Discover Lara Croft’s Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored
Play the Original Three Tomb Raider Adventures: For the first time ever, play the complete experience with all expansions and secret levels on modern platforms in this definitive collection.Included Game TitlesTomb Raider I + The Unfin...
Discover Lara Croft’s Original Adventures, Lovingly Restored
Play the Original Three Tomb Raider Adventures: For the first time ever, play the complete experience with all expansions and secret levels on modern platforms in this definitive collection.
Included Game Titles
Tomb Raider I + The Unfinished Business Expansion
Tomb Raider II + The Gold Mask Expansion
Tomb Raider III + The Lost Artifact Expansion
Key Features
Solve Ancient Mysteries: Uncover treasures of the ancient world by solving puzzles and unraveling mysteries lost to the ravages of time.
Globe-trotting Adventure: Follow Lara Croft around the world and face off against deadly foes and dangerous myths.
Lovingly Restored: Experience the classics boasting upgraded graphics, with the option to switch to the original polygon look at any time.
I call it near perfect because they could've made it perfect by adding normal maps to required surfaces & could've added ambient occlusions too. But still I loved it!!
The original Tomb Raiders have aged terribly. I don't just mean the graphics. They control very poorly, as this was 1996 and one of the first true 3D games. The main novelty at the time was an Indiana Jones knockoff in 3D space for the first time. The level design was fine for the time, with combat that's serviceable and a meager distraction from mostly puzzle-solving and annoying platforming.
If you think, well it's a "remaster" TM so it must magically fix everything! Well, no. It's basically just an HD texture pack and updated Lara models Mod. The world itself still remains just as polygonal as it was in the 90s, so the game doesn't feel any less dated graphically, even with the updated textures. At best you could say it improves it to a 2002 era game, being generous.
You do get a more "modern" control scheme in this, but it still feels just as clunky and unresponsive to me as the old one. It's still a chore just to jump and grab on to things (which is most the game.)
There is really zero reason to revisit the original games because in today's world you have a million other Indiana Jones style games that are just much better, including any of the modern TR trilogy or the middle TR trilogy.
Really, I recommend getting Tomb Raider: Anniversary, which came out in 2006 and is an actual proper remake. Controls, engine, gameplay, level design--everything is way better. And it's the exact same story and set pieces as TR 1.
I got this game for free from Amazon and I still feel ripped off.
If you are dead set on being an old school purist, or want the nostalgia then may as well get the actual original releases, which look and feel the same, but at least then you can excuse their extreme datedness because, well, it's the 1996-8 version. And it only costs $1 per game or less, which is more about what these bargain bin shovelware titles are worth.
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