Tomb Raider: Lara’s Shadow DLC

The awesome people at Eidos have yet again been kind enough to offer us not one but two unlock codes for Tomb Raider Underworld’s latest downloadable episode, Lara’s Shadow.

You’ll get to play the game from a new perspective controlling the Doppelganger, a dark and deadly double of Lara created by Jacqueline Natla, with superhuman powers and instructions to end the Croft lineage once and for all. Fulfill this new mission and become the ultimate instrument of revenge.

Features include a brand new mission and level introducing the furious killing machine that is Lara’s Shadow. As Lara’s deadly double you’ll have her unique Shadow Powers at your command. Use Shadow Combat to slow time and massively increase the speed and force of her devastating melee attacks. You can utilize Shadow Climb to grab and move along surfaces that would be too dangerous and tough for Lara to ever climb. Gunplay gets serious with Shadow Fire; the weapon’s speed, accuracy and impact shatters impossibly dangerous enemies into pieces. There’s also 125 Achievement points up for grabs.

Ok that’s the official word, here’s mine. I’ve played Lara’s Shadow and the new abilities are pretty cool. From the outset there’s a weird sense of this character possessing none of the poise and grace of the real Lara. Her run is spider-like, her jump is a graceless fling. Do we want to play without that sophistication of control we are so used to? As I played on though Doppleganger’s extreme speed and strength quickly became second nature. Sliding along an edge rather than shimmying is totally spectacular. You’re not meant to warm to the Shadow. She’s a weapon to be wielded, an arrow to fire. She is not a warm, bouncy, soft human lady to gently urge onwards. A genuinely new experience, all Tomb Raider fans will want to play this… if you want to do so for free then enter our fabulous competition!!

Good luck from all of us at Ready-Up!