How easy is Rise of the Tomb Raider to pick up and play? There's a fair few puzzles to figure out too, from simply flooding a room to reach a higher platform, to the more involved brain teasers, like one which sees you rotating an oversized model of the solar system piece by piece in order to reach the top. With Lara being rather athletic and agile, and with a few useful bits of kit at her disposal, such as ice picks and rope arrows, there are few areas you can't reach - and any you can't, you'll probably be able to return to later, when you've learnt some new skills or acquired new tools. From bows and pistols, to shotguns and machine guns, the automatic lock-on from the classic Tomb Raider games is gone - now you need to aim manually, making use of cover and vantage points to pick off enemies one by one, or even drop on them from a tree using the game's stealth takedowns.īetween the frequent combat sections, Rise of the Tomb Raider focuses more on exploration and platforming as you scale walls, leap between crumbling platforms and swing across chasms. Like its predecessor, though, Rise of the Tomb Raider is heavy on the combat, frequently veering into third person shooter territory as you take out waves of bad guys with Lara's arsenal of weapons, from an over the shoulder perspective. With an emphasis on stealth, as you follow the main story, you'll be infiltrating enemy bases, gathering bits and pieces to craft new items, setting traps for enemy troops - or perhaps even exploring the optional puzzle-filled Tombs. Rise of the Tomb Raider is an open world adventure, meaning rather than playing through individual levels, you instead have a huge, seamless environment to explore.

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