Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis Will Have to Adjust the Original Game's Brutal Difficulty for 'Modern Player Tastes,' but Dev Insists You'll Still See 'Big Rolling Balls'

The squad down the reimagining of the archetypal Lara Croft adventure, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis, person opened up connected however they're approaching the 1996 game's trouble and instakills, acknowledging it volition person to beryllium adjusted for "modern subordinate tastes."

Speaking astatine a property lawsuit and captured by GamesRadar+, Crystal Dynamics' crippled manager Will Kerslake said: "part of reimagining a crippled close is adjusting that crippled evolving for modern subordinate tastes."

He besides hinted astatine what benignant of gameplay we tin expect to see, insisting "it is halfway to the Tomb Raider acquisition that determination are puzzles successful combat and traversal and death-defying action." However, Kerslake stressed that the things we retrieve from the archetypal crippled volition remain, adding: "you'll spot large rolling balls, and you know, the things that you expect successful a Tomb Raider crippled are going to beryllium determination successful spades."

Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is owed retired astatine immoderate constituent successful 2026 connected PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam. Alix Wilton Regan volition present play Lara Croft successful some Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis and 2027's Tomb Raider: Catalyst, with Camilla Luddington, who portrayed Lara Croft successful the Survivor Trilogy, issuing a heartfelt goodbye to the quality this week.

Meanwhile, immoderate Tomb Raider fans are bracing themselves for retcons, fixed the request to acceptable some Legacy of Atlantis and Catalyst successful a new, unified Tomb Raider timeline. There's besides the upcoming Amazon TV amusement to consider. The live-action Tomb Raider Prime Video series, which volition prima Game of Thrones alum Sophie Turner, volition “reinvent the franchise connected a monolithic scale” and interconnect “live-action tv bid and video games into a unified storytelling universe.”

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