I loved the 2013 Reboot. yeah it had it's flaws, but it was superbly paced and - whilst not really a Tomb Raider game in any real sense - it was just a shit hot action-adventure game all-round. Lara's arse is not only very shapely, but it gets put through some really painful/brutal shit too, which makes quite erotic.
Rise Of The Tomb Raider is boring as fuck so far. I've just got the assault rifle, and each area up to here has dragged big time. The story is fairly "meh" so far too, but it isn't putting me off the game. What is putting me off is just the general game design itself. The set peices have mostly fallen flat, and no fight or area up to yet has been remotely satisfying.
Does it get any better?
Rise of the Tomb Raider is an OK game, but it's also a very normal game, to its detriment. Tomb Raider 2013 had so many bizarre tonal shifts and odd moments of complete miscalculation that it made the whole thing completely compelling to me. It was a game where the writers were going for "gritty realism," but the game designers were going for "typical 3rd person action game," and the way those motives clashed through out the game was constantly amusing. It's probably one of the most delightfully strange and fucked up AAA games I've ever played. Plus, it helped that the gameplay was actually really fun with tons of great action set pieces inspired by 1980s B action films. I ending up loving TR13 way more than I thought I would.
But, yeah, Rise of the Tomb Raider is totally "meh." All of the growing pangs and rough edges of the first game are completely worked out, to the point that it's more or less just a competently made, but entirely mediocre, 3rd person shooter. Plus, it replaces the superb character arc that Laura goes through in the first game, with a boring fantasy conspiracy plot that I couldn't bring myself to care about. The graphics are really good, though. Hairworks enabled Laura with all the detail turned up looks like something from a CGI movie. So if you are a graphics whore, it's probably worth playing. It just doesn't have the unique spark of TR13.