Shadow of the Tomb Raider’s reveal embargo has lifted, but you’ve already seen most of the assets as they leaked in traditional Square Enix style. After reading a handful of the previews, it sounds like more of the same, which will be a good or bad thing depending on your appetite for Camilla Luddington acting all angsty while shoving a pickaxe in someone’s throat.
Anyway, there are about a billion versions of the title available to pre-order, and in order to help you determine which one you want, the publisher’s put together this nifty little graphic which shows all of your overpriced options:
You may notice one of the recurring items is a Season Pass, but what will that actually entail? Here’s the blurb: “The Season Pass delivers seven new adventures called ‘Paths’, with each Path including new narrative, new missions, a Challenge Tomb, a new weapon, a new outfit, and a new skill. The first Challenge Tomb will also introduce new co-op functionality.”
If you get the Season Pass, you’ll also unlock some extra items on day one, including an exclusive weapon, outfit, and skill. So yeah, that’s the new Tomb Raider game – it’s being developed by Eidos Montreal this time, in collaboration with Crystal Dynamics. Are you going to get it?
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@LaNooch1978 I'm almost 100% confident these 'Path' add-on packs are going to be absolutely crap.
One Standard, please.
This DLC sounds atrocious, I'll probably wait a year for them to package it all together rather than paying for cut content. Only Square Enix can make something as simple as selling a game unnecessarily complicated and all DLC made just for the sake of it is usually c**p
This is all too confusing, just do a standard edition and a collectors edition.
May 2019 Shadow of the Tomb Raider Game Of The Year Version.
I don't think this is nearly as 'complicated' as people are making it out to be. However, I also think more companies should employ the tactics CD Projekt Red and Guerrilla did with The Witcher 3 and Horizon: Zero Dawn where you just get one or two big expansions later on.
Still really hyped for the game. Like Lara's new look.
@get2sammyb this game went live in Playstation Store. i pre-ordered Croft Edition is 89.99 in few minutes ago
@get2sammyb how come does it gonna be crap ? challenge tomb require co-op to play with any friend or it able to play solo ?
My neck hurts.
I really am looking forward to playing this (won't be day one) but why wasn't that a game play trailer? And why is Lara suddenly as good a trained killer than the Predator
So not episodic but Square's like "we're going to confuse people into which one to buy".
Will be interesting to see how this sells cos the timed exclusivity from last time did the franchise no favours.
Also that CGI looked worse than the gameplay of The Last Of Us Part 2, as a PlayStation gamer I feel lucky to play Naughty Dogs games
@RedMan33 I didn't want to say it but... Yeah, I kinda thought that too.
@ShadowWarrior More like "Definitive edition" Tomb Raider will probably struggle to be a GOTY contender.
So good to know about a season pass even before you know anything about the game lol
Boy, aren't those graphs convoluted as all hell.
One of my biggest peeves with games is announcing season passes months and months before the game is released. My interest in this has dipped quite a lot after reading about that.
I want the croft edition or at least one that comes with the season pass and a steelbook preferably
Sounds like their trying to mimic Uncharted again but with always the super serious gritty tone that's getting boring now. Heck even God of War has more humour then the recent TRs have.
Stupid bundles
This has got £25 in the PSN Christmas sale written all over it...although to be fair I enjoyed both the reboot and Rise more than Uncharted 4...contrary to popular opinion though that might be!!
Damn. That’s a huge bummer. Guess I will wait for the GOTY Edition in 2019 too. Or fingers crossed for a bargain during the Black Friday sales.
@adf86
Going up against Spider-Man... No timed-exclusivity this time around but we know where most PlayStation owners will be focusing their attention (I'm getting both but Spider-Man will be the main priority). Of course if it were to be pushed to October, now it has to face Red Dead 2. Kind of screwed either way.
@DLB3
I don't really remember seeing too many complaints about DLC, for those games. At least not nearly as much for others. But, that's probably because both companies handled things correctly. I'm sure there were some who were upset since you can't please everybody but they were definitely drowned out by the people who sang both games' praises when it came to the extra content. Hell I think The Witcher 3 expansions both packed more game in than some $60 'AAA' releases.
Odds on them actually releasing 7 packs of DLC in the 7 consecutive months after the game launches?
@adf86
Eeeeh you know one or two sites will vote it Game Of The Year making it a Game Of The year edition.
All other Lara VO's > Camilla Luddington.
Ok then, I'll wait for the game of the year edition.
I'm sorry, but you put out a calendar like that for a 7 month long season pass you might as well announce "SotTR:Complete Ed." May 2019 in the next section.
Which at this point means wait for the port to launch alongside PS5 5 months later. Or better yet wait for the trilogy for $60.
I know season passes are the big thing now, I only bought GoW b/c it didn't' announce one yet, still expecting $20 DLC like Horizon had, $15 w/ PS+, but listing it out for 7 months like that just seems like a bad idea.
It will still probably be finished before FFXV though.
That's confusing. I'll wait for the GOTY edition.
As long as the game doesn't have any microtransactions then I'm okay with the "overpriced options" they've given us. It's probably gonna be the "Croft edition" for me. I really enjoyed the last 2 TR games so am looking forward to this.
Snarky comments aside I am actually looking forward to the game, really enjoyed the last one and I'm hoping for even more of the exploration this time around as well
Excellent artwork to explain the versions. I wish other games did similar; it's clear, concise and beautifully designed. Hype levels rising!
