Rise of the Tomb Raider

Hip, fresh, and with a more believable silhouette, Lara Croft is back. Is Rise of the Tomb Raider another ace in Microsoft’s hand? Hell flippin’ yeah it is.

I sometimes forget that Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981. Its breezy pulp adventure quality carries only obvious signifiers of its era (like, Nazis), and the repetition of these tropes act as enough hand waving to the point where Uncharted‘s modern day setting can be taken for granted, though mostly because the series tends to exist outside what we see as modern society (save maybe for Elena’s camcorder) and instead provide the same fantastical distance that 19th century adventure novels

A bolder, more capable Lara Croft returns for an adventure that's more varied and fun than Tomb Raider has seen in years.

Rise of the Tomb Raider takes everything that its predecessor did so well, and makes it even better.