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If any game offers a way to unite them, itвЂ™s Rise. TheyвЂ™re on a different chronology, have different experiences, fairly different personalities, and tackle their work with a very different ethos. While all games feature ostensibly the same character who shares similar traits, the Lara Croft in them is rather different, especially comparing original era and Legend era to reboot era. It will - somehow - tie together the original era, the Legend era, and the reboot era, but exactly how is anybodyвЂ™s guess. Square Enix has held a few events and celebrations for Tomb RaiderвЂ™s 25th anniversary, but weвЂ™ve been told not to expect a new title just yet.

Three years on from Shadow, we also donвЂ™t really know whatвЂ™s coming next.

ShadowвЂ™s never felt empty, but it did make too many of its smaller scenarios into something mundane and overstretched, technically offering the freedom of Tomb Raider and Rise, but in a practical sense of constantly pushing you to go from A to B. With Rise, the peak of the reboot trilogy, these sections were large enough that you felt Lara had the freedom to go where you wanted her to, but small enough to avoid the empty, grindy feel of gamingвЂ™s worst open worlds. The reboot had a much better mix of styles - there were some guided sections with jumps, stunts, and quicktime events, but also wider expanses for you to lose yourself in. Old Tomb Raider levels often guided you through a very specific pathway they might have had more open areas, especially the likes of Legend and Underworld, but they were ultimately linear. Related: Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Is Still One Of The Best Video Game Movies At 20When it worked though, the reboot formula was fantastic.

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When it faltered, you had to keep cranking the ripcord on the generator until it started again, no matter how many tries it took. You could venture deeper into the Peruvian jungle, but there was no sudden leap to Tokyo or Bolivia or Kazakhstan to breathe new life into the game. This also meant - again, Shadow being the worst for this - pacing was harder to maintain as the world broadened its horizons. While the reboot still partitions some parts of its maps off until you make further story progress - Shadow being the worst for this - it gives you a much larger area to explore.

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This was a consequence of the series adopting modern game design shorter levels were out, and big open worlds were in. Where once Lara was a globetrotting heroine, now she stayed and explored a single locale throughout the entire adventure. Shadow of the Tomb RaiderвЂ™s biggest issue was the way it highlighted the failings of the reboot formula. While Rise of the Tomb Raider had shown the new formula at its best, Shadow came along and showed it at its worst. ItвЂ™s not awful, but Tomb Raider games have been consistently high quality, and Shadow dips below that bar far too often.

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Its place in the general seriesвЂ™ perception likely wasnвЂ™t helped by the fact it ended on Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which is not only the weakest of the trio but one of the worst Tomb Raider titles full stop. But that's all speculation.Crystal DynamicsвЂ™ Tomb Raider reboot trilogy never seems to get a fair shake. I'm hoping if the response is good, then we could see a first-person VR Tomb Raider game in the future. I think first-person perspective combined with VR for games like this creates a whole different experience and Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics is smart to 'test' it out rather than go and make a game based on it. Adventure games like Tomb Raider and Uncharted are some of my favorite games because of the story aspect and the Indiana-Jones-like adventures, so to be able to play those from a first-person perspective would be a wild experience. I don't mind a classic game like this trying out the first-person perspective to see how fans react. Resident Evil 7 has completely turned to first-person perspective gameplay and VR. But Tomb Raider isn't the only classic game who has tested out the first-person waters. So it's be an interesting take to see Tomb Raider from a first-person perspective. Tomb Raider has never ever been combat free, not that I can remember at least, but I sort of fell out of Tomb Raider after all of the wannabe sequels came out before the rebooted Tomb Raider series.