Tomb Raider: Anniversary

[Jo269976]

I'm sure by now a lot of you will have heard that Tomb Raider is being remade in a sort of way. Tomb Raider Anniversary is a basic remake in the game, not an excat replica but it will feature the same plot and all the key moments of the original. The game uses the Legend engine which means Lara still has her autograb, and she will have more new abilities. The levels that have been confirmed are The Caves, City Of Vilcabamba and.... THE LOST VALLEY!!
Here are the facts which are known:


From the Anniversary Trailer, it seems Keeley Hawes will be reprising her role from Tomb Raider: Legend as Lara Croft.
Zip and Alistair will not return, so no headset.
Lara has no PDA, PLS or Binoculars, but the grapple has returned in the form of a hook grapple. It is not magnetic.
Lara will use her classic pistols (Browning 9MMs).
Dual Uzis and the shotgun are confirmed to make a return.
Enemies include Raptors, Bears, Wolves, Bats...
No human enemies have been confirmed yet.
The Lara model has been upgraded with more polygons and has inherited some new moves (one is said to be a pole hopping move where Lara can balance on narrow ledges.)
The levels are bigger than they were in the original, as Lara now moves faster than before
The T-Rex Will Make A Return!!!!! :D :D :D


Not convinced? Here's the trailer!: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vxl6dt4eMhM

The game will be released on PS2, PSP and PC.

Hopefully this will be an amazing return for one of gamings most successful franchises and one of the worlds most famous faces, Lara Croft: The Tomb Raider!

[MadPirateBunny]

Lara ... Shiver.. Talk about your major badass. Even BEFORE the sexy Mrs Pitt played her. Which, by the way, I heard, that once she looses baby fat they're making a new movie. Then again it could be just a rumor made to tease us.


um ... where were we ... oh yeah.. the remake. I want to be Lara Croft when I grow up. :D

[Peanut]

I really enjoyed Legend, so we'll see how things go when it comes to this one. I think the got the platforming/exploration stuff right in Legend, but the combat was a bit lacking. While it was pretty cool for awhile, it wore a little thing, especially when you were fighting 5+ guys at once.

[MadPirateBunny]

OH CRAP! I had turned the sound up for the Lara vid but forgot to turn it back down. So when I made the mistake of clicking on the 'Shiggy " in Peanut's sig, suddenly, not only did I have multiple jigging dudes on my screen, but, I swear my hair flew back from the unepected blast of music.

Note to self: don't do that agian.

[LogicDonny]

I heard the psp version will be as fantastic as the pc and ps2 version.. I can't wait..

The original was good and still is teh best.. I never beaten the game but got very far and it was hard.

[Jed]

I might pick this up for PC, I'm kinda put off by the lack of a 360 version though and I don't see myself going back to the PS2 to play it.

[Jo269976]

I'm looking forward to complaining how hard St. Francis' Folly is and being really freaked out by Atlantis and it's...inhabitants :o

[Toonami Tom]

I wish this game was on XBox 360 or PS3. Oh well.... I will just buy the PS2 version.

[Zachatello00]

I might pick this up for PC, I'm kinda put off by the lack of a 360 version though and I don't see myself going back to the PS2 to play it.

Well, there's always hope. Legend eventually came out on Gamecube, a fact that I once only dreamed about, knowing it would never come to be. So keep your fingers crossed. :D

[Jo269976]

The box art has now been released and I have to say...I'm very impressed!!!
The Scion looks amazing and Lara looks better than ever!
Plus it's a 16, more death, more blood, no blackouts!?!?!?






http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/images/tombraideranniversary_box/screen001.jpg

[LogicDonny]

thanks for the update.

I am still wondering if I shou;d preorder this.

BTW, anyone go back to the old ps1 tomb raider games and re-play them?

[Barkworm]

Oh god, no! I loved the first one back then but it's unplayable now. It aged horribly.

[Jo269976]

I recently played and completed the original to prepare myself for Anniversary and it's just as good as any other game in my opinion, it's about Gameplay and not Graphics for me. I am also planning to complete the entire series before the end of the year, So far in Tomb Raider II I'm in 40 Fathoms and in Tomb Raider III I'm in the High Security Compund (first destination after India).

