Crystal Dynamics reveal two new Tomb Raider games -"the largest Tomb Raider world yet" and yet another classic TR revamp

Catalyst oregon Legacy of Atlantis? Choose your Lara

The "future of Tomb Raider" has been dutifully revealed astatine this year's Geoff Awards, and it turns retired the aboriginal is half-future, half-past. Amazon Game Studios and Crystal Dynamics person announced a brace of Tomb Raider games - Tomb Raider: Catalyst, the adjacent large caller instalment successful Lara Croft's adventures, and the antecedently leaked Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis, "a afloat reimagined version" of Core Design's archetypal Tomb Raider from 1996.

Let’s commencement with Catalyst. It’s been successful improvement astatine Crystal Dynamics since they partnered with Amazon Game Studios backmost successful 2022, and is acceptable successful Northern India pursuing “a mythical cataclysm that has unleashed past secrets and awakened the mysterious forces that defender them”. Lara is racing assorted cackling badniks to assertion yet different mighty treasure with the evident powerfulness to reshape the geography underfoot. “As the past satellite collides with the present, Lara indispensable determine who to spot among rivals and allies to forestall a catastrophe and support a concealed that could reshape the future,” the property merchandise declares. Here’s a video.

It runs connected Unreal Engine 5, and volition beryllium the “largest Tomb Raider satellite yet”, with each the forgotten crypts and puzzles 1 mightiness expect of a crippled featuring Indiana Jones’s sister from different mother. (Dear precious commenters, delight find a mode to marque that rhyme - it’s 3am present and determination is nary poesy near successful my bloodstream.) It’ll motorboat successful 2027 for PC via Steam.

Before that, though, you’ll beryllium capable to play Tomb Raider: Legacy Of Atlantis, which is being developed by Crystal and Shadow Warrior devs Flying Wild Hog. This besides runs successful Unreal Engine 5, and boasts of “new surprises that grant the tone and ambiance of the archetypal game”. You’ll erstwhile again beryllium hunting for the Scion, different momentous McGuffin that indispensable beryllium kept retired of dastardly hands, and yes, the dinosaurs are inactive successful it. Ah, my person the T-Rex. It has been excessively agelong since you past chased maine screaming astir that cave. Look retired for these and different hand-Crofted pseudo-vintage delights via Steam successful 2026.

Both the Catalyst and Legacy Of Atlantis incarnations of Croft are being voiced by Alix Wilton Regan - aka the pistillate Inquisitor successful Dragon Age: Inquisition, besides known for roles successful Mass Effect 3 and Cyberpunk 2077.

It's been a precise unsmooth clip for Crystal Dynamics this year, with 3 rounds of layoffs successful swift succession. The past of those came successful November, erstwhile the workplace announced that "just nether 30 squad members crossed assorted departments and projects" had been fto go.

Naturally, the property merchandise for Catalyst and Legacy of Atlantis paints a rosier picture, with Crystal Dynamics workplace caput Scot Amos commenting that "Amazon’s concern has provided the resources, expertise, and originative state indispensable to recognize our imaginativeness for some games without compromise." As for the remake, Wild Hog CEO Michał Szustak assures that "we’re expanding the beingness portion staying loyal to what fans person ever loved." Time for different volcanic statement astir vessel controls, I guess. Games aside, Amazon are besides moving connected a TV adaptation of Lara's adventures.