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I'm a longtime fan and I disagree with this. The reason I haven't enjoyed a Tomb Raider since Revelations is exactly because they didn't try and evolve with the times (Underworld being one of the most obvious examples).

I've said for a while now that Uncharted is the kind of game Tomb Raider should have turned into a long time ago, and I'm happy to see them trying another direction.
Well you sir, are different than most of the long time Tomb Raider fans I know. They all seem to hate from The Angel of Darkness forward because they don't "feel like" the PS1 games, particularly due to the fact that there's no actual tomb raiding going on.

That's not to say that there aren't plenty of legitimate reasons to hate The Angel of Darkness, which I still believe delivered a mighty blow to the franchise in terms of cultural significance.

I also don't know what you mean when you say Underworld was behind the times. Care to elaborate?
I agree with your comment about AoD, the fact that it was the first Tomb Raider not on the PS1 also didn't help at all.

I'm not quite sure what these fans you know are talking about. Underworld is like a modern day version of what the old Tomb Raiders were like, puzzles, traps, tombs, treasure. They should play that.

You misunderstand, I don't mean Underworld was behind the times, I mean it didn't evolve. Underworld was exactly what Tomb Raider fans were asking for - the style of the old games for the modern era - and it didn't come across very well. It was as if the designers were out of ideas, rehashing the same ideas from the PS1 era doesn't work. We've seen it all before.

I'm not a fan of reboots by a long way, but I think it's the best thing that can happen to Tomb Raider. The fact that it's been in decline since Chronicles should prove that. I guess some fans just really miss the old era (don't get me wrong, I can still pick up TR2 today and rank it as one of my favourite games), but it's time to look forward and try a new direction, and if it really is like Uncharted, then it's a direction that's been proven to work.