This is a lot of fun to see such a cheap (and old!) game from Square! For you young kids: this was one of the first games to use 3D acceleration features of the video cards in 1996, alongside Quake. The Playstation version was chunktastic but a Voodoo 3DFX card smoothed out all the edges and made it look crisp and CGI-like we see here. It was a very big deal back in the day, despite its chunky digital controls and pointy boobies. It has seen about two dozen sequels and remakes, but this original TR1 has also been remade a bunch of times on mobile phones and the Pocket PC. We have come a very long way. Here's a press release about the Pocket PC version, which cost $30 in 2002 and ran on hardware that was orders of magnitude less powerful than even the first iPhone: http://www.geek.com/games/tomb-raiders-on-your-pocket-pc-548879/
I finished the peruvian levels! Fights are very difficult because of the controls. You will probably need a lot more medipacks than in the PS version. Thankfully, this game has not too many hard fights.
You've got to learn to flip and jump while shooting to avoid taking damage. For the person who wondered about the slope leading to a secret: if climbing up the back of the slope and sliding down doesn't work for you, you can also face the wall you want to climb up to then backflip onto the slope, then hitting jump and action to catch onto the ledge.
It just hit me that while playing this it reminds me of the tv show called knightmare where the kid walks around with a helmet on and the others have to guide them around. That's how I feel playing this, Lara take two side steps, walk forward, stop turn left 90* Having fun playing it though not sure I'd be enjoying it if I didn't have memory's of playing it when it was released though. We need a port of resident evil 1 now though
Sorry if this has been asked elsewhere, but any chance this will play on iPod touch 4th gen? Any tried it?
If anyone is having a hard time walking. Use the small arrows on the right side of the screen while walking to turn left and right! The ones that just side step you if you're standing still.
For some reason you will find it in your device settings menu not in game. Settings then right at the bottom is tomb raider and there's control options and graphics options.
It's iOS7 only as I discovered a little while ago after trying to purchase it. So, max on 4th gen touch is 6.1.5 right, so no, it shouldn't even let you download it.
Thank you Square Enix. Thank you for giving me a game that I can use a controller with on my iPad. iCade 8-bitty works great with this game. This does make my wait even harder though. Come on!!!!!! Bring the Bluetooth mfi controllers!!!!
