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Tell a Friend. The player controls Lara as she explores thirty-one levels, manoeuvring carefully across traps and solving puzzles to progress. Lara's new moves include a back-flip, a small hop, stealth, army-crawling, rolling out of the crouch position, hand-to-hand combat and the 'super-jump' that can be performed whilst sprinting. Ever dreamed of being the head of a huge business or megacorporation? In Syndicate, you get to do just that.

There's only one problem: This is the future, and in the future big business means takeovers! Not just on the corporate level either, I'm talking complete worldwide domination!

With the latest technology on your side, set out on a mission to over-rule the other syndicates by equipping special half-human half-android agents with modifications and high-power weaponry to take care of your dirty work while you sit back and collect all the revenue.

Most of the features have been ported over pretty well, but I found myself spending more time figuring out the controls than actually playing. If you're new to the game, you won't be missing a thing! On the other hand, the only drawback in the game is the graphics.

Not the quality, but the size. Probably you've heard that it's complete rubbish, with more bugs than hot Texas roadkill and a control system straight out of Satan's arse-crack. In some ways this is not far from the truth - there are some heinous problems, but the backlash is way out of proportion with the true situation.

In fact, I'm going to go on record right now and say it: Angel Of Darkness is not a disaster. I So if you haven't played the game yet, forget everything you've been told. It's not as bad as you might have been led to believe. For a start, let me just remind you what we're dealing with here.

This is Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. This is no flash in the pan marsupial action hero, we're talking about the world's most recognised gaming character well, one of the top ten anyway.

That means big budget, big production values and big expectations. And from the moment you start up the game, you can see where a lot of the money has gone - the cinematics are lavish, the voiceacting superior, the soundtrack equal to any Hollywood blockbuster. The graphics are not mind-blowing perhaps, but the architecture is well put together and everything animates smoothly. The storyline too is better than most. The game opens with Lara on the run from the cops in the back streets of Paris, accused of killing her former mentor and not so sure she didn't actually do it.

A search for the truth soon evolves into a hunt for some mysterious paintings, taking Lara through the Paris sewers, the Louvre, an ancient underground temple, Prague and eventually to the sprawling lair of a powerful underground sect. The plot bounces along nicely and there's a few twists and turns in there, though it inevitably resorts to the same old adventure-game cliches, trotting out the Knights Templar, the bible and at least one alchemic doomsday device.

However, posh production values do not a game make, and within seconds of the actual gameplay commencing it's apparent something is horribly amiss.

Lara is standing a bit funny. She's so stiff and stilted, with her feet too far apart, surely they've accidentally left the Lara from Tomb Raider 2 in the game..

Alas no, this is the 'new' Lara - she still walks like a cowboy and crawls like she's auditioning for Butt Pirates 6. A few minutes later, however, after a bit of bog-standard climbing, jumping and searching through cupboards, and it's clear this is no laughing matter. Lara doesn't just look awkward, she handles like a boat. It's a sluggish, unresponsive control system and one that seems incredibly dated, especially after the likes of Splinter Cell has raised the bar for third-person action on the PC.

When I reviewed that game, I recall describing a sequence of moves to try and convey how fluid and intuitive the game was, something along the lines of: "sneak a little, shoot out the lights, shimmy, shimmy, zipline, rappel Back up a step, hit action button - Oh My God I managed to pick up a chocolate bar!

Whether by accident or design, the opening portion of the game has a more adventure-weighted feel than anything Lara has done before, with a lot more talking to the denizens of Paris and traipsing backwards and forwards than pushing blocks or shooting bears.

Once the game gets into full swing, however, it's classic Tomb Raider action. Running, swinging, climbing, swimming, exploring - and dying over and over again trying to time a tricky jump though luckily there's no limits on saving. While you're forced to wrestle with the interface throughout and dying because of it more often than not , there are good sequences as well as bad.

The Louvre level in particular is great fun -jumping over and shimmying under a network of laser tripwires before getting trigger happy on a bunch of innocent night watchmen, while the diabolical series of puzzles in the Chamber of Seasons is classic precision-platforming fare.

In between these occasional high points however, are some of the most tiresome sequences ever seen in a Tomb Raider game. A boss battle about halfway through the game must rank as one of the worst ever conceived, while the Prague levels are so banal they were obviously thrown in halffinished. Quality Assurance was clearly not foremost on the publishers' minds. The new additions to Lara's repertoire are also of questionable value. Take the supposed stealth elements.

Lara can now creep along walls like Solid Snake and move quietly while in 'stealth mode'. Unfortunately, the non-existent enemy Al makes such behaviour almost completely pointless, and the only real stealth moments involve edging past the occasional security camera.

