Matt Randisi writes, "Lara Croft has had quite a bit of gossip surrounding her ever since the first trailer for her big reboot was revealed; most notably concerning if a Tomb Raider game in this day and age be able to succeed in a genre ruled by the high king himself, Nathan Drake. Problem? People seem to be judging this based on how different Crystal Dynamic’s iteration will be from Naughty Dog’s kingpin. Solution? Don’t! I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, molds don’t have to be broken for a great game to emerge from the proverbial ashes; especially when it’s a reboot of a franchise that has spent quite a bit of time in ashes. After spending some time with the game I can say with confidence that Tomb Raider is in actuality strikingly similar to an Uncharted title in several ways; this however is not necessarily a bad thing."
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
Instead of comparing both games try to enjoy both for what they are , that's what im gonna do
I would rather they stuck to doing their own thing than completely ripping off uncharted.
I played the Tomb Raider demo and it was practically just a re-skin.
Very disappointing.
I like the UC series and the TR series. I am sure I will like this TR even if it is alot like UC. They seem to be making Lara more human I thought she was allways a kind of a cold character.
uncharted clone.
And to the lara fangirls plz shush....play the originals TB till underworld or legend then play uncharted,now that u did that see this new tomb raider and see uncharted....clearly if someone copy another thats crytsal dynamics end of story.
this game looks more uncharted than uncharted did (if it ever did)with the old TB games.