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Video: Touch control rage with Tomb Raider 2 for iOS

"No."

What a time to be alive. Tomb Raider 2, a game that originally launched for the first PlayStation back in 1996, is now available on iOS. It'll set you back £1.49 and includes all the original cut-scenes and the Golden Mask expansion pack.

Now, I remember that game being tricky enough to navigate back then with a full-sized controller, so you can imagine how intuitive and responsive it is now after the move to iOS. Here's precisely 12 minutes and five seconds of video man Ian Higton shouting, swearing, and grumbling over Tomb Raider 2's touch screen controls; we'll just skim over the part where he erroneously claims that tigers can't swim.

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