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Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 14.7 hrs on record (14.0 hrs at review time)
Posted: 12 Jan, 2014 @ 1:23pm
Updated: 12 Jan, 2014 @ 1:39pm

Let's start with what's good about the game:
-Lara is a better character than ever. She's pretty but she's not a bimbo, she actually has some clothes on, which is sadly rare in videogames nowadays. She's smart, but she's not the nerdy scientist cliché. She's courageous but she's not some kind of dumb female rambo. She's vulnerable without being the usual annoying damsel in distress. Overall she's a very likable character.
- The environnements and overall graphics are pretty nice.
- The writing is interesting, even though the storyline isn't anything special.

That being said, here's what I don't like about the game:
- The gameplay is just downright terrible, Lara's control feels very clunky, there's QTE's all over the place, the combat mechanics are just horrible, the game allows you to take the stealth option only when it's not important to do so, otherwise it throws waves of dumb enemies at you.
- The camera does a lot of forcing its pre-determined angles on you.
- The animations are among the worst i've seen, and for some reason, the other animations in this "worst" category are also from Square Enix games.
- A lot of Hitman Absolution assets have clearly been re-used in this game. And Absolution itself was already terrible.

Overall, it's enjoyable at times, but it would have been better off as a movie than as an actual game. And that's actually how the game feels, an interactive movie you actually have very little control over.
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