After the reveals at The Game Awards, a reader is impressed by what he’s seen of Tomb Raider: Catalyst and the new remake, and is glad they’re taking the series back to its roots.
I started writing this on Thursday, when I hadn’t yet seen The Game Awards, but the Tomb Raider remake leaked, including the trailer, so it was obvious that something was going on. The remake looked good, although neither then or at The Game Awards did I get any real sense that it would actually play like the original, which is very different than modern games.
At the show we got our first look at the new game, Catalyst, and… if you took away the name I don’t believe anyone would be able to tell which was which. For anything else I would take that to be a negative but I actually find it very reassuring, because

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