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Awesome!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

This is the best Tomb Raider in the series so far. The new moves are so cool, like sealth combat with your hands, and tight rope walking. It still has the coolest guns too. It has a wide variety of weapsons and very exotic levels. The plot is easy to follow. The different ourfits are cool too. If you want a game with cool weapons, awesome levels, and a hot chick, buy this game.

tomb Raider Rocks!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: November 28, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Tomb Raider is an amazing game with great graphics. The game is a little scary but you just can't put it down. It is full of exitement. BUY IT NOW!!

A Great Game!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 9
Date: December 01, 2000
Author: Amazon User

Tomb Raider Chronicals is a very fun game!! I starts off where the preceding one ended. There are 4 new adventures that take you from the rooftops of a high tech city to the bowels of a German U-boat. Lara has new weapons as well as new moves. She also has some new outfits. Her new weapons are th e grappling hook gun, sniper rifle, and choroform. Her new moves are tightrope walking, parallel bar swinging, and a hand-to-hand stealth attack. The inventory systen is enhanced for greater

combinations of weapons and accessories.

You now can search through files, drawers, and shelves for useful inventory items. You will be 16 year old Lara as well as adult Lara. Tomb Raider has always been known for the 100% freeness of movment. I'm sure you will love Tomb Raider Chronicals if you are new to Tomb Raiding or a old fan. It is full of strategy and adventure and there are many puzzles to solve. If you are an old fan of Tomb Raider then you will love this edition. There is now a added challenge. You can search for hidden roses which will open special features in the menu.

The movie begins with a scene of Lara's grave. No one is sure if Lara has died or not and they are waiting for word from Von Croy. Then Winston and some friends and family return to Lara's mansion to talk about all of Lara's past adventure. They are discussing Lara's deathe. You can see the emotions on their faces and feel their sadness and dispair. Then you take it from there. As you start the game there will be another movie where Lara is making a deal on a artifact she has found. The person that she made the deal with pulls a gun on her. She narrowly escapes. She looks like a James Bond girl. The graphics are very good and the people almost look real. Everyth ing looks so very life-like.

Lara has never been very quite, but this Lara is even more dynamic then ever. She can now walk the tight-rope and now if Lara is not seen by the bad guys or heard by them they will not attack her. Before the bad guys would just come out at her even if they didn't see her. There's a level editor wich will enable you to edit the levels the way you want them.

Tomb Raider 1 was one of the most influential games ever created and undoubtedly this will be as well.

100% Pure Lara

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: December 03, 2000
Author: Amazon User

What can Lara do now? Where hasn't she been? Hmmmm...? Well I'll tell you-she can do anything she wants. After TOMB RAIDER THE LAST REVELATION I didn't think it could get any better. But it has. This time around Eidos and Core have combined the previous four editions and created a fifth. The gameplay is very nicely varied. I found that I would get sick of the previous games as I got into them(especially the first two). It felt like I'd been doing the same thing over and over again. Now the levels are diverse enough that it I don't even give it a second thought. TOMB RAIDER CHRONICLES is alomost like Lara's Greatest Hits-it combines the best of TOMB RAIDER 1,2,3 and 4. As the series progressed it seemed to get bogged down. CHRONICLES clears the air, letting you breath and re-enjoy the game all over again. I really love how a quick training level built into the fist level(if you need it). That is really refreshing and fun too!The graphics really haven't changed from THE LAST REVELATION, and the item screen is identical(except for the commerical plug). The tightrope action is fun but seems useless; however, I really dig the search ability. So in the end TOMB RAIDER CHRONICLES will likely become a fan favorite. It has varied style and gameplay modes. It has great graphics, and a interesting story line. My advice? If you love TOMB RAIDER games(and you don't already have this game!) buy it...and if you think you are above Lara Croft or have found her previous adventures dull,give TOMB RAIDER CHRONICLES a chance.

