Hey, I don't mean to start up a new topic, but I just now finished Tomb Raider this morning after not playing it for about 2 weeks.
The story is quite engaging and really pays homage to the Lara Croft at the end, in which Lara uses her trademark double pistols that have been in basically every Tomb Raider game ever made. Sometimes, her vulnerability makes me feel kinda weird as Lara is usually pretty badass in the other games (my mom also took notice of this this morning), but I already know that it's a sort of prequel to all of the otehr games.
Sadly, I wasn't really thrilled with the gameplay. I don't know if I set the difficulty to Easy (I swear I set it to Normal) but the battle against the Stormguard General (or whatever you call that massive hulk of a man you fight before facing Matthias) was a little too easy. I honestly think the Stormguard soldiers were harder than him. The final battle with Matthias was just a QTE before Lara finally gets to use two tactical pistols (they looked like Roth's) which I got to go trigger happy and use both mouse buttons to finally finish the guy off. I plan to finish it again and hopefully sadistically shower Matthias with bullets while not allowing him to fall off the mountain.
Graphics-wise, it was stunning, but the cutscenes lags sometimes on the Ultimate setting. I didn't get to check the actual FPS, but the lag was considerable enough for me to discern slight frame skips. Other than that, everything was as smooth as butter. I wonder why cutscenes lag and the actual gameplay doesn't, however...
For my second playthrough, I plan to play around with Fraps a bit and maybe record a video series documenting a playthrough of the story. I'm not sure when I'll be able to do that, but I'll give it a try.