IGN:While it can be argued that multiplayer extends the shelf-life of a game, keeping people engaged and preventing them from trading it in after a month, players and publishers alike have begun questioning whether or not high-profile titles like Tomb Raider truly need it in order to survive. 2K and Irrational Games are betting it doesn’t with BioShock Infinite, and it seemed Lara’s journey would be a solo one too. And guess what? Everyone was, by all anecdotal accounts, fine with that.
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
Don't immediately jump on my back for this, i'm not using this in a derogatory way whatsover, but all i see is Uncharted multiplayer when i see footage of Tomb Raider. That online mode of capturing med packs and bringing them back to base is pretty much a carbon copy of Blunder which has been used in Uncharted since Among Thieves in 2009 (fighting over a golden idol you need to fight over and bring back to base). Just because a med kit is a survival item, placing it in an gun-ho online environment doesn't make it anymore a "survival" experience than Uncharted.
And to be drawing comparisons from one of this gens, if not the THE best action adventure gameg of this gen, is no bad thing and they should relatively flattered on both sides that people want to copy Uncharted and that Tomb Raider is being pegged alongside a modern classic like Uncharted.
I get that they are pushing it out as something and new and different, which technically it is since the only other game to do this style is a single IP on a single platform in Uncharted...
But everything from the over the shoulder view, the character movement, the aiming, how the guns fire, the vertical environments and traversing, even down to the drake-esque multiplayer character that showed in another video that not only sounded like Nolan Norths drake, but had the reluctant, excited hero tone going "aw yeah!" "take THAT" and laughing and jibing etc.
I really want this game to be great, but i feel they have strived so far off from it's originally shown survival based roots.
The only thing that annoys me about the criticsm about this multiplayer is how people are comparing it a lot to Uncharted.
Im sorry but really?
No one compares Homefront's to Battlefield? No one hardly compares Gears of War 3 beast most to Dead Space 2 to Left 4 Dead, but when Tomb Raider, a game I know will do well, suddenly has similarities to Uncharted (basically you could call the multiplayer Uncharted for multiple platforms) all hell breaks loose.
I hate to say it, but this does look a lot like Uncharted.
Really looking forward to this game, not sure why people are so hung up with comparing it to other games, pretty much any game that releases has similarities with other games or movies.