There's a moment in Tomb Raider where you drop into a room full of armed psuedo-religious nutjobs and instead of going in for the rape/kill straight away, they collectively panic and one tries shouting a proposition at Lara from behind cover to work together for the moment to take on the bigger threat of what's breaking down doors and rape/killing men.

There's no change to a cutscene format, no button prompts, just him talking. It came out of nowhere and delighted me for a few seconds before the other nutjobs pull nutjob rank and tell him he's an idiot before another spat of combat begins.

Point is this never happens again. Rest of the game i'm plugging arrows into eyesockets King Harold style and it's just a slaughter. The combat in Tomb Raider is great in itself; it's slick and tight and all other manner of sexual innuendos but as a gamer i'm getting depressed with it. Really depressed. It's going beyond needing context for the slaughter. I just don't want to kill people anymore. I want to let people live or have the option to at least try and do so.

tldr I want dynamic combat that accounts for surrender and AI having strong self preservation. I Am Alive tried this and largely cocked it up.