Shadow of the Tomb Raider Showcases the Series' Largest Ever Hub

Less story and liveservice yeah i dont have it in preorder. Ill wait i think i rather get the RE 2 Collectors Edition. I rather had a Claire statue though. 😁

This would so be an area in PS Home if that were still a thing. Reminds me of the Uncharted area.

@Flaming_Kaiser Me too, i am very very hyped for RE 2 very much right now. i wish we use time machine go forward to January 24, 2019 lol.. By the way, this game look great so far. i already pre-ordered this is Croft Edition cost 99.99

I think it looks great. Graphically, I am impressed so far. I love the colors and textures of the jungle. I’ll reserve judgment on the large hub approach, but I can’t wait to try it.

@get2sammyb what are your most anticipated games in 2018 and 2019 for right now ? Mine is Spider-Man, Red Dead Redemption 2, this, Resident Evil 2 remake and Days Gone. that's it.. i have no clue about The last of us 2 and Ghost of Tsushima because both didn't tell release window at end of their trailers during E3

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"Largest Ever Hub" already makes me feel queasy. Nothing against Tomb Raider, I'm just tired of open worlds, pseudo or otherwise. The way TR '13 was structured worked well enough I think.

I enjoyed playing the large hub worlds in ROTTR more than the first game so I'm pretty stoked for this one. It looks so lush.

The game looks good.

I think it's perfectly fine that the scope increases in a sequel, since they're just building on the previous games.

Also....them's some gosh darn good lookin' environments, consarn it!!! This game wasn't on my radar at all (Rise of the Tomb Raider is still untouched in my backlog), but these jungles are shootin' my interest through the roof!

This is what I want from a modern Tomb Raider game and it worked very well in the previous 2 as well. Admittedly, I would have liked more 'tomb raiding' but then Uncharted seemed to more about reaching that '1 treasure' after following clues, solving puzzles etc along the way.

The Tombs in Tomb Raider have been more 'side quests' with a focus on 'puzzles' - not combat or particularly taxing puzzles but still more of a side quest.

I can't wait for Shadow of the Tomb Raider and pre-ordered the Croft edition. I love the more open world feel and completed every area to 100% multiple times on various consoles and fully expect to do the same with this. I love the more RPG elements that Tomb Raider has nowadays rather than the more linear story of past Games.

What I've first loved in old Tomb Raider games was all the different places that we were visiting. Since the 2013 remake, I find it boring to always stay in the same place...

Those animations are hard to watch.

I'm not really opposed to it per se, but I want TOMBS.

The ever changing face of Lara Croft continues.

The tombs look much much better

Why do they keep changing her face? It was perfect in the first game and it seems to be getting worse with each new game.

@adf86 I thought they looked fine. Which ones are you referring to? Laras climbing and running animations or the NPC conversing and moving about the village animations? Nothing stuck out to me as poor in that department but maybe I was too busy gawking at the beauty of the jungle and the environment.

Well done CD you've screwed up me buying this at launch and I expect micro transactions and loot boxes too

@RogerRoger Yeah, I guess I didn’t see anything severely out of line with the current games out there. Like you said, the side quest / NPC animation is usually downgraded as compared to the main story events. Since I’m currently playing Yakuza 0 and Horizon Zero Dawn (I just realized, that’s a lot of zeroes. Maybe I should replay MGS Ground Zeroes or start Zero Time Dilemma to keep the streak going... but I digress) and the side quest animation is a significant step down in these games, especially Y0. The graphical quality of the Kiryu and Majima rendering is very good, showing even the pores of the skin on their faces during the major story scenes, and then the side quest NPCs and enemies look last gen at best. (Still loving the game btw) It’s less jarring in HZD, but I am recently going back to this game after playing at launch and the first time around I didn’t realize when conversing with NPCs how stiff and uncanny valleyesque the animations are. Even Aloy’s facial movements are robotic. So I guess this TR footage didn’t seem any worse by comparison, as you say.

@RogerRoger Lol. I’m trying to refrain from saying that numerical digit that represents an absence of value. 🙊

And actually, I’m kinda feeling a HZD vibe from Shadow of the TR. Except less open world / Ubisoft tower map opening and more hub world, kinda openish Lost Legacy on steroids feeling. I could be totally wrong, but the little caves you do in HZD to learn the over ride mechanics feel a little bit like Tomb or Crypts in the TR games. It just looks like the tombs in Shadow will be much more fleshed out and a major part of the gameplay. It’s a great way to show the progression of Lara becoming the tomb raider she is in the later installments.

the only tomb raider i've played is the 2013 reboot, so i've no attachment to how the lara croft games used to be. the premiss /structure sounds ok to me for a modern action game , but I can't muster any enthusiasm for it, having not played the second part.

@adf86 ooohhh.... I missed that. 😂 That was a good one.

I thought the hub concept in the last game ruined what was so fun in the first game not looking forward to this at all.

what I want from them is to remove the skill leveling, scavenging/crafting, just give us straight tomb raiding experience ala uncharted starring lara croft

@RogerRoger Optional challenge tombs, regardless of intricacy, are far less interesting to me than a game based around tombs as part of the main/primary quest/objective. I am not a completionist, and I do not have tons of gaming time, so I find it hard to do optional content. Never mind the fact that optional content lacks the sense of urgency to motivate me to engage in it, once the main game is beaten.

@Lekzie1 What I want is for them to go back to the old Tomb Raider formula, or something in-between, like Legend or Underworld.