Richard Wakeling, Thunderbolt writes:
The original Tomb Raider was a seminal title. Female protagonists were almost unheard of at the time; Lara Croft quickly became an important shot in the arm for the video game industry, propelling to her icon status as she graced the covers of magazines, advertised sports drinks and made the jump across mediums to Hollywood and the silver screen. A woman in a video game? A novel concept for the time, one lauded purely for the fact she was a playable female. But she wasn’t a real woman, far from it. Her characterisation was non-existent, left to stand alone as a polygonal sex object of ridiculous proportions. More cartoon character than a real person. Her rise was an important step, for sure, but one that still had a long, long way to go before she was anything more than a voyeuristic giggle for 14-year old boys and their nude cheat codes.
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
Don't get me wrong, I think it's a great game, but her attitude threw me off. She's always b!tching and moaning to Roth uh please come get me, uh i dun wanna do this, uh dang it I was hopin u wudn't make me do that, wah wah wah. It's just not Lara Croft. She lost both her parents at a very young age she should know how to look after herself very well by then.