As regular readers will know, every week TheGamer runs a collaborative article called 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Big Question. In it, different editors give their own answer to 🍨a gaming specific questi🌄on as we invite our readers to answer it themselves in the comments on social media. In any case, last week’s Big Question was which game should get a remake, and in light of the fact that most of my favourite games have had remakes, I opted for Tomb Raider without really elaborating on why. Here, if you’ll indulge me, is that elaboration.
In my short answer to The Big Question, I wrote about the strange position the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tomb Raider series is currently in. We have had three distinct eras in Tomb Raider, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:the Original Era, the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Legend Trilogy, and the Survivor Trilogy. The Original Era is the first four g💞ames, which were then given a series reboot by Angel of Darkness. Unfortunately, Angel was a misfire all-round, so it doesn’t belong to any era, but instead slips through the cracks. The Legend trilogy, which includes Legend, Anniversary, and Underworld, is a soft reboot from Angel and clearly distinct from the Original Era. Meanwhile, the Survivor Trilogy, the three most recent games, were a hard reboot which took place before any of the other games in existence. The next Tomb Raider is supposed to marry up the Legend Trilogy and the Survivor Trilogy, but this seems impossible given they are distinct timelines with different events and characters - here’s where the remake comes in.
[Note: Yes, this was written before PlayStation Premium was announced! However did you guess?]
Let’s look at the Survivor Trilogy first, even though it shouldn’t be the era getting a remake. I defend these three games more than most (168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Rise is Lara’s second best game ever after Legend, while 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Shadow has one of the best tombs), but they’re the most recent games out there having all hit shelves in the past ten years. Aside fromꦇ the gra🌸phical tune-up they’ve already gotten, no remake is needed, especially as an all-in-one collection already exists. For the other two though, I’m not so sure what I want - but I am sure Tomb Raider needs some kind of catch-up set betwee🤪n Shadow and whatever comes next.
The most likely scenario seems like a Legend Trilogy remake, a la Crash Bandicoot N.Sane or Spyro Reignited. The same three games but polished up to a modern standard. That would let us play through all three games that are going to link up to what comes next; it’s unclear if the deal is that the next Tomb Raider essentially follows on from Underworld, but with the Survivor Trilogy accounted for, or if there’s an attempt to fully stitch them together. For the former, that would mean thinking of it like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Star Wars: Legend, Anniversary, and Underworld were Episodes 4, 5, and 6, while Tomb Raider, Rise, and Shadow were 1, 2, and 3, with the new g🍷ame acting as Episode 7 and the start of a sequel trilogy of sorts. The latter meanwhile would make the next game a relatively direct sequel to Shadow, but folding in characters (and possibly the globetrotting sensibilities) of the Leg꧅end Trilogy rather than the full story.
Legend’s Lara is not just an older character, she’s a very dಌifferent person. She’s quippier, cockier, and more of an action hero. She’s a femme fatale bombshell - 🍬she’s Angelina Jolie. Survivor Lara is much more grounded and human. Less exciting maybe, but much more caring and connected to the world around her - she’s Alicia Vikander. The Legend games take you to a host of different places while the Survivor Trilogy keeps you pinned to one place and getting to learn its culture, not just participate in explosive set-pieces in typically gorgeous locales.
Either way, getting to play the Legend Trilogy as a refresher - or for the first time for new fans - is probably going to be useful background information. Plus, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:it’s the best era of Lara Croft so why wouldn&rsqu💜o;t🤡 I want Tomb Raider Reignited?
Of course, I wouldn’t say no to the Original Era getting an N.Sane-style remake either, and if anything those games are more in need of the polish and could be brought to life even more in t♌he modern era. Still not much chance of us ever seeing Angel live up to its intriguing premise, but there is lots that could be done with Tomb Raider. As far as the next game goes though, Legend Era makes a lot mor𒅌e sense, especially as it includes an Original Era remake anyway with Anniversary.
Unfortunately, with the Tomb Raider team having been ♎apparently drafted in to help work on Perfect Dark, Lara’s next adventure could be further away than ever. But that&rsqu🅘o;s all the more reason to let another studio get to work on putting a modern day shine on one of the older eras to tide us all over. It might be a long wait until the next Tomb Raider game, but it doesn’t have to be.