Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration Pack
DLC for Rise of the Tomb Raider
In the wake of her father’s death, Lara’s uncle challenges her ownership of Croft Manor. Lara must explore her childhood home in the “Blood Ties” story mode to reclaim her legacy and uncover a family mystery that will change her life forever. In “Lara’s Nightmare” hordes of the undead overrun Croft Manor, and Lara must defend it before the nightmare overwhelms her. “Blood Ties” includes an additional single player story, as well as community challenges with card modifiers that allow players to compete against their friends’ scores in “Lara’s Nightmare”. This pack also includes five classic Lara Croft skins, an outfit and weapon inspired by Tomb Raider III, and the new “Extreme Survivor” difficulty setting for the main campaign.
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It's.. interesting that this seems like a move to try and separate Lara Croft from her family's wealth and history... but also not too much. It really reminds me of of the 2018 Tomb Raider movie where Lara starts off trying to distance herself from her wealthy, privileged life (which I think is cool and they should've committed to) but then at the end she just accepts it anyway. If Tomb Raider gets rebooted again or something, I wish they'd just do away with the whole "hyper-rich family of Egyptologists" because it just comes with way too much baggage.
For real your enjoyment of this DLC will depend entirely on how much you care about learning about the Croft family history.
Edit: This used to be a sole page for Blood Ties DLC, but it's now updated to include a full celebration pack which had "Lara's Nightmare" too. Unfortunately it's been too long for me to properly review the mode, but I did remember it being pretty fun if not repetitive towards the end.
Then there's Lara's nightmare. Its a twist on the story, Lara is having a, you guessed it, nightmare about Uncle Atlus and its basically turns into cod zombies but one continuous wave until you destroy all the skulls and fight the boss. This is really short, but its quite tense and I ended up having a lot of fun with it. Definitely not the main attraction but its a fun little alternate mode. The whole thing kinda reminded me of Resident Evil a bit, puzzle solving in a worn down place before fighting a bunch of zombies. Really barely any complaints with this. Great dlc
Rating - 90/100
Trophy Completion - 100% (10/10)
DLC Completion #7 of 2022