Lara's melee attacks have been stripped out, as have the showy, scripted environmental interactions. The animals' lack of projectile weapons (or the prehensile digits to operate them) and their charging attack patterns force a different rhythm on fights. This is because, in keeping with the original game, you'll largely be fighting beasts, not men: wolves, bats, panthers, dinosaurs - seems time has been forgetting itself and mislaying valleys again, the sieve-for-brains. The game's desolate atmosphere has also required a few small changes to Legend's combat system. The sheer scale of the ruins dwarfs the original game. They're also even better suited to the returning Time Trials.
Even in the early levels we've played - all in Peru, the first of the game's four locations, which also include Greece and Egypt - the scale and intricacy of the environments are a step up from Legend's, and the routes through the biggest complexes of rooms are noticeably less linear. Anniversary is all about Lara, alone, making her way through frighteningly huge and deserted ruins, negotiating traps and puzzles with the bare minimum of equipment. In attempting to recreate the feel of the original Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics has reined in its penchant for blockbusting set-pieces, done away with all but a few human characters and discarded gadgets like the clue-giving binoculars. It's still an intuitive, beautifully animated and richly satisfying platforming system, and going by the first few levels of the game, it seems likely Anniversary will exploit it more fully than Legend did. A new, minor new addition is the ability to jump to and balance on very small platforms, such as the tops of poles. Her acrobatic range is as it was in Legend, including the grappling hook and ledge-hanging moves, and the use of the triangle button to recover quickly from a bad landing, or rhythmically speed up climbing moves. You have fully analogue control of Lara, and the focus is on stringing together long chains of fast, flowing acrobatic moves to navigate the crumbling tombs. Although it includes all the original game's settings and most memorable moments, Anniversary looks and plays almost exactly like the classy Legend, itself heavily inspired by Ubisoft's recent Prince of Persia games. You'd think a scientist would be more careful.Īs we reported back in February, the tack Eidos and Tomb Raider: Legend developer Crystal Dynamics have taken with this new version is to preserve the spirit, story and structure of the original, but rewrite the details to fit the Legend template. Here, in short, was a game absolutely crying out for the remake treatment: virtually unwatchable and unplayable by current standards, but still totally relevant. So were the lock-on third-person gunplay, the dynamic musical score, and the slick, clean interface. Its cinematic style, rich atmosphere, and pitch-perfect pacing were all way ahead of their time. Beneath the clumsy controls and technical limitations was an incredibly modern, forward-thinking game. The second shock, though, was much more pleasant, and much more of a surprise. The grey Peruvian caves were rendered in wobbling, jagged pixels the size of your fist, and Lara jogged around them excruciatingly slowly, fumbling and shuffling hesitantly towards every awkward jump and laboured clamber. The game looked and felt a lot more than eleven years old. When we eventually unearthed one, and subjected it to the harsh glare of modernity (in the form of a PS3, an HDMI cable and an acreage of liquid crystal Lara herself would think twice about scaling) we got a couple of shocks. The Tomb of PlayStation the First was gutted in search of a copy of Core Design's 1996 classic.
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Vaults were cracked open, dust brushed, ancient code decyphered the trash and treasures of a long-lost era were rifled through on a quest for answers. When a preview version of this celebratory remake of the original Tomb Raider turned up in the post, it seemed like it would be fitting and respectful to do a little archaeology ourselves.
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