Lara Croft, yes the Tomb Raider, is alive and well and comes to us in a slightly altered form this time round as an isometric top-down platform action title downloadable from XBLA.

The story of course finds Lara in the middle of the action when all hell breaks loose, or perhaps is the cause of it? Once released the evil must be defeated and only Lara and the Guardian can do it. Play in single player or local, single-screen Co-op play.

The game features 14 fairly large levels that will see you fighting demons, dinosaurs, giant spiders and more as well as solving environmental puzzles that include movable objects, switches and partially destructible environments. The weapons you get include of course the double pistols as well as an assault rifle, a javelin and bombs.

Of course, as it’s an isometric top down the environment itself gets in the way of your viewing from time to time. Not only that but because of the view it’s easy to get hung up on something that prevents you from moving where you want to and in a timely manner, thus ending in your demise as the enemies pile atop you. Irritating, is the word that comes to mind. The camera is so far out that you can’t even really see what it is that has you hung up to find out how to avoid it. This does happen only frequently but still, smacks of poor level design in my mind.

The graphics and sound are a level of quality that we would expect when talking about Lara Croft and Tomb Raider. The visuals aren’t stunning but they are intricately detailed and the environments are large and generally interesting. The sounds are well done and boast a vast array of enemy, weapon and environmental sounds, enough to make any gamer happy.