The original Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy is confirmed for PC

The Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy is confirmed for PC, as developer Aspyr overhauls three of crucial and influential action-adventure games of all time with a shiny new HD look. Tomb Raider I-III Remastered brings collectively the primary three Tomb Raider recreation together with their expansions, so you possibly can expertise Lara Croft’s iconic first outing with upgraded hi-res graphics.

Tomb Raider all the time felt like a landmark second in video games. Whereas many affiliate Lara Croft with the PlayStation as one among its earliest ‘mascots,’ my earliest reminiscences of Lara come from enjoying Tomb Raider 2 on the PC. Operating round Croft Mansion’s assault course and determining the best way to dive from the excessive board. Encountering your first tiger contained in the Nice Wall of China. Being fearful of the sharks prowling the depths of a sunken ship. And, after all, locking her poor, bedraggled butler within the freezer.

Introduced for Swap through the Nintendo Direct on Thursday September 14, 2023, the Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy can also be confirmed to be coming to PC by way of Steam. The bundle consists of the next video games:

• Tomb Raider + The Unfinished Enterprise growth
• Tomb Raider 2 + The Gold Masks growth
• Tomb Raider 3 + The Misplaced Artifact growth

Coincidentally, I occurred to replay among the first recreation on the London Science Museum’s ‘Energy Up’ exhibit simply final month. It holds up moderately nicely, though enjoying with simply keyboard controls and no mouse actually feels quite dated by trendy requirements, so it’ll be attention-grabbing to see whether or not the motion will get any modernization.

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered releases Wednesday February 14, 2024 on Steam. It’s priced at $29.99 / £24.99, with a 20% pre-purchase low cost bringing it all the way down to $26.99 / £19.99. You should purchase it now or add it to your wishlist on Steam right here.

These remakes actually spruce up the beautiful environments for a contemporary period, hopefully giving extra individuals a motive to revisit a key piece of videogame historical past. You can too swap between the previous and new graphics at any time. It’ll be attention-grabbing to see how they maintain up beneath a contemporary lens, however both method they’re nicely value preserving as key video games of the ’90s.

Alternatively, have a browse of the remainder of the perfect old games you possibly can nonetheless play at this time, together with all the perfect single-player games that you need to play in 2023.