

The game will also feature some more expansive tombs for players to dive into as they search for valuable treasures and uncover more ancient secrets. Fast forward through a couple of major deals and you have a highly impressive exclusive title in the Xbox One’s holiday lineup.īuilding on the well-received mechanics from the reboot, Rise of the Tomb Raider adds more strategic capabilities for those seeking stealth, violence, or a mix of the two.

After its highly successful Definitive Edition, the team over at the Xbox division of Microsoft knew it was something special. Lara was back in all her glory with a retelling of her harrowing origins and enough survival mechanics to make some recent horror games hang their heads in shame. After years of struggling to find the perfect way of telling a new story with everyone’s other favorite treasure hunter, Crystal Dynamics finally hit a homerun with the 2013 reboot, Tomb Raider. On one side, you have Rise of the Tomb Raider.

Probably more than almost every other game this year (with the exception of maybe MGS V). These are two titles that have been garnering quite a bit of attention. 10 will see the release of both the Xbox One exclusive Rise of the Tomb Raider and the multiplatform Fallout 4. After seeing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain overshadow the impressive Mad Max, and Halo 5: Guardians compete with Assassin’s Creed Syndicate, it seems as if Lara Croft and the Vault Dweller has caught the same bug. It seems as if 2015 is set to be the year of major face-offs between highly anticipated titles.
