The Beauty of Tomb Raider 3 

Hahaha, I expected someone to say this! And you're right, of course.

That's my favorite level too! It takes my breath away.

Such an awesome game

Glad it worked, I didn't want to use the original, but find music that matched the "feel" of the environments!

YESS! I was hoping that exact feeling would come across from the constant motion!!

India is my fave too

I was honestly surprised how good they still look, it's wonderful!

Ikr? The London levels are my favorites.

I didnt like these london levels, they were way too dark and texture work messy which made the gameplay even less readable.

@@Mondoshawn Definitely, I feel in a way with less advanced technology they had to be really creative and intelligent with how they used sound, graphics and lighting to make something interesting immersive. The London levels especially are still so genuinely atmospheric and give a feeling of being there to me all these years later.

Will Murphy A good way to measure it would be to look at Tomb Raider Anniversary Edition (not that one. The cancelled _good_ one). A lot of the classic areas were redone completely while still following the same basic layout as the old game, using the Free Running engine which I read somewhere back in 2008 or so was meant to be a fully fixed Angel of Darkness one: The wolf bridge room in Caves has iced over ships like Rise of the Tomb Raider in small docks below the bridges City of Vilcabamba looks like the original, but has more detail in the walls and floor, giving the impression that the "huts" are more clearly carved directly out of the cave walls, making the city less traditionally village like on purpose due to the location The bridge in Lost Valley is broken because the T-Rex destroys it trying to get at some raptors. Not only does it have a true skybox but there's a volcano in the distance, the waterfall area has more streams leading both in and out of the cave and the two seem to be connected by a new area called The Lost Plateau. The Coliseum is round and outdoors on a hidden plateau The Cistern & Tihocan sewers have waterfalls in places where it makes sense for water to flow e.g. the exit to the first rusty key and the final slide to the tomb itself Some places like the Parthenon in Palace Midas and Tihocan's Tomb have completely redesigned interiors. The latter even has a giant Medusa statue that looks like it's from Akumajou Dracula X: Rondo of Blood but 3D. The centaurs are missing from the screenshots so they either weren't implemented or the Medusa statue was going to come alive as the new Greece boss next to Pierre Khamoon from the city to the obelisk has better lighting and more detail in the walls. The Sanctuary Sphinx room has a different shape with lava surrounding it in a moat, a puzzle that involves flooding the Sphinx area with that lava and the statue itself is redesigned to look like something from TR4 crossed with Angel of Darkness Natla's Mines have geometry and textures, especially the lava falls, that make it look and feel like The Lost Domain or Sanctuary of the Flame in Angel of Darkness, with more mining equipment, catwalks and terminals around the place. A major change is that it's retconned as an old German WW2 outpost that Natla merely reopens. And then there's Atlantis itself: other than the gorier textures and incisor teeth springing up from the floor in places, we have in the main lava shaft lava falls, spikes or teeth on the walls and what I first thought was a huge column held up by chains, but while I was right about the chains, I later saw the "column" was actually a titanic brain stem connected to a giant brain just outside the original scion room, with a computer terminal on the catwalks above it as a user interface! This is above a sloped funnel that connects to the lava shaft below. I couldn't find the torso boss arena so I could only guess the "brain" may have been intended as the new egg for it. A lot more mutants were going to appear in Atlantis besides returning favourites, going by concept art. They all look like the lab experiments they're supposed to be. Then there's Escape from Atlantis, where I can only assume they would have gone balls out architecture wise and ditched even the minute references to the old grid design entirely, becoming full Angel of Darkness with better controls. So looking at that, we've just got to imagine what Tomb Raider 3 would look like if Core Design gave it the TRAE treatment too.

Really? Theyre my absolute worst levels of the entire franchise!

Damn good game!

@@Raidercast yes it was! Dare I say it was better than TR2. 😁

I do wish more colorful lighting was injected into the new games. Shadow was surprisingly bright and lush and gorgeous, but I wish more was given to Reboot and Rise for sure.

It's totally Dark Souls isn't it! :o I'd love some more TR action like this one day.

:D I'm going to sneak Lara into the rest of them, I wish I'd been doing it since the start tbh

Wait, where was she?

luthi 1991 Around 3:30 when the camera is passing over the street in Thames Wharf.

I really enjoy reading your posts here. Thanks for taking the time to give such detailed replies! And yes, same for me re: wanting to visit Antarctica. It's the only continent I've not visited yet!

They're so derpy, I love them! hahaha

It's one hell of a game!

SAME!! 100%. It’s the thick powerful BANG. So satisfying.

Hehe, it's the longest one so far!! Set aside like an hour for TR4 ok?

@@Raidercast Oh, TR4... yeah, an hour sounds fair! :D

Couldn't leave it out! I love that room with the stained glass!

With all my heart. I'm glad Quest for Stuff is still getting some love! I had so much fun making those. I hope to do more one day.

@@Raidercast I'm looking forward to more should you do another one!

Oh no! That's so annoying.

Happy it's being enjoyed!

Thanks! I wanted to use music that paid homage either to the original score, or the *feel* of the environments, without infringing copyright of the original musics.

@@Raidercast hi there. Awesome video and music. What is the name of the track

Thank you! It's in the credits / links under the video if you'd like to check it out. Super easy browser-based exploration tool. The only thing that isn't done is the rest of the lighting (for example in my video you'll see a few black triangles where lighting should be but doesn't display correctly)

@@Raidercast Oh sorry about not reading the description! My bad! And Wow! I can't believe that I didn't knew about this site before! Awesome! I'm doing a remaster of TR3 for quite some time, and this will be very helpful! Btw I listened yesterday and today all your podcasts! The last one gave me chills! Awesome content! Can't wait for the next one! :)

Some awesome places in TR3!

Yes, I like Indian music at the beginning. Tomb raider, memories ❤️

I'll eventually do some ambient ones from the classic games, the only reason I haven't so far is because everything after TR5 had multiple different ambient sounds per level, so there was a variety. But a few people have asked for classic ambience, so I'll do that sometime even though it's literally just one soundtrack looped for 30+ minutes 😅

@@Raidercast Ok thnks. Brill channel & content keep up the hard work, & ur cute 😀

Thanks! This was so fun to make.

Info in the credits / links under the video! It's pretty nifty software.

@@Raidercast My bad! I shoulda thought to check there first.

It’s a track called Dark Matter from MotionArray 👍

@@Raidercast Ok, thanks. Sounds kinda Minecraft'ish :-)