You can run into new areas like wildfire or choose to be stealthier. This helps you customize the action to play how you like, whether it's adding extra arrows to your bow or more ammo to your shotgun. Finding new gear is a thrill, as is modifying your weapons. Advanced lighting and a Hollywood-like score add to the cinematic feel as you explore, find items, hunt for food and other resources, use weapons to take down numerous threats, and solve some location-based puzzles in tombs and catacombs to push forward. As with previous Tomb Raider games in the nearly 20-year-old series, Lara has a number of moves to help her navigate treacherous caverns, caves, and cliffs, but the gameplay is near photo-realistic, both in characters and environments, with huge set pieces to play in. This is further expanded thanks to all of the extra content you get in this title, although parents should take heed of the intense violence, blood, gore, and more.
This adventure is one of the most engaging, atmospheric, and action-packed games worth paying for - or dropping hints about to family members who are unsure of what to buy you for the holidays. Even more so than its predecessors, the single-player Rise of the Tomb Raider features a very strong story, cinematic sequences woven into the gameplay, platforming elements, and a clever crafting system. The Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration edition added a lot more content. This included a new story chapter entitled “Blood Ties”, “Lara’s Nightmare” zombie combat mode, PlayStation VR support for “Blood Ties” (PS4 only), cooperative ("co-op") Endurance gameplay, an “Extreme Survivor” difficulty, and 5 classic Lara Croft skins. It also included all of the previously released downloadable content (DLC), including “Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch," “Cold Darkness Awakened," along with 12 outfits, 7 weapons, multiple Expedition Card packs, and more. Played from a third-person perspective, Lara is in search of an ancient artifact that's said to hold the secret of immortality - and through exploration, combat, and puzzle solving, she might just find what she’s after and walk away unscathed. RISE OF THE TOMB RAIDER: 20 YEAR EDITION is a prequel that follows the iconic adventurer Lara Croft in her first tomb-raiding expedition.