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Tomb Raider is a reboot of the adventures series featuring a fearless woman named Lara Croft.
Lara Croft is a 21 years old English archaeologist that recently graduated.
Lara appears to be a weak unexperienced survivor that gets scared off easily but that didn't stop her passion for adventures.

The story takes place with Lara and her companions the "Endurance crew" that sail to find the lost kingdom of Yamatai island, home of the legendary shaman queen Himiko.
their ship gets into a mysterious wreck during a storm that comes out of nowhere and leaves everybody separated.
And now its up to you to regroup with your crew and escape the island.
In order to escape the Yamatai island and stay alive, you will have to learn the tactics of fighting, hunting, weapon crafting and mostly survival.
The Yamatai island is filled with wild animals that want Lara and her crew dead along with a huge army of the Solarii Brotherhood that are after them.

Tomb Raider is a both singleplayer and multiplayer third-person adventure action game with a great storyline along with beautiful visuals, nicely done gameplay and optimized very well.
Multiplayer is very similar to a game called 'The Last of Us' but most the focus that has been put into this game is on the Singleplayer side.

If you're a fan of adventure singleplayer games with stunning graphics, gameplay and non-stop action then you should definitely pick up this game.
If you're thinking of picking up the GOTY Edition, i would only recommend it if you're a fan of multiplayer skins (Which appear to be pretty useless to me)
The only DLC i would recommend is the 'Tomb of the Lost Adventurer' which adds an extra Tomb to the storyline that could take around 5-10 minutes to complete.

Overall, i absolutely fell inlove with this game even though i am not a fan of 3rd person or singleplayer games.
This game absolutely amazed me and i strongly recommend this to everybody.

10/10

Time for a serious review after all the 3k playtime hours jokes
*Last updated 17/11/15*

CONS:
-After crimefest 2015 Overkill has added microtransactions into the game and completely ruined the playerbase with Crates, Skins and a bunch of other crap. The game is now completely Pay2Win and none of the 'Free' fun is in it.
And paid skins actually give you an advantage. yay.
Not to mention 2 years ago they promised to never ever add microtransactions and then hoped people would forget a few years later and back stab them. shame on you overkill!

-Short repetitive maps with small objectives, most maps are just drilling, getting cash and going to the escape zone.
Only a few maps are low with lots of objectives and loud action such as Hotline Miami, but those aren't a lot of maps.
Most maps are just small with not many verities, most missions require you to camp at a small place and fight through waves of cops. compared to PAYDAY: The Heist where everything is open with lots of objectives and places to look through.

-A 2 years old game that hasn't been optimized since the release, the players have to trust and struggle with mods in order to get a playable FPS in game.
And of course the latest maps they released, received a crap ton of complains about low FPS because the maps are so huge and their game is so poorly optimized.

-The textures are so rubbish that modders have to make HD mods so you could enjoy something rather than 1024 textures of your character model or NPC's dropped weapons (etc)
Sometimes i stand in a corner and see pixels on the floor trying to look like a pepsi can and other trash.

-AI is literally useless in this game, all they do is follow you and help you up.
Nothing else, absolutely nothing. so Multiplayer co-op is the main focus of this game, offline isn't as enjoyable as online.

-Apparently DLC releases are more important than bug fixes
The game has a shit ton of bugs that haven't been fixed since the release.

-If you want to actually enjoy the game and advance most your weapons to be Death Wish compatible you will need to purchase a few of the DLCs, or else its nearly impossible for a beginner.
If you don't pay, you are simply underpowered. Thank god there's no PvP.
Although its nice that paying for DLC isnt a must to play a certain map.
(Seriously RPG, Nade launchers and Flame throwers are great)

-A community based off most players farming their infamy ranks on SR or HB and considering themselves pros and kicking everyone under the level Infamy 5 from their lobbies and considering themselves as Godlike heisters.
No one actually cares about the heist plan, your role or the in game objectives.
All they care is that medic or ammo bag you bring to the heist to supply them.

-Over 2 years old free promised content hasn't been released until this very day.

-Most lobbies are too mainstream that its simply hard to find something different these days, like a loud Bank Heist or a Heli escape on Big Bank (you get the point).

-Developers listen to the community yet they are too bitchy to invest in a Workshop or a proper freaking in game AntiCheat.

-Infamy ranks are not as satisfying as you might think, they're actually easy to grind and a shit that isn't rewarding.