Tomb Raider: Chronicles Back in Top Form

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: December 21, 2000
Author: Amazon User

I was a bit skeptical when I found out the Tomb Raider series was adding a fifth chapter. I loved the first and second games but while the third and fourth improved the look and movements and such, they were way too incredibly difficult for me to enjoy. Last Revelation wasn't too bad but I hated part 3. I decided to rent Chronicles before buying it and I must say I thoroughly enjoyed this new addition to the series. While the look and movements are more reminisent of the third and fourth games, the gameplay is far more like the first two games which I found to be truly fun. Tomb Raider: Chronicles finally got it right again and I guarantee I will buy this one.

Love the previous Tomb Raider games?You'll love this, too!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: December 26, 2000
Author: Amazon User

If you loved the other Tomb Raider games,you will love this latest installment in the series.It is more varied than TR 4 Last Revelation,switching weapons and Lara's look depending on which of the four adventures you are playing.I bought Prima's Strategy Guide for the times when I need a hint.I also have the GameShark CDX,which has some "Moon Jump" codes to use with it (off GameShark Code Creators Club website) that enable you to move Lara around the level like in "The Matrix" movie.The game is still great even if you don't have a cheat device, however.I would definately recommend this game if you love Lara Croft!I will have to buy the PlayStation 2 when Eidos releases Tomb Raider:Next Generation made specifically for PS2.

An overall fun, if flawed game

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: January 09, 2001
Author: Amazon User

Longtime gamers remember Tomb Raider for a few things: blocky levels, millions of switches, and that feeling of being really, really lost. In their latest and last playstation resurrection of the series, Eidos addresses many of the gamers' complaints. While far from perfect, Tomb Raider Chronicles offers up a varied 20+ hours of mostly switch-free game play.

Chronicles shines in many areas. The first thing that most people will notice is that Chronicles looks and sounds extremely good. After three or four revisions to the game engine one would expect a nicely immersive environment. And while the ambiance in Chronicles would benefit greatly from more music, the segways that are present really heighten the mood.

The good graphical engine used in Chronicles is complimented by good characterizations and a nice variety in levels. Every two or three hours, when you have completed three more levels, you are taken to another time in Lara's life, another set of missions, another set of objectives, and different dangers. This variety is a welcome change of pace for a Tomb Raider game, hardly ever slipping into that feeling of "been there, done that" which the series is known for. One scene Lara is avoiding a crane arm on a nuclear submarine, the next she is a little girl swinging over gaping chasms on a deserted island. And while Chronicles lacks an overarching plot, the variety of game play situations this type of narrative allows as well as good short storytelling and characterizations will more than keep any jaded gamer's attention span.

Unfortunately despite all the polishing Eidos has put into Chronicles, it's luster is greatly tarnished by a few extremely frustrating problems. For one, the camera seems to love Lara's high-rex, mit-mapped face. This can be troublesome when you are trying to see the jump in front of you. Anytime she faces away from a wall, or walks into a tight corridor, expect to keep tapping the camera button to see anything. After so many years, they should have it right. Furthermore, the player never feels like he or she actually is Lara. Thanks to some overly precise controls, she can turn slowly, jump only at designated steps, etc. This worked perfectly in the old Tomb Raiders, which were all about careful jumping. But Chronicles isn't, and her tremendous turning radius and her extremely slow sidestepping make the experience feel like driving a school bus.

But the most frustrating part of the game is how difficult it is to interact with objects. I can't tell you how many hours I've lost because the manhole I had to crawl down or the handle I had to yank off didn't respond to repeated button presses. I figured it was just background and moved on. Hours of aimless wandering later, the strategy guide would tell me to go back and do the exact thing that I had already tried to do. This one flaw takes a huge bite out of any overall enjoyment of the game that one might derive. Knowing full well that I had to steal a coin from an underwater demon, and having plenty of time to swim to it, it still took nearly ten tries to actually be able to pick it up. If I didn't know that was the objective, I would have dismissed it as background and moved on.

