Tomb Raider: Underworld
Developer(s): Crystal Dynamics
Publisher(s): Eidos Interactive (EU, AU, US), Spike (JP)
Genre: Action, Adventure
Wikipedia: Link
Game review links: IGN: 4.0/10, Metacritic: 53/100
Game description: Master your surroundings: Reach new heights with the broadest range of acrobatic abilities and utilize objects within the environment to uncover new paths to explore. Explore epic and unknown worlds: Discover ancient mysteries of the underworld hidden within the coast of Thailand, frozen islands of the Arctic Sea, the jungles of Mexico, and more. Treacherous and unpredictable challenges: Each level is an elaborate multi-stage puzzle masked within an interactive environmental playground offering more flexibility over how the area is solved. New state-of-the-art gear: Utilize the latest technology in Lara's upgraded inventory to navigate the world including: Multi-purpose grapple: A claw-like device with a high-tension cable designed for climbing, rappelling, performing wall runs and manipulating objects within the environment. All-terrain hybrid motorbike: A unique vehicle design built to drive on everything from mud to snow and ice.
Tomb Raider: Underworld is a single player, action-adventure video game. The game is presented in third person perspective, where the player takes control of Lara Croft. Lara's environment reproduces a more "interactive world that reacts and remembers", such that footprints left in the mud or mud transferred to Lara's knee from kneeling on the ground is washed away by rain, the bodies of the foes she encounters remain where she killed them, and any destruction to the environment she causes are permanent.
Test configurations on Windows:
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Region | OS | CPU/GPU | Revision | Graphics | Sound/Pad | ||
PAL | ? |
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1.1.0.5730 | GSDX 5727 0.1.16 |
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BIOS: USA v2.30, HACKS: none, As with all Tomb Raider games on PS2, you need to do a full boot, since menu language and widescreen is determined by your BIOS settings. Game runs ok in terms of frames, but does slow down quite a bit with visual effects such as fire and smoke etc. Scaling the resolution does not seem to affect this. There is a graphical glitch where textures on movable objects seem to disappear when you move them. Also, you should not rely on the autosave on this game. Use save states or manual saves from time to time to ensure you don't end up having to re-do a level if a bug occurs. | EddieHimself |
NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.2.0 r5782 | GSdx 5801m SSE41 |
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Ingame is completely corrupt in hardware mode. Looks better in software mode, but still has graphics too distorted to be playable. | |
NTSC-U | Windows |
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1.3 Git 28 of May | GSDX |
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USA v02.20(10/02/2006), Hardware mode have only minnor issues,software mode its good,but a little blurry,the real problçem its on the camera Flikering | |
NTSC-U | Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (SP1) |
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BIOS: USA 2.30, Doesn't work in D3D Hardware Mode, graphics are completely broken. Even Software Mode has issues with graphics in some areas. | Ryudo |
Trivia
- Original names: トゥームレイダー アンダーワールド (SLPS-25927)
Known Issues
Graphics are broken
- Status: Active
- Type: Severe
- Description: Major graphic corruption occurs in both HW and SW modes of DX9, 11, and OGL. It looks a bit better in SW modes, but there's still artifacts and distortions occurring. Basically the game is unplayable because of this.
- Workaround: N/A
Screenshots
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Tomb Raider: Underworld (SLUS 21858)
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