So game designers acknowledged that a pin-up girl was problematic, but responded with “realism” that was not so real. Now, in 2012, Tomb Raider has another reboot that attempts to make Lara realistic through… vulnerability?
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
There's another aspect of the new Lara that they haven't highlighted much. It may be acceptable for them to break her down physically to build her back up as a hardass - I can't tell yet. But what we also know from the various developer Q and A sessions is that she will no longer be an aristocrat, not longer be a university educated archaeologist and may not even be 100% English any more. So they are reducing her status not only by making her weak physically but by fiddling with her iconic status as a English woman, making her dumber and less independently wealthy. It's as if they really hate the classic Lara Croft. I guess an feisty British antihero beholden to no man was too much for them, so they decided to go for the sexist and vaguely racist route to better "control" their "property".