Likewise, the mooted RPG -style character development. One minute you can't move a block because it's too heavy, the next minute you can because you pushed the block next to it and made Lara stronger - it's completely scripted and adds little to the experience.

The second playable character, Kurtis Trent, is also a bit of a non-event. You don't get to play as him until the game is practically over, when he turns up to replace Lara for three levels. He also — plays virtually identically to Lara, so any potential novelty is purely cosmetic.

Clearly, The Angel Of Darkness has its fair share of problems. It's unfinished, unpolished and unadventurous. Chances are it'll be remembered chiefly as one of the buggiest games ever released. See also Embarrassment Of Glitches panel. However, it is still Tomb Raider, with all the sporadic charm, frustration and classic 3D action that entails. There are some excellent moments in the game, if you can wade through the shit required to get to them, and while the interface is very dated, Lara enthusiasts will be more than happy to fumble awkwardly with her one more time.

Especially once the new nude patch comes along. There's no two ways about it: Angel Of Darkness is not a finished game, and has so many bugs and glitches you'll give up counting after a while. Some of our particular favourites include the invisible shotgun - it's there on your back, but not in your hands! The sudden instant death room - where you drop dead for no apparent reason, and the maddening mouse reversal mystery - which arbitrarily inverts the X-axis on your mouse as if the interface wasn't enough of a struggle.

Then there's the bits that can't really be classed as bugs, but where Core has desperately painted over the cracks in the rush to get the game on shelves. One of our favourites is a level in which some moody music from an early sewer level has been reused, complete with spooky lapping water sounds - despite the fact that you're in a very dry second floor apartment. Needless to say, the patches are coming thick and fast, but we fear the damage has already been done.

Unless You've been lurking under a bush somewhere in deepest Norrath for the past month or so, chances are you've already heard there's a new Lara game on the way. What's more, your Mum probably has too. Not because it's the biggest game on the calendar or even the most exciting, just because the mainstream media has decided it's still newsworthy, especially if you can tie it in with a few buffed up shots of the latest real-life Ms Croft.

A suitably non-numerical and Hollywood-friendly mouthful to underline Lara's next-gen superstar status. And it is the next step really, the one we've been waiting for, when Lara finally stops spiralling into sequel hell and gives back some of the loving her fans have lavished on her through countless cross-platform iterations and one distinctly forgettable film.

Luckily, Core seems to be taking its responsibility seriously this time, rethinking both the gameplay and atmosphere of its flagship franchise at a fairly fundamental level, as well as restyling Lara herself.

The results, while a tad predictable, are undeniably appealing. First of all, the new Lara. Back from a scrape with death, feeling bitter and betrayed, this is a darker and more complex Ms Croft. No longer the blithe young adventuress with a plum in her mouth and a broomstick up her arse, the New Dark Lara NDL has no truck with green spandex, block puzzles or even tomb raiding. She's on the run from the law for a murder she didn't commit, and from an ancient and mysterious evil force just for being so goddamn nosy.

While NDL promises all the agility of old and probably more , new directions in gameplay promise to give you a degree of control over her mind as well as her body. That is, you'll be able to guide her through conversations with NPCs, choosing a temperament from three possibilities along the lines of friendly, cool or dismissive.

A number of highly evolved characters are promised for Lara to interact with, and decisions made in dealing with them - often involving tough moral choices -will genuinely affect the direction of the game. While currently being played down in order to keep all eyes on Lara, the other major new feature is the introduction of a second playable characer, hardened adventurer Kurtis Trent.

How the character switching will work remains unclear, but the possibility of a two-player co-operative mode is all too apparent. What we do know is that together they will pursue sinister art collector Eckhardt through the back streets and subterranean realms of three massive cities, including Paris and Prague.

In the process they will run into all sorts of trouble with mystic secrets and ancient conspiracies, and no doubt end up shagging. Either that or Kurtis will get his own spin-off series and Lara will do a karting game. Expect a full preview soon. Successfully changing an established formula takes time, and, as Development Director Adrian Smith told us back in late January, this ain't the same old Tomb Raider.

We are simply making sure all of the bits work well together. At this point in the development process, we are not working on design or adding any new game mechanics, but rather polishing the game. It's entirely possible that the new Raider will make its April release date and be in stores by the time you read this.

But two things make us wonder: 1 We didn't receive a review copy in time for this issue, as we usually would have for an April release. This could mean publisher Eidos isn't confident enough to want reviews out before the game itself hits shelves, or it could mean another delay rumors of yet another delay are afoot as we speak ; and 2 Eidos refused to comment for this story.

It's very difficult to give an opinion of a game when it stands in the shadows of a cross-platform big brother, but Syndicate for the Super NES succeeds when it comes to being a great game.

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