Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered PS5 PS4 New Outfits

The Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered bundle on PS5 and PS4 got a patch last week, adding new challenges, Trophies, and costumes — but the content hasn't gone down well with the series' playerbase.

While it was a free update, fans aren't pleased with the quality of the new outfits to the game, which were not part of the original releases. There are 10 of them, and they all come with different gameplay modifiers.

The problem is they look terrible in-game, with fans picking up on inconsistencies that point them to fearing they were created using AI. Fans have pointed to odd symbols on the clothing, strange details on belts, and a general lack of quality as potential evidence AI was involved. You can button through the images below:

The Reddit thread above has gathered the reactions of fans to the content, all of which are very disappointed by what's on offer.

"That's so comically bad, did they fire the team that originally made the remasters or what?" asked Papyesh2137. "This entire update feels so extremely shoddy and haphazardly done." Kutleki said: "You can tell zero effort was put into these in both design and execution. I'm just honestly stunned they even put this out."

ImpossibleWin3916 summed it up simply: "This is incredibly unprofessional and shameful."

The criticism has been so negative that a developer who worked on the original release of the remastered classics has publicly come out and distanced themselves from the update. Giovannu Lucca, who is credited as the lead artist on the 1-3 Remastered release, and also Tomb Raider 4-6 Remastered, said he wasn't "involved in the art direction of this new patch with the Challenge Mode for Tomb Raider I-II-III Remastered".

Lucca goes on to explain that "none of the original developers" at Saber Interactive were involved with the Challenge Mode update, which added these new skins to the release. This has fuelled the theories of AI-usage in relation to the new costumes further.

Another poster claims the new update has actually introduced more bugs and technical issues to the game.

"Some players have lost their entire saves, others have played the music of the main menu even while playing, the subtitles are now complete asynchronous, many can no longer switch between games in the main menu, where you can switch to challenge mode and leave the main menu," according to Aazzle. "The interface simply no longer displays the options to switch between each game. So you have to finish the whole game and restart it."

What's your take on the update? Post your thoughts in the comments below.

[source reddit.com, via ign.com]