Ms.Croft

Yes sorry I meant the crouch/roll button. You have to be very quick, especially in hard mode. The game is a bit unforgiving in Hard Mode with the slow motion. Even if the slow motion is happening whilst you are dodging you may have been just that little too late. BTW, it gets a lot harder later on in Hard Mode (not with crosshairs or bosses or anything). MsC

I hope you have passed it when I'm typing this, but if you haven't then I can give ya a bit of advice. Firstly make sure that the T-Rex's rage bar is 'almost' full, but do not make it go all the way. As it declines, make sure that you have one of the 'spiky' wheel things behind you. Shoot the T-rex more so that it roars and gets enraged. Keep your finger hovered over the right directional button (I like right, it's easier lol) and the jump button. As soon as the screen blurs dodge to the right. Wait for the two cross-hairs to turn red and shoot! It'll dizzy the T-rex. He'll then hit the spiky thing and be a bit damaged...anyhow, rinse and repeat! Good luck! MsC

'Kolt' is the guy who Hope that cleared things up, I didn't really need the spoiler tags, but just in case lol. MsC

Ok, forgive me if this isn't a very good description: MsC

You can; go into controls and the mouse sensitivity is currently set to 10. I turned off the 3 visual effects too, but it doesn't seem to make much of a difference to the game visually! Miss Croft, I won't ask how you got the game 7 days ahead of everyone else lol. MsC

I don't have an issue with the controls at all. Are you using the W,S,A,D keys, because the up, left, right and down ones make it a nightmare? At first the combat seemed tricky but I'm used to it now and TR never really was about combat so I'm not expecting it to be outstanding. The other thing is...it's a demo, it's not gonna be representative of the final product. This demo isn't of a game that's ready now, they probably made the demo about 4 + weeks ago and have tweaked the bugs you're experiencing now. MsC

Here's a couple more screenshots. I think I've completely devoured the demo now lol. I have a feeling I've found everything. By the end of the demo you should have 4 large medipacks and 5 small. Anyhow, can anyone else find the Artefact? If anyone would like to know where they are and can't feel free to PM me, I'd like to keep this spoiler free. MsC

The music is fantastic! Very atmospheric! Just to let you guys know, after you drop off the ledge and you see a cutscene where the bridge falls down and creates a horizontal pole, do NOT go into the cave and miss the pole. If so, you miss about half of the demo...plus the shotgun...which you'll have to find yourself

Lol, I expected no less from you Shrensh! Here's 9 of mine, in 4 she's doing a bomb for some reason, and in 7 she's in mid-somersault:

Just to let you guys know, if you downloaded the gamespot version directly via the link it takes absolutely ages. However, if you download the download manager it goes about 10 times faster. I got it in 17 minutes from the download manager from gamespot. Anyhow, just did my first runthrough, I think I'll record a bit with fraps in a sec, and I'll post some screenshots too. A word of advice however, I wouldn't reccomend turning manual grab on, it kills your hand. I think on PS2 it'll be a lot easier with manual grab but with this game my hand almost fell off. Enjoy! MsC

I haven't actually watched the video, but if you're talking about that guy who talks about Lara being the only one to find it or something to that affect, I believe that is her Father and she is reading from his Diary. Anyhow, can't wait until June 5th comes around! MsC

It is up to speculation as to whether Natla is dead or not. Unlike other TR games, we never see the main enemies body explode into millions of pieces, or bone. She just lays on the floor and you escape. Afterall, she survived a large drop (presumably by flying) and then got shot down, got back up and then got shot down again. As for Pierre...well yeah, that's a bit odd. It's probably just some random guy out there who's started a rumour. MsC

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qvs9FxCxvy8...ted&search= That's a gameplay trailer, I love the fully interactable environment!!! MsC

At the bottom of this white box you will see a 'Browse' and a huge UPLOAD in a green sign. Click on Browse, and find the picture you would like to attatch. Click upload and repeat for more pictures. If you'd like to move the picture around the page, click 'Manage Current Attatchments' to either delete an attatchement (The page with a red cross) or send a hyperlink onto this page (The page with the green tick). Move the hyperlink around to attatch it where you would like it to appear! Hope this helped, MsC

I've noticed some new questions pop up from you guys as the month of May appears, so here's some more magazine scans to whet your whistles!! Playstation 2 Official Magazine UK, issue 085--May 2007.

