I don't get why people hate on Anniversary, it's honestly one of the best tomb raider games. Yes it's not a 1 to one 1 remake, but that's exactly why it feels so fresh. I personally think Legend and Underworld are both way too short (and in the case of Underworld the later levels are also very boring) but Anniversary is just the right length
Anniversary got me into tomb raider. My cousin loved playing the OG series and I was too scared to do any levels beyond Croft manor. It was the first modern remake of a game that I wanted more of that is more common now.
Legend, Anniversary and Underworld I've played them all and to this day they are still games i return to again and again even though I've completed them numerous times.
I really love LAU trilogy. I think graphics looks good even now and I absolutely ADORE soundtracks. The croft manor theme from both legend and anniversary are both my go to soundtrack for relaxing shower snd spa treatment at home or relaxing and chilling in the evening in general.
Playing Order for the Legend Trilogy: Tomb Raider: Anniversary... Tomb Raider: Legend.... Tomb Raider: Underworld. While Legend was released first and contains a backstory chapter from Laura's early childhood, Anniversary acts as a prequel zero chapter. Underworld contains previously met characters from both, so needs to be played last.
Anniversary is a great game tbh but sadly the studio that made the 6 original games and a scrapped anniversary edition : Core design lost the rights to Tomb raider because of the 6th Game : The Angel of Darkness which had probably one of the best lores but because of Eidos rushing the game out to the door , the controls were junky and LOTS of stuff had to be cut , AOD was meant to be the start of a Big Triology but it will never happen.
@ I did manage to get a code for the first set! I’ll try for the next too! Right now I’m planning on maybe 1 weekly Tomb Raider video for the legend trilogy for a while!
Never say never. We know from the achievement list that the AOD remaster includes cut content. There's no telling how much Saber has upgraded the games, but I'm hopefully optimistic on it. The TRI-III and Soul Reaver remasters are both great.
Underworld is a very short game and the controls are buggy and it gets hard to control lara sometimes but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT GAME. I only had to find a way around the buggy and that's it
@@joethealternativegamer3935 Mostly to do with Lara and animations. The amount of deaths you'll have from Lara doing whatever she wants from the movement controls is frustrating at times. They are not refiend and feel very jank at times. They also have new movement options like the wall jump that will also get you killed a fair bit. Again, feels very janky. I've had things just not work while playing, but it's been a while, so I couldn't tell you with certainty other really bad glitches.
@@IchigoLazer I have been playing Underworld on Series S. Some of the puzzles are a little buggy also. And the wall jump doesn’t always work properly. Anniversary had similar control issues in the later levels. There was a swinging wall jump in the last segment of Egypt. That took me forever to finally get.
That wii port is superior because it has lots of added gameplay, like having to use flashlight, do archeological digs and other archeology related motion control mini games
I did play Anniversary, and while I did like some aspects of it, to me it didn't live up to the original. :( A lot of levels got cut and simplified and the platforming on the latest levels felt more frustrating than fun. X_X I didn't like the change on Lara's motivations when she fell in hands of Crystal Dynamics either, but I do understand why there's a lot of people that likes this game. Either way, for me nothing beats the original experience and the original Lara... though I admit that from Crystal Dynamics I enjoy Legend a lot, I really like that one.
@@EQOAnostalgia I wouldn't go as far as to say she was wokeified back then but she was already in the shadow of her dad, doing things because "She was a Croft" instead of doing them for the sake of adventure and thrill. I also didn't like how the fights against humans straight disappeared, the Greece chapter just was not the same without the gun battles against Pierre and I was not a fan of the whole dramatic scene about Lara pulling the trigger against another person when she's never had qualms about pointing her guns at whoever that got in the way to her objective. Then again, that's just me, I liked the anti-hero type of character Lara used to be, how she was unafraid to do 'bad things' and nowdays that's simply a no-no, apparently.
