Back in December, we learned Amazon was wasting no time in making new Tomb Raider games. Or, at the very least, remaking old ones. Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis will be the second game to remake the 1996 original Tomb Raider. While the initial announcement said the game would debut in 2026, today during Sony’s State of Play, we learned the game’s release date. It’s not this year, it’s next. February 12, 2027 to be exact. Still, we did get a trailer for the game and it…sure looks like a PS5 update of the original. If you wanted to see Lara Croft run from dinosaurs on modern hardware, this is your guy.
I do love that, while Amazon, Crystal Dynamics, and Flying Wild Hog, clearly understand the need to ground such a realistic looking game in some kind of reality, Lara Croft still raids tombs in wholly unrealistic fashion. What kind of archaeologist is she? The updated graphics are stunning, we can see the DNA of that polygonal platformer in there. Lara Croft even still does her trademark (and wholly unnecessary) slow gymnastics dismount on all climbing. It was formative for kids 30 years ago. While a lot of the more recent games have given Lara human antagonists to shoot up, the first game had her fight…dinosaurs. Here we get to see updated, feathered varieties. Because science.
The December announcement also said a second, fully original Tomb Raider game, Catalyst, was on the way for 2027. That one will likely come out later in the year, if not totally move to 2028.
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