User blog comment:TheBlueRogue/Vote for your favorite Lara Croft!/@comment-84.196.140.22-20130611221035/@comment-7061000-20130614151905

Tomb Raider games used to be all about having FUN. It was a  fantasy adventure starring a larger-than-life character in larger-than-lfe situations. It was sheer escapism.

Why is it that people think that 'dark' and 'gritty' = more entertaining all of a sudden? Not everything needs to be made more 'realistic'.

What Crystal Dynamics and Rhianna Pratchett have done is the equivalent of removing all the witty one-liners and over-the-top set pieces in an Indiana Jones movie, and replacing them with lots of crying and storylines about 'the power of friendship' (yawn).

The new Tomb Raider is basically an Uncharted clone, but with all the fun and charm sucked out of it.