The LAU REMASTERED hype train starts I can’t wait to see how they will remake her model for each game! And adding in that awesome photo mode will be a bonus too Hopefully all dlc is included because Crystal confirmed they were working on getting dlc for underworld (originally Xbox exclusive) so I’m assuming for the remastered collection all modern consoles will get all dlc just like 1-6 did
Oof... just you wait until you reach the Egypt section of the game. In TRA, the controls and the geometry *really* let each other down once the platforming gets more complicated. It's something we didn't really see in Legend, but in the later levels of Anniversary and Underworld, the issue become really obvious. That being said, there are people who love Anniversary and Underworld and who aren't bothered by the platforming issue. I think it all comes down to what kinds of bullshit you can brush off without it hindering your enjoyment. Personally, I took to TR1, 2, 4, and 5's brand of bullshit like water, but when it came to TRA and TRU, their late-level brand of bullshit made me want to break things. YMMV. Hope you have an in-built tolerance for Anniversary's brand of bullshit so you can enjoy it all the way through. :)
I finished this game a couple weeks ago and I didn’t enjoy it as much as Legend, partly because I’m not a fan of massive intricate puzzles and partly because I think it relied a bit too much on Shimmying mechanics to get around. I still liked it but I didn’t want to immediately replay it like I did with legend.
@@raidenstark4964 Yeah, makes me worried I won’t like the classics but from what I’ve seen those puzzles are more condensed and there seems to be a lot more real platforming.
I played this game for the first time this year. It was fine at first, but the further you go the more frustrating the parkour becomes. I had to stop halfway up the the lava pit at the end simply because traversal had gone waaay beyond my physical capabilities. Continuing after that point would have led to throwing the controller, smashing the TV, then unaliving myself, so it's better this way. People keep talking about a remaster for this, but that makes zero sense. The Legend trilogy already looks ten times better than the recent remasters, so what would be the point. The only way you could improve on these graphics would be to put them in TR 2013 graphics engine and that's already been done.
The reasons why people want a remaster: -graphics need to improve -fixing bugs and glitches and controls especially in underworld because it is kinda unplayable -porting underworld dlcs to nex gen consoles because it is only available on xbox 360 and there is a lot of people who haven't played the dlcs yet -most people don't have ps3 or xbox 360 to play all of them so they want to play on their next gen consoles Also everyone begging sony to remaster old games like god of war games even their graphics are already good, halo 123 already got a remaster while the graphic was already good so why not remaster legend trilogy?
I never really liked this one much, it just deviated too much from the original. And after Legend I lost interest in the franchise, to me it just wasn't Tomb Raider anymore. That's why I prefer the remastered trilogy, nothing is different except the graphics are better, it can run on modern PCs and has all 3 games and their expansion packs.
I’ve completed anniversary and the last revelation many times. I started playing anniversary again and I was really bored for some reason. After playing the 1-3 remasters now I prefer the classic games.
@joethealternativegamer3935 i didn't know this feature is hated because i didn't have any problem with it even when i played this game for the first time but yeah sometime i miss the adrenaline shot too but i'm not bad with it ❤❤
Got to Egypt lvl all the way to the scion room and couldn’t for the life of me rappel wall run and backflip to the pillar she just wouldn’t do it so I gave up this game haha maybe will try again sometime in the future but
The game felt terrible all throughout my experience on PS2. The game basically plays itself. You don't need to be careful about anything because you get a checkpoint every 15 seconds (yes, literally). Even if you die, you come back to life with a full health bar 5 seconds before your failed jump. All my playthrough I didn't use A SINGLE MEDKIT. You don't need to focus on your Quick Time Events, because they literally start right after the failed one, allowing you to do 10 attempts endlessly, with zero consequences if you somehow fail them. It's clear to me that this and the Legend are simply for extremely casual players who like to play carefree. The game does everything for them. It saves for them. It tells them where to go and what to do. It even zooms into what mechanism you are supposed to use for tbe T-rex (x__X). I think it's the type of a game that Sims players would like.
@@joethealternativegamer3935 For one they they turned the boss fights into qte events and left out huge chunks of levels and grossly shortened the game's length and challenge curve that made the original game a huge success back in 96 including the necronomicon level w those fleshy monsters.
