Gallery: Here's A Closer Look At The New & Old Graphics In Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered

I might actually buy this now … if only for the fact that I love the opening of TR2

@FraserG it is available for pre order on Xbox. Just had to do a bit of searching but have it pre ordered. It seems to be 30 dollars or euro from what ive seen. Dont know the price in pounds

it's pretty much how you would expect them to look if they were remade on the PS2 at the time.

I'm wholeheartedly excited for this.

I'm absolutely thrilled about this, especially as someone who has gone back and played the originals recently and is very aware of the graphical limitations. It'll be lovely just having proper 16:9 without mods.
For people who are unfamiliar with these games: the game is very much one of figuring out not just where to go, but how to successfully navigate the terrain without injury or death. Laura does not move fluidly like you might assume, especially if you are a younger gamer. Navigating platforms require lining yourself up, and gauging not only the length of the gap, but how much of a running start you need before the jump. This ends up meaning that the clear cut tiles the the map is made from is not only a sign of the times the game was developed in, but also a bit of a requirement so that the player can has on clear measurement of distance, so that they can plan their next moves in a way that becomes more and more natural as you play.
This might not make much sense until you play it yourself, but it is a thoughtful sort of puzzle platformer that feels very rewarding to come to grips with.

I never got into these games. I tried the original on PC and found the input response to be terrible. I think a demo was available with my Diamond Monster Voodoo 1 graphics card (back when they were still required to piggyback off the onboard VGA output).

I may give these a try to see what all the fuss was about. Though, I wonder if Tomb Raider Anniversary would be better as it's available via BC. 🤔

i hope they add a gps waypoint thing like in quake 2.

OG Tomb Raider was the first video game I ever player back in Dec 1995!

I just find myself unable to enjoy games from the past for the most part. I like my graphics to be pretty modern, and the controls nice and fluid. I really enjoyed the rebooted Tomb Raider games, but never took the opportunity to play the games when they first came out, and so at this point in time, they hold no interest for me. That said, if the controls have been improved (and I base that on what people are saying about the original games) then I might look to pick these up in a sale, some months from now, though whether my backlog of games would see this as worthwhile, is another matter...

I think the first game of similar quality that I tried from that era, @Darylb88, was the original Resident Evil back in 1996. I played for a few hours and then got stuck, and unable to progress. Kids these days have no idea what it was like back then when you had no internet to turn to to guide you through games. If you got stuck, and had no one else to ask, that was it, game over...! 😂

It will be nice to have the originals to play again. Loved them on PS2 and have all the latest ones on xbox. Nice little collection

@Kaloudz I mean, I've been gaming for like 36+ years, so I'm no stranger to "products of their time", but I certainly welcome more modern QoL improvements to old games.

For example, I really want to try to enjoy Elder Scrolls Arena and Daggerfall, but the controls are atrocious! An overhaul in that avenue would be very welcome.

This will be day 1 for me, and for 30 bucks, just take my money. I’m more excited for this than a lot of the new games coming out.

@Kaloudz I was thinking that, the sphinx one I prefer original too. Sometimes when they change things like this they move too far away from the original artist vision and I don’t like that. Like the jungle one also the sky is now pinky and looks odd compared to the original.

Love the series. No way I can pass this up. Just a huge Tomb Raider fan all the way around. Looking at an original Andy Park Tomb Raider commission on my wall as I type this. Love his depiction of the character. Own a lot of his original comic art for the series. Haven’t delved into the originals in awhile. Should be fun.

Honestly I would've preferred a remake of these games with modern tech.

@Fiendish-Beaver Are you forgetting magazines and Player's Guides? They helped me! 😂

I wonder if these will be better than Tomb Raider Anniversary was for the first one.

No, @EVIL-C, I didn't forget them. Indeed, I almost mentioned them. Truthfully, I was about 35 in 1997, with a young family and a mortgage I could barely afford! I'm not so sure I was even aware back then that magazines existed, and I certainly could not have afforded them...! 😂

@Kaloudz @GamingFan4Lyf With all due respect, Anniversary is atrocious. All the original magic is lost on that one. The grid based traversal is gone, environmental scale is gone. Just no.

Really shocked they skipped last revelation, which was incredible. They picked TR3, which was a huge letdown instead of TR4.

definitely not "Remastered"......