Worst Games Ever - Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness 

@@Jean-uw4tz y no non D yh yh cr no

Yeah, this had an extremely troubled and surprisingly long development cycle. Matt McMuscles did a really good video awhile back about everything that went wrong, it’s worth a watch.

@@MrBeardsley Oh nice! Thanks, I'll be sure to check that one out, cheers for the recommend :D

It's a game with so much ambition that was rushed out the door too early by higher ups. I really wish I could see what the final product would have been, and the games that followed it had the team been given enough time and resources to fulfil vision of the game.

@@Reds-Retros yeah! Especially as this was positioned to be the beginning of a trilogy, it would have been really terrific to have seen where this iteration of Lara would go. I also really loved the character design of Lara for AoD and so it was a shame that this particular look only made one canonical appearance!

@XΣΠΩ Π7 💯

Was thinking it looks kinda fun.

I love this game

It’s my personal favorite from older consoles. 🤷‍♂️

Same but then again i was like 11-12.

Wtf lol

This comment me made laugh wtf what a sentence

It really can't be understood without playing this game how strange it feels to control lol. It feels floaty and strange, and when you pull your guns out the control scheme changes again. Especially coming from PS1 Tomb Raider where movement is incredibly tight and intuitive with the grid based system, this game's system is just off enough to be repulsive to anyone that's played the previous ones lol

Angel of Darkness was the first game on PS2 that I fucked around with GameShark on. I had God Mode turned on and jumped down to that area. My 8 year old mind was blown that the game had a whole tutorial segment locked away. Was my first time learning about cut content in video games. Also the dual pistols are locked out unless you use hacks as well. GameShark really made this game a bit more enjoyable lol.

I used to do that to my little brother too, I gave him some real stinkers hehe

@@Smartacus420 oooo like what?

@@Beestification I gave him the fifth element on ps1 and told him that if you complete the game you get to see a cutscene of the main girl naked in the shower, he played it for weeks and hated it 😂

@@Smartacus420 Quality

@@Smartacus420 HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!! That is cold BLOODED. Oh please, tell me he finished it.

Eidos shouldn’t of rushed Core Design. Apparently they wanted the release to coincide with the theatrical release of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle Of Life. They should’ve been allowed more time to polish, cause the game had real potential.

@@charliequinn_ definitely! Another year and this could have been so much better

I dont know, man. Angel of darkness was leagues behind contemporary games like splinter cell, and I doubt that another year would have fixed that.

@@charliequinn_ Eidos didn’t rush them, Core started work on Angel of Darkness before Chronicles was even finished. There were numerous delays and setbacks during the three years Angel was in development, mostly because the team working on it was too ambitious and lacked leadership plus they weren’t prepared for the complexities of working with the PS2’s hardware.

It's mostly Eidos' mismanagement. Had they skipped Tomb Raider Chronicles, which was a literal last cashgrab for the PS1 audience and had the entire Core Design team work on The Angel of Darkness from the very beginning instead of leaving a bunch of newbies without anyone to help them, they could have had enough time and resources to make a good game instead of this unfinished, clearly unpolished mess.

Yep. But for me; that was n64 games at Blockbuster(if anyone remembers that place), because games used to be $80 to buy, and my dad just didn't have the money, and my mom didn't have a job yet. But it sucks not being able to rent games anymore. Now, we just have to pay FULL PRICE for them, even if the game SUCKS dsp ass. Oh well. That just means you have to stick to buying good games, and finding out which ones are good, and which ones aren't worth 60$.

If ur poor then yes.

@@shawnfields2369 No game was 80 dollars.

O calm down

Boy have I got news for you!

I had a worst game, donated it. I regret it ever since.

Oh, I thought it was Brian and Dick playing it this time? But where'd Ben and Peter go for this episode? Was it that bad that they just let Brian and Dick play it this time, even though they broke in last time during Sniper 2?

Looks even better on PC!

Exactly! Epic adventure. I am still hoping to see how the story goes on. Lara and Kurtis had magnetic chemistry. I really would love to see more of the real Lara and of course Kurtis Trent. ☺️ Even his voice actor said he would come back as Kurtis.

I love this too. And hate that Hall Of Seasons place. Damn!

