The cheapest pre-order price around from a trusted seller at the moment.
Release date: 29/01/2016
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In the critically acclaimed Tomb Raider, Lara Croft survived a harrowing experience only to be discredited as part of a cover up. Now, after uncovering an ancient mystery, Lara must explore the most treacherous and remote regions of Siberia to find the secret of immortality before a ruthless organization known as Trinity. Lara must use her wits and survival skills, form new alliances, and ultimately embrace her destiny as the
Tomb Raider.Experience high-octane action moments, conquer beautifully hostile environments, engage in brutal guerrilla combat, and explore awe-inspiring deadly tombs in the evolution of survival action. In Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara becomes more than a survivor as she embarks on her first great Tomb Raiding expedition.
Awe-Inspiring Deadly Tombs - Explore huge ancient spaces littered with deadly traps, solve dramatic environmental puzzles, and decipher ancient texts to reveal crypts as you take on a world filled with secrets to discover
Woman vs. Wild - Conquer a world fiercely protecting its secrets, endure perilous conditions and unstable landscapes, face dangerous wildlife that act as guardians to ancient tombs, and explore huge interactive environments
Guerrilla Combat - Use the environment to your advantage, scale trees and dive underwater to avoid or takedown enemies, configure Lara's gear, weapons, and ammo to suit your play style, craft explosives on the fly to sow chaos, and wield Lara's signature
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someguy003
8 Jan 165#1
Nice...price coming down!. But I won't buy until it's a £10 or less game cos I'm tight.
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someguy003
8 Jan 165#1
Nice...price coming down!. But I won't buy until it's a £10 or less game cos I'm tight.
Ag2014
8 Jan 16#2
£21.84 on CDKeys with 5% Facebook Discount. CDKeys
Spark to Ag2014
8 Jan 16#7
A lot of people don't like that website (I've had no problems with them personally) and their 5% off Facebook app seems to be getting more and more complicated these days.
adam0812
8 Jan 16#3
really looking forward to this, loved the first one, the uncharted style romp is much more fun than the style of the original games IMO. First game was crazy well optimized as well so fingers crossed this is too.
Spark to adam0812
8 Jan 16#4
I've played the XB1 version and don't think it's anywhere near as good as the 2013 one unfortunately.
adam0812
8 Jan 16#5
that's ok, £20 for 10 hours of michael bay-esque action sequences should whet my appetite.
Spark
8 Jan 16#6
The XB1 version seems to have a lot of technical issues as well to be fair. It took me 5 minutes to get a quicktime/special option to appear so that I could cut a rope on it last week. I needed to cut that rope to finish a puzzle so the game effectively trapped me.
Moonky
8 Jan 161#8
I imagine this is going to drop quite a bit due to the Nvidia promo going on, great price though and I'm looking forward to the game so I'll give it heat :smiley:
I played the 360 version and thought it was better than the 2013 game, albeit slightly and that seems to be the general consensus from the critics
Spark
8 Jan 16#11
I wouldn't touch the 360 version with a 50ft pole personally but I don't know how people could have thought that this was better than the 2013 game. They're actually very similar but this one seems to have more technical issues and I've personally found the story to be a lot less interesting.
Stokeymad08
8 Jan 16#12
The key word in there is 'personally'. It's obviously proved a successful game, IGN raves about it, 86 Metascore, and most reviews say how it is a successful sequel to it's predecessor. It's IGN and Metascore is actually higher than that of 2013's.
I'm currently playing 2013 on PC, and I cannot wait for Rise on PC. Heat added to this deal.
powerbrick
8 Jan 16#13
How would you touch something with a 50ft pole? You would have to be incredibly strong to wield such a pole.
Richard27
8 Jan 16#14
its looks great on the xbox 360 considering the 10 plus year hardware its on, the port was outsourced and whoever did it did a great job, read the eurogamer digital foundry tech analysis of it, from a graphics output to hardware ratio perspective it really is impresssive
Spark
8 Jan 16#15
It's an aluminium pole so it's quite light.
Spark
8 Jan 16#16
IGN rave about CoD every year so I wouldn't read too much into anything that they say tbh.
reddragon105
8 Jan 16#17
Never had a problem with the site or getting the 5% code from Facebook (you have to be logged in, as it's a personal code, but that's no big deal). In fact I've had more problems with Simply - some worryingly long wait times and occasionally orders haven't come through at all and I've had to cancel and re-order, although sometimes the game was then out of stock and I've missed out.
