GamesRadar - Lara Croft appeared on Sega Saturn in 1996, and blew everyone away. The technology powering her first adventure is painfully primitive by today's standards. Famously, outside of the pre-rendered cutscenes, her hair is short because her long, braided ponytail proved too much for the game to render properly. Nonetheless, her first outing captured gamers' imaginations, and so there was a sequel. And another. And another.
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.
Crystal Dynamics' daring reboot of Tomb Raider brought Lara Croft back into the spotlight.
An attempt at a reboot with no momentum for continuance. Just a torture-porn trilogy about a poor rich girl with daddy issues reluctantly being pulling into a world of violence, versus say the adventures of a quipping Brit treasure hunter who solves ancient puzzles while gunning down rare and extinct animals that it originally was?
Honestly, don't have all that killing. If the devs had been truly clever, not focused on mangling a message about the senselessness of killing which was seemingly and quickly forgotten, they could have worked, if not bloodlessly then not directly by Laura's hand, dealing with enemies as part of the puzzle solving - they didn't have in the game in the first place...
"Revived a '90s Gaming Icon"
LOL
the only thing similar between the 2 is the name of the protagonist. if they would have given the game a different name, NONE would even think that it was somehow a resurrected Tomb Raider IP. the last game with the real Tomb Raider DNA was TR Underworld.
The Survivor Trilogy was a drastic reimagining of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider, and it provokes changes for the character that are truly fantastic.
Deserves less IMO, i think the 1st in the new trilogy was a perfect 1st step for the new direction. The next 2 games were half steps at best. Not only that, every character in the series including Lara is just annoying and doesn't make sense in terms of motive, like yes they have a motive, but none of it seems proportional to the lengths they are willing to go through for it. The most annoying thing is every one of the games say "become the Tomb Raider" yet 3 games later and we're still not there? No thanks. Then there's the mess of the 3rd game, massive skill tree that serves almost no purpose as there's literally only like 3-4 short encounters in the whole game, and they took till the 3rd game to finally manage some decent puzzles even remotely close to previous games in the series. Nah, the trilogy infuriated me to no end as a long time fan of the series, i hope we get better going forward cause that crap sucked.
Yeah...no
It was awful, for THREE GAMES it was "become the Tomb Raider" where she went back to square one after each game. Not to mention after a huge reaction of killing someone for the first time she then becomes Rambo straight after and goes on a slaughter spree without a single other reaction. Her development was all over the place.
She was whiney, weak and in later game a little arrogant and selfish
Oh and the voice actress compared to the previous ones was not as good
Lara Croft deserved better and while they are decent games as they are, we deserved actual Tomb Raider games, we could have had better survival games if they just stuck with the original Lara Crofts origin about her plane going down. Surviving 2 weeks in the Himalayas...I'd have liked to seen that, who knows what mystical threat she could have faced in the mountains or underground some secret concealed cave.
2013 I thought was a fine entry, but Rise and especially Shadow were painfully mediocre follow ups imo, I really didn't like how selfish and angry her character was in those two.
First one was decent, played through it twice.
Second one was okay, played through it once.
Third one was really bad, tried twice a year apart, still can't get through the first two hours, it is just really bad.
The original was hard, made you think, had real puzzles, real challenges, you really had to concentrate and think about what you were doing. From this difficulty, and lack of immediate backstory there was an atmosphere surrounded in mystery. It's amazing how a game could improve so much cosmetically yet lose so much in terms of challenge. The recent installment "Tomb Raider" was just like pretty much any story driven game these days, it played itself, sure there were a few tricky bits along the way, but it really didn't want you to get stuck at any point otherwise you might stop playing. I must be in the minority, but getting stuck in a game is a challenge and that is what keeps me interested.
There's more than one tomb raider game?
my favorite in order tr 3-2-1-underworld-4.. Worst i played legend. anniversary and i guess you can add the fake tr 2013. last have never played tr5 or angel of darkness
The worst one is the one I can't play because of a stupid exclusivity clause. -_-
LOL...the Reboot is first are you kidding me
It's a good game on it's own but best TOMB RAIDER game...no, just no. There's hardly anything in the game which makes you think "Gee this is a great TOMB RAIDER game" as it lacks most things which made up past TR games.
"What a game. What an utterly sensational game. Easily in the same league as Uncharted 2"
Not even close.
Really can't believe the first three TR games aren't in the top three. Legends, Anniversary, Underworld, Temple or Osiris and Guardian of Light before them (sigh)