Tomb Raider 3 Remaster Appears to Quietly Edit Out Lara Croft Pinup Posters in Latest Patch

Tomb Raider I-III Remastered gave Lara Croft up to date seems to be when it launched for PC and consoles earlier this 12 months, however gamers have observed that just a few in-game photos can not be discovered following a current replace.

As reported by Kotaku, one fan on Reddit observed that a few pinup photos of Lara, which may beforehand be discovered at first of Tomb Raider 3’s Sleeping with the Fishes degree, are not seen when switching to the remastered model of the sport’s graphics. Others shortly booted up their copies of the third Tomb Raider sport to test for themselves and located that the photographs had been certainly gone, with many reporting that they remembered seeing them there simply weeks in the past. Apparently, the unique graphics possibility nonetheless appears to characteristic the pictures of Lara in all their blurry glory.

It is unclear precisely when the change occurred, nevertheless it seems to have include the sport’s second main replace, which rolled out on April 11. There is not any point out of the posters or their removing within the patch notes.

You’ll be able to see a earlier than and after picture as offered by X/Twitter person @SmashJT under.

No fcking means. They did it. They really did it.

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

WTF!?

Credit score/Thx: @momiji_doa pic.twitter.com/yaSBtFXaoH

— Smash JT (@SmashJT) April 19, 2024

IGN has reached out to builders Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics for touch upon why the remastered graphics model of images disappeared greater than two months after the trilogy’s launch. Including to the weirdness is the truth that, days after the Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy launched, the franchise’s official web site highlighted the posters as an attention-grabbing element that some followers could have missed. It’s additionally value noting that Tomb Raider I-III Remastered opens with a message warning gamers that they could encounter offensive materials. The staff selected to maintain the content material with a view to current Tomb Raider in “its unique type, unaltered.”

Nonetheless, the spontaneous removing has led many to hurl accusations of censorship in opposition to Aspyr and Crystal Dynamics.

“Completely pathetic that somebody may assume one thing so innocent wanted to be eliminated and much more so attempting to cover it by making it a undocumented change,” one Reddit person mentioned. “Disgrace on Aspyr and disgrace on Crystal Dynamics.”

“I am tremendous with them not being there tbh they do not make a variety of sense,” one other person mentioned.

Whether or not the pictures’ removing was intentional or unintended, it wouldn’t be the primary time there was confusion concerning Tomb Raider I-III Remastered. Final month, followers observed that the Steam and Epic Video games Retailer model of the expertise had been completely different in just a few substantial methods.

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