{"id":1274,"date":"2013-03-08T11:49:40","date_gmt":"2013-03-08T11:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/?p=1274"},"modified":"2013-03-08T12:07:08","modified_gmt":"2013-03-08T12:07:08","slug":"1274","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/archives\/1274","title":{"rendered":"Tomb Raider: First Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ps3-tr-crop.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ps3-tr-crop-1024x541.jpg\" alt=\"ps3-tr-crop\" width=\"450\" height=\"237\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-1275\" srcset=\"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ps3-tr-crop-1024x541.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/ps3-tr-crop-300x158.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I got <b>Tomb Raider<\/b> from my favorite service, <b>GameFly<\/b> yesterday and have managed to squeak out maybe 45 minutes of gameplay.  First impressions?  <i>Awesome<\/i>!  <b>Crystal Dynamics<\/b> couldn&#8217;t really go the <b>Uncharted<\/b> route&#8230;and seeing how <b>UC<\/b> ripped off <b>TR<\/b> in the first place, what could the developer do?  Well, what they&#8217;ve done is revamp Lara Croft entirely and craft a spectacular new style of game.  I&#8217;m super psyched to play through the rest of this, foregoing even <b>God Of War<\/b> to do so.  That&#8217;s saying a lot.  The snapshot above looks like it&#8217;s straight out of <b>UC<\/b> actually.  However, I most certainly am not complaining.  Now, if I only didn&#8217;t have to take that photo w\/ my phone.  Perhaps if there were a <i>Share<\/i> button on my gaming controller&#8230;&#8230;.  :D<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got Tomb Raider from my favorite service, GameFly yesterday and have managed to squeak out maybe 45 minutes of gameplay. First impressions? Awesome! Crystal Dynamics couldn&#8217;t really go the Uncharted route&#8230;and seeing how UC ripped off TR in the first place, what could the developer do? Well, what they&#8217;ve done is revamp Lara Croft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,15,4,39],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-1274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-worst","category-blog","category-games","category-uncharted","tag-tomb-raider"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1274"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1278,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1274\/revisions\/1278"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slateman.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}