Retro Recommendation: Tomb Raider 2 (1997)

Game: Tomb Raider 2
Year: 1997
Platform:Playstation


I recently started to play this again, because I'm making video longplay for www.longplays.org and must say this game still, kicks ass. Even thou it's old and not so good-looking anymore, in fact now I see how this old games have ''old'' graphic, those never beautiful games are so realistic comparing to this, but nevertheless old games are also great, especially something like tomb raider 2. Graphic is good for 1997, that was the beginning of playstation era, world was crazy about new gaming console that reads cds, and following the success of  Tomb Raider came Tomb Raider 2, I remember when I first saw commercial for this I was still primary school, that was a long time ago. Anyway away with jabbering, this game is still awesome and entertaining. Main plot is that Lara is looking for a new artifact, this time it's called ''The Dagger of Xian'' from China. It was used by emperor of China to command his army. Legends says that person who pierces his heart with it, is granted with a strength and power of a dragon, that alone is worth finding it, isn't it. In the intro movie we also learn that monks have retrieved back the dagger and placed it back in the catacombs beneath the Great Wall of China. Well our heroine is on the quest to find this remarkable artifact, and of course we have villains also. Evil clan from Venice is also after it. They follow man called Marco Bartoli who is obsessed with dagger and wants to find it at all costs. Lara's travels will take her on the long journey, from Venice where she finds hideout of evil clan to merchant ship wreck 40 fathoms under the sea where she needs to find another artifact called the Seraph that unlocks catacombs beneath monastery in Tibet. In those catacombs is located key that opens Temple of Xian, deep under the Great Wall of China where dagger lies and awaits its new owner. I won't spoil the whole story for you if you haven't played it yet, i deeply recommend that you do, it's an awesome game, and well worth playing. So blow the dust of your playstations and play some good old TR. It has everything, beautiful heroine, plenty of action, great storyline, what more could you ask for.