That said, I do trust both sites and would happily buy from either. But this game is £20.99 on CD Keys so presumably £19.95 with the code so personally I'd go with them and save the £2.
Looking forward to the game though! Really enjoyed the last one and this looks even better. Still got Fallout 4 to finish and a ton of games from the winter sale and I'm still considering pre-ordering this!
mikethatcher
8 Jan 16#18
£21.26 on instant gaming ;-)
SpudUK to mikethatcher
9 Jan 16#20
Instantgaming are not an authorised seller.
Spark
9 Jan 16#19
It goes up to £22.99 when you add it to the basket on CDK or at least it was doing that this morning anyway.
Crustybeaver
9 Jan 16#21
It's a problem I've learnt to live with, although going to the toilet is challenging as its difficult keeping it out of the water.
mupet0001
9 Jan 161#22
Stop pre-ordering games guys, please! If it's a shoddy port, you will regret pre-ordering it.
Spark to mupet0001
10 Jan 16#23
Don't bring that pre-pubescent YouTuber nonsense here. I'll decide what I do with my own money thanks.
Adexus
14 Jan 16#24
I really enjoyed the first but I found the characters and story incredibly lacking and I thought Rise improved upon that a lot while having larger environments to explore, more tombs, more options for taking down enemies, I thought it was much much better than the first to be honest, it did have a few framerate drops on the XBO version for me but that was about all the issues I had with it.
Waiting to see what the PC version will be like before buying that version though.
Smoking173850
15 Jan 16#25
He had got a point as pre ordering is damaging for the industry.
If u get payed a large % of the total sales upfront then what incentive is there to finish the game.
I remember back in the day when games where fully finished and put on tape, cartridges, cd , DVD and blu Ray. Christ I remember when we use to type 8 pages of programming code from magazines to get games before tapes. I'm getting old :disappointed:
Spark
15 Jan 16#26
Regardless, I feel that it should be up to people to decide what to spend their money on and how to spend it. I often pre-order PC games especially because there is an element of risk and pre-orders can therefore be cheaper than buying the game at launch.
Occasionally that has come back to bite me in the **** (*cough* Arkham Knight) but most of the time things work out OK and as a working adult I can afford to take that risk anyway.
What I don't like are hordes of YouTube and Twitch idiots telling me how to spend my money and using a few bad apple publishers as a way to market their own crappy channels and twitter feeds.
Spark
15 Jan 16#27
I think I personally preferred how the first one was more narrative driven and controlled in an Uncharted/Last of Us or interactive movie-style of design whereas this game is more open-world and there are enough games like that out already (and a lot of others like GTA V do open-world much better).
Smoking173850
15 Jan 16#28
You are totally right it is your money and u can spend how u please. I was just saying he had a point that pre ordering does damage the industry as I have lived in a time before preordering so have witnessed it. I understand it's cheaper it's just these greedy publishers know all the marketing tricks as they have had about 30 years experience. But yeah it's your money so do as u please because I know I will haha
Adexus
15 Jan 161#29
Yeah I can definitely see that, I'm eager to play some more linear games for sure, far too many that are open world.
It's partly why I loved playing through The Order 1886 so much last year, it was so refreshing to play a linear game.
Spark
15 Jan 16#30
I'm someone who prefers linear games these days if I'm honest. A lot of open-world games tend to be quite empty and are just a way for developers to make a virtual sandbox and essentially leave the player to make a game for themselves (e.g. Just Cause). I've also found that this game suffers from Assassin's Creed syndrome, where it's constantly trying to distract you from the main questline with mundane tasks like hunting, area clearing and fetch quests.
All in all, I much preferred the 2013 game but that's just my opinion. I finished that one in a weekend because I could barely put it down whereas I've had this one since November and still haven't finished it.
Spark
15 Jan 16#31
It depends on how you look at it. What marketing departments want you to do is order full price from somewhere like Game, ShopTo or Amazon and in return for your risk and investment they will give you a free in-game hat.
