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    Tomb Raider: Underworld Demo Released

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by brainer, Oct 31, 2008.

  1. brainer

    brainer Notebook Virtuoso

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  2. emike09

    emike09 Overclocking Champion

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    Great! Been waiting for this one :)
     
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    brainer Notebook Virtuoso

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    hehe, i didnt like the other Tomb Raider games, but i have a good feeling about this.. TIME LEFT 6 hours -.-
     
    brainer, Oct 31, 2008
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    kal360 Notebook Consultant

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    hey thanks for the reminder i was wondering when the demo wud come out
     
    kal360, Oct 31, 2008
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    ntsan Notebook Consultant

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    huge requirement on gfx card..
     
    ntsan, Nov 2, 2008
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  6. Dustin Sklavos

    Dustin Sklavos Notebook Deity NBR Reviewer

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    I snagged the demo off Steam last night.

    Controls take some getting used to if you were enjoying Tomb Raider: Legend. In some ways she doesn't move quite as fluidly or gracefully in this one as she did there. Camera is also pretty nightmarish.

    On the flipside, though, the game is really gorgeous and it heavily expands Lara's repertoire of moves without making them too difficult to use. I'll probably pick it up on release.
     
    Dustin Sklavos, Nov 2, 2008
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  7. zeve

    zeve Notebook Consultant

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    Runs very well in my ASUS G1S atached to a 32"TV LCD in 1360X768, all high, 2XAA.

    The animation isn't as fluid as I'd like. Assassin's Creed animation is better in this aspect.
    Very nice visuals. If Eidos improve the animation, maybe I'll buy it.
     
    zeve, Nov 3, 2008
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  8. ViciousXUSMC

    ViciousXUSMC Master Viking NBR Reviewer

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    I liked legends, and even the remake of the first one using the legends engine shame to hear this one sounds worse so far. Graphics are nice but animation and controls & camera are more core components to the quality of the game than just the visuals.

    I'll try out the demo though (I say that and yet i have not even installed or played the COD5 demo I downloaded like 5 days ago)
     
    ViciousXUSMC, Nov 3, 2008
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    mrsamsa Notebook Evangelist

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    I found it overall to be very good, but I couldn't find any way to manually adjust the camera and the auto camera isn't that good. For me that pretty much breaks the game, since I don't repeatedly blindly jumping to my death to be very much fun.

    Anyone else figured out if there are camera controls?
     
    mrsamsa, Nov 3, 2008
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