Naturally, when Lara goes to off to Russia and the blue-white snow and ice, she’s suddenly packing orange glow sticks. Then it was Lara’s powerful blue glow stick as she began navigating tombs, providing the same orange/cyan look you find in most Hollywood movie color grading. The first thing I noticed in Syria was its rich orange sands, a strong contrast to the last Tomb Raider‘s much more muted palette. Lara then tries to beat the stonejaw-led shadowy entity to the Siberian wilderness, where most of the game takes place. A brief trip into Syria introduces the new enemy, a highly-funded, obviously evil group called Trinity led by Konstantin, a religious zealot and less comic book version of Uncharted 2‘s Lazarević. Having previously glimpsed the supernatural, Rise of the Tomb Raider‘s Lara is open to the wild theories of ancient immortality that consumed her father.
Publisher: Microsoft (Xbox One, 360) Square Enix (PC, PS4) Rise of the Tomb Raider (Xbox One, Xbox 360, PC, PS4)ĭeveloper: Crystal Dynamics (Xbox One), Nixxes Software (Xbox 360) Rather, it continues the self-serious, “gritty” origin story trajectory, hence the inelegant title. The 2013 Tomb Raider reboot and its immediate follow up, Rise of the Tomb Raider, doesn’t ground itself in modern society, either - there’s just a moment of Lara wearing a casual leather jacket back in England, an alternative costume I wore for the entirety of my adventure through Rise‘s wilds - but neither does it call back to breezy, “fun” pulp history. 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 offered. I sometimes forget that Raiders of the Lost Ark came out in 1981.
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