Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft

The game has been poisoned by AI slop and critical bugs. There was clearly no QA done prior to rolling out this garbage. Make this kind of trash opt-in DLC instead of forcing it on the user. I paid for a quality remaster of the classic games; not for some outsourced mobile gaming team to tack on all this garbage. Roll back the latest patch!

[h1]The worst birthday party ever...[/h1] [b]UPDATE AT END OF REVIEW! PLEASE READ AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE![/b] Yeah, if you had talked to me weeks ago I would've said "Tomb Raider I - III Remastered is a pretty good remaster with plenty of Quality of Life improvements, features, and basically no bugs whatsoever!" I'd be praising the game for how it was basically the best remaster anyone could buy on the market at the time! or that the new 3d texture work for the levels made the originally polygonal world feel a bit more alive! If we were talking right then and there, I'd simply just not say any of that! and simply say: "Buy Tomb Raider I - III Remastered! It's amazing!" It is now March 19th, and with full conscience, I can very much say otherwise with what I would've said! The game has turned to absolute sh*t. On Tomb Raider's 30th Anniversary year at that! So! One by one, let's go through all the issues this update brought to the table! [h2]First off! Surprise update![/h2] Normally I'm okay with this! I mean, who doesn't love free content being shadow dropped? I do! we all do! the only issue is that THIS free content features AI SLOP! The new outfits? Slop! not even the Underworld esque swimsuit can save this game. The new textures? Oops! also slop! Sorry if you really enjoyed the original textures, because these new ones are here to ruin everything. [h2]Behold! A thousand glitches be upon thee![/h2] Well, it's more like HUNDREDS of glitches, all affecting THE ENTIRE GAME. Apparently, the original versions of this remaster were tecnically outsourced a bit to Saber. explains why it was still the best remaster in years, but they couldn't GET Saber for this new patch, so what do they do? Hire a web 3.0 company to do this ♥♥♥♥! Sure! they added all this new content... but said content caused BUGS THAT LEAD THE GAMES TO BE 100% UNCOMPLETABLE! For instance, the final boss of one of the games? doesn't spawn in at all! One of the doors in another level? YOU HAVE TO NOCLIP AND CHEAT TO GET PAST IT. THE FIRST FMV IN TOMB RAIDER 1, LARA'S HOUSE ITSELF! THE PLACE EVERYONE GOES WHEN THEY'RE PLAYING TOMB RAIDER FOR THE FIRST TIME, IS NOT IN THE GAME NOW! IT DOESN'T PLAY!?!? HOW WAS THIS NOT PLAYTESTED!? I DOUBT IT WAS IN THE FIRST PLACE! OH WAIT, AND IF IT CAN'T GET WORSE! GET READY FOR YOUR OLD SAVE GAMES TO BE CORRUPTED! What's that? you were 99% done with Tomb Raider III? Oops! start again ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥! actually, start EVERYTHING AGAIN! because we need to push this AI SLOP OF AN UPDATE DOWN YOUR THROAT! [h2]Concluding thoughts.[/h2] This game is THE COMPLETE opposite of what happened with the Battlefront Classic Collection about 2 years ago. A rushed out port (Surprisingly ALSO made by Aspyr!) with so many bugs and glitches, they had to be patched out, up until a point where they just moved on to the next big thing... and still left plenty of bugs in the game. THIS game, started out as the go-to standard for a remaster, new and old graphics options you can switch from on the fly, Halo MCC style. New outfits that were made BY ACTUAL HUMANS, new lighting, a modern control scheme, This is the stuff we wanted! but with every patch after Patch 4, the game has become one of the WORST ways to play Tomb Raider 1, 2, and 3. And knowing Aspyr, there will be NO more patches, this will be the game you get when you choose to buy it here and now, and you will NOT be having any fun at all! [h2]Soooo, any alternatives?[/h2] Yes actually, if you've been living under a rock, there's the OpenLara engine for people who just want the original games in 60FPS with slight QOL improvements, also you can play it in VR! woah! But for people who want BIG QOL improvements, while also keeping the original games in tact, TRX will do the job just fine! So, until this remaster is patched or just straight up rolled back, I can simply say... DO NOT buy this game. unless you wanna use the files to play OpenLara or something. [h2]UPDATE:[/h2] As of March 31st, A NEW update was launched to apparently fix all the new issues the Challenge Mode update had! Sounds great right? Bad news! it doesn't fix EVERYTHING! Plus with the fact it's been almost a full month without another patch, most of the ACTUALLY important bugs are NOT fixed, such as the final bosses being bugged, Missing HD textures in certain levels, and instead we got 10 bug fixes that are if anything, the BARE minimum when it comes to a BROKEN GAME, which like I said in the OG review was a MASSIVE problem with the Battlefront Classic Collection's updates. they took too long to come out and by the time they did, everyone STOPPED playing the game. Same with this one. So does my review still stand? YES. and until EVERY SINGLE BUG is fixed, it will REMAIN this way. [h3]Originally, A 8/10, now a measly 2/10.[/h3]