Our PlayStation Enthusiast editor had and never been big on the Tomb Raider franchise; it hadn't tugged on his heartstrings like it did for other gamers. However, when Crystal Dynamics announced they were rebooting the series, and showed off the first trailer for "Tomb Raider", he immediately noticed it's similarities to Uncharted, therefore he was extremely interested.
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.
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.
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
I love the reboot so much but i kinda wished they ditch the multiplayer for a longer campaign because the MP sucked so hard. It felt like a useless waste of resources. Other than that the game was great, way too grounded for a Tomb Raider game but well done.
And i still hope the Dinosaurs makes a comeback in the sequel.
Look I liked the game for what it was but it's not Tomb Raider, you could argue all you like but it's just not.
It was basically Uncharted on steroids with open hubs instead of chapters.
Lara's character development in the game was so poorly done, one minute she's this innocent girl who has never killed and then next she's shooting down enemy after enemy. There is actually a bit where she kills for the first time and she breaks down but it doesn't last, the next few mins after she's on her rampage.
I thought gameplay wise they would of used Stealth near the beginning and make it so there are maybe 3-4 parts where she has to kill, each one would feature a cutscene focusing on her break downs until she gets to her last kill which makes her realise it's all about survival, like maybe she manages to save a friend this time giving off the "It's either them or us" vibe. Then you could ramp up the gameplay and let her take down enemy after enemy since she would of become broken. Yet the whole thing was just so rushed.
I really felt with the game they were too focused on being Uncharted then looking back on the original Tomb Raiders and realise what made people fall in love with them. The puzzles were weak in this game and the tombs were optional...optional tombs in a TOMB RAIDER game. For me Uncharted was a third person shooter-action game first with small puzzle elements and Tomb Raider was a third person, platform-puzzle game first with small third person shooter elements.
As I've said multiple times I think they could of made a better SURVIVAL story out of the original Lara Crofts origin story with her plane going down in the Himalayas. The Himalayas mountains are a harsh environment and who knows story wise she could of stumbled upon a huge, undiscovered underground tomb. I mean they talked about survival in this game yet you had regen health instead of health packs, things which could obviously be found with how many people/explores have died on the Island.
I gave it the benefit of the doubt since it was the first game, but if the sequel does the same then I can't let it pass. It needs to be more Tomb Raider not trying to beat Uncharted.
I'm just fed up of games getting reboot or sequels and look/feel nothing like the originals. They feel like totally different games which could be new IPs if they didn't have the name attatched.
I liked Tomb Raider better than Uncharted 3. Better combat and some fantastic level design.
Disappointing it's not coming to PS4 considering it had the best version of the DE, but it gives me a good excuse to get an X1 at least.
I liked the reboot but it was too Uncharted. They copied a lot from that series but didn't have the magic that pushed it from good to great. Plus Lara was weak. She was always a badass but in the reboot she wasnt. I know that's part of the story but still didn't like that aspect.
TR Reboot is a very good game but its not a great game, for me it will never be in the same league as the original and one of the reasons are, it deviates to far away from what Tomb Raider is about.
It went from being unique to klimbing on the bandwagon.