TombRaider forum member ‘XProger’ has been working on an open-source engine of the classic Tomb Raider game, called OpenLara, and has made it available to everyone. Surprisingly enough, this new remake of Tomb Raider is playable in your web browser. Yeap, you don’t have to download anything at all.
Now before continuing, know that this is just an engine remake that features the first level, and not the full game. However, players can load official levels via its “browse level” selector.
All you have to do is visit its official website and start playing it.
What’s also cool is that OpenLara offers both third-person and first-person modes. Players can switch at will between these two modes. Furthermore, the framerate has been unlocked and the game can be enjoyed at higher framerates (the original Tomb Raider was locked at 30fps, even on the PC).
Thanks to its new game engine, the game also sports better visuals (though do not expect anything ground-breaking. Just some small tweaks thanks to hardware acceleration).
Have fun!
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Dammit man! Release this awesomeness please. I replaying TR1 right now, and I would restart on a heartbeat if I can play this. It feels so unbelievably smooth, Nooo! Now how can I go back to the crappy version. And I certainly don’t remember TR1 having those nice water effects and lara gets wet.. .. .
Slow motion is making everything ‘cinematic’ I love it.
So good. When is it releasing!
Also, the mutt chased me underwater and bit me. What a dedicated mutt!
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Dammit man! Release this awesomeness please. I replaying TR1 right now, and I would restart on a heartbeat if I can play this. It feels so unbelievably smooth, Nooo! Now how can I go back to the crappy version. And I certainly don’t remember TR1 having those nice water effects and lara gets wet.. .. .
Slow motion is making everything ‘cinematic’ I love it.
So good. When is it releasing!
Both the mutt and the bear fell into the well. And they bit me.
There was a special PC verison witch 60FPS and proper .exe for PowerVR GPUs in the 90s.
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I think it needs to be mentioned that this is just a demo level. The engine may be open source, but the assets are copyrighted. I don’t think it would be possible to remake the entire game without Square Enix’s permission.
It’s just an engine swap, so probably need to own the original game for it to run.
Yes, which is why I felt that clarification was needed, else the headline seems like borderline clickbait.
Played fine for me.
Come now, anyone over 25 will tell you that is not the first level of Tomb Raider, which is Caves, but rather the 2nd level, the City of Vilcabamba.
this is tomb raider 2 not the first one
Huh? TR2 opens with The Great Wall of China and level 2 is Venice. This is the original TR as stated by the article
That brings back memories. Still a fairly immersive game too despite its age and clunky control scheme.
Lara Croft, in my browser?
It’s more likely than you think.
Lol this was soo bad..
Pretty cool. Hope we get a full remake like this at some point, even the controls felt more responsive in this then the original.