Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Grand Caiman
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Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Grand Caiman is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 29 March 2019 on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia and Linux.
What Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Grand Caiman is
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Grand Caiman is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2019. It was published by Square Enix. It is available on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Google Stadia, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Crystal Engine. It carries an ESRB M age rating.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lara Croft reunited with Jonah Maiava in Mission of San Juan before returning to Paititi. He told that some of the Trinity soldiers had found some old and set up a base camp there. The ruins were built for priests of Zipacna. Many people still visited ruins before the soldiers took over them. Abigaile Ortiz thinks it has something to do with the tremors and ash not stopping. Lara offered to go see what is going on in the ruins. Lara found the Crab Relic amongst the Trinity supplies, and decided to take the artefact back where it belonged. It however was an ambush Trinity had set up for her. Lara killed the Trinity soldiers and returned the Crab relic. to the ancient machine, which did stop…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, historical, mystery and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative and Single player.
Where it sits in the Tomb Raider series
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Grand Caiman is the 113th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Path Home in 2019. Its critic score of 60 is 12 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Tomb Raider Trilogy at 92.
How it was received
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Grand Caiman holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2019 averaged 69, so it scored 9 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Shadow of the Tomb Raider: The Grand Caiman launched on 29 March 2019, within three weeks of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Tom Clancy's The Division 2 and Anno 1800. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 6 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, Devil May Cry 5, Tom Clancy's The Division 2, Anno 1800.
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