The beginning of the Remastered wave

So now it's happened, I play my first game on the so-called NextGen. That just Tomb Raider has now somehow several reasons, but mainly that I had already bought the game for Xbox 360 (was a snapper) and had not yet begun when my pre-ordered PS4 now but suddenly already (Six days after reservation are certainly record) eintrudelte. So quickly verkloppt the 360s version and taken the local Saturn the "Definitive Edition". Because if you have not played the game worth the upgrade particularly, this includes not only all previously released DLC, no well was neatly screwed to the graphical niceties to take advantage of the new generation of consoles to exploit better. Thus, the resolutions of the textures are four times higher and accordingly fine and lift alone as the optical "Spielvergüngen" to a new level. However, one also has the model of Lara still completely revised and is now awaiting with much more detail, partly because the TressFX Enginge is now also responsible to the console for the hair. However, environmental effects such as light, fog, snow and the same were on the predecessor console still in short supply, the image on the NextGen round off well.

As can be seen in various video Compare is it can absorb the PS4 version also easy with the PC version, but this is certainly mainly because there does not come the high texture resolutions to use. Small gimmicks were installed that were directly tailored to the Playstation 4. Ignites Lara eg a torch on the light bar on the controller flashes irregularly in red and yellow, is shooting starts he flashes. This is of course a nice gimmick additionally creates atmosphere. The touchpad has been included, so can move the map and delete zoom, as well as the torch, per swipe down with this.

But enough of the art gadgetry we get to the actual game and its story. After 2008 Tomb Raider Underworld "flopped" is (500,000 units were less than sales from publisher Eidos expect) thought they modify the main character and playing style of Lara Croft. The result now presented Square Enix, Eidos who had incorporated as a publisher. This realignment now leads us to the youth of Lara Croft who actually optically no longer looks quite as hard, but somehow still recognizable as Lara or her little sister. Basically you have to honestly say that the game would have worked under a different brand. And that is because it is simply well done. Because apart from the optics and the game idea and the story and the course is designed exciting. Even us, the developers offer many ideas and lead us slowly into the new Tomb Raider and its mechanisms and thus also in the new "Origin Story" of the main character a (Origin stories are indeed present trend). The 21-year nor the innocent and inexperienced student, which "only" on an expedition here is when the ship crashes on an apparently deserted island just now must begin to fight for their survival. While she at the beginning even hard just an animal to kill to feed themselves, they end up running with the gun around.

So the first part of the new Tomb Raider series is about the development, as is the young woman to the adventurer Lara Croft. No wonder that the game under the tag line A Surviver is Born runs. The play and thus Story course this feels extremely homogeneous and is reminiscent in structure to the first Tomb Raider. Only you are traveling alone, and with a few exceptions, the natural is merely come to a later one must then also with human attackers deal. The mixture of the real and mysticism is in this Tomb Raider back on the field again. Overall, therefore, a successful single-player experience. Only the multiplayer was doing properly on the mind. This is partly because, that there is a game like Tomb Raider, in my view hardly fits and secondly to the fact that the servers also are usually pretty empty. Nevertheless, I'm going to have a little pride tortured me through all Multiplayer trophies to now play through once the single player mode in fast-forward to there zuerkämpfen the last two trophies to collect, and with my first game on the PS4 my first platinum trophy ,

Who Third-person adventure games like and has not gambled on perhaps the last generation, the game should definitely access. Whether the graphical reprocessing justifies a renewed purchase must each decide for themselves. But the fact is that Tomb Raider in the revised version chic food for the PS4 is, in the good games are still in short supply.