Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft Review | Xbox Series X | NoobFeed

NoobFeed Editor Jay Claassen writes - Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft is a somewhat solid remaster with some interesting improvements, but the issues mentioned earlier can still cause what should be a fun experience to come grinding to a halt. While there are some interesting improvements and new features, it feels like this remaster could’ve been handled a lot better or instead turned into a remake to really reignite an old fandom that has long since moved on.

[BrainSyphoned]

Didn't want a remake. Modern game design isn't special.

[Rude-ro]

I bought it… 11 minutes later asked for a refund.

Not because it is not a remake or modern graphics…
The “updated” controls are unusable.
Since that was a part of their marketing, that was what I expected to be “modern”…
Nope.

Nit picking, but zero updates to the cut scenes was a “really?” moment.
15fps?

Had the controls been truly updated, I would not have been disappointed.

This does feel like a cash grab though more than anything.

Although clean via graphics, very little difference other than pixel count and a couple other clean ups,

Walking up to a lever and trying to align yourself to pull it was beyond nauseating.
Basically going from normal controls to inverted controls due to the camera getting stuck deciding what it is you want to do.

[Seth_hun]

But thats the thing. The game is built around that tank control in mind. Its grid based. They need to completely rebuild the game from scratch for it to work with any other control method. There is many many rooms, where you can barely progress with that new analogue control whats trivial with the classic control. You need maybe 3 stages to learn the tank controls, its very precise and easy

[TiredGamer]

Sigh. Everything is a “cash grab” to people today. Fine, sure. Any game placed out there for purchase is a cash grab. Nobody is putting in hundreds/thousands of work hours to gift a game to you.

This collection is excellent, and the aesthetic and graphical improvements are fantastically done to revamp a classic series. The original Tomb Raider trilogy were quite rough even then, but they were pushing the limits of the tech of their day. This is not just a texture reskin, as evidenced by the care put into updating character models and changing some of the geometry to correct the lighting and skybox limitations of the original titles.

The modern controls are not perfect, but aside from a few tweaks that I think could be made, they are decent considering that grid nature of game. The option to use the original controls is always there, and still work well.

Considering all of the tasteful graphical enhancements during gameplay, to get worked up about not completely recreating a couple of minutes of cutscenes is interesting. To each their own.

In my opinion, this is one of the nicest remasters to come out, especially with all of the graphical updates, quality of life improvements, and extra DLC content included. A wonderful collection like this that is available on all modern platforms has been long overdue for fans of the series.

[Michiel1989]

I understand you're disappointed by that, but the whole game is based on a grid system for movement. If they wanted to get rid of the tank controls it would basically mean revamping the entirety of the game. every part of the environment is based on tiles, that's why all those small little jumps to allign yourself always will get you to the same spot.

[Rebel_Scum]

“ Although clean via graphics, very little difference other than pixel count and a couple other clean ups, ”

Very little difference? They re-did all the models and environments.

[Rude-ro]

@seth
“The game is built around the tank control”..

No. Or part of the marketing would not have been “updated controls”.

I get what you are saying, but that is more saying how it played, not how it should play,

[Rude-ro]

@rebel

Not really.
They re-painted the same textures..
But obviously 1000x more pixels.

Bushes etc were updated.

Laura looked clean.
But that was the most amount of remodeling.

[MrBaskerville]

I like how the new controls work. They are more accesible but works within the rules of the game.

Something people don't realize is that if you hold jump, Lara always jumps from the edge, making things a lot easier. And you can't fall over an edge if you walk

[Dfooster]

I'm two thirds of the way through the first game and there's been 3 cut scenes so far. If your beef is things like that then yeah these games are not for you.

For everyone else getting lost in these labyrinthian levels again is a dream come true. The visual upgrades are just done right to preserve the original game but to also modernise them.

[badz149]

I was puzzled by this release too. If you really want to play the old games again, just go and play TR Legends and Anniversary. Way better controls out of the gate. Not this nostalgia crap

[SimpleSlave]

Night Dive Studios would've taken the old graphics and give them a nice new light rig and a plethora of graphical options. They understand how to allow you to have the best Retro Experience with the modern QoL we've all come to expect. See games like Shadow Man Remastered, Quake, Quake 2, and Powerslave Exhumed for excellent examples of this.

You'd think other studios would learn from this but then you'd be wrong.

[Ninver]

Wow. The disappointment continues. Why can't they ever get it right?

[jznrpg]

No physical copy so I’m waiting on it

[CrimsonWing69]

That’s not my experience with this, like at all.

[RhinoGamer88]

Crystal D cocked this up! Lara is pissed!

[ROCKY28]

CD has been making mistakes left & right for the last 3-4 years, if not longer...
Many of the great employees have been replaced with mindless fools in creative services and other heads that are now in place and have been basically fired from every past position but somehow tripped in CD and now is ruining the company as they did with past publishers until the CEO/President realizes the true issues within... wake up CD...