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Tomb Raider: Underworld (PS3) | 
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| From: Eidos
Category: Video Games
List Price: £49.99
Buy New: £39.68
You Save: £10.31 (21%)
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Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 82
Platform: Playstation 3
Genre: action-games
Media: Video Game
Operating System: Playstation 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 6.6 x 5.4 x 0.6
EAN: 5021290035508
ASIN: B001BN6U0Y
Release Date: November 21, 2008 (New: This Week)
Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
The first lady of gaming returns in Tomb Raider - Underworld with her deepest and darkest adventure yet. Ostensibly searching for the mythical hammer of the Norse god Thor, the real draw of the game is exploring the underworlds of multiple different cultures.
 A pair of panthers make an uncomfortable safety net |  When you're a tomb raider, exploring ancient tombs is all in a day’s work |  Lara’s pistols are no match for the kraken |  The Mediterranean level includes a huge area for swimming | The basics of the game are classic Tomb Raider, as you explore the trap-filled interiors of ancient ruins using Lara’s famed acrobatic skills (and dual action pistols). From an underwater temple guarded by a giant octopus-like kraken to ancient Mayan structures in the South American jungle, she makes Indiana Jones look even older. All of the levels are much larger than in previous games and far more interactive. You'll leave footprints in the sand and find all the scenery fully destructable. Every puzzle has multiple solutions, and the hand-to-hand combat system has been completely revamped. A new 3D map system also helps to ensure you never get lost so that you can concentrate on saving the world. Key Features - Dream vacation: Travel the world in search of ancient artefacts, from the steaming-hot jungles of Mexico to the frozen Arctic, from the coast of Thailand to the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.
- Think like Lara: An interactive, non-linear game world means anything that it looks like you should be able to pick up and use (or destroy) you can.
- Bettering Bond: An all new grappling hook, sonar map, scuba gear, a range of new weapons, and Lara’s trusty motorbike make her the best equipped adventurer in gaming.
- Help on demand: Receive as much or as little help as you want, from gentle nudges in the right direction to a full explanation of what you need to do next.
- Behind the scenes: All of Lara’s animations in the game have been fully motion captured from Olympic gymnast Heidi Moneymaker. Her voice is that of Spooks actress Keeley Hawes.
About the Developer: Crystal Dynamics
Based in the San Francisco bay area, the Crystal Dynamics team has been making games since 1992, including popular titles such as Pandemonium, Gex, and Legacy of Kain/Soul Reaver. Crystal Dynamics began revammping the Tomb Raider series with Tomb Raider: Legend.
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| Customer Reviews:
 sublime November 10, 2008
6 out of 9 found this review helpful
I have played the first 3 tomb raiders and anniversary.
I went to the show "What stuff" in Excel London, Tomb raider - UNDERWORLD had its own stall. on Xbox 360.Not PS3.
After playing Anniversary the step up in graphics is fantastic. The Demo on display was a Thailand/ Cambodia level. Visually stunning in 1080p.
graphics, I can see the splashes when she kicks and the vegetation of the level is realy good, all the grass and plants move with the wind and her motion. The tomb raider model moves like a panther. she looks better than ever.( possibly her waist is over skinny, a little exagerated by the boys in Eidos, trying to create the perfect sexy goddess.I sometimes fell those boys should try going out with real women.)
Game play , hmmm levels are much more open and the controls take getting used to. in fact the sea level is immense you can swim for hours rite over to china and back. you can swim underwater also to the same distance. The change of the controls is fiddly, the gun aiming sytem can be either auto or you can aim cod4 style. I am used to PS2/ps3 so Xbox 360 controls have always felt clunky in my hand. Jumping from pillar to pillar is quite a precision thing for me in this game. they add and add more moves each game and can overcomplex things. To me Tomb raider 2 and 3 got the controls just right.I think the controls here are over sensitive.
The problem is I feel , like tomb raider anniversary they may have made this game a little to difficult, like anniversary, hence the last levels are virtually impossible to beat. perhaps I am just a tad unco-ordinated.
couple this with hard complex controls, this game has the potential to over challenge and ultimately frustrate. This is my only negative point.
Otherwise get ready for her next adventure, I know I will !!!
Seeing is believing October 21, 2008
11 out of 20 found this review helpful
Without wishing to give too much more away about the contents of the Coastal Thailand level, other highlights of our demo included using Lara's grapple to rappel down a wall, as well as noticing for the first time that Lara gets increasingly and convincingly dirty as you play. Another highlight had us solving a puzzle involving two giant statues that was epic in a way that not nearly enough puzzles have been since the first Tomb Raider game. Managing to survive our first ever "adrenaline moment" was pretty exciting because, at first, we were convinced that it was an elaborate death scene that we had no control over. Rather, adrenaline moments will be replacing the super actions from recent games. The main difference is simply that in the new set pieces, you retain full control of Lara, whereas in previous games, you've been prompted to press a sequence of buttons in something resembling a rhythm-game mechanic.
 Pray to God this better be good November 14, 2008
3 out of 31 found this review helpful
Any real Tomb Raider fan will know that both TR Legend and TR Anniversary were awful games, that epically failed to capture the Tomb Raider image and feel. With both unbelievably linear levels that completely destroyed any chance of exploration and disgustingly easy so-called "puzzles", you were pretty much told what you had to do and how.... LAME. The combat was god awful aswell... adrenalin dodges/actions??? WTF IS UP WITH THAT!?!? Not to mention Crystal Dynamics also decimated Lara herself by changing her from a pyschotic woman who stops at nothing to get what she wants, into a pathetic sad-act who crys at every given opportunity about her 'dead' mum and dad (both of whom were very much alive before CD minced it). So I pray to God that Underworld better be good.... oh wait.. Natla's back? I thought she was dead??? For the sake of man give TR back to CORE DESIGN!!!!!!!
 unoriginal and unimaginative November 20, 2008
0 out of 5 found this review helpful
once again tr has gone off on some prince of persia rip off. people who say this is a good game really need to be psychlogically examined. at least core design had a unique physics engine and could tell a good story.
this is utter tripe and the series should be handed back to CORE DESIGN or i will never buy another TR game again.....
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