I felt betrayed: the game that was always on PC was taken away from us! It was turned into hostageware for a console war we don’t care about! Even worse was their response to questions regarding the PlayStation and PC versions: Well, I wasn’t cheering and neither were many Tomb Raider fans. Are games more fun when you know your worst enemies (anyone who bought a different console) can’t play them? I’ve never felt that way, but looks like the people attending the Gamescom conference did. Then at Gamescom they said “coming Holiday 2015, exclusively on Xbox”.
Rise of the Tomb Raider was announced at E3 2014 and I was hyped.
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People now knew what to expect and would be more likely to buy the game on day 1.Īfter successfully rebooting the series and releasing the best selling Tomb Raider ever, a sequel made more sense than ever before. A lot of work has already been done for the reboot and the big risks were already taken. That built a great foundation for a sequel: Like many others, I bought it on Steam once the price dropped and it really exceeded my expectations. The Tomb Raider reboot sold better than any of the previous games and the reviews were very positive but apparently Square Enix wasn’t happy. In fact, the publishers are well aware of that and Ubisoft admitted that the sales of Assassin’s Creed Syndicate suffered due to the problems with the previous game. I don’t think I’m the only one who looks at the previous games in a series when deciding what to buy. Since it was following the previous games, I didn’t expect much. I didn’t care about those games, I didn’t play them but they were successful enough to release a new one every few years. The Metacritic scores of the pre-reboot games (Underworld, Anniversary, Legend) are all around 80, they didn’t change the Tomb Raider formula much and they weren’t huge hits. Update: It’s coming to PC on January 28th.īut let’s get to the main question: was that exclusivity deal good for gamers and for the Tomb Raider franchise? The rebootįirst, let’s take a look at the previous games in the series. H itman (also from Square Enix), which is releasing in February, had its release date and system requirements announced in December. It’s really unusual for a AAA game to hide the release date and system requirements this close to the anticipated release. PC gamers only expect the game in January because that’s the date on the Steam store. There was no PC release date announcement and the official Tomb Raider website just mentions the Xbox version. At the time of writing, the exact dates aren’t confirmed yet. The game is coming to PC in January 2016 and to PlayStation later this year. Square Enix and Microsoft made a deal to release it on Xbox first and I don’t have an Xbox, nor do I want one. I loved the previous Tomb Raider and I’d probably get this one on day one.
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