If there’s one factor higher than looting the artefacts of historic, forgotten civilisations for private acquire, it’s doing it with a pal. Today, the primary of seven deliberate DLC tombs for Shadow Of The Tomb Raider was launched. The Forge is a lava-filled, puzzle-heavy delve, and designed for play both solo or within the newly launched on-line co-op mode. Lara can now tag together with a pal and remedy issues in enjoyable tag-team methods, additional constructing on the back-to-basics tomb raiding method of the game. Below, Eidos Montreal exhibit a few of the quirks of multiplayer.
Despite the primary two games on this explicit Tomb Raider reboot trilogy increase an Uncharted-esque ‘lady rambo’ Lara, this DLC continues to construct on Shadow Of The Tomb Raider’s method. Less weapons and burying mining picks into skulls (perhaps she misunderstood ‘temple dig’), extra platforming and puzzling. From the sounds of the video under, that’s going to be the main focus for the whole run of DLC. Seven tombs, all designed for play both solo or in co-op. These new tombs are tied into the world via side-quests, and pay out in weapons and beauty fluff.
Still, I can’t assist however suppose that drip-feeding a significant new mode into the game over the course of the subsequent 12 months is an uncommon determination. I’ve but to choose up Shadow (not the hedgehog) for myself, and now I’m contemplating holding off till the entire thing is out there in a single go. Ideally so me and my different half can play co-op the entire means via, as a substitute of only one map each month or two. Season passes are unusual issues – initially a poor funding, however they’ll usually add as much as a really worthwhile package deal with just a little persistence, and a giant seasonal sale.
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider is out there on Steam and Humble for £45/€60/$60, with the season pass priced at £23/€30/$30. The Forge is available by itself for £3.75/€4.99/$4.99.
