Pros & Cons
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- Smart, elegant 3D spatial puzzles.
- Captures the feel of big-budget Tomb Raider games.
- Smooth animations and an intriguing abstract art style.
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- Short.
- Reuses gameplay ideas.
- Less conceptually ambitious than its spiritual predecessor.
Lara Croft Go (for iOS) Specs
| Product Category | iPad Apps |
| Product Category | Mobile Games |
| Product Price Type | Direct |
If your best memories of the Tomb Raider franchise involve traveling the world and having over-the-top adventures as stylish archeologist/action heroine Lara Croft, then the recent Rise of the Tomb Raider is the game you're looking for. But that excellent AAA console blockbuster only slowly reintroduces the puzzle-solving gameplay of actually raiding tombs. The $2.99 Lara Croft GO is the superior alternative if you prefer Lara's brains over her brawn. This iPad game successfully shrinks the core tenets of the Tomb Raider series down into an elegant and cerebral mobile puzzle game.
Small Wonders of the Ancient World
Instead of using the (somewhat) open-world format of recent Tomb Raider games, Lara Croft GO is a series of one-off puzzle rooms. Challenges appear as chapters in a book, with titles that give some clue about their themes. Expect to face lots of snakes in "The Maze of Snakes." Hopefully, you'll be braver than the whip-cracking icon who inspired this whole franchise. Aside from collecting and admiring optional treasure fragments, there's little reason to return to puzzles once you complete them. And with only a handful of puzzles in each of the five books, Lara Croft GO breezes by, even with the recent free expansion pack.
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Lara Croft GO (for iPad)
Lara Croft GO successfully shrinks down the action-packed globe-trotting of the Tomb Raider series into a cerebral mobile puzzle game.