Since this is the only new release I'm interested in this year (save remasters or anything yet to be announced), I'm incredibly tempted by the Ultimate Edition. My only slight concern is that the physical stuff (statues, keychains, etc.) can sometimes cause delays.
At the very least, the Croft Edition will be mine, as will the Season Pass. I think it all sounds really exciting, and with new content every month for SEVEN months afterwards? Can't wait!
That is actually ridiculous.
Almost as bad as the whole 'augment your preorder' business with Deus Ex.
Shouldn't be surprised it's from the same studio.
Not really as complicated as people areaking it out to be honestly. I agree that the charts aren't very pleasing to look at and having to turn my tablet around to read them was a pain, but it's not "confusing" at least to me
After the 2nd game was released a year later on PS4 with everything I can honestly say apart from Baba Yaga the rest was pointless DLC not even worth it if you bought it. And for this I won't be buying it at all not a chance not until it's very cheap.
@redd214
It's just the 'cool' thing on this website to hate the new Tomb Raider games because the editors here don't like them and because of the lingering butthurt over the previous deal with MS (I didn't like it either, but timed-exclusivity deals aren't new). I'm pretty sure there's a season pass for Spider-Man but nobody is whining about it. People just pick and choose what stupid thing to get angered over. There is nothing complicated here at all and I'd really love one of the confused people to explain to me how it's so confusing. The only person arguing against this who's making sense is @rjejr, who has always had the same stance on this stuff and even posts the same over at Nintendo Life. I've had debates with him about season passes at that website. At least he's consistent.
@Gamer83 ah gotcha thanks for the clarification lol😂
@Gamer83 As a huge fan of Tomb Raider and Sonic the Hedgehog, I sometimes wonder why I've chosen Push Square as the corner of the internet in which to skulk.
Despite those differences, however, the quality and tone of the site and community's members is way above average. Credit where credit is due, and criticism as constructive and as level-headed as possible.
@Gamer83 I'm consistent. Though I also bought GoW day 1, so I'm also a hypocrite. In my defense it hasn't had any paid DLC yet.
Your larger point was correct though, when sammy or Shogun don't like something they never let it go. I still haven't played TR2 but 1 was really good. OK the story was kinda whack, but for me it had just the right mixture of character, story progression, open worldishness, and side quests. New trailer for 3 looks way too dark and violent, like the first Venom trailer. Not good.
@get2sammyb the whining and complaining begins
I'll be getting it, love these games! Just the regular joe edition
Hahaha, what a frickin joke. I will wait for a price drop on this. Anyway, I will be too busy playing Spider-Man. ^^
Well that's off-putting
Season pass wtf the game doesn't even come out till later this year. The game looks amazing though be shore to watch Apocalypto before.
@RogerRoger
This is my go-to website for gaming news. I just find it odd how much Tomb Raider gets ripped around here.
@DLB3
I could actually see this one being something of a flop critically if only because I think the bar has been raised quite high this year with games like Monster Hunter World and God of War and while this TR looks great, Spider-Man and Red Dead Redemption 2 look better. I don't think this game would flop terribly but I could see it at a metacritic and opencritic score of 75-79 if it's too similar to TR 2013 and Rise.
CG trailer, yay I guess. I'm sure the game is going to be great again, but the current promotion feels more like what you'd find on a Kickstarter campaign. Pledge levels, timeframe... where are the pre-order stretch goals? 😂
I'll be waiting for the inevitable GOTY/Complete Edition to be released in 2019, they'd be crazy not to, easy money.
Guess this means I'll stall on playing Rise until I own Shadow.
yeah its not that bad but just a bit unnecessary
@Gamer83 I respect any media institution that allows its writers to convey personal opinion at any time; it's why Push Square is my favourite site. Unfortunately, personal opinions are as such that nobody can ever agree all the time, and that's fine, yet there seems to have been some collective decision to always negatively or unenthusiastically present news and information about certain franchises.
Yesterday was a particularly bizarre example, because right after this piece claiming that the four versions of Shadow of the Tomb Raider constituted "about a billion" and the author immediately taking to the comments section to pre-judge and condemn (with "100% certain(ty)") the DLC as "absolutely crap", we had a Soapbox article from the same author begging for God of War DLC.
The new Tomb Raider games get stick, but it's nothing compared to the active hatred and attempted sabotage of Sonic. Again, it's perfectly fine and laudable that Push Square allows personal opinion to guide the reporting of news; freedom of expression and all that. On the flipside, however, it can put an upsetting edge on otherwise-exciting stories for those of us eagerly clicking to find out more about our favourite franchises.
It's true that a few of us are still hung up on the timed exclusivity deal and not without good reason. For many when they think of the early PlayStation days, TR isn't far behind. So when MS decided to throw it's cash around and keep a game it had no hand in developing just for the sole purpose of keeping it off PlayStation for a year felt absolutely gross and disrespectful from both them and Square Enix.
Now some try to bring up examples of Sony doing the same thing but their arguments fall apart straight away.
Destiny DLC is just DLC, Xbox gamers can still play those games.
Street fighter V needed Sony's investment to get off the ground in the first place.
And Nioh was published by Sony in the west cos of that games niche "souls like" audience can be found mostly on PlayStation to begin with.
I wish people wouldn't use the term "butthurt fanboys" cost there's nothing wrong with having a preferred platform of choice. And for wanting the absolute best for that platform, hence bigging up exclusives etc.
Awful, more reasons to wait and buy a complete edition.
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