Despite its flaws, Tomb Raider Chronicles manages to be an overall fun, if frustrating, experience. Hopefully the next generation of systems will give Eidos the power to do something truly unique with Lara, and solve all of the control issues. In the interim, Chronicles is the best Tomb Raider has to offer, and by now you should know what that means.

not the game i like

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: January 12, 2001
Author: Amazon User

At fisrt, I thought this game was quite good. Not bad graphics & storylines.I didn't know how sad it really was! After literally a day, i got so bored with it, i dared not look at it. It was slow, hard, and in my opinion, gave Tomb Raider's good reputation a bad name. For the 1st 3 levels óf th game, you're forever stuck in greek side streets, then when u actually get out, it gets much harder & just as boring. Considering it's the last Tomb Raider, i think they could of made big improvements. Nothing compared to Tomb Raider: Last Revelation

The best and worst of Lara

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 13 / 19
Date: February 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

The 5th instalment of Lara Croft's adventures, this game unfortunately has both the best and the worst of the entire series.

Essentially a stop-gap to keep up public interest before Lara's rebirth on the Playstation 2 the game is a series of vignettes from Lara's previous career. The graphics are as impressive as in The Last Revelation and Lara is as smoothly animated as ever, picking up the by now obligatory new trick, in this case tightrope-walking.

The first episode is set in Rome against two old rivals. It incorporates the training level into the first level which threw me at first and also one of the secrets is hidden in the training level. Long-time Tomb Raiders will find the Rome levels absurdly easy, easier than the first Tomb Raider that was released.

The second episode, set in a Russian submarine base and then onboard a submarine is about average in difficulty for the series. It features the return of the one of the best TR weapons - the Desert Eagle pistol - but then cruelly takes it off Lara before she gets to do much with it (boo !).

The third epsiode is from Lara's youth and is set on a haunted island on Ireland. I found this ridiculously hard and frustrating. The graphics are dark and hard to make out, the colours lurid. The storyline is a patchy affair which revolves around releasing a 19th century Russian Cossack who has been trapped for seven centuries (how does that work ?). The tasks are annoyingly difficult and to add insult to injury you have to do all three levels unarmed. (Bad Eidos ! Naughty Eidos ! Go to your room !).

The fourth episode is easily the best. Lara goes all Entrapment-like to pilfer an artifact from the office block of her former mentor Von Croy. This is loads of fun with the added bonus that Lara gets to blast away happily with the return of the sublime MP5 from TRIII which, whilst the only weapon she has, can be locked onto single-shot sniper mode, three round burst and full auto (when you absolutely, positively just have to kill every *&%^*@~#*% in the room). More of this please Eidos if you're listening.

Until the release of Lara: The Next Generation, Lara fans will have to make do with the forthcoming movie starring Angelina Jolie. Looks good from the trailer.

Tomb Raider Chronicles: top marks

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: May 19, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This is the only tomb rader thats got it right. I mean 1 was ok but you were only inside, 2 was the best out of the first 4 but was quite long, 3 was way too hard, 4 was way way way to long and 5 has just got the right amount of balance. Everyone knows the story at the end of the last revelation when she gets trapped in the tomb presmedly dead. (enter chronicles)

A few days later news has got back and a private memorial service was held. after the service 3 of them go back to Laras mansion, Winston, Jean-Yves and Father Dunstan to reminisce about Laras past life. Exploring 4 new adventures. So basically you're playing their stories. Rome-this is just a general normal tomb raider adventure with the puzzles and the finding artefacts and combining them.

Russia-This is where the game picks up you are iin an old army base which is sending a sub out to a sunken u-boat to retieve a powerful spear.(this is the best adventure

Black Isle/Ireland-This is weird you have no weapons and have to use your wits about you whilst exploring this haunted Isle (tip-beware of demons)

Tower Block/VCI-This is the most difficult and coolest adventure having to infiltrate Von Croy Industries In vents having chloroform people to put them to sleep and have to kill 2 androids (kewl)

This game is just a game to get or even rent. But to get to the good bit get the cheat to start at the 2nd adventure unless you really want to start at the first. You get jolsted from high tech to deserted to even higher tech. (best game ever)

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