Tomb Raider: Legend

http://www.bit-tech.net/gaming/2006/04/11/tomb_raider_legend_review/1.html

 

thought it was a good game... short but good.. would of been nice to have a better variety of weapons tho..

 

How did your pc handle the Next Gen Content? I found my frame rate a tad low with it switched on.

 

didnt really have the next gen option on... just tried it.. did slow the game down quite a bit..

 

The demo was nice, though I wasn't totally impressed with the graphics on the X360 (as compared to other 360 games like GRAW and Burnout), but the demo may not have showcased them as well as other parts of the game. Since there seems to be no online content for this game I think I'll rent it and save the $60. I do hugely agree that the controls on console are far better for this game than kb/mouse. I'm sort of eager to play this one and get into the story since I haven't played any of the previous TR games.

 

angst angst angst, i dont care if it runs slow i just want to try it out, ****ers denied me this

 

Yeah i think i'll end up having to abort using next gen soon... starting to annoy me with the low fps. Its a good game though, looking forward to getting more stuck into it.

 

sorry, accidental double post

 

Did You try it W/ Next Gen content at 1024X786 or 800X600?

 

I've only tried Next Gen on 1024 X 1028, i might drop it down to 1024 X 768 and see if that makes a difference.

EDIT: Just tried it and its much better now, most of the time.

 

Nice review. As a big Tomb Raider fan myself, the more I read about this game, the more I become desperate to just go out and by the game (on every platform as of always). But I can't; no time with exams and all .

 

the pool water looks TERRIBLE on high. it looks like shes swimming in mercury. go to any indoor pool with underwater lighting like that and it looks just like the 2nd picture except her body would have been shifted due to the index of refraction of water.

and on the next set when shes in the rapids. again its rediculous. the non-high def looks better but not by much. both are bad. her legs make to turbulace in the water? and since when do you see clear reflections on water with rapids at night?!

 

Very nice Review guys, I must say the Idea of a High end & Mid range setup is nice feature, keep it up

 

Have to say I'm a bit dissapointed by the driver problems, just bought it today...don't know if I'd rather wait for a driver fix. The dissapointment is even bigger because it's been quite a while I've been as interested in playing a new game since trying out the demo. Reminded me so much of the first Tomb Raider but just with a few nice little additions...well, guess I'll just have to wait.

Oh yeah, nice article too =]

 

NVIDIA have told us they are working on this. However, as we said, being a TWIMTBP title, they really should've had this sorted out of the box. I'm sure they'll get there in the end, but that's hardly the point, is it?

 

Im gointg through it right now on medium there is plenty of stuff to unlock like areas in croft manor and outfits 55% so far only got it today

 

AHAHAHAHAHAHA LMFAO

the nvidia card's dont do anywhere near as well

omfg classic

the difference in NGC and non NGC are amazing, that game looks stunning win NGC enabled

still cant believe a WIMTBP game wont work well on a nvidia card - classic

Edit
Oh yeh, i dont really like the whole tombraider series anyway, i played the first one, didnt think its that great, people only seem to play it for her looks, and lets face it, just go on the internet for a while and watch some real women
Or go play some japanese/chinese games .... their as good

Ive just never found tombraider to be a fun game, and considering youll basically be using pistols the whole time - snore

final fantasy has more interesting puzzles then most games, so .... still not appealing

 

The review would have been handier, I feel, if you had tested the game running at 1280x1024 on the more powerful cards, just for the benefit of the majority of tft owners using either 17" or 19" screens. The 20"+ are a little out of reach still on most people's budget, particularly if they've just bought a £200+ gfx card.

 

Kenco - if you have an X1900XTX and the game is playable at 1920x1200 with everything on, then suffice to say if you run at 1280x1024, it's smoother. The idea is that these are the Best Playable Settings. If the native res of your display is below those numbers, then you're more than covered.

I have specific FPS numbers if you *really* want but they're at the office, and I'm in Sweden tomorrow and Friday so I can't get them. Bottom line: the average FPS is higher.

 

I would tend to agree with Kenco that 1280*1024 native is so common as to probably deserve some extra mention now and then, Perhaps particularly for such as the 7800GT (It strikes me that people spending £400 or a bit more for a graphics card like 7900GTX or XT1900XTX are probably more likely to have a more expensive monitor than us grunts on the half-price (But seemingly pretty common) cards.