for you to continue caring for the story and Lara Croft makes a fun character to use to get to your next destination. She is strong, knows how to carry her weapons, jump great heights and is truly fearless when it comes to dinosaurs, bad guys and even messed up creatures she meets up with in the end. You have to constantly be kept on your toes throughout the game and the settings themselves are yes very old compared to nowadays improvements but for back then were well done and even nowadays not bad at least to me. This game is a fun challenge and I recommend it to anyone interested in adventure games for Lara will take you on great journeys in this game. My favorite is where she is facing a Sphinx- like statue- now that was a fun level.
Tomb Raider is one of the greatest storylines ever created and that is why it is so popular even nowadays. The older stuff is better though, aka like 1- 4 of the Tomb Raider series is the best to me- everything after 4 seems to have gone downhill. Angel of Darkness honestly I couldn't even finish it was so bad. So take my advice and try out the older version of Tomb Raiders first, they are much better and more exciting.

FUN!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: December 31, 1999
Author: Amazon User

Tomb Raider opens with a bang and closes with you wanting more. Everything looks great, although I think the controls are hard to master and the graphics are sometimes bad in certain areas, this game earns a 4 overall but a 5 for the fun. Lara and her missions are sometimes tedious but the whole atmosphere of this outstanding superwoman/save the world mixes in with the story very well.

Go Lara Croft!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: April 14, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I loved Tomb Raider, it was a very great game. It isn't just trying to kill people, you think and try to find secrets and other things.

Pretty Good Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 05, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a very good game, but there are a few problems every now and then. Sometimes, when you're going through a hallway in a tomb, it's hard to control her, and sometimes the graphics are a bit weird, but over all it's a good game. The music can be a bit creepy at times, but you get used to it. I am used to using an analog, but with this game you can't use it, so I was a bit dissapointed about that. Sometimes her moves are a bit complicated, especially when you're jumping over a large gap or something. Sometimes I don't really like killing the animals, but it is just a game. Honestly though, I thought I would never play this game, but when my dad bought it, I tried it out, and really liked it. It's fun once you get the hang of it, but I will admit, sometimes it is pretty tedious. I would recomend renting this game before you buy it though, because even though I think it's a good game, you may not.

Incredible

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: March 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Like I've said before, Tomb Raider will always stand as one of the most influential games of all time. Back in 1996, the only competition in this genre was Mario 64. Nowadays, every other game is a 3d adventure "in the vain of Tomb Raider".

The game is very solid. Well placed and thought provoking puzzles. Some nice action, great graphics which still hold up today, and lots of fun. The only complaint is the lack of a decent ending, and that I have to shoot a fellow human at least 60 times in order to kill him. How untrealistic is that?

While TR 2 is the best in the series, this one will be the most remembered.

Story: 6/10
Graphics: 8/10
Sound: 7/10
Fun: 8/10

Dear Eidos,

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 2
Date: January 16, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If I could have give 6 stars for this game, I would have. I played this originally when it first came out in 1996. Back then, games such as Resident Evil and Tomb Raider were ground-breaking milestones in entertainment known as video games. I won't talk about Resident Evil here because everyone knows about that.

Tomb Raider was the first game to give players control of a character in a true 3D environment. Sure, you had games like Doom and Wolfenstien, but they played only on a single plane with your character spinning on an axis. Tomb Raider allowed you to control Lara, the feminine version of Indiana Jones, an use the environments such as cliffs, roofs, etc. to progress through the levels. Level design in Tomb Raider is really what the game is centered around. Beautiful, stunning, breath-taking, eerie, surreal, all describe the level design here. Nothing short of ingenious.

The game mechanics and control of Lara were never the best, but they were also adequate to get the job done. Lara spins on a fixed axis when the player turns left and right, and forward makes her run in the direction she is facing. Turning can sometimes be a chore, especially when the action is turned up a notch. Luckily, the circle button makes Lara do a somersault tumble, for a quick "about-face". The shimmying and climbing from ledge to ledge and jumping has always been amazing. Combine that with sliding down angular rock formations and time jumps and grabs to ledges, and you are bound to fall in love with the action that Eidos developed (NOTE: This kind of mechanics shined most for me in this game as opposed to all the predecessors, including Angel of Darkness for PS2. This kind of action became less and less as the series went on, save for Last Revelation, maybe). The swimming sequences and puzzles are also a really wonderful treat as well.

