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Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered - a carefully measured, well-executed endeavour


Here's the John Linneman tech review of Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered. How do these new games compare to the originals?

The other major overhaul involves the characters, which all feature more detailed models that more closely resemble the first round of Crystal Dynamics developed Tomb Raider games. | Image credit: Digital Foundry Now, the classic graphics mode in the Remastered release seems suitably retro at first glance, but in reality, it's more of an idealised version of Tomb Raider. For instance, Tomb Raider for DOS running in software mode uses an eight-bit colour palette with lots of visible banding, not to mention texture warping and other issues.

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