A Tomb Raider fan who was unofficially remaking the unique video games was employed as technical director on the Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered assortment.
Timur Gagiev, higher recognized on-line as XProger, celebrated the accomplishment with a collection of posts on X/Twitter. Gagiev addressed followers asking about his unofficial remakes, referred to as OpenLara, explaining they’ve not made any progress on them due to a sure “dream venture”, which is the “fruits of the final eight years” of their life.
“I am grateful to the heads of Saber Interactive for trusting me to guide the venture and assemble a dream workforce of true followers,” Gagiev continued.
“From the start we had full freedom and set ourselves an unimaginable objective, which may solely be approached by a small ‘growth workforce’ of loopy folks, able to work 24/7 [for the] subsequent 12 months with an absolute imaginative and prescient of what and for whom we’re doing.
“Because of the unique builders and group. We eagerly learn all of your feedback, interviews, opinions, and reactions. The duty to you all was greater than the concern of deadlines and the insane quantity of labor.”
Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered arrived February 13 as an upgraded model of the unique trilogy: Tomb Raider and The Unfinished Enterprise enlargement, Tomb Rader 2 and The Gold Masks enlargement, and Tomb Raider 3 and The Misplaced Artifact Growth.
Crystal Dynamics included a sensitivity warning within the assortment for what it referred to as “deeply dangerous” racial and ethnic prejudices included, however mentioned it did not take away them “within the hopes that we might acknowledge its dangerous influence and study from it”.
Its launch was adopted by the official reveal of protagonist Lara Croft’s redesign, which is able to presumably debut formally in Tomb Raider Subsequent. The subsequent mainline sport within the franchise is presently being developed in Unreal Engine 5, with Amazon Video games supporting growth.
It will likely be the primary new entry since 2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider, which wrapped up a trilogy of video games through the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One era. This collection reset Lara Croft’s origins in a grittier setting, nevertheless it’s unclear how Tomb Raider Subsequent will match into the equation.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.