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I feel like this semi-open world formula would work really well in a potential Legacy of Kain remake. Where you have small, open hubs connected by more linear pathways.

Regarding the title, yeah - Rise of the Tomb Raider does fit the 2013 game better. Maybe this one could've been called Legacy of the Tomb Raider. Since it focuses on Lara finishing her father's search for the Divine Source.

Why do you call Lara a “Laura”??

Love this one. My first TR game and still my favourite. I hope it will get a PS5 remaster.

i played the crystal dynamic trilogy when i was 7 and i now relise i need to replay them because icouldnt even understand english back then so ihave no idea what the plot was

Did you like this more than inside?

you kinda sound like Dexter Morgan

You have very good videos and I like to see appreciation for TR, these games are very entertaining and fun but I agree that these games lack story telling. It's like they building this character for something but it feels like they don't know what to do with Lara. I would love to see classic Lara games with the new engine.

Nah the whole Tomb Raider reboot trilogy belongs in the trash

Good stuff, I really enjoyed Rise as well. Potentially my favourite of the survivor trilogy

Great action game. This was the last era game developers focused more on gameplay, not pretty Graphics and visuals like the chore we have now. 🤦‍♂️

TR Legend will always have a special place in my heart. As a kid, i always found the TR games hard, mostly because of puzzles, so i hadn't finished any yet, but still loved them. Until one day, i was playing TR Legend and... the credits started to roll. 10 year old me was exploding with happiness, i actually have tears in my eyes right now just remembering that moment. After that, it was Underworld, Anniversary, the survivor trilogy, you name it. Legend wasn't just the first Tomb Raider that i finished, it was also a turning point for me when it comes to Tomb Raider

The thing that i mostly dislike about Underworld is that there is no proper replay level feature. Yeah, there's treasure hunt, but where are the enemies? I play Legend and Anniversary till this day because of the replay level feature - i can do speedruns and whatnot - but in Underworld it's just not possible at all

Thanks for the review!

I love Singularity. i made a review for it, and I even managed to interview a developer who worked on it.

I like both style of games I’ll play the first one for some nice exploration and after work when I’m over the day I’ll play the second or underworld for the shoot em up feels :)

I'm not sure there are any stat tweaking mods, I do agree with the enemies being too spongy. But you could use cheats to get the best weapons and more ammo. To an extent, you do sound kinda bad at the game Larger environments were considered immersive and impressive at the time, but can feel boring when the sense of novelty is gone

Good fun, and I could see it was a very faithful remake, but I can only add that since I'd never played through the originals there was a lot about this game that was lost on me. It doesn't really stand on its own without that assumed familiarity with the source material.

Good that I played it like twice before as I would consider the visuals presented in this review as spoilers. Also correction Ninja Theory at the time was a larger studio but a team of 20 people were making this game as so called back then AA game putting a lot of effort in visuals (close to big budget games) but making a smaller game released at half price (30$). What is more game had budget of 10M USD/GBP (currency depends on source) and close to none marketing budget in order to keep the budget low. Marketing was done through dev diaries. Game supposed to bring ROI in 6 months (during this time studio planned to sell it full price no discounts) game got ROI after 3 months and all later sales were a pure profit.

some easter eggs: funny the rest of the game: scary eerie creepy

Would you choose this version over anniversary?

Innovative controls!! The tank controls are awful I’d stick with modern controls if your new to these games

This game is way better than anniversary,those centars are maddening

You gained a new sub friend

So, I heard you like concussions...

I'm no doctor, but I'm sure she has brain damage now.

So she didn't have a concussion before she does now

This masterpiece of visual and audio design, with gameplay to match, was produced by a studio that no longer exists. But don't worry, the studio working on Call of Madden 69, Battlefield Ultimate Edition, sponsored by FIFA, is still alive and kicking.

Sad the studio doesn't exist any more.

sterling reference

good review ! it's a shame that they closed the studio

I have never heard worse pronunciation of the game's name like you just did. Thank you for that trauma. Jokes aside, very good game.

I like how you explained yourself, very to the point and clear. Hard agree with the whole video.

I have played the reboot trilogy and liked it a lot, with shadow being the weakest game in the trilogy IMO. I recently picked up Anniversary, Legend and underworld. From what I played I understand why people love the older games, and are pissed off at were Crystal Dynamics is going with the bastardized new look for Lara.

more ugly female chars by woke dei

So is anniversary the same game as the remastered trilogy of the 1st game that just came out?

I strongly disagree that the game is too heavily focused on shooting, it still focuses on exploration and puzzle solving which is the main meat of the game.

I thought this was an incredible remake. Until I revisited TR1 again. Its still a good, fun game but a remake should recapture the magic of the original and Anniversary just didn't really get it.

Thanks for the tip on reducting the voice volume to zero.

Im playing this on my ps2 right now. I literally bought a fat ps2, a memory card, an HD adaptor, and physical copies of legend and anniversary from ebay last week because i was getting sick of dragons dogma2, stellar blade, and rise of ronin

In my day, if the sequel wasn't more challenging than the previous game, it wasn't an achievement.

This game is the proof how to write a "Strong Female" character without being WOKE!

In my first playthrough Zoe lost both parents, so i can understand her being a total mental case. But ultimately Jay killed no one, and made it to Canada and shared a meal with Zoe after she forgave him But in my husband's playthrough, both parents survived. In fact, only two people died in his, that being Dale and Joyce (oops on his end, he said). So Zoe has NO REASON to be a mental case in the end. None, especially with Jay being so nice to her. But in his, Zoe ultimately forgave him and they shared a meal. He got the best ending for everyone. I didn't. Got Michelle killed because motherly instinct kicked in and i sent the kid out during the hostage release. My husband played it straight and knew they wouldnt kill a kid, so he sent Michelle out.

got this game on june 2019 and it still holds a special place for me this is and has been the one of the few games outside of franchises i usually play like resident evil and sonic that i bought very early on and actually liked it

This is my favorite tomb raider

The LAU trilogy is my favorite. I adore these games so much. It’s a shame Underworld had to cut so much content and had such troubled development. Even with its flaws it’s still pretty great.

I bought this remaster precisely for 2 and 3. TR1 is a game I absolutely adore and finished multiple times, and I was very pleased with the updated experience in the remaster. But like I said, I bought it for 2 and 3, since these games I simply coudn't get into back in the days. I was already bad with the controls in TR1 and even finishing it multiple times I never fully mastered them so using them in a combat heavy and a more tight and frustrating level design made me quit everytime I played the sequels. So I was excited to play them with the modern controls. I naturally played TR1 first and finished it in a few days and had a blast with the new controls. Even if they are far from perfect, they work so much better for me so I was able to zip trough the first adventure because they are a set of controls that I am much more confortable with. But the second game proved to be WORSE with them. I don't understand why the implemented a lock on system that beaks wen you try to move away from an enemy and you don't have any means of switching targets yourself. This is completely problematic in crowded fights. And they had the perfect system for this already in the LAU trilogy, they just needed to port it in. The problem with having to slide backwards to be able to grap ledges is fixed with the modern controls tough. No matter wich direction you're sliding, if you hold action lara will save herself.

Tomb Raider 2 gave me a wetsuit fetish way before I was old enough to comprehend what a fetish is.

I loved this game back in the GC... last weekend I was browsing the Xbox store (on my Xbox One X) and I saw they had TimeSplitters 2 and 3 for the original Xbox to play in retrocompatibility mode... and surprise.. both games are enhanced in 4k. They look amazing still.