Lara Croft’s Pinup Posters Go Lacking In Tomb Raider I-III Remastered

Final week, Aspyr launched the second main replace for Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, and whereas it is added a brand new outfit, it is also supposedly eliminated some content material in line with a number of participant reviews.

Though there doesn’t look like any point out of this within the newest patch notes, Tomb Raider followers on social media and elsewhere have highlighted how “Lara’s pinup” posters within the fourth stage of Tomb Raider III (titled ‘Sleeping with the Fishes’) have now disappeared from the primary room of this stage. Unsurprisingly, there’s been a combined response to this discovery on-line.

These similar posters had been featured in all their pixelated glory within the authentic recreation and had been apparently within the earlier variations of Tomb Raider I-III Remastered, earlier than the newest updates.

On the PC entrance, modders have been fast to revive these posters within the remastered model of Tomb Raider III.

Aspyr hasn’t commented on this specific change in Tomb Raider, so there is no definitive reply as to why it has been eliminated.

Nevertheless, it is price noting Crystal Dynamics added an announcement to the trilogy remaster mentioning the way it selected to not take away content material from the sport that didn’t align with its values, as it might reasonably “study from it”. This is that very same assertion in full:

“The video games on this assortment include offensive depictions of individuals and cultures rooted in racism and ethnic prejudices. these stereotypes are deeply dangerous, inexcusable, and don’t align with our values at Crystal Dynamics.

Somewhat than eradicating this content material, we’ve got chosen to current it right here in its authentic kind, unaltered, within the hopes that we might acknowledge its dangerous impression and study from it.”

No fcking approach. They did it. They really did it.

Crystal Dynamics censored out the pics of Lara within the replace on Tomb Raider.

WTF!?

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— Smash JT (@SmashJT) April 19, 2024

Notably, the ‘Open Lara’ developer (who was truly employed to work on the Remastered trilogy) has reshared a hyperlink on social media to the mod which provides the posters again into the remastered model of the sport.

When Tomb Raider I-III Remastered launched in February, critics and followers had been extremely pleased with the ultimate product. The Nintendo Life evaluate labelled it one in all Aspyr’s most achieved tasks to this point, efficiently giving three of gaming’s most iconic titles a much-needed replace.