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On another note I have plugged my lovely shiny new gaming laptop into my TV through HDMI and am using an Xbox controller to play, this is the first game I have done it with (everything else has been MMO's so keyboard and mouse) and it's a great setup! I can now sit on the sofa playing through my big TV and have the benefits of better graphics than my Xbox could ever dream of. HAPPY JAXX!!

Nice one I'm thinking of this option rather than the PS4 spy box

Yea it's brilliant, can't believe I haven't done it sooner! I have ordered Batman Arkham Asylum & City today to play through using this setup as well and I am looking forward to trying some other games on it.

I have to say though it's odd playing a game and not getting achievements, the Steam achievements just don't cut the mustard haha. I feel like I am actually playing the game just for the game now instead of for the achievements as well and all of a sudden finding hundreds of collectibles seems like a pointless task

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I have to say though it's odd playing a game and not getting achievements, the Steam achievements just don't cut the mustard haha. I feel like I am actually playing the game just for the game now instead of for the achievements as well and all of a sudden finding hundreds of collectibles seems like a pointless task

I know what you mean, I was playing FC3 (must get around to finishing it) for a while and got bored of looking around for relics, seems like a totally pointless thing to do. Oh look there's another one of those grey weird looking things, only another 78 more to collect.


I've never seen the point of trophys in PSN. Who gives a feck about them??
I got a trophy in BF3 the other night because I rode my dirt bike off of a big jump. Something like "This ain't no sidecar" Great :/

I suppose if you're 13 or T2D they might amuse you for a few seconds

amazing game

the first few hours really did pull me in and i was pleasantly surprised

apart from the TressFX causing stupidly low fps on nvidia cards which im sure simply needs a driver profile update this game overall is well optimized and smooth and i cant see me playing anything else untill i finish it

You'll get smashed up online if you don't go for the mouse and keyboard though.

Swanny and humour...............Don't mix

Online is a waste of time and all it does is put a fantastic single player game to shame,its tacked on multiplayer is just plain boring and stupid and something you will play for 10 minutes and then decide this is a waste of my time as there are much better deeper games with a lot more going for them online than this.

As a single player game they don't come much better,but as a multiplayer game that don't get much worse,not even as good as Uncharted and i found that pretty dam boring.

Its a expectation in this day and age and gamers expect some sort of multiplayer,but certain games like this and the upcoming Bioshock Infinite [single player only thank god] don't really need multiplayer just a top notch single player experience and Tom Raider is certainly that.

Never cared for trophies either i have no time for them, a better reward structure would be to give players discounts of games for achievements rather than the trophy system.

Yea the trophy's never really appealed to me but on Xbox I liked the achievements as it was points, I think it's a better system than the PS3 one.

In regards to the person who said the comment about keyboard and mouse I would definitely play with that for FPS games on my laptop for single player games like Tomb Raider, Batman etc. I think a controller is much better.

Oh T2D I meant to say as well that on Xbox you do get discount off games for achievements, not a lot mind but if you have 10k you get 1%, 15k is 2% and 25k is 3% I think. I am hoping they offer a 5% one in the future for 50k that would make it a bit more worthwhile. Still when you're a Fifa addict like me buying packs every little helps