@@marcuskahn3783I honestly think Anniversary still has a pretty good challange curve, like all the levels keep building on each other in terms of how good is the players in controlling Lara which is NOT the case for Underworld, in fact the later levels are way easier than the first few levels with Lara getting her hands on Thors Hammer. Also Anniversary still have some pretty fun boss fights which is totally missing from Underworld
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Anniversary is REALLY really good. I think it's underrated, ontop, too.
@@Jammet I’d agree! This whole trilogy is underrated!
I don't get why people hate on Anniversary, it's honestly one of the best tomb raider games. Yes it's not a 1 to one 1 remake, but that's exactly why it feels so fresh. I personally think Legend and Underworld are both way too short (and in the case of Underworld the later levels are also very boring) but Anniversary is just the right length
I think anniversary and underworld are the best
Based and croftpilled
Absolutely and it's a love letter to classic fans imo.
Anniversary got me into tomb raider. My cousin loved playing the OG series and I was too scared to do any levels beyond Croft manor.
It was the first modern remake of a game that I wanted more of that is more common now.
@@ymd2516 awesome!
Legend, Anniversary and Underworld I've played them all and to this day they are still games i return to again and again even though I've completed them numerous times.
Great stuff :)
I really love LAU trilogy. I think graphics looks good even now and I absolutely ADORE soundtracks. The croft manor theme from both legend and anniversary are both my go to soundtrack for relaxing shower snd spa treatment at home or relaxing and chilling in the evening in general.
@@Caramiela music is top tier!
Playing Order for the Legend Trilogy: Tomb Raider: Anniversary... Tomb Raider: Legend.... Tomb Raider: Underworld. While Legend was released first and contains a backstory chapter from Laura's early childhood, Anniversary acts as a prequel zero chapter. Underworld contains previously met characters from both, so needs to be played last.
Awesome, thank you :)
These do not need a remaster. They look pretty good.
Graphically, yes. However, there are a lot of jump and grab inconsistencies that should get patched
Agreed, they will find a way to mess it up.
Underrated af remake.
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I love Anniversary, so much that I've purchased it multiple times.
I have done that with games too lol! What versions do you own!?
@joethealternativegamer3935 PSP, PC Disc & GOG. Pretty sure it's on my steam account too 😅
Anniversary is a great game tbh but sadly the studio that made the 6 original games and a scrapped anniversary edition : Core design lost the rights to Tomb raider because of the 6th Game : The Angel of Darkness which had probably one of the best lores but because of Eidos rushing the game out to the door , the controls were junky and LOTS of stuff had to be cut , AOD was meant to be the start of a Big Triology but it will never happen.
That is sad!
@ You should try to play some of the classic games remastered and Tomb raider 4 to 6 is getting a remaster on February 14 so you could try them :)
@ I did manage to get a code for the first set! I’ll try for the next too! Right now I’m planning on maybe 1 weekly Tomb Raider video for the legend trilogy for a while!
Never say never. We know from the achievement list that the AOD remaster includes cut content. There's no telling how much Saber has upgraded the games, but I'm hopefully optimistic on it. The TRI-III and Soul Reaver remasters are both great.
@ interesting!
Underworld is a very short game and the controls are buggy and it gets hard to control lara sometimes but I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THAT GAME. I only had to find a way around the buggy and that's it
How is it buggy!?
@@joethealternativegamer3935
Mostly to do with Lara and animations. The amount of deaths you'll have from Lara doing whatever she wants from the movement controls is frustrating at times. They are not refiend and feel very jank at times.
They also have new movement options like the wall jump that will also get you killed a fair bit. Again, feels very janky.
I've had things just not work while playing, but it's been a while, so I couldn't tell you with certainty other really bad glitches.
@@IchigoLazer ah ok gotcha
@@IchigoLazer
I have been playing Underworld on Series S. Some of the puzzles are a little buggy also.
And the wall jump doesn’t always work properly.
Anniversary had similar control issues in the later levels. There was a swinging wall jump in the last segment of Egypt. That took me forever to finally get.
Fun Fact there was a wii port of Anniversary...just found it funny that they made a motion control port.
Very interesting!
It's also a top tier port
That wii port is superior because it has lots of added gameplay, like having to use flashlight, do archeological digs and other archeology related motion control mini games
This video makes me want to play this again 😮 this tomb raider is underrated
@@dadou193 yes!!!