Nah. This game is amazing. You can easily get used to poor controls and bugs and just enjoy the phenomenal narrative and storyline that this game has. I'm glad AOD has got a cult fanbase and has gotten the love and appreciation it deserves.

Nah, it can't be nostalgia if its how you felt at the time. There are many people like you.

Oh, wow sorry to hear that your friendship ended over this horrible awful game that's probably so bad I'd have to think up a new word to describe it, since you can't decide whether or not it's just terrible or horrendous and that word is: "Terrendous". A combination of the words Terrible and Horrendous. This game's worse looking than I had initially thought, if it can end friendships like that.

The only thing that is tremendous here was your friendship's quality with this guy

Well, it's still a Tomb Raider game. I still own my copy of it. I never actually play it anymore, but I do still own it. If only for the right to say I own every main series Tomb Raider game.

I own every TR game so of course I have it.

I don’t know if extra time would have helped. Eidos should have stepped in when all the developmental and leadership issues were cropping up in the studio and got it on track. With the team as it was, giving them more time would just be throwing good money after bad.

@@derangel9143 Yeah, I think they wanted the release of the game to coincide with the release of the 2nd Tomb Raider movie. And apparently, according to another commentor, Eidos screwed over Core Design, by not giving them enough time, so they had to release the game BEFORE the movie, and delay it, twice. So, Angel Of Darkness is ALMOST a movie tie-in game. Because it released alongside the 2nd movie, according to the facts in this video. But you're right, dude. I'm not sure if more time would've helped either. But who knows? It could've. But then again, it may not have. But maybe then, it wouldn't have to have been delayed twice and ripoff MGS with the enemy bodies that vanish from existence. But who knows for sure? With what we got though, it's a pretty disappointing looking Tomb Raider game.

it was always meant to be a ps2 exclusive, it was quickly ported to the pc and a week before launch they didn’t even have working keyboard and mouse controls. at least that’s what i heard

Fun fact,using keyboards arrows movements are much more fluid and reactive..far better than using the contoller's sticks.

It's also bad for pc

Yeah because Eidos screwed over Core Design. They didn’t give them enough time to make Angel of Darkness, and Core didn’t even want to make Chronicles but Eidos forced them to release it.

@@benwyatt7619 Really? That sucks for Core Design. Did they even WANT to make Angel Of Darkness, or ANY Tomb Raider game after this? If not, I guess I can see why they decided to just reboot the Tomb Raider series later, but unfortunately, they ended up screwing the Tomb Raider series AGAIN anyways, with like, the 3rd game in that version of the series. Poor Lara...

@@shawnfields2369 So what happened was, Core Design really enjoyed making Tomb Raider Last Revelation, but they wanted it to be the final Tomb Raider game and kinda wanted to kill off Lara. Eidos wouldn’t let them kill off Lara, so they had the idea to make a completely next generation game Tomb Raider Angel Of Darkness, and release it in like 2004 or 2005. Eidos insisted they make a filler game in between, so they reluctantly made Tomb Raider Chronicles… and then they eventually pushed Core Design to release Angel Of Darkness in 2003 even though the game was just completely broken and unfinished.

@@benwyatt7619 First off, let me say, thank you for the info, dude. But, wow, they wanted to just kill off the legendary Tomb Raider Lara Croft, herself? I think I remember hearing about that somewhere else, but I forget. Regardless, thank you, good sir. But, i don't think killing off Lara would've made anyone happy. There'd obviously still be pissed off fans the world over, of course. I think they definitely should've have just released Angel Of Darkness in 2004-2005, although I'm not sure if it would've helped. But it would've been helpful, and probably given the team working on the game some kind of downtime. I can't even believe they'd just do Lara and the team at Core Design dirty like that, and then force them to release a buggy, broken mess of a game, especially for a longtime series that's as beloved as Tomb Raider. And this is coming from someone who's never played a Tomb Raider game myself. But I do like how the series has always looked, so while I know it wasn't anything to replace Tomb Raider, I went and played the Uncharted series, which I love. It felt close to how playing Tomb Raider may have felt, but I also never owned a ps1. My parents thought it was too expensive. I did love my n64 though, given to me by my late Grandma. But we always only rented games, never bought them. But seeing how Tomb Raider looked, I always wanted the ps1. I thought it had so many better looking games or games just as good as the n64. And while that never happened, I did get the PS2. And traded in some games to get games like Kingdom Hearts 1, and some other games like .hack and many other games I can't remember, because it was like, 2003 when all this happened. I did see Angel Of Darkness before, and almost bought it, but something in my head told me it was a bad game. I don't know what it was. Maybe it was the fact that I was 10 or 11 at the time, or that I saw the cover art for KH and decided that looked cooler, because it had both Disney and Final Fantasy characters crossover, and I had to have it, but either way, I avoided AOD like the plague. A shame Eidos treated the people at Core Design like crap. So I'm guessing eidos interactive were almost like the British EA?

