Tomb Raider: Legend
Developer(s): Crystal Dynamics
Publisher(s): Eidos Interactive (EU, US, AU), Spike (JP)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: Metacritic: 82/100
Game description: Tomb Raider: Legend revives the athletic, intelligent and entertaining adventurer who won the hearts and minds of gamers worldwide. Lara comes alive with intricately animated expressions, moves and abilities. An arsenal of modern equipment, such as a magnetic grappling device, binoculars, frag grenades, personal lighting device and communications equipment, allows gamers to experience tomb raiding as never before. Eidos and Crystal Dynamics shaped Lara's look and movements to be an inherent extension of her skills, motivation and personality. Lara's character model features natural structure, realistic textures, detailed facial features, reactive eyes and fluid motion, all of which make her part of a living environment. New character animations and controls allow her to move through stunning environments with grace and precision, while an understanding of the game's original appeal reinvigorates the fundamental explore-and-solve adventure experience.
As a nine year old child, Lara Croft and her mother, Amelia Croft, survive a plane crash in the Himalayan mountains. After taking refuge in an ancient Buddhist monastery, young Lara discovers a stone dais with an ancient sword set in it. By touching the sword she activates a supernatural portal. Distorted voices speak to her mother Amelia through the portal, and Amelia removes the sword from the dais. The portal and dais are destroyed in an explosion and Amelia disappears in a bright light, leaving Lara to survive on her own.
Test configurations on Windows:
Environment | Configurations | Comments | Tester | ||||
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NTSC-U | Windows |
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08 01 2014 1.2.0 r5782 | GSdx 5801m SSE41 [09 01 2014] |
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Runs at a good speed., Stuttery as all hell. KOSMOS effect with this one. Technically playable, but not enjoyable. | |
NTSC-U | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (SP1) |
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1.3.1-1578-g20e36f8
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GSdx 0.1.16 AVX2
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BIOS: USA 2.30, Extremely demanding game. Requires a powerful system (in particular GPU in this case) to run at a constant 60FPS in every area. | Ryudo |
Trivia
- Original names: トゥームレイダー: レジェンド (SLPM-66558), スパイクベスト:トゥームレイダーレジェンド (SLPS-25945)
- Also known as Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend
Known Issues
Minor graphic glitches in Hardware mode.
- Status: Active
- Type: Minor
- Description: While in Hardware Mode, distant textures appear glitched. As you approach the area nearer the normal texture will show up instead. Seems to be an issue with distant objects only.
- Workaround: Use Software Mode to avoid it if you want.