I did play Anniversary, and while I did like some aspects of it, to me it didn't live up to the original. :(
A lot of levels got cut and simplified and the platforming on the latest levels felt more frustrating than fun. X_X I didn't like the change on Lara's motivations when she fell in hands of Crystal Dynamics either, but I do understand why there's a lot of people that likes this game.
Either way, for me nothing beats the original experience and the original Lara... though I admit that from Crystal Dynamics I enjoy Legend a lot, I really like that one.
So they wokeified Lara even back then? I haven't played in ages, and as i recall i got bored by Rome.
@@EQOAnostalgia I wouldn't go as far as to say she was wokeified back then but she was already in the shadow of her dad, doing things because "She was a Croft" instead of doing them for the sake of adventure and thrill.
I also didn't like how the fights against humans straight disappeared, the Greece chapter just was not the same without the gun battles against Pierre and I was not a fan of the whole dramatic scene about Lara pulling the trigger against another person when she's never had qualms about pointing her guns at whoever that got in the way to her objective.
Then again, that's just me, I liked the anti-hero type of character Lara used to be, how she was unafraid to do 'bad things' and nowdays that's simply a no-no, apparently.
Tomb Raider Anniversary is one of my favourite games!
:)
I like all the LAU games, but the camera kills me with its constant tiny twitchy movements.
The LAU REMASTERED hype train starts
I can’t wait to see how they will remake her model for each game! And adding in that awesome photo mode will be a bonus too
Hopefully all dlc is included because Crystal confirmed they were working on getting dlc for underworld (originally Xbox exclusive) so I’m assuming for the remastered collection all modern consoles will get all dlc just like 1-6 did
That be great!
i've only gotten in Anniversary due to it being for sale on Steam but man imo it's tough
@@cydragon2.099 what do you find tough about it!?
I have played Legend and the survivor trilogy. Anniversary is fav tomb raider of all time for now. I'll play the classic games later
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It is my favorite Tomb Raider game ever.
@@JuanCrot :)
Anniversary and Legend were pretty solid games. Underworld however had it's issues and I just couldn't commit to beating it.
@@ModeSOLOgaming what made it hard for you about underworld!?
@joethealternativegamer3935 it felt unpolished compared to the other games.
@@ModeSOLOgaming ah ok!
Oof... just you wait until you reach the Egypt section of the game. In TRA, the controls and the geometry *really* let each other down once the platforming gets more complicated. It's something we didn't really see in Legend, but in the later levels of Anniversary and Underworld, the issue become really obvious.
That being said, there are people who love Anniversary and Underworld and who aren't bothered by the platforming issue. I think it all comes down to what kinds of bullshit you can brush off without it hindering your enjoyment. Personally, I took to TR1, 2, 4, and 5's brand of bullshit like water, but when it came to TRA and TRU, their late-level brand of bullshit made me want to break things. YMMV. Hope you have an in-built tolerance for Anniversary's brand of bullshit so you can enjoy it all the way through. :)
@@theredlioness2502 hahahah what kind of bs you tolerate! Lots of truth there!
Maybe an idea to play the remastered versions of the original tomb raider games after this
@@dutchnintendo94 maybe! Gonna do a bunch of videos on these! Maybe survivor trilogy! Don’t know yet 😁
I finished this game a couple weeks ago and I didn’t enjoy it as much as Legend, partly because I’m not a fan of massive intricate puzzles and partly because I think it relied a bit too much on Shimmying mechanics to get around. I still liked it but I didn’t want to immediately replay it like I did with legend.
@@Terminal_Apotos that’s fair!
That's tomb raider for ya
@@raidenstark4964 Yeah, makes me worried I won’t like the classics but from what I’ve seen those puzzles are more condensed and there seems to be a lot more real platforming.
Love anniversary.
@@kclink1579 :)
What do you personally love about it!?
I played this game for the first time this year. It was fine at first, but the further you go the more frustrating the parkour becomes.
I had to stop halfway up the the lava pit at the end simply because traversal had gone waaay beyond my physical capabilities.