PROS:
+Cheap DLCs (recently also got a price drop)
+Monthly updates (DLC fun)
+Not a lot but enough free content from time to time to keep the Helmets Flying
+Mod support but they won't bother investing a workshop so we stop paying for sites to save mods
+4 and maybe more years of in game content support (2 more years of dlc and free content)
+A somewhat "Okay" plot in the background of the PAYDAY gang and Hoxton's betrayal.
+Wide variety of weapons, masks, modifications and so on.
+A somewhat balanced skills and perks system yet still buggy at some points.


I wrote a lot larger review than this but steam didn't let me post this because i wrote too much.
Anyways, i will clearly keep playing this game. i don't dislike it but i experienced and saw way too much in game to know that this game isn't something a new player would enjoy.
I would personally uninstall and ask for a refund if i tried to join lobbies 10 times in a row and some infamy trashy decides to kick me instead of giving me tips or helping me out.

Also, this is not a DLC complain post, i own them all and will probably own future ones as well.
No flame no hate, i love Almir and the other developers but you can't force the whole community to behave and stop being as cocky as Hoxton is to Houston.

edit: Yes, know my English is absolute MINT.

Although it would be nicer to have the mostly requested songs rather than the least ones which are in this pack but $0.99 for this soundtrack DLC is a fair price, its music afterall and who doesn't love Overkill's soundtracks?!
Good stuff!

No GameForge launcher :')

Release Date: 16 Dec, 2013 Early Access

2015 and still Early Access

Who sold us this shitty grilling equipement?
How can it be a grill if it ain't grilling?
Keep grilling you piece of shit
Who sold us this grill? the cops?

Dying was never easier than this

Where do i begin?

-Physics-
The Physics in this game are completely different from the past games, they are more like a simcade
Its not Assetto Corsa or Project Cars kind of simulation level but it still has a little touch as a Simcade game.

-Cars-
Haven't heard of half the cars in this game and didn't know they existed, surprised me a lot. just like Race Driver GRID back in 2008, full of surprises!
And of course the detail in the cars is insane in terms of damage and such.

-Tunning-
I always wanted the customization at Autosport since 2008 and i finally got it!
Finally i can set down force, suspensions, brakes bias, differential etc the way i always wanted!
I can upgrade my engine, clutch and more stuff under my hood! insane!

-Tracks-
A huge amount of tracks in this game, all around Europe, Asia, Australia, America and more based on real life. as good as it gets they are big as well.

-Graphics-
Beautiful graphics, and my pc is not amazing and i still manage to run it on high with a 16:9 resolution and get a really good fps. so i'll admit, the game engine is as good as it is since always!

-Car Sounds-
Obviously not the only game which has really realistic engine sounds and definitely not the best one.
But they are great and i love them, and they make me wanna boost my corsair all the way to 100% volume.

-Multiplayer-
Compared to GRID 2, this game finally brought back the wide space roads from GRID 2008 which means multiplayer is actually playable without having the whole lobby totaled at the first few corners.
Match making is nice too, i can find races fast and easily without too much pain and also have a voice chat feature which is nice.
Weekly/Daily multiplayer challenges are cool too.
And i love the fact that i can buy whatever car i want again whether its a brand new car or a used car from "ebay".
Just like the old days in GRID 2008!

-Controller Support-
Supports joypads, gamepads, wheel, keyboard and everything you can dream of.
The game is also very balanced so its very playable with keyboard as well for a simcade.

-Camera-
Good to see the rewind feature is still here, very useful indeed!
And the replay feature after finishing a race also has an option to hide hud and upload on youtube directly from the game.
Also has various cameras positions which is cool as well.

The only down sides of this game i could think of are:
-A broken cockpit cam
-Can't make my own team and hire my own team mates
-No drifting mountains like the old days.

But overall, i'm glad codemasters listened to the community and its requests and gave us most of the things we asked for.

We were also introduced to Drag which is brand new to GRID which is cool as well!
8/10 from me, i really want those drift mountains.

Released in 2008
Still holding as the best racing game ever made.

Terrible. A real waste of $6.99 .
It pays like ♥♥♥♥, even Vlad pays more than this crap.
The trailer and pictures showed a huge map, something new, something that is nearly impossible to reach and has a next gen security.
I expected this to be hard, i went on Death Wish Loud on my first try just to test the map and not actually play it and i was using random weapons and it was just terrible. not even a challenge.
Feels the same as any other old heists we played, hack a PC and get 1 or 2 timelocks/drills(example) done and start the bag simulator going.
Nothing challenging here, but its nice to see they brought back the glass cutting option.
Its also a very short mission. i paid on the new Heists DLC's and got weapons, masks, a 40 minutes and above gameplay with an actual challenging difficulty. unlike this crap that gave me a few minutes run.