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The game tries to artificially extend its length mainly through backtracking and puzzles.In reality, Lara has all the secondary weapons and their ammo on herself at all times and they can be freely switched at any point using her PDA. In each level, players are asked to pick their secondary weapon.
Camera can be god awful at times, giving players a poor view of their surroundings, leading to blind leaps of faith due to how uncooperative it can be.While challenging to an extent, most of the difficulty stems from the clunky platforming more than the enemies being really tough.While the story is rather engaging for the most part, it is disappointing that Lara and Amanda don't resolve their differences by the end.
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The game doesn't do a very good job of giving players the next objective, sometimes leading to trial and error gameplay.There are some weird animations bugs here and there, such as Lara being stuck in one spot until the player makes her jump away.
The Wii version is considered mediocre, but the PlayStation 2 version is considered a disastrous port. The next main line entry finally gets it right, though. Despite some improvements to combat, it still feels dodgy at best. Even small drops can take off sizeable portions of Lara's health. Platforming can feel clunky at times, since Lara often doesn't grab ledges that are clearly within her reach. Close to zero replay value after beating the game due to no post-game content and many Treasures and Relics being missable if you didn't collect them during your first playthrough. Speaking of, the Xbox 360 version of the game not only has exclusive costumes for Lara to wear (mainly bikinis), but it also has exclusive DLC in the form of the aforementioned "Lara's Shadow", and "Beneath the Ashes". She plays quite differently from Lara, focusing more on direct physical combat than gunplay. The Doppelgänger even becomes playable in her own story, "Lara's Shadow. The introduction of a Doppelgänger is a neat little call back to the original Tomb Raider, in which Lara faced one of these in one of the later levels in the game. The levels themselves are much more open in this game, allowing for greater exploration opportunities more its more linear predecessors. It is great to see Jacqueline Natla again outside the realms of the original game and its remake, since she now plays a much bigger role in this generation of Tomb Raider. Aside from Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, Underworld's story is probably the darkest and most mature its ever been, until the second reboot, that is. Master Survivalist provides a pretty rough challenge, too. Difficulty now features deeper player tailoring settings, affecting Ammo, Enemy Health, Lara's own Health, and Ledge Grab window. Speaking of relics, they actually have a gameplay purpose now when collected, they will increase Lara's maximum health. There are loads of treasures to collect (179 in total), some more well hidden than others, and relics require thorough combing of the environment or puzzle solving to find them. Bike controls are much tighter this time around, and is used much more sparingly as a gameplay aid, rather than being a mandatory thing like it was in Tomb Raider: Legend. Combat now allows Lara to target more than one enemy at a time so long as she dual wields certain weapons. Lara looks amazing as always, and there are many subtle details found with a keen eye such as water running off of solid surfaces, and Lara getting dirtier as she rolls around. 
Stunning graphics, even by 2008 standards.
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The game has a fine balance between combat, platforming, and exploration all 3 of which being pillars of the series since the very beginning.
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