But it no longer looked like a board game. Again, it took a complex thing and retooled it as a pure puzzler. The pieces looked like pieces from a physical board game. It was a spatial puzzler in which you had to work your way through levels, killing without being killed, understanding the rules and fitting inside them. Hitman Go looked a bit like a kind of Hitman Subbuteo. I want to talk about Lara Croft Go because it's wonderful.Ī while back Square-Enix started reworking some of its big budget games as these Go titles for mobiles. Yet it's also clearly a cheaper outing for a blockbuster series. It has a gimmick, but it also has a kind of Triple-A poise to it. Is Lara Croft Go a Double-A game? It's probably bending the concept a bit to say yes. But sometimes it's nice to stretch the meaning of Double-A just a little. We love these games, whole-heartedly and without irony. Psionic powers, or a big hammer, or doves. The kind of game where a shaven-headed character takes on generic baddies, armed with a gimmick of some kind. All three versions are priced at $4.99 in the US, £3.99 in the UK and AU$6.49 in Australia.The Double-A Team was formed with a certain kind of game in mind. Lara Croft Go is available immediately for Android, iOS and Windows. Sure, our intrepid adventurer can still plummet to her demise or end up on the wrong end of a snake, but here you're not shooting your way out - you're figuring it. Indeed, at long last, we have a Lara Croft for the thinking man. The controls require nothing more than swipes and taps, so you're not fighting against awkward onscreen d-pads and buttons like in other Tomb Raider outings. The graphics aren't super-detailed, but they're definitely pretty.
And like its Hitman counterpart, it's perfectly suited to mobile devices. To reveal much more would be to spoil the fun, but I will say Lara Croft Go consists of 40 increasingly challenging levels. The goal of each level? Make the right moves, in the right order, to reach your destination. Instead, she moves from square to square, not unlike in a board game. In other words, Lara doesn't move through an open-world environment.
(It's also a longtime resident of the best iPad games list.) Instead, Lara Croft Go relies on the same turn-based mechanics as Hitman Go - which, incidentally, recently made CNET's list of the best Android games. There's Lara in her signature blue tank-top and thigh holsters, making her way through jungles, caves and, of course, tombs.īut this isn't the run-and-gun action game you might be expecting. Love Tomb Raider games? How about Hitman Go? Good news for fans of one, the other or both: Lara Croft Go has arrived for Android and iOS, and it's splendid.Īt first blush you might mistake it for a port or remake of the original Tomb Raider.
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