Laras Recurve Bow controls with surprising snappiness. Pulling back a lethal shot is fast for how meaty the impact feels. Oh yes we feel these ones. A Power Rangers swish accompanies each one of the new Lara Crofts arrows, matching the playfully frenetic speed in which you literally knock people off their feet. The arrow-reload is so quick, and Lara is always so nimble, that it almost feels like more of a single-shot rifle than a manually-operated projectile weapon. Her swift ducking and dodging around baddies and behind cover is very animalistic in-motion, which matches the Earthy, survival undertones of both Lara Croft as an uncaged predator and the bow and arrow as a weapon. Unlike Thiefs rope arrows, Laras deal damage. When she shoots a rope-wrapped, mountain-platform support and tugs, the whole thing comes crashing down anyone on it or below it dead and deader. Fire Arrows do the gloriously expected thing of lighting people and flammables up, as do Explosive Arrows with a little more gusto, but don't worry - Penetrating Arrows arent nearly as vile as they sound unless you count a reinforced pointy-thing piercing someones stomach as vile.