20 LAZIEST Video Game Re-Releases They Thought You'd Buy

Tomb Raider has brought acrobatic adventurer Lara Croft to our screens and consoles for three decades, and during that time there have been some iconic games and some we’d rather forget. Along the way, the style of the game and design of Lara Croft herself has been tweaked to evolve with new hardware, trends and capabilities, and 2006’s Tomb Raider Legend was considered one of the more important games for the franchise in this context.

Legend followed the iffy Angel of Darkness, and set a new standard for the series while conducting something of a soft reboot. It paved the way for the following year’s remake of the first game, Anniversary, and Underworld the year after that. And just three years following Underworld, Crystal Dynamics deemed it time to unite the so-called Legend trilogy in a single unit, with The Tomb Raider Trilogy releasing in 2011 onto PlayStation 3.

Given it had only been three years, it would have been a lot to expect anything to have changed for Underworld – and it hadn’t. What it did offer was Anniversary and Legend remastered in HD for the current hardware, but only remastered in the most limited sense. As a re-release, this offered value to gamers who didn’t have Underworld already or had never played the other games, but for diehards following the series all along, it seemed no effort had gone into this, with the disc’s basic DVD extras-style bonus content a slap in the face for the price tag.