News Summary

• Other additions include health bars for bosses - Apsyr reasons their absence in the original games "can be frustrating for tougher bosses with massive amounts of health" - plus new 3D in-world item pick-ups that'll replace the flat 2D sprites used previously..
• The latter visual tweak arrives alongside new baked and real-time lighting effects, new models for Lara and enemies (as seen in last year's Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered reveal trailer), plus enhanced environments, animations, textures, and VFX..
• Players that prefer the Tomb Raider games' classic looks can go fully retro if they choose, with Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered featuring a toggle to switch between original and modern graphics- you'll find some new comparison pictures over on the PlayStation Blog..
• And finally, there's a "robust" photo mode, that'll freeze gameplay and let players pose Lara ready for some snaps, with the graphics toggle also working here..
• I'll still think back to my old shared house and that creaking hand-me-down Pentium or whatever it was, but now I'll be making a new layer of memory to bring to the whole thing..
• Writing in a new post on the PlayStation Blog, Aspyr explains it wanted to focus on "additions instead of revisions" when developing Tomb Raider 1-3 Remastered, saying it believes the "gameplay of [the originals] is timeless.".