Tomb Raider - Underworld may dazzle you with its stunning visuals, but as soon as you dive into the gameplay, the flaws become glaringly obvious.

The platforming is definitely the biggest letdown. Lara’s jumps often feel hit-or-miss, turning what should be straightforward navigation into a risky endeavor. There are so many instances where she should easily grab onto a ledge, yet she just slips right by it for no apparent reason. And then there are those moments when she seems to stick to surfaces you weren’t even aiming for. It’s less about a challenge and more about a broken ledge detection system

The controls don’t do the game any favors either. Movements can feel rigid and a bit sluggish, which is a nightmare in a game that relies heavily on precise jumping. Instead of mastering the environment, you find yourself battling the mechanics. Dying over and over because the game doesn’t register a grab isn’t a test of skill - it’s just bad design

To make matters worse, camera issues can really throw a wrench in things. Tight spaces and sudden shifts in angle can ruin jumps that should be a breeze. When the camera feels like an enemy in a game that’s all about platforming, frustration is bound to set in

Underworld had big dreams, but dreams alone won’t cut it. Beneath those impressive graphics lies a clunky, unreliable gameplay system that turns exploration into a chore rather than an adventure.

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all this $hit on pc and console version
first and last time i play this $hit

çokii

old classic

used to get stuck on puzzles when i was a kid
now i finished this game on one weekend

Every single puzzle has a bug; the stone blocks that you have to put on platforms and those rings you have to pull to make statue fall, NONE OF THEM WORK PROPERLY. I get that it's an old game and it sells for cheap but I can't even continue with the story half the time. I have to find some tutorial on how to cheat the game online, what's the point of playing at all...

While I'm nowhere near done with the game, it rocks. It's the pinnacle of 2000's gaming, it oozes a style that's been lost for a while now, and the detail still holds up even just a hair shy of two decades after the game came out.

With that being said, as enjoyable as the game is, there are MASSIVE glaring issues. Performance is shotty, the controls are fidgety, and it's a trial to even get past the first puzzle due to issues with the physics engine and a God-awful stutter that are made ten times worse if you have AMD hardware. You *can* remedy this by enabling vsync, turning off shadows, and enabling 2x AA, but this doesn't entirely eliminate the issue. It's a shame because this is the best looking and best playing Tomb Raider from before the 2013 game came out.

If you can find mods to fix these issues, go ahead. But in my honest opinion, there's no reason that a game should be left horribly unoptimized like this.

Good game, runs horribly. Stutters and frame drops in abundance.

No doubt one of the best Tomb Raider game in the series, with graphic that still look great today. On Steam Deck it runs perfectly with very low TDP and the battery lasts a long time. The only problem is that the in-game graphics settings cause the game to freeze, and to change them you will need to use the external setup (-setup in launch options) when starting the game.

Super good game, Lara is at her peak / prime in this. It really does needs some bug patches to play more smooth though because it glitches a lot, freezes/cuts some of the cutscenes, & gameplay. I wish & pray Crystal Dynamics would remaster this, anniversary, & legend so bad to play them all on PS5.