What makes the mash-up work so well, and what I like in video games more than any shiny graphics and action, is the quality of the narrative and writing.

At no point do you think: What I am doing here? What’s this widget for again? Who’s this guy? Plus the cuts scenes and incidental dialog are so well written: sharp, never verbose and always witty.

Compared to the first game, the combat is a lot more enjoyable. I must use the stealth or melee attack on 50% of the foes; so much more rewarding than poxy guns. It reminds me of the great combat in The Bourne Supremacy.

My only criticism, and it’s small, is that some things do take you out of the world and remind you it’s just a “Gears of Tomb Raider” game: namely the item collecting (there must of been a very careless antique dealer walking around), and some of the enemy types/combat events. Other than that. Awesome.

That’s got me thinking. I’ll have a really good go at it this month

It works a treat and has more features than your local odeon cinema.