A fun little co-op experience for a weekend.
Lara Croft & The Temple of Osiris is a sequel to the previously released spin off game, Guardian of Light back in 2010. Much like the original this is a somewhat low budget downloadable title off the PlayStation store designed for co-op play and is pretty far from a traditional Tomb Raider game though it's a fun way to while away a few hours.
The story to Temple of Osiris is pretty terrible. Lara and a fellow archaeologist Carter are exploring ruins in Egypt when they accidentally set free two gods, Isis and her son Horus. (This is an excuse essentially for four player co-op). Along with them they accidently release Set who has been stuck in the underworld and is evil etc. To stop him they must gather up parts of Osiris, Isis's dead husband (an excuse for separate dungeons).
It's all perfectly suitable for the game design though. The actual gameplay is played in an isometric view with a mixture of gun combat and puzzles. The gunplay a duel stick shooter in which you can equip various weapons from Lara's iconic hand guns to rocket launchers and laser staffs. It's not deep but it's satisfying.
The real fun of the game though for me is the puzzles as a group you must solve. A lot of them involve various switches, spike traps, grappling hooks, bombs etc. and depending on how many of you are playing will depend on how the same puzzle loads to incorporate everyone.
The visuals aren't super next gen or anything as it's meant as a little downloadable title but it looks fairly good considering and the artwork is excellent. Equally the voice acting is very good with Keeley Hawes returning to voice Lara since stepping aside for the Tomb Raider reboot.
If there is one thing about the game that is not so great is the online needs stabilizing. Connection to other players hasn't been especially good and whenever anyone joins the game it reloads to have everyone select character and reload the check point. This can be frustrating if people keep joining and leaving. The game does support local co-op though so if you have a friend over it's the best way to play.
Overall as a little budget title Temple of Osiris is pretty fun if not deep. The co-op gameplay involving everyone solving puzzles is excellent and there are plenty of challenges and items to collect to give it a bit of extra replay value. For the price you can't go wrong.
+ Co-op is good fun.
+ Puzzle solving.
+ Keeley Hawes as Lara.
+ Local co-op.
- Players joining online can get annoying.
Lara Croft & The Temple of Osiris is a sequel to the previously released spin off game, Guardian of Light back in 2010. Much like the original this is a somewhat low budget downloadable title off the PlayStation store designed for co-op play and is pretty far from a traditional Tomb Raider game though it's a fun way to while away a few hours.
The story to Temple of Osiris is pretty terrible. Lara and a fellow archaeologist Carter are exploring ruins in Egypt when they accidentally set free two gods, Isis and her son Horus. (This is an excuse essentially for four player co-op). Along with them they accidently release Set who has been stuck in the underworld and is evil etc. To stop him they must gather up parts of Osiris, Isis's dead husband (an excuse for separate dungeons).
It's all perfectly suitable for the game design though. The actual gameplay is played in an isometric view with a mixture of gun combat and puzzles. The gunplay a duel stick shooter in which you can equip various weapons from Lara's iconic hand guns to rocket launchers and laser staffs. It's not deep but it's satisfying.
The real fun of the game though for me is the puzzles as a group you must solve. A lot of them involve various switches, spike traps, grappling hooks, bombs etc. and depending on how many of you are playing will depend on how the same puzzle loads to incorporate everyone.
The visuals aren't super next gen or anything as it's meant as a little downloadable title but it looks fairly good considering and the artwork is excellent. Equally the voice acting is very good with Keeley Hawes returning to voice Lara since stepping aside for the Tomb Raider reboot.
If there is one thing about the game that is not so great is the online needs stabilizing. Connection to other players hasn't been especially good and whenever anyone joins the game it reloads to have everyone select character and reload the check point. This can be frustrating if people keep joining and leaving. The game does support local co-op though so if you have a friend over it's the best way to play.
Overall as a little budget title Temple of Osiris is pretty fun if not deep. The co-op gameplay involving everyone solving puzzles is excellent and there are plenty of challenges and items to collect to give it a bit of extra replay value. For the price you can't go wrong.
+ Co-op is good fun.
+ Puzzle solving.
+ Keeley Hawes as Lara.
+ Local co-op.
- Players joining online can get annoying.