Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis builders Flying Wild Hog sat down with VGC over Summer time Recreation Fest to debate the upcoming reimagining of Lara Croft’s first journey.
Jeff Hays, the franchise’s expertise director, Raul Siqueira, the sport’s director, and Arek Tomaszewski, the sport’s artwork director, spoke to VGC following our hands-on demo with the sport.
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is a reimagining of Lara Croft’s first journey, retold with trendy visuals and a central efficiency from Alix Winton Regan.
When requested about balancing the sport’s exploration mechanics with not making the sport too straightforward for gamers, the sport’s director Raul Siqueira described it as “essentially the most tough factor in recreation growth.”
“A whole lot of recreation growth rests on iteration. It rests on us theorising one thing and testing it, we have now the speculation and check it. We gained’t know till followers play it.”
The builders additionally mentioned the best size of recent single-player video games, the net dialogue over “yellow paint,” main the gamers between targets, and among the struggles of bringing Lara Croft again for a contemporary viewers.
VGC acquired the prospect to play 20 minutes of Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis throughout Summer time Recreation Fest.
“Thus far, Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis isn’t essentially the most convincing prospect. It appears to be like good, and the bullet time mechanic is a number of enjoyable, however there’s definitely room for enchancment. The leaping, particularly, merely must be modified earlier than launch or it would make giant swaths of the sport’s platforming deeply disagreeable.”
Tomb Raider: Legacy of Atlantis is deliberate for launch on February 12, 2027.
Legacy of Atlantis is one in every of two upcoming Tomb Raider video games that have been introduced throughout The Recreation Awards in December 2025. The opposite, Tomb Raider: Catalyst, is deliberate for launch in 2027 and can see Lara exploring Northern India.
