Shadow of the Tomb Raider hands-on — 4 hours of gritty, epic jungle gameplay

Tomb Raider has tombs again. And that’s how Shadow of the Tomb Raider starts out, with the iconic Lara Croft crawling through a narrow rock tunnel that threatens to cave in on her. With mud caked on her face, she isn’t glamorous, and she isn’t a an innocent and vulnerable as she once was.

Since Square Enix’s Tomb Raider reboot in 2012 and the coming of age tale in Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015), Lara Croft has become a cunning and cold-blooded killer. Now she can drop out of the trees and strangle her enemies with a rope in one fluid motion. But as we find out in the third game in the reboot series, Lara is now an accomplished archaeologist and adventurer who can explore and decipher secrets of tombs even as she pursues the evil Trinity organization that killed her father. But is she capable of stopping the apocalypse?