If there was one game that had the office divided last year, it was Rise of the Tomb Raider. Microsoft’s sort-of exclusive was good. Damn good. Possibly even game of the year material, had Geoff’s guerrilla tactics not succeeded and allowed his militia to have their way with The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. Also, Matty may have died in a horrible ambush but he got better.
Point is, forget about Halo. Rise of the Tomb Raider was the real flagship game for the Xbox One in 2015, and if you owned either Xbox console then you should have hopped straight on it or made some plans to do so. On the other hand Darryn, I get that not everybody around here owns an Xbox. But the majority of you lot do own PCs. Well good news everyone! You can get your plundering fix on later this month when Rise of the Tomb Raider lands on January 28.
“The PC release of Rise of the Tomb Raider continues the positive momentum from our highly successful partnership and collaboration with Microsoft for the launch on Xbox One and Xbox 360,” co-Head of Studio at Crystal Dynamics Scot Amos said in a press release. “PC players are a passionate, devoted audience and we know they’ll embrace the version created for their systems,” the other co-Head of Studio at Crystal Dynamics Ron Rosenberg added.
You’ll be able to grab Rise of the Tomb Raider as either a vanilla retail edition or a deluxe edition that includes the season pass for all the upcoming DLC. Your PC will also need to be at least this big to run the game according to this minimum settings:
- OS: Windows 7 64bit
- Processor: Intel Core i3-2100 or AMD equivalent
- Memory: 6 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 650 2GB or AMD HD7770 2GB
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 25 GB available space
And to cap it all off, here’s a couple of new screens of Lara in action.
Last Updated: January 6, 2016
Marcus
January 6, 2016 at 07:17
Happy new years!!
For a game this good looking, the specs are very reasonable. Not that I would play this tho…
R1ker
January 6, 2016 at 07:28
Welcome back Lazygamer 🙂 I still need to finish the other Tomb Raider.
Captain JJ 4x
January 6, 2016 at 07:37
I saw it pop up on my Steam feed.
But no thanks. I’ll wait for a special. They can keep their timed exclusive for a bit longer.
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 6, 2016 at 07:38
R499 for the base game & R319 for the season pass which has an endurance mode, a horde mode and a SP tomb as its highlights. Yes to the former, no to the latter.
Kromas untamed
January 6, 2016 at 07:41
Yay … one more AAA game I get to not finish. Lara can get in line behind Witcher 3 and Fallout 4. Both have a considerable amount of playtime left in them.
Hammersteyn
January 6, 2016 at 07:56
I bet it breaks all sorts of day one sale records…
Loftus
January 6, 2016 at 07:58
Sure yes there’ll be a statement on how well it has sold, but actual numbers wouldn’t be given…
Alien Emperor Trevor
January 6, 2016 at 08:09
It’ll get my money as soon as I hear the porting is fine, and I expect it to be like all the Square ports I’ve played. Only reason I haven’t preordered is because you get a copy of the 1st TR – which I’ve already played.
Captain JJ 4x
January 6, 2016 at 08:14
It’ll get my money as soon as the sale hits. I’m not supporting this timed exclusive kak
Captain JJ 4x
January 6, 2016 at 08:14
Sure it will
Hammersteyn
January 6, 2016 at 08:17
I didn’t say if it will break most copies sold or least copies sold 😛
Captain JJ 4x
January 6, 2016