CVG- "We've got faith in Crystal Dynamics. Their last game, Underworld, was a good mix of action, exploration and freeform puzzling - so it makes sense that they'd refine that formula, rather than devote themselves to flashy action. But they aren't doing themselves any favours by showing levels that go against everything they've promised: that it's about survival, and that Lara is a more grounded, believable character than we saw in the other games.
Frankly, it doesn't make any difference to us whether this is old Lara or a modern Lara: all we want is a good Tomb Raider game that lets us explore exotic environments, solve puzzles and, y'know, maybe raid some tombs. At E3 we saw a glimpse of a new scavenging system that enables Lara to upgrade items by collecting scrap from around the island, but the idea seemed a little half-baked. Hopefully Crystal Dynamics will build on the shooting and climbing, and flesh out the survival aspect. That's what could set this apart from the likes of Uncharted."
Tomb Raider I, II, III Remastered is available now on PC, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. Lara Croft is back in a classic remaster of the original PlayStation 1 hit title. Is the remaster any good though?
We've gone on many adventures with Lara Croft. With another reboot in the making, Wealth of Geeks felt it was a good time to go down the nostalgia rabbit hole and remember the best of those tomb-raiding thrills.
I do agree that Tomb Raider Angel of Darkness was the worse one 😂 I remember playing some of it and I took it back. That game was just awful in every way. I bought it used at gamestop and glad they had that 7 day return policy for used games 😂
Simple. He's been hating on the Tomb Raider reboots for years. I can't imagine seeing them at the top of a best TR game list let alone being on the list in general sitting well with him because of it.
Zeek
“Hating”
No no, just pointing out how TR mutated into a generic action adventure game losing the appeal of what it once was when it was more about puzzles and platforming over going Rambo, slaughtering waves of enemies
But hey, continue being a dick and speaking about me like I’m not going to see the comment.
Foxtrot, I'm curious if you have played the most recent games. Sure the 2013 reboot was hugely focused on combat, but each follow up became less and less about combat to the point where outside of a few large scale story missions I don't even remember combat being a part of shadow of the tomb raider. Shadow was so puzzle focused it actually was a bit much for me and I love the TR puzzles.
I still feel like Rise was the best of the series and I was a huge fan of the originals. To me it struck the perfect balance of exploration, platforming, puzzles, and combat. Not saying your opinion is wrong I'm just curious what you think they should have done different. Games do need to evolve somewhat to stay relevant. Would you prefer small linear jumping platform levels like the original?
I think Shadow wasn't even develop by crystal dynamics. I thought it was the worse in the new trilogy
That's right. Shadow was developed by Eidos Montreal who who went and made Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy next. (Great game)
Meanwhile after Rise of the Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics made Marvels Avengers. (bad game)
For me, Legend should be alot higher (along with the other two ). Shadow, I enjoyed it, but has too much has fluff, as modern games tend to do. Playing the remastered series, and apart from the controls, is very good.
I really enjoyed the first 2 games, Legend and the first of the reboots and the rest I didn’t get into so I never finished.
Completely subjective list. I really liked Underworld, I preferred Lara's design. That said I loved the horror/uncharted feel of the reboot. I think all the TR games have strengths and weaknesses. None are objectively better in every way.
Like the film or television industry, the world of gaming has seen its fair share of reboots over the years. While some of these video game reboots have had
The irony is 3 Uncharteds later people are asking if Tomb Raider can set itself apart from the series tht was actualy inspired by Tomb Raider. Crazy how that works..
Uncharted is an amazing series but there is definately room on the adventure front for a a fresh reboot of Laura.
Evil
I'm pretty sure the Indiana Jones movies was the inspiration to do Tomb Raider the game series, but to entice the gaming audience during those times which would be still male dominated was to make a switch to a female character. The only problem afterwards was the game franchise really didn't evolve as quickly and now fast-forward to the Uncharted series they showed how it is done and more so switch back to the re-booted version of Tomb Raider this gave them the inspiration to do just that. Hence the irony.