GamesRadar - How Tomb Raider's bloody brutality tells her story better than any cutscene could.
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.
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
Yeah, most real hero...
*spends 15 minutes struggling to defend herself, and then killing her first person
"Ermagawd, I just killed someone. I feel so ashamed. How could I do that?"
*spends the next 5 minutes slaughtering 20 people in a row like it's nothing.
When is Gamesradar.com going away? Didn't they just get the ax?
I don't agree Lara Croft is more real than every other current-gen character, but it's definitely a huge step up from what I remember of her character from earlier games.
If nothing else this is excellent example of an origin story reboot, and so far it's my favorite game of this year, which is saying something for me as I hated the earlier tomb raider games.
I disagree with Tomb Raider (2013) coming and doing all these amazing things for the industry. There have been several females leads after the ps1 version and before Tomb Raider (2013) that were strong and likable women. I don't agree that a character NEEDS to be realistic to be likable and relatable.
Look at Spiderman and Ariel (Little Mermaid). Peter goes through a hellish life, but people like spiderman more than Peter. Both of his personas are also human and the events, as supernatural and weird as they may be, does have some relatable basis that people like. The Litter Mermaid is a mermaid that's a rebelious teen that goes out and does crap, yet people relate to her too.
It's not how realistic a character is that makes them appealing, it's the message they convey and follow. Lara and the other characters are heroes that do good things and are typically independent and strong characters. At the end of the day,those characters save people and do the right thing. THAT is what I think people like about characters, not because they're just "realistic". People find Sonic the hedgehog, Ash Ketchum, and megaman relatable too! It's the message of confidence and strength that people like, not their realistic stuff.
Alis (phantasy Star), Samus Aran, Joana Dark, Shanoa, Bayonetta, Faith, were all pretty pretty relatable and likable IMO. then there are the several female side characters that people love, such as Tifa and Yuna, or Zelda.
Lara Croft isn't the center of the world...
'While Tomb Raider’s combat model borrows Uncharted’s seat-of-the-pants chaos, it plays it straight for real drama rather than comedy. And where Nathan Drake’s knockabout, surviving-by-the-skin-of-his-t eeth fighting style is often a smoke and mirrors effect embellished by Nolan North’s various yelps and stumbling mocap actions, in Tomb Raider the closeness of well-organised death is a constant, very real threat'
You see this is exactly what Yatzee was talking about.Drake's danger was very real and so was his hurt and his pain but like he said Drake's pain is to laugh at and Lara's own is to be admired. Drake is not a strong gifted guy he is a joke but Lara is a strong gifted woman because she reacts to danger differently then Drake.We have to admire her because she is a woman who overcomes a bunch of men but Drake is just a goofy person who according to people murders people and therefore is a not a nice person and more of a villain despite the fact that he was killing butchers who slaughter people.But blowing the brains out of her tormentors doesn't make Lara a cold blooded murder but instead makes her a person to be admired because she survived.But Drake surviving his ordeals is not impressive because he reacts to it differently.
Drake's near death experiences are not 'real' threats despite him coming close to death tons of times but people are trying to make Lara's ordeal more real when it isn't any closer to reality then Uncharted is.In short Drake being shot, punched, beaten, almost dying from the cold, burned, blasted etc. is a joke while Lara's ordeal is 'real' and to be admired of course conveniently tossing aside how not real it really is.Because Spiderman makes jokes while he fights does that make his situation or danger any less real then Batman's because he faces Venom about to eat his head with a joke rather then say something depressing or anal like Batman does.Her atmosphere was different from Drake's because she was trapped on an island as opposed to him traveling around the world. But she wasn't more real then anyone else ever was.Two heroes are not more real then the other because they react to danger or a situation differently.
It all breaks down to don't sneer at Lara's orgasmic panting, and Nancy Drew/Kim Possible attitude or any laughable dialogue because she is being 'real' but it is okay to constantly point and laugh at Drake crawling through the snow with a hole in his side because he isn't 'real'