This game may be called - Silent Hill, Silent Hunter, Silent Lamb, or anything silent. No hype clouded your mind and no paid reviews poisoned your experience how you have to enjoy your game.
Playing games retroactively have a lots of benefits, one of them is - to say that this game is crap and no one can take that from you. For the people who love to read, here it is: This is not a Tomb Raider game by name and title. That is for people who like short explanations. This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I almost feel guilty getting it on special for $12.49.
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Overall, I cannot say enough good things about this game, it is a SPLENDID release, and for once, fully worth the full retail/launch price of $49.99. It could have been longer, but only because it is so excellent you can never have too much excellent gaming, right? I clock my playthrough on medium difficulty at 14 hours, which is very decent. There really is nothing negative I could say about this game. As a matter of fact, in my opinion, this game has THE VERY BEST quicktime event implementation I have ever seen.
I can imagine some people have an absolute dislike for cut scenes and quicktime events, fine, but if that's not your personal case, then I say, you will love the cutscenes and quicktime events. I must say, both of these elements were extremely well done in this game, blending in well with the action and context, they are not disruptive at all. Wrexmer is complaining about cut scenes and quick time events. It's still Lara Croft, it's still Tomb Raider, and the types of puzzles we use to see in previous TR games are still to be found, except there's a lot more action, more story, more characters, more immersion, more of all that makes a game good. So basically, yes this game is somewhat like the Uncharted series, and that is a very GOOD thing. This innovation is the use of TressFX, which on my SLI GTX 580s worked well. There is even innovation not the gameplay type, but still, innovation, which in my ratings is a prerequisite for a full 10/10 score.
The story, graphics, gameplay, sound, atmosphere, immersion, it's ALL there. So basically, yes this game is somewhat like the Uncharted series, and that is a Extremely good game.