A very generous score, I'd have given it a B I think, as enjoyable as it is to play, it's still lacking in many areas. (tedious boss battles - AAARGH!!)

I hope the inevitable sequel, that the game's ending points to, has less gunplay and more of the puzzle solving and climbing/jumping in exotic locales that made the series great back in the day.

I found the boss battles to be much less frustrating than usual. If you go back and play the abomonation from the first game, now that was a tedious battle, with much falling off and just blasting away.

I won't go into specifics to avoid spoiling the game for those that haven't played it, or got to the bosses, but I found the battles in Legend quite good, some of them were inventive, but best of all they were usually quite short.


That is the main hope I have for the sequel too. It's really very illogical to have Lara fight her way through traps and hard to navigate rooms just to find a small army has been there before her and set up camp at the end of the level. The levels in Nepal and England handled this the best I though, Ghana and Bolivia the worst.

One thing, I'm sure we're all contemplating, is where are Shelley Blond, Judith Gibbins and Jonell Elliott now? IMDB tells us this...

Shelley Blond was in Episode 3.1 of Peep Show.

Judith Gibbins has only ever been in Tomb Raider (developer's cousin, anybody???)

Jonell Elliott has been in nothing since Tomb Raider.

As voice acting goes, being the "Voice of Lara Croft" seems to be as much of a career boost as being the "Face of Lara Croft" is for bimbo self-promotion girls.

yeah, man, how could I have forgotten that one.
actually, I think Legend was the first TR game were I never got to the point of throwing every expletive imaginable at Lara. That's got to be an improvement.

But isn't that what make it a Tomb Raider game? I'll miss those moments...