Picked it up and finished the game all within the span of a single day...
As my first Tomb Raider game that, naturally, is a reflection on just how easy the title plays (as I am not that great a platform-esque gamer). Having said as much, the game was appealing enough. Leaving aside the manner in which the developers butchered the Norse mythos by tying it inexplicably into those of other entirely distinct cultures, and the inclusion of a rather odd winged-woman (I suppose I'd have to play the other games to truly understand the TR-canon), the game slips by with a plausible enough premise to make the jumping-hopping-and-scaling more than just a simple means-to-the end experience.
Once more, as my first Tomb Raider game, I cannot speak informatively in regards to the technical aspects of the game, however, I personally found the camera to pose a problem in only the rarest of circumstances, the levels to be well-planned, the puzzles simplistic, yet still lending a certain enjoyable sense of accomplishment when solved and the graphics to be truly top-notch stuff. Sure, the two-dimensional backdrops in some of the levels can be a little off-putting and Lara's distinctly "cartoonish" look (when closely examined she has almost no gradient to her skin and her hair is composed of brush-strokes) clashes on occasion with the realistic ambient-environment, yet it all retains a very polished look. What's more, the environs themselves all retain a grand and imaginative scale.
While the few reviews I have perused thus far have been rather less-than-flattering, I personally enjoyed the game so much that I've already sent off for copies of it's Crystal Dynamics-developed predecessors.