Hey, I've been meaning to play this! Anyhow, just finished the training levels and noticed something funny I hadn't noiced before. Why is Lara squatting in the background? I'm gonna continue later! MsC

I don't personally think it's been delayed at all, I think that's an American Trailer for the PC version, which is set for June anyhow. I don't know if any games company has ever delayed their product by a couple of weeks prior to release date because the stores (At least in England) tend to get the game delivered to them a couple of days to a week prior to the release date. What could they fix in a week anyhow? ( I actually don't know lol, I'm not a games designer) MsC

Ok, finished it! Ahh, what a great game, that was great fun, I enjoyed evey minute. I managed (Albeit barely) to get through the whole game with just the pistols, and it's a real challenge when you have 3 Atlantean guards after you lol. Also, at the end, is it me or does Natla say, "You won't bump off me and my crew that easily Lara." I can't figure out if she does say crew lol. EDIT: I also have a sudden urge to play TR4 all of a sudden. After the Tomb Raider Anniversary festivities, do you guys think that should be next? City_of_Khamoon.bmp Atlantis__lvl_14.bmp The_Great_Pyramid__lvl_15.bmp

Finished Rome! Those secrets are getting ever more tricky to find! Stella, I think I'm gonna have to resort to your guide if I ever do this game again, how did you find them?! Tomb_of_Tihocan__lvl_8.bmp

I think it's because it adds realism to the game, and it makes Lara's deaths seem that much more satisfying/gruesome to people (Satisfying for me lol). If she hits spikes and nothing happens it's not as shocking as hearing her scream and then see blood flying everywhere. It also makes her situation seem more real so I can connect with her more as a human on a computer based level of course. MsC

Well, found my disc!! I've got to say...as far as Tomb Raiders go, this one has knocked TR4 out of the second spot in my personal favourites (Tr2 still being my fav!). I noticed some amazing things! Firstly, I noticed that a lot of sounds, and some of Lara's voice was re-played in TR2, specifically the 'Caves' background music, and the 'Arghhh' she does while killing the wolves in the first FMV, and when the plane goes down in TR2. First of all, I was thinking, "Tsk tsk Core, that's being a bit lazy!" But then I thought...a lot of PC users never got to hear that music when it first came out and I think it was a bit of homage to those who played the original to know how some of it sounded! Secondly, wow...the voice acting is brilliant IMO! Thirdly....what an atmosphere this game creates! I have never in my entire life in any TR game wanted to get my guns out when I entered every new room...it just goes to show how much sound can make a difference...or lack there of! Obviously this game has it's annoyances for me, but I blame that on the technology at the time. This truely is a magnificent game, and I'm so glad that for once in 10 years that I've been able to finally play it with sound! Here's some screenies:

Apparantely they are going to include an essence of the Gold Levels...so maybe they will be fused with the main levels etc. But this is just a rumour and nothing's official yet. Would be awesome if they did have the Gold levels!! I loved them. And congrats on finishing BP, I was gonna join you all, but my TR1 disc has mysteriously disappeared lol. MsC

And America got the PS3 first...the X-Box First...God Of War first, Final Fantasy 12 first. I could go on lol, it's finally good for England to have something first for once! It'll probably be £29.99 for the PS2 version, £35 seems random and WAY too expensive for me lol, thanks for the info anyway J7. MsC

Next month, it's the main article of the magazine, so I should have some more scans for you then! MsC

That's better! Yay! If you do want them any bigger...just say..but I will have to re-scan them lol. And thanks! MsC