10 Best Bows And Arrows In Video Game History

5. Tomb Raider

Lara€™s 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 Croft€™s 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 Thief€™s rope arrows, Lara€™s 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 aren€™t nearly as vile as they sound€ unless you count a reinforced pointy-thing piercing someone€™s stomach as vile.
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