Statistics disagree!
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Metacritic 86 metascore based on 102 critics
Rise of the Tomb Raider - Metacritic 86 metascore based on 38 critics
I’d say I’d give it a 7.5 myself. Sooo much combat. So much.
My bias? Makeup? Flares? Ponytail?
I guess what really grinds me gears about this is that someone will show a static screenshot of the flare on Laras belt, then tsk loudly about the failure of feminism in gaming because the flare is clearly there to highlight her “assets”. Never mind that this static screenshot doesn’t represent actual gameplay, there are a ton of places where the flare is held in hand as you’d expect, the placement on the belt happens when she needs both hands free, she drops it on the ground when entering brightly lit areas…
But that’ll be blindly accepted as truth, because, who can bother to play the game and see beyond the narrative implied by some provocative text next to screenshot. Cue sad head shake. No. That would take, y’know, a few hours of gameplay.
At least a movie is the same exact experience for every viewer, every time they watch. Games don’t work that way.
