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I've been playing TR: Legend for the past week or so (and can't really be arsed to finish it, tbh).

It's not very good. The graphics are very nice, but the game is like a watered-down version of the original game. There's about 10 short levels. The tomb bits seem to have been sacrificed for the shooting bits. There's still some tomb raiding going on... but fannying about at a cocktail party doesn't cut it imo. This was the problem with TR 2 and 3 - too many costume changes and moves into "Exciting New Environments!" that aren't that exciting and basically don't work well with the TR concept. It reuses level environments, just changes the skin (so far I've come across two motorbike levels and they are basically the same thing - drive down a track shooting bad guys as you pass them on your bike). Sometimes it resuses the level design while still in the same level!

That's not what Tomb Raider was all about for me - even the puzzles/traps seem a bit lame and unimaginative (most of them involve moving something with the grapple hook). You have hints that appear on screen that tell you when to jump and swing across a hole in the floor. You have a set of binoculars that give you hints. You don't need to use them, but jesus, you know? It's a real let-down, when I think back to the first game.

It even has those cheesy sequences where you have to press buttons as the hints flash up on screen to avoid the trap. God. In the original tomb raider, you had to use skill instead.

Mind you... dsgirl - if you liked 2 and 3 but didn't like Revelations (which was a welcome return to actual tomb raiding), then you'll probably like this one - it reminds me of them more than any of the others I've played.