Who the hell cares? Its still an awesome game. And its much better than any Tomb Raider game. Although I did love Legend and Tomb Raider III but this game is still kickass and the graphics are breathtaking.

The game still has its own identity.

Actually unless they made the gun fights more realistic in the last two Lara was always out in the open and far more athletic than Nate. I felt that the thing Nate does were far more reasonable and even accomplishable by a human. Save perhaps a very few very lucky jumps. Lara on the other hand would have to be a world class gymnast to pull off even half of her moves.

But come on. To be fair the concept is hardly new. Indiana Jones did if first. Lara stole from him first. And this game didn't feel like Tomb Raider at all until the Spanish started attacking in the underground city. And then it took on an eyrie Silent Hill vibe in the German base. But for the most part it felt more like Indiana Jones fighting the Germans for the Ark.

This message was edited by Koloth on Jan 08 2008.

i used to like the tomb raider games, and i find this game 10X better than tomb raider

the only thing tomb raider has over this is lara has two large jiggley bits, and drake only has one

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Have you played the last two Tomb Raider games?

Honestly, no.

I doubt the animations were the same though. According the Naughty Dog Nate's animations were supposed to be procedural. Meaning the CPU was calculating how he should move on the fly. The PS2 couldn't do that. They might have looked similar simply because there are only so many realistic ways you can climb a cliff. But they couldn't be exactly the same.

I see enough differences that it is obvious it isn't a direct copy. It is really just a matter of the way the human body moves in a realistic way to accomplish climbing. Though I see Lara is still doing handstands on ledges and her jumps are still a great deal furthur than the average human could pull off. Plus barring any combat in that video it still looks like she fights without cover. Which would get Nate killed in short order.

I don't doubt they have a similar feel. I get more of an Indian Jones vibe from the game than Tomb Raider. But they are all doing pretty much the same thing after all.

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like Naughty Dog took a lot of their inspiration for this game from Tomb Raider.

They actually said they got a lot of their inspiration from the indiana jones movies.

and tob rader was "inspired" by indi

Well i think of this game as Lara Croft-turned Indiana Jones

I just finished Uncharted and its a great game. Its very similar to Tomb Raider, which is a good thing. Nothing wrong with copying as long as you do it well and Uncharted defintiely did that. I heard the game Conan was a copy of God of War, but still isn't as good as it. Thats too bad, i wouldn't mind another God of War to tie me over until GTA 4. I guess i'll have to wait until Devil May Cry 4.