| Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness | 
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| From: Eidos Interactive
Category: Video Games
List Price: $19.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  98 reviews
Sales Rank: 7054
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows Xp, Windows 95
ESRB: Teen
Media: CD-ROM
Age: 12 - 20 years
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.3 x 5.3 x 0.6
Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.
MPN: STOADPUS00
Model: STOADPUS00
UPC: 788687100090
EAN: 0788687100090
ASIN: B000068VC6
Release Date: June 30, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 Don't bother September 19, 2004
This game was nothing but glitchy on my PC. I have no problem with a dozen or so other games from other companies (including Deus Ex 2, also from Eidos), but this one is a turkey. It's glitchy, the controls are too clunky, and whenever I exited the game my PC restarted. The built-in EAX support didn't work with my Sound Blaster Audigy 2 (which uses the EAX 4 drivers), I had to install the EAX 3 drivers that came with the game, which was essentially a downgrade for me.
On the other hand, this game looks great and when the sound worked it was terrific. The story is pretty cool, and I was looking forward to see how it played out. The cutscenes were good, and I felt like it was as much an interactive movie as it was a game.
Unfortunately, I couldn't take the bugginess, so I didn't finish the game. Avoid this one and spend your money on one of the earlier Tomb Raider titles.
 Best Tomb Raider ever! September 2, 2004
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
When I first got this game I was disapointed. Both with the grafics and the game play. But I got a new grafics card and it looked amazing! I had no idea that a small update would make it look so good! And the controls are confusing at first, but within an hour they're almost second nature. The story is very involving, and the characters are cool. The enimy in this TR is a perfect villian! The levels are well detailed, and I only got stuck twice in the game through the whole time I played it. But I was able to get past those hard spots in the levels.
The music is awesome in this game, it even has a sound track!
This, the first tomb Raider (Classic) and the fourth tomb raider are the best. But TR6 is probibly THE best tomb raider ever! It's very fun! The grafics reminded me of Enter The Matrix, but the cutsceens in tomb raider are much better. And some levels reminded me a bit of Resident Evil. I think that any fan and non-Tomb raider fan, should get this game!!! It's awesome!!!! :D
There are ups and downs to this game. You decide:
Glitchs/bugs that you'll find: If you don't find bugs in games a problem then you'll be able to play this game and be happy with it. If bugs bother you alot avoid this game.
Diffrent computers will handle this game in diffrent ways. You'll probibly get at least one or more of the following when you play:
-Some times you fall through the world, this mainly happens in Paris.
-when you turn around really quick or get too close to the camera you'll see a flash of the inside of Lara's head (Or if your playing Kurtis the same thing will happen).
- When in Prague sometimes Lara's leg or hips will strech and dissapear in some angles. This only happens a few times.
- As Kurtis you have one gun, but when you punch sometimes his glave will flash into his hands for about 2 seconds. But you can never use it.
- The sound effect for the shot gun won't work. (Patch will fix this)
- The FMV's disapears.
Frusterating things:
-You have to have goofy power ups. Basicly Lara is not strong enough to do much anything, so she'll move a box and say her chessy one liner "I feel stronger now". After that she can open a door or something.
-Some area's are hard to get past, like trying to take the painting out of a statues's hand while being attacked endlessly. It took me 5 hours to get past that and I've only gotten it to work once.
-Another chessy thing is that you often have to fight two bosses in a row. Boaz mutant 2 and then right after that Boaz mutant 3. And the dumb thing about that is you're character get's stabed and you just leave him there and got back to Lara. Fighting two more bosses in a row happens again at the end of TR6 too.
The really cool things:
-The story line is involving and you get sucked into it and want to find out more.
- The lip sync is perfect.
- It can be emotionaly grabing at times, very cinimatic. It's like playing a movie!
-The motion it great, some games they don't look right when they walk. This game has great motion.
-Characters are good, Lara and Kurtis are the main two, and the bad guys a really evil and you want to defeat them.
- The textures and the whole world you play in looks beyond awesome. Great lighting too.
- Good gameplay and fun.
EXCELLENT! July 13, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness is one of my favorites. The plot is very interesting, the graphics are good (but kind of shakey, at least on my computer), and it's pretty cool to be able to play another character (although Lara is always the best). The environment is very dark and grimacing though, and I find that if I play the game to much, I get a little depressed. It's still one of the best, though, and an awesome addition to the Tomb Raider series.
old tomb raider new game July 5, 2004
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
first off dont get me wrong i love this game but in most of the tomb raider games you get two pistols with infinite ammo you never get those guns in AOD that is the first thing the controls are way different than any other TR game and for two or three levels you play as a guy that really set me off the great thing about other TR games is its not like every othor steriotypical video game you play as a girl thats cool well i think if your gonna buy a TR game buy a game thats like 75 cents and is a classic iinstead of a $30$ game that is gonna ruin the series
Absolutely awful controls! DO NOT BUY July 5, 2004
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I am a huge fan of the Tomb Raider series, and have played all five other games on my PC. I love them. I was so excited to get this one, and sooooo disappointed with the quality. Glitchy glitchy glitchy. Do not buy this game. The controls are terrible. While all other 5 games play out smoothly, this one is slow, stalls, goes blank some times, and takes minutes to load to new chapters. Now I don't have a fancy schmancy computer, but I have been able to play all the other games on it just fine without any hitch. This is just crap. It makes me feel like I have to go buy a $2000 computer just to be able to play this $30 game! It probably runs better on a PS 2, so if you have one of those don't bother with the PC version. Thanks a lot Eidos, I totally wasted time and money and am warning future buyers to BEWARE!
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