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So yes, puzzles are still here and still a crucial part of the game - you didn’t think you could have a Lara Croft game without some mildly challenging puzzles, did you? Of course, while the puzzles may be easy in theory, the real difficulty comes down to how well your team can organise itself. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris follows a simple one tomb at a time structure, with each one developing the puzzle complexity and enemy difficulty. Egyptian Gods Horus and Isis meanwhile, have a beam attack and a magic ability to lift platforms and the like - and yes, you can indeed play as Egyptian Gods.Īfter a rather messy opening few minutes while we all adjusted to our characters and their abilities/roles, we made our way into the tomb. Essentially, you’ve got two core classes: Lara and her tomb-raiding ‘friend’ Carter both use pistols as their standard weapons and can use a grappling hook to traverse the levels. The game doesn’t just throw the players in together for the fun of it, gameplay is dependant upon all of the players working as a team and using their character’s abilities to help each other. I formed a peppy gang alongside two other journalists and a developer and I had a great time. Four-player local and online co-op is the big new feature for Temple of Osiris and it’s sure to be a crucial selling point for many gamers. Plus, I’m happy for the story to take a backseat - it’s never been Lara’s strong point anyway - what I’d rather have is consistently excellent gameplay.īased on a good 45 minutes with the game, Crystal Dynamics is going the right way about that. It’s unlikely that the story will be a particularly great or important part of the experience, but playing the nostalgia card with a game like this is an excellent move. This really does feel like proper Tomb Raider stuff, despite the title. Ancient Egyptian legend forms the backbone of the game’s story and provides a host of new, but pleasantly familiar, tombs to discover. Classic Croft voice actress Keeley Hawes is back in action and as good as ever, plus, Temple of Osiris features a theme and story that any Lara Croft fan will recognise. In many ways, this new title is gunning for those who miss the old Lara. So now, after a surprisingly long hiatus - one can assume due to the reboot - the team at Crystal Dynamics are bringing the top-down Lara back with Temple of Osiris, and everything’s looking bigger and better. It seemed like an odd combination at first, but upon release it became quickly apparent that the team had really struck a chord with the gaming community.

LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS SERIES

With the larger Crystal Dynamics team still building up for the 2013 reboot and the series in a bit of a dire position, the game took the classic characters and setting to a new genre, that of a co-op action platform game.

Apparently, in all the hubbub, everyone has forgotten that there’s going to be more than one way to get your Croft fix over coming months - and I’m inclined to say that the Lara who’s getting all the attention won’t be the one everyone ends up loving.īack in 2010 (yes, it’s really been that long) Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light proved to be a dark horse hit. Yet while folks were sending angry tweets and probably burning copies of the original Tomb Raider, I was sitting in a small room in the press area playing, and loving, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. It was at gamescom this year that Microsoft announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider will be a timed Xbox exclusive (plus, for a while it seemed as though it was an outright exclusive), bringing the reboot sequel to the centre of the gaming community. Lara’s been getting all the attention as of late, but arguably it’s all for the wrong reasons. Sometimes, life just isn’t fair - even for a videogame. Previews // 31st Aug 2014 - 9 years ago // By Ryan Davies Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Gamescom Preview

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