@@shawnfields2369 The first 4 games were fantastic. Eidos, (I guess you could call them British EA) saw how well the first game did, so they made them make a second game in only 1 year, and then Tomb Raider 2 was very successful so they made them release Tomb Raider 3 only a year later… then eventually they made them release every game only 1 year apart from each other. This led to Core Design being extremely stressed and overworked, which is why they wanted to kill off Lara. But you know the phrase ‘quit while you’re ahead’… that’s exactly what they should have done and they should have killed off Lara. Tomb Raider 4 was perfection, so they should have stopped there… because every game afterwards went seriously downhill and now the series has been rebooted twice and has nothing to do with the original Tomb Raider whatsoever.

One of my teachers almost drowned me when I was a kid and I still have more traumatic experiences from playing this game than I have from nearly being murdered.

Same. It's a disaster, but it's my disaster.

Korpyat I’m sorry, what!?

Thank you 💗 this video's a joke

Nah

@@rodneythompson8861 lol okay… guess you aren’t a classic Tomb Raider fan and you like COD and Madden 😵‍💫😂

@@rodneythompson8861 I replay it every year. Lol I am right now actually

I agree but I played the game with fly swim glitch hacks because I just couldn't do the jumping parts

When everyone bashed cyberpunk 2077 after its release, I almost immediately thought of TR AOD, they share the same devhell and more: the promotion campaigns were huge (both Lara and C2077 were EVERYWHERE) with the promise of "revolutionary" gameplay experience, they were also marketed using iconic figure (as in Lara and Keanu). The hype was real and people were eager to play. Yet both games suffered constant delays bc of way too ambitious and different from usual concept yet not skilled enough team to carry it out. However unlike Cyberpunk CDPR still releasing new fixes for, Core couldn't do much damage control, since it wasn't common to release unfinished game and then patch/update it until it meets players' expectations. It's sad, but still I think even w/ time they wouldn't be able to make that game justice (unless they invited more proficient people to work on it).

@Guyinthecommentsection yet somehow cdpr still in business amending their failure whereas core were shut down right away (after what, two little patches that made controls slightly more playable)

@Guyinthecommentsection Except it wasn't. If you had the hardware - Cyberpunk could be played just fine. I guess I just wasn't all that excited for Cyberpunk to begin with. Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness trained me to never get stupidly hyped for anything again.

@@AkEshiva Because of the publisher fucking them over? Meanwhile CDPR Didn't exactly have a publisher to fuck them over? Also Core Design actually kept going, they made Free Running and were actually the ones to come up with the idea of aTomb Raider 1 Remake.

@@samz8691 it doesnt matter. At the end of the day - Angel of Darkness was a mess of a game. Doesnt matter why. Doesnt matter what they did to fix it later.. it was a disappointment

That's the last 3 games

Oh, really? Would you care to link to the RU-vid Channel?

*Leaves a comment* "My fingers feel stronger!" 😂

It sure did, this game would have tons of potential if they did a full remake in UE5!

This game had so much potential. Amazing soundtrack. Haunting and deep story. But the controls are very challenging.

True, very true. I just wish they would do a remake of this game and not rush it..

HELLO FREN!

@@espurious Hey E. How are you doing.

@@speedwaynutt Doing okay, mate. Fully vaccinated and enjoying the cold, Scottish summer. How are things with you?

@@espurious Yeah doing alright currently in a Lockdown Started Monday could end Saturday just depends. Currently 4 community transmission in Western Australia. The cases have been north of the river and me and my family are south of the river so been lucky.

@@speedwaynutt That doesn't sound great. I really hope things work out soon, mate. Take care of yourself.

Exactly, that atmosphere was so unique.