ICM8781

I'm trying to pinpoint exactly what happened with the Tomb Raider series and why there is so much loss for the series. I think it stared after 3. They stood on focus way too much on either gameplay or story. And it falls far short in one of those aspects ever since. Gameplay and story structure has advanced so much that I believe Eidos couldn't keep up. In Revalation (I played it for Dreamcast.) It was buggy and because of the gameplay it was sometimes frustrating during combat. But the story was interesting especially with a conflicted enemy instead of a pure evil one. Chronicals had absoluteely no plot until the very end and because of that it was difficult figure out what you were supposed to do. Angel of darkness, while I really did enjoy it, was criically bashed specifically for bothe story and gameplay. Even I have to admit they tried there hardest on the graphics, I enjoyed the story although the ending was a little out of left field and had nothing to do with the beginning. I will admit the gameplay was god awful had major buggs and faults in the console versions. The small success wit th there first next Gen Tomb Raider (which name eludes me) had them attempt to recreate the first and call it "anniversary" which wasn't updated enough even for my loyalty but I did enjoy it as a standard tombraider game. And most recently "Underworld" was not very recognized by critics and I didn't play due to a financial drag I wasn't able to play it. I'm interested in what a non-Eidos studio will do with the franchise Because of my financial situation I will trust what the critics will say. My loyalty has been jaded although I will take it into great consideration.