Continuing after that point would have led to throwing the controller, smashing the TV, then unaliving myself, so it's better this way.
People keep talking about a remaster for this, but that makes zero sense.
The Legend trilogy already looks ten times better than the recent remasters, so what would be the point.
The only way you could improve on these graphics would be to put them in TR 2013 graphics engine and that's already been done.
The reasons why people want a remaster:
-graphics need to improve
-fixing bugs and glitches and controls especially in underworld because it is kinda unplayable
-porting underworld dlcs to nex gen consoles because it is only available on xbox 360 and there is a lot of people who haven't played the dlcs yet
-most people don't have ps3 or xbox 360 to play all of them so they want to play on their next gen consoles
Also everyone begging sony to remaster old games like god of war games even their graphics are already good,
halo 123 already got a remaster while the graphic was already good so why not remaster legend trilogy?
I never really liked this one much, it just deviated too much from the original. And after Legend I lost interest in the franchise, to me it just wasn't Tomb Raider anymore. That's why I prefer the remastered trilogy, nothing is different except the graphics are better, it can run on modern PCs and has all 3 games and their expansion packs.
That’s fair!
I’ve completed anniversary and the last revelation many times. I started playing anniversary again and I was really bored for some reason. After playing the 1-3 remasters now I prefer the classic games.
@@SecretCroft totally get it, we all have our preferences!
adrenaline shot is One of the reason why so many people hate this game because they have a skill issue
@@alanmhamadamin4517 oh I suck at it lol! And I’ll admit it is a skill issue lol
@joethealternativegamer3935 i didn't know this feature is hated because i didn't have any problem with it even when i played this game for the first time but yeah sometime i miss the adrenaline shot too but i'm not bad with it
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@ champ!
Got to Egypt lvl all the way to the scion room and couldn’t for the life of me rappel wall run and backflip to the pillar she just wouldn’t do it so I gave up this game haha maybe will try again sometime in the future but
Is this available for Xbox?
@@UnderDoggsGaming yes it is!
@joethealternativegamer3935 God bless Angelina Jolie
Wish they made the others right after this release, so sad.
@@robertkeane9393 which others !?
Since when you start a sentence from ,,so''?
@@RanisAthrys I think I did lol
....... Indiana Jones........
The game felt terrible all throughout my experience on PS2. The game basically plays itself. You don't need to be careful about anything because you get a checkpoint every 15 seconds (yes, literally). Even if you die, you come back to life with a full health bar 5 seconds before your failed jump. All my playthrough I didn't use A SINGLE MEDKIT. You don't need to focus on your Quick Time Events, because they literally start right after the failed one, allowing you to do 10 attempts endlessly, with zero consequences if you somehow fail them.
It's clear to me that this and the Legend are simply for extremely casual players who like to play carefree. The game does everything for them. It saves for them. It tells them where to go and what to do. It even zooms into what mechanism you are supposed to use for tbe T-rex (x__X).
I think it's the type of a game that Sims players would like.
🍰 🗑️ Doesn't even look like her .
To many Prompts 🤔
Feels like a Remake .
@@DavidShipman-cg5gu puffy!? She was hot in legend, plus goth outfit lol
@@joethealternativegamer3935🐡 compared to other Lara Games.
This was the only one with the puffy face .
@ lol I’ll have to compare
Most of all the good stuff from the original game in anniversary was left out by diarreahnamics.
What specifically!?
@@joethealternativegamer3935 For one they they turned the boss fights into qte events and left out huge chunks of levels and grossly shortened the game's length and challenge curve that made the original game a huge success back in 96 including the necronomicon level w those fleshy monsters.
Interesting, maybe it’s more of an inspiration for the legend trilogy!?
@joethealternativegamer3935 yeah. I understand it's more loosely based on TR1, than a shot for shot remake
@@marcuskahn3783I honestly think Anniversary still has a pretty good challange curve, like all the levels keep building on each other in terms of how good is the players in controlling Lara which is NOT the case for Underworld, in fact the later levels are way easier than the first few levels with Lara getting her hands on Thors Hammer. Also Anniversary still have some pretty fun boss fights which is totally missing from Underworld