If that's what you mean by pre-orders then yeah, sod that. My route is to pre-order cheap from an online seller like CDKeys who have access to a bunch of cheap copies and offer a financial incentive for getting in before the game comes out. Through that I've managed to get games before release for around £10. If you go to the same website on release weekend then you will be paying at least double that.
Case in point, key websites are currently selling The Divison for around £20 or less. Check again on March 8th and you will probably be looking at prices of around £30, regardless of how the review scores turn out.
Adexus
15 Jan 16#32
Can't disagree with that! I think Rise struck a balance between open and linear that just worked for me.
Same with The Division alpha that I played last month, it had a really nice balance of open and linear and I absolutely loved it so I suppose it just depends on how well the open world is designed for me.
Smoking173850
15 Jan 16#33
Does any 1 have a cd keys code please as it won't work for me when I like logged in. Thanks
Smoking173850
15 Jan 16#34
Don't worry already got 1 thanks to any one who was trying
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Release date: 29/01/2016
This site offers Quidco/TCB as well if you want to save a little extra.
In the critically acclaimed Tomb Raider, Lara Croft survived a harrowing experience only to be discredited as part of a cover up. Now, after uncovering an ancient mystery, Lara must explore the most treacherous and remote regions of Siberia to find the secret of immortality before a ruthless organization known as Trinity. Lara must use her wits and survival skills, form new alliances, and ultimately embrace her destiny as the
Tomb Raider.Experience high-octane action moments, conquer beautifully hostile environments, engage in brutal guerrilla combat, and explore awe-inspiring deadly tombs in the evolution of survival action. In Rise of the Tomb Raider, Lara becomes more than a survivor as she embarks on her first great Tomb Raiding expedition.
Awe-Inspiring Deadly Tombs - Explore huge ancient spaces littered with deadly traps, solve dramatic environmental puzzles, and decipher ancient texts to reveal crypts as you take on a world filled with secrets to discover
Woman vs. Wild - Conquer a world fiercely protecting its secrets, endure perilous conditions and unstable landscapes, face dangerous wildlife that act as guardians to ancient tombs, and explore huge interactive environments
Guerrilla Combat - Use the environment to your advantage, scale trees and dive underwater to avoid or takedown enemies, configure Lara's gear, weapons, and ammo to suit your play style, craft explosives on the fly to sow chaos, and wield Lara's signature
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I'm currently playing 2013 on PC, and I cannot wait for Rise on PC. Heat added to this deal.
That said, I do trust both sites and would happily buy from either. But this game is £20.99 on CD Keys so presumably £19.95 with the code so personally I'd go with them and save the £2.
Looking forward to the game though! Really enjoyed the last one and this looks even better. Still got Fallout 4 to finish and a ton of games from the winter sale and I'm still considering pre-ordering this!
Waiting to see what the PC version will be like before buying that version though.
If u get payed a large % of the total sales upfront then what incentive is there to finish the game.
I remember back in the day when games where fully finished and put on tape, cartridges, cd , DVD and blu Ray. Christ I remember when we use to type 8 pages of programming code from magazines to get games before tapes. I'm getting old :disappointed:
Occasionally that has come back to bite me in the **** (*cough* Arkham Knight) but most of the time things work out OK and as a working adult I can afford to take that risk anyway.
What I don't like are hordes of YouTube and Twitch idiots telling me how to spend my money and using a few bad apple publishers as a way to market their own crappy channels and twitter feeds.
It's partly why I loved playing through The Order 1886 so much last year, it was so refreshing to play a linear game.
All in all, I much preferred the 2013 game but that's just my opinion. I finished that one in a weekend because I could barely put it down whereas I've had this one since November and still haven't finished it.
If that's what you mean by pre-orders then yeah, sod that. My route is to pre-order cheap from an online seller like CDKeys who have access to a bunch of cheap copies and offer a financial incentive for getting in before the game comes out. Through that I've managed to get games before release for around £10. If you go to the same website on release weekend then you will be paying at least double that.
Case in point, key websites are currently selling The Divison for around £20 or less. Check again on March 8th and you will probably be looking at prices of around £30, regardless of how the review scores turn out.
Same with The Division alpha that I played last month, it had a really nice balance of open and linear and I absolutely loved it so I suppose it just depends on how well the open world is designed for me.