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First playthrough review time.

This game was officially not sold for pc as a digital product because game has optimization problems where the shadows and lightening doesn't render properly in the modern video cards and has compatibility issues which were not fixed later by ubisoft.Gameplay is almost same as previous part with better AI and user interface.Later the patch was released for the game which has fixed compatibility issues for modern graphic cards.The game also can be modded with PS3 HD textures pack for better visuals.

Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow(Full pc game)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/Kk1eyFL5

Shadows+Lightening+Widescreenfix and PS3 HD textures:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Y_AA_p31LMjjy-ompLnQrPDWZPn47DYP?usp=sharing

Completed the game in 100% stealth mode and with 0 to 1 knockouts overall in all the missions without damaging a single object out of the mission objectives.The player can play aggressively by using weapons or in pure stealth mode without even using a single bullet except for mandatory targets.Chaos Theory has the vast scope of stealth gameplay in the triology and includes different type of objectives with overall mission statistics for each mission.

Wide screen(fix):
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1o0maCPtUihnAf44Me6iDfJCDfZzXOQt_?usp=sharing

First playthrough review time.

Completed the game in hard mode and collected all secrets,weapons and relics in the game.Nice spin-off of the franchise with isometric view gameplay.There is good replayability of the levels in order to complete the challenges and especially time trials for each level.Few score challenges and speed run for each level need practice which depends upon individual(for 100% completion).

In the co-op mode there are few changes in each level where some traps or puzzles are not same as in single player mode where two players should have coordination to crack the level.There are many different weapons which cannot be seen even in previous series of the franchise and player can obtain artifacts and relics not only as collectables but also to increase their ability.

First playthrough review time.

Tomb Raider: Underworld is the final game in the Legend trilogy. Compared to both earlier games, the graphics are more improved which was better than Legend's next-gen graphics. The character actions are also well improved and the environment looks much better than previous parts.

Completed the game in hard mode and collected all secrets and relics in the game.Gameplay is slightly improved by implementing few new action features and also includes a new feature which was not present in any of previous parts of the game that is revisiting location only for collectables.The purpose of this feature is player can play the story mode and after completing game player can revisit locations of all maps for collectables which was a good feature.Plot of the game is good and concludes the Legend triology.

First playthrough review time.

Completed the game in hard mode and collected all secrets and relics in the game.A nice remake of Tomb Raider 1996 with better visuals and controls.The plot of the game is almost same as Original version of the game with very minor changes.

This game is a direct prequel to the Tomb Raider:Legend which was released before this game as reboot version of the franchise.Compared to the previous part the gameplay is better and puzzles are more challenging than it.

First playthrough review time.

Completed the game in Hard mode and collected all the secrets and relics in the game.This is the first game released in the reboot trilogy of Legend Timeline.It is the sequel to Tomb Raider: Anniversary which was released later after this game. There is an option of turning next-gen graphics on which enhances the graphics quality overall. While the next-gen graphics makes the overall atmosphere look better but it makes the character models look dull, especially Lara so its better to turn it off.

The movement of the character is better than previous classic series of the franchise and this is the first game of entire franchise with better viewing of camera angles with the mouse which was an issue in Tomb Raider:Angel of Darkness.Overall the graphics and gameplay are nice in the Legend Timeline with introduction to fresh reboot of the series.

First playthrough review time.

This game is an industry disaster because of the very clunky controls which were mostly not optimized even after initial release of the game in 2003.This is first part of the franchise with introduction to mouse controls where as keyboard is only used in the previous five parts.Even though there is an option to use mouse the game is unplayable with mouse because of the poor implementation of movement and camera angles . Excluding the controls the gameplay is very good and the graphics are next level compared to previous parts.Angel of Darkness is conclusion to the entire plot of first six parts which is the end of classic era of franchise.

After fixing the movement issues with patches the controls are far better optimized for both keyboard and mouse.The benefit of using mouse is that the camera angles are easy to access instead of manually accessing with keyboard.

Patch :Includes Keyboard + mouse fix,FMV fix + few game fixes.(Instructions are mentioned in file).
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1ZUzrBXhDVxYp8dgkXau8yFNFI5wZYlQ6?usp=sharing

First playthrough review time.

Gameplay is very short compared to previous parts of franchise with a good plot.There were few puzzles and secrets which are very challenging and the gameplay is nice.

In terms of movement it is almost same as previous part with very minor changes.I have collected every secret in the game.There are seperate symbols like TR-2 for the secrets in the game which makes it as better identity. Even for 100 percent completionists the game is not very tough but requires logical thinking in few areas of the game especially to find the secrets.

First playthrough review time.

There was a significant improvement in terms of graphics,gameplay and implementation of new features from part to part.Plot of the game is nice and in the entire four parts this is the second toughest part after tomb raider 3.Levels are some or more tricky and may cause confusion because of the back and forth travelling(new feature) of levels in the game which was not available in previous parts.

The game requires logical thinking,patience,effort(for 100% completion).As a completionist i have collected each secret in the game.There are also cases in the game like if a player enters next level without collecting required collectable for that level then player needs to again backtrack the level particularly for that collectable which might be a confusing task.Overall a new well polished game in all aspects and final old classic adventure game of the franchise in 1990's .

DLC which was not included in steam version(Installination instructions are in the file).
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1kdooTT5YrylPB9TsBDAg0Bcs6AYprN0I?usp=sharing

First playthrough review time.

This is the toughest part of the triology.Game is way more complicated than previous two parts of the franchise and finding the secrets in some levels are very tough.There are bunch of puzzles which are quite confusing and difficult .

For the 100% completion of the game it requires great logical thinking and patience in order to crack the level because of the level complexity and generally few unpredictable puzzles(depends upon individual). The traps in the game are unexpected in few levels where the level should be replayed in order to be aware of few traps.

There is no specific symbol for secrets in this game like in TR-2.It is same like TR-1 where collectables act as secrets.It is highly not an easy task to find all secrets in the first playthrough in few levels because of level complexity and in some cases one secret is connected to other secret which i has seen in one level where player need to collect that particular secret in order to unlock the next secret.I have collected each and every secret in the game as a completionist.Gameplay and graphics have significant improvement from previous game and plot of the game is good.

First playthrough review time.

Toughness of the game(for 100% completion) is similar to previous part and there was a good improvement in graphics and a slight improvement in game mechanics.Few extra game features and inventory items were added for better gameplay.

Completed the game by finding every secret in the game.In terms of difficulty for completionists it is almost equal to TR-1.There is a seperate symbol for secrets in this game where player can identify that particular collectable as secret even from mid range distance and this feature is not available in TR-1.

Plot of the game is good and rest of the aspects of the game are mostly same as mentioned in Tomb raider 1 review.The graphic settings and resolution can be set from configuration(best settings are included in patch instructions file) in game whereas in part 1 its not possible to configure in game and required to download patch manually to fix the issue.

Do not use the community guideline automated fix patch as it runs the game only with 256 colors with blurry pixels and no need to use any resolution or texture patches as game can configure optimal required settings through launch configuration .The below link includes patch for DLC+few bug fixes and Widescreenfix file with the instructions.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ta2DVK_cJD42yZRPY70JHgm5H9DSP8-Y?usp=sharing