It’s unlikely that the story will be a particularly great or important part of the experience, but playing the nostalgia card with a game like this is an excellent move. This really does feel like proper Tomb Raider stuff, despite the title. Ancient Egyptian legend forms the backbone of the game’s story and provides a host of new, but pleasantly familiar, tombs to discover. Classic Croft voice actress Keeley Hawes is back in action and as good as ever, plus, Temple of Osiris features a theme and story that any Lara Croft fan will recognise. In many ways, this new title is gunning for those who miss the old Lara. So now, after a surprisingly long hiatus - one can assume due to the reboot - the team at Crystal Dynamics are bringing the top-down Lara back with Temple of Osiris, and everything’s looking bigger and better.
It seemed like an odd combination at first, but upon release it became quickly apparent that the team had really struck a chord with the gaming community.
LARA CROFT AND THE TEMPLE OF OSIRIS SERIES
With the larger Crystal Dynamics team still building up for the 2013 reboot and the series in a bit of a dire position, the game took the classic characters and setting to a new genre, that of a co-op action platform game. Apparently, in all the hubbub, everyone has forgotten that there’s going to be more than one way to get your Croft fix over coming months - and I’m inclined to say that the Lara who’s getting all the attention won’t be the one everyone ends up loving.īack in 2010 (yes, it’s really been that long) Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light proved to be a dark horse hit. Yet while folks were sending angry tweets and probably burning copies of the original Tomb Raider, I was sitting in a small room in the press area playing, and loving, Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris. It was at gamescom this year that Microsoft announced that Rise of the Tomb Raider will be a timed Xbox exclusive (plus, for a while it seemed as though it was an outright exclusive), bringing the reboot sequel to the centre of the gaming community. Lara’s been getting all the attention as of late, but arguably it’s all for the wrong reasons. Sometimes, life just isn’t fair - even for a videogame. In co-op stat boosts and new weapons are shared between members of the group.// Previews // 31st Aug 2014 - 9 years ago // By Ryan Davies Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris Gamescom Preview These can be spent on one of two treasure chests to receive items that mainly affect combat and enhance weapons, but there there are also items that transfer enemy damage to your health.
Puzzle elements including pushing orbs to destroy switches and Lara can also rappel down walls using a grappling hook. There are also five challenge tombs with a higher difficulty and wave-based battle sequences, accessed from a main world hub. The main story offers nine tombs to explore, each introducing a new mechanic such as avoiding spikes, lighting torches to power gates or using beams of the staff to destroy orbs. Weapons include machine-gun pistols, a magic staff, a rocket launcher, and a high-powered rifle.
When playing together, the level lay-outs change to support cooperative actions. They need to work together in a platform environment to explore the temple, defeat hordes of enemies from the Egyptian underworld, solve puzzles, and avoid traps, using a high-angle perspective like the previous game. The two-player cooperative campaign from the first game is expanded to support up to four players. As a team they are have to defeat the evil god Set. In Lara Croft's new journey she travels to Egypt and there she joins with the rival treasure hunter Carter Bell and the imprisoned gods Horus and Isis. Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris is the sequel to Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, and the second game in a spin-off from the main Tomb Raider series.
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