If you don't mind..What do you think will be the game of the year?? I have yet to play Tomb Raider..The new one anyway.. What do you think will a game better than this??
Stop With The Tomb Raider Praise!
On 03/17/2013 at 09:10 PM by Blake Turner See More From This User » |
As is the norm at this time of year, a game that is slightly above average has everyone screaming out "GOTY!" and the like. They seem to forget that there is a whole year full of games, and if this piece of shit makes GOTY, we're in for a slow fucking year.
One of the main praises for this game is that it has a strong female lead. Sure, if you count a completely psychotic sex symbol as strong, then you're absolutely right. However, Lara is seriously not a good role model, nor is she an accomplishment of feminism. For starters, the only thing that seperates her from Nathan Drake is that she screams a lot more, and is a lot more scared than the big male action heroes who don't need to cry. I mean, outside of crying and screaming and being in an incredible amount of pain, she barely has a character. We're supposed to believe that she's gone through this huge transformation by the end because she can shoot people without crying, but she did that at the start of the game. She killed a dude who was getting frisky with her and started crying over it, only to start killing off his friends with the precision of Lee Harvey Oswald. SHE DOESN'T EVEN WINCE! I mean this bitch is completely psychotic. After she gets upset over killing a moose, she kills about a thousand animals for what is basically the game's currency. So not only is she a psychotic bitch, she's also an avid hater of anything that isn't human.
Oh, and she's still a sex symbol, the game is just less subtle about it. They seem to use every excuse keep her wet so that top clings to her skin as tightly as possible, everytime she walks through a narrow passage we get a lovely closeup of her ass, and I've counted at least 7 times where a camera has given us a look down her cleavage in a cutscene.
This is without mentioning that the first hour and a half holds your fucking hand more than the first 20 hours of FFXIII. At least that game let me walk for more than 5 seconds before interrupting me with a cutscene. And in the first 3 hours of this game, I swear to god there were more quick time events than the entire of Resident Evil 6. To take someone out silently you have to do a quicktime event. What's fucking silent about smashing the keys a million times per second?
Anyway, I'll concede that this is a decent game, but it's hardly brilliant, or mindblowing. It's definitely not game of the year material, that's for damn sure.
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