Tomb Raider games have always been evolving and we have seen how good a game, Tomb raider: Legend happened to be. This sequel can't be considered as a major improvement, as Legend was a little bit more interesting for me. The game is almost the same as Legend in mos of the areas, in the looks of Lara, the environment as well as the usual Tomb Raider style of gaming. Lara has certainly come a long way after we saw her for the first time, but its still the Prince pf Persia who scores in the graphics department. Well, Lara doesn't look as good as she used to be in those anniversary wallpapers, but she is still the coolest archelogist in the world. Another interesting adventure waits for all the Lara fans in this game, as Eidos does a great job again.

BACK TO ARCHEOLOGY
As this game is more of a remake of the original Tomb Raider game of 1996, it may have some similiar enemies as well as an identical plot. But I can't recollect how the first Tomb Raider looked like, so concentrating more on this game, we have an introduction video in the beginning itself. In the year 1945, its Los Alamos, New Mexico and we will see everything in the town being destroyed and lava everywhere. We will see an unknown winged creature flying out of a crystal in the centre of this lava. It will remain as a mystery, as the game starts and Lara Croft is to go to the snow covered mountains of Peru to search for another artifact. This marks the beginning of Lara's journey.

LARA CROFT NEVER FAILS IN THE GAME
Lara Croft looks great throughout the game. There are lots fo things that Lara can do, and she is very acrobatic as usual. There are lots of fight scenes involving the wild beasts and other creatures and you will also have to dive away from these monsters as simple shooting won't always prove effective as they are a bit smarter. As we all know, Lara is one of the most acrobatic characters ever in a computer game, and only the Prince of Persia may prove to be a competitor for her in those gravity-defying moves. We will also have to do lots of moves here in this game. The usual jumping and holding onto ledges as well as climbing ladders continue here. You will have to grapple some hooks, hold onto ropes and swing, dodge traps as well as solve some puzzles of high standards. There is also a new move, which allows Lara to jump onto a pole and balance on it.

The enemy AI is pretty good most of the time. But there are a few occasions were this may be proved otherwise. The creatures whom we fight with won't climb steps or jump into water. If they accidently fall into water, they are nowhere to be found. There are chances that they may get somewhere on the way, and some of them will follow us only for some distance and then go back. We may also be able to stand over a rock and shoot all the creatures around and the only exceptions in these cases may be the bats. But it may be hard to shoot those flying creatures as camera may give some trouble if we are standing on some corner.

This game seems to have lots more of the replayability factor as it is always great to do those acrobatic moves and there may be some secret artifact which you may have missed somewhere. As we can also try some different outfits, the game just gets more interesting. All the fans of Tomb Raider may have already tried this one, and its a must for the ones who haven't got their hands on this one yet. The players may also wat to do those time trials for a change. Hope that we will get to see more of this different kind of archeologist and more mysteries to solve and more artifcats to find, in various journeys across the globe.