By all that is good and holy -- don't buy this game.

I know, this is a rather exaggerated request to make, but let's face the facts:

1) Recently, we've seen very few new games that were not based on either a franchise, or part of a series. A notable exception is the waves upon waves of indie games Steam is publishing recently, but those are not full games.

2) The installments we have recently seen have all been disappointing. Yes, this is a sweeping statement, but none of them grip the player and pull them in. The big well o' games seems dry.

3) Tomb Raider. Seriously? This series is still running? There must be some economic benefit here, otherwise it wouldn't be developed, but I honestly don't know anybody who has played many in this series. Post a comment if you do actively play the series.

Don't buy Tomb Raider, no matter how cheap it is, and instead, send an email to Eidos asking them whether they remember the word innovation. In a time long, long ago, these guys made Commandos, and Deus Ex, and Hitman. Those games were innovation embodied! Where has that creative energy gone?

I know, I know, "gamers are boys, and boys want boobies", that principle is what made Tomb Raider, and the world hasn't changed. If you ascribe to this notion, answer me this: why won't Eidos make a different game with a woman with big, jiggly boobies? Maybe, gasp, a game that is also fun to play?

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I’m surprised nobody has thought of this before, really. There are plenty of people in the world who know how to make moulds. There are even more people who know how to make soap. There are yet more people who have found themselves with old controllers whose buttons no longer function. Yet I have never before seen something like digital soaps.

The creator of DigitalSoaps had some punny comments on their merchandise: “Fight viruses and malicious spyware with my super duper soaps. I specialize in the manufacture of PCs - Personal Cleansers - in unique geeky shapes.”

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