Lol, this Tretton guy is such a noob. Does he actually know what the eye toy was? It was that thing that made you appear on screen (like a normal camera) but you could use movement to press buttons and, well, basically only that, only some of the buttons were diquised as nijas and robots that died when you hit them. And the Natal, is not that, well, not just that at least.
I have to say, bashing Lara Croft while taking an anti-sexism approach to video games is kinda ungrateful. Lara championed female game chacters who weren't bimbos, dominatrix or damsels in distress and has always got by from being strong and extremly intelligent. Plus she is very popular with female gamers such as myself.
I've been playing through this game and i have to say it is quite good but so very overrated. And it dosen't really deserve top marks when it's basically the same game we've been playing since 2001.
Lara Coft is tasteful. Shorts and a tank top hardley make her a porn star. Personally i think she's only "not tasteful" because she is the most famous female game heroine ever. And Samus Aran? The one who dances for the player in a pink bikini as a reward for completing the game? Seriously?
Don't get me wrong, this was not a bad game, but it certainley wasn't a comeback. With the 3D Sonic games i would like Sonic Team to just back to the orginal formula. I think the 2006 Sonic game put them off at that, but Sonic Adventure was a great game, Sonic's stages were a great conversion of 2D to 3D. This game just felt like a bag of gimmicks.