A hostile island, a young Lara learning to survive, and a controller that answers on a hair trigger.

The profile paints a solid, sharp action game. The feel of the controller clearly dominates, ahead of 92% of titles, the signature of the game. Fun follows right behind, ahead of more than eight games out of ten, and rediscovery holds the top too. Sound and attachment stay comfortably above the average. The only criteria that settle back toward the middle are art direction and the desert island pick, nothing worrying. It is a coherent profile, with no real flaw, where everything points to the immediate feel of action. One caveat though: despite a large total number of duels, each criterion taken on its own rests on one or two votes, so the line-by-line detail stays a trend more than a certainty.

In the cinematic action-adventure genre, this is a title that owns its nervous edge, where others lean more on contemplation or slow storytelling.

So, who is it for? For you if you love tense action, precise movement and survival that keeps you on edge. Much less so if you come first for a visual punch or a contemplative emotion, because it is on the act itself that this game stakes everything.