It must have been better than the second, as I gave up on the second in the snowy mountains. I found a lot of it quite obvious and lots of quite repetitive bits.
However, the action set pieces were exciting and it was a very competent game. I wasn't as enamoured by it as I was the first, but it must have been good for me to play right through.
I started Tomb Raider last week as that was also free. It's okay, but it's like a mix of Heavy Rain/Beyond: Two Souls and Uncharted. Like there was sudden realisation that those games have redefined story led adventures and they needed to nab the best bits to reignite Tomb Raider.
It's wonderful because Uncharted was the "fresh start" the Tomb Raider type of games required and rightly stole Laura's crown. So it taking the best bits from Sony's two best exclusive game series and putting it into Tomb Raider was a sound move. I don't think it's as good as either series, but it's still a decent game
I bought
Knack for the PS4 two weekends ago and I've been playing through it with Maxi-Minor_Furie. It's a pretty simple, dull, repetitive game, much like the Lego games with similar series of corridors/rooms with the same walk in, beat things up, collect the remains, move on kind of thing. Only it doesn't have puzzles you can only complete by going back (but you need to replay to unlock all the different gadgets and enhancements for Knack).
It's essentially very bland, with a very obvious and poorly written story. It's definitely a kid's game though. It's designed to be a simple. cartoon pleasure for children starting to look at gaming. I like that multiplayer has the player as Knack as the lead who does everything, and the second player is essentially an invisible helper. The idea being that an adult can come in to help their kid play through any bits they're struggling with, but without taking the glory.
It's not a good full price early next gen release (like say, Heavenly Sword was for the PS3 - a game which is still great today), but it was worth the £25 I paid and it's given the two of use lots of really good family gaming time together. We enjoyed it more than Lego Marvel on the PS4.
I'm still bumbling through GT6 too, I load it up for twenty minutes every day to grab some races. It's more like farming than anything else. Racing to keep my multiplier in so I can earn enough money to buy a car I may need in the future. I find it all kind of futile, but every so often a race or car does give something back.
