I Was Too Hard on Shadow of the Tomb Raider

Alex Rowe
4 min readApr 17, 2024
Lara Croft approaches a shiny gem she probably shouldn’t touch in Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
PC screenshot taken by the author.

When Shadow of the Tomb Raider first launched back in 2018, I had a hard time mustering much interest in it.

It wasn’t developed by the series’ long time caretakers at Crystal Dynamics, instead handed off to the Deus Ex team at Eidos Montreal. It didn’t have a script written by Rhianna Pratchett, meaning that its story took a much different direction than the last chapter in the planned…

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Alex Rowe

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