

That was time spent dangling from grappling lines tenuously tethered to shimmering walls framing glacial cathedrals, nothing but the sound of Lara’s labored breathing or the crunch of her climbing tools connecting with ancient ice. Most of the “2d 17h 5m” the game reports I spent playing it to completion involved doing what I love most in these kinds of part-action-but-mostly-adventure games: fighting nothing at all. It’s a measure of how much Rise of the Tomb Raider gets right then, that I spent a fraction of my playtime relishing Lara’s arsenal of misery, training gunsights on dim ski-masked villains, or creeping up behind others to axe-stab them senseless. Lara Croft is Rise of the Tomb Raider‘s badass with the moral high ground, except she’s also a butcher on a truly outlandish scale. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.This is what you talk about when you talk about gaming these days, singling out a narrative tendency to trip over shoelace-tied gameplay, the shoelaces being the ongoing war between player freedom and “Yeah, I could see this actually happening.” Not that anyone’s lobbying for realism in these games, it’s just become vogue to note the disparity, say, between a hero who’s pitched as more or less ethical, and the trail of corpses she leaves in her wake.

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