Tomb Raider is a long running and well known franchise in the gaming community. However how about we take a trip down memory lane, to see how the games developed over time and appreciate what the franchise offered to gamers.
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.
PC Tomb Raider fans can continue to experience and enjoy entirely new parts of Tomb Raider 2 with Nicobass' ongoing remake.
Darren writes: "Tomb Raider: Legend had the important but difficult job of rebooting a series that had lost its way both on the small and big screens. Since then, we’ve seen that Lara Croft is a resilient character and is still going strong 25 years after first shimmying into our lives."
Once a great series of games, now a clone of its clone.
Those screenshots are funny, as the series progresses, her boobs get rounder. Damn they look dangerous in the original - Could poke an eye out on those jaggies.
Just started rebuilding my game collection after selling them all last year...
Found Tomb Raider 2, 3 and Lost Revelations but not the original yet! Great games.
After playing on Tomb Raider II and Tomb Raider III it's really made me not like the reboot more. Great game but as a Tomb Raider game....Good God.
Honestly, reminding yourself what TR was like makes it sad why they changed the direction of the franchise into a full on action shooter.
Tomb Raider, the original game, was about the adventure. The game came with instructions on how to operate the character but that was it.
There was minimum music that only played when something happened to point you in a direction. I loved hearing echos and the sounds of the game itself. It was quiet and you focused on how to advance through the game by investigating and wondering around to solve the puzzles.
That was a great game. 2 was pretty good. The rest sucked because they wanted to BRAND Lara Croft and make the story about HER instead of the adventure. Like tons of Sony stuff, they OVERHYPED the later games about Lara and blah blah.
Tomb Raider was ruined forever.
For those us who loved the original game, you could have put a monkey to be the lead role and it would not have mattered. The game play was what made the game.
Tomb raider ii and iii were my favs and anniversary too.The reboot was so laughable,all I saw was an uncharted and hunger games clone.mainstream is killing all our beloved franchises