There are plenty of surprises in this game that I don't want to give away, however, I will tell you that some of the levels in the game will stick in your memory for a long, long time after. For example, "The God Room" of St. Francis' Folly has got to be one of the best and most memorable and beautiful levels of any game that I've played.

So why am I writing this review now, 7 years after the release date? For a few reasons. First, being that I can't get the game out of my head for more than a few months. Every six months I go back to it. The second reason, is that when I bought a PS2, I knew I would be playing the original Tomb Raider again and wanted that backward capability. And THIRD and quite possibly the most important (and the reason I titled this review "Dear Eidos") is that Angel of Darkness was the single reason that I sold my PS2 for an X-Box. At first I enjoyed AOD, but the game has rampant problems. I've always welcomed a new Tomb Raider game in my life and gave AOD more than one chance. I loved all the other PS1 Tomb Raider games, including III, which got a lot of harsh and unwarranted criticisms in my mind, but whatever. I hated AOD and want Eidos to know that. And FOURTH reason is that I repurchased the new and compact PSOne last week. I still own my Tomb Raider from back in the day. Last night I played it and the magic was back like from the first time I played it. Sure the graphics feel older, but they are by no means bad at all considering that I play games like Halo, Crimson Skies, Prince of Persia, and Rainbow Six 3 on the X-Box. There will always be a large place in my geeky video-gaming heart for this true classic.

EIDOS: TAKE THE POWER BACK!

Lara Croft is a hot babe!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 3
Date: February 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

Ok, sounds perveted. It may be weird to have a crush on the sexy, adventurous, and alluring Lara Croft, but many other people do too.

Anyway, this is it. The first "Tomb Raider" game. It has classic written all over it. Despite being dated, and encountering countless predecessors, sequels and dissapointing movies the game manages to have to a strong following and is considered to best game of them all.

It was orginal back then, where archaeologist Lara Croft, a female Indiana Jones, is called upon to use her intelligence, amazing physical skills, and her big guns to solve complexed and ancient puzzles, battle hard enemies and travel the whole world in style. I forget the storyline, since I haven't played this game in ages, but it's good. You should ask my mom, who played and beat every "Tomb Raider" game(Sorry mom). I'm not kidding! She did! The graphics are surprisingly good to look at, as well as the hard puzzles to solve(which made it famous to play) and the fun movie scenes. Check out the dinosaur too in this game. it's a blast!

Anyway, a highly reccomended game. But I liked "Tomb Raider 2" way better then this one.

Concept is good, but tedious game play really spoils the fun

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 3 / 10
Date: August 30, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I'm going to fly in the face of convention wisdom and assert that Tomb Raider is not a good game. I like the concept, the puzzle solving and exploration. I like that it's a great diversion from the standard shoot-em up. The problem is with the tedious game play. The game is tough, just from the mental standpoint and it takes some effort to figure out what you're supposed to be doing in each level. But that's part of the fun, figuring things out. Unfortunately, it's moving through the levels and getting from point A to point B that is problematic. There are way too many places where you have to make a pinpoint precision jump or other move with absolutely NO margin for error. In some cases this means you fall somewhere and have to climb back to your starting point, or in some cases you die, meaning you have to start the whole level over again. And after trying one of these jumps over and over and over, you finally get frustrated and give up. There were instances where I tried a jump over and over, and then suddenly made the jump and had no idea what I had done differently from the previous numerous attempts. For any game to be that touchy is just a disgrace. It's too bad, I think I could have liked this game but the tedious pinpoint controller movements ulitmately ruined the game for me. I know it's one of PSX "greatest hits" and very popular, but if don't like tedious games, you'll want to avoid this one.

The Best Playstation Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: July 20, 1999
Author: Amazon User

This game is a must for all Playstation junkies. The story is great. The graphics are outstanding. EIDOS out did themselves with this game. There are massive worlds to defeat, many dangers along the way, puzzles to solve. The 3D effects are wonderful. The only downfall I would have to say is that some of the puzzles are very hard if you dont have the hint book to help out. I would recommend this game to anyone who has a Playstation.

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