Oh yeah, UPDATE!!!!!! NEW TRAILER!!!

I uploaded the second trailer onto Youtube a few days ago, it shows a LOT more gameplay and I have to say the game looks incredible both visually and gameplay!!

Tomb Raider Anniversay Trailer #2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_UEPqo83RRk)

[LogicDonny]

wow! i got to get this.

too bad it's not coming to the xbox 360.

[Peanut]

wow! i got to get this.

too bad it's not coming to the xbox 360.

Yeah, that means there's no way in hell I'll ever play this game. What a horrible oversight.

[LogicDonny]

Yeah, that means there's no way in hell I'll ever play this game. What a horrible oversight.

you got a psp.

[Jo269976]

It's coming out on PC as well y'know :ohwell:

[Jed]

There's a very slim chance I'll pick this up for the PC, should have been on the 360 and I would have snapped it up. Legend was great even though it was simple.

[Jo269976]

Yeah, Legend was far too simple for a Tomb Raider game.

You should try the originals, some puzzles take days to complete! :o

[Jed]

I played all the originals as they came out, they were great games. Chronicles sucked though, that one was pretty easy until you got to either Ireland or the big facility place and then it just got crazy hard.

[Jo269976]

New Update!

Actually there have been a lot but here's two of the best.

This first one is a trailer focusing on one of Tomb Raider's most famous levels, St. Francis' Folly....It still seems like a death-trap of a level like the original one! :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaq38PhEWfA

The second....? See or yourself!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRij-jboGhA :D :D :D :D :D

[Jed]

Looks really good, it's still a shame about the lack of a 360 version.

[LogicDonny]

Looks really good, it's still a shame about the lack of a 360 version.

ya it's kinda disapointing this isn't on 360 but having it on psp for me. yay!

Anyways, um what I like about the 2nd cutscene is the interactive of it reminds me of re4 when I played it.

This game looks good.. It been years since I play the original back on pc.

[Jo269976]

There's been a fest of new videos, catch them on my Youtube profile

http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=Jo269976

Each new video I will upload.

[Jed]

So did anyone else get this? I got it about 2 weeks ago and it's really good (and addictive). I'm about 10 hours through it and I just got to Natla's mines (first Atlantis level), I don't think it's as difficult as everyone says, but that's probably because I've finished all the TRs cept for AOD.

[Jo269976]

Yeah, I thought the thread had died so I didn't bother posting.

I love this game!!!! :D

It may not be extremley hard like some of the other Raiders but some parts were very difficult such as Obelisk Of Khamoon, Tomb Of Tihocan, Sanctuary Of The Scion and Tomb Of Qualopec to name but a few!!

The game gets better and Atlantis is amazing!!

This is probably the best TR game I've ever played, if not the best game I've ever played!

The similarities from the original to the remake are incredible, I'm glad the Folly rooms were expanded upon...Damocles was a deathtrap!!!!

CD have really done us proud and showed they can make an excellent, quite hard, atmospheric and just down-right incredible Tomb Raider game.

[Brodie]

I played the demo....should I snag this for PC?

[Jed]

Definetly, if you liked Legend or even the old Tomb Raiders you'll like it. It's much better than all the Tomb Raiders before it.

[Brodie]

Do you guys know if you can use the X-Box 360 controllers with this game on PC?

[Jed]

I'd say so, in the options you can change all the controls to what ever you want. I use a PS2 controller with Pinnacle Game Profiler though because I couldn't get the camera controls to map to the PS2 right analog stick without it, the game was impossible before I did that.

[Jed]

Sorry about the double post, Tomb Raider Anniversary possibly available on 360 as downloadable episodic content: http://www.gamespot.com/news/show_blog_entry.php?topic_id=25682978&sid=6172109&om_act=convert&om_clk=newstop&tag=newstop;title;3.

I'm never paying for a copy of it unless it comes on a disc as a full game.

[Duke]

I think it's a horrible idea to release the game in chunks over the XBL marketplace. I doubt I'd ever buy a game that way.

[Peanut]

It depends on how expensive it is, really. But either way, there's a difference between true episodic content, and just chopping a game up and releasing it in pieces.

[Brodie]

I totally dig this, especially with the 360 controller. And the hardest puzzles though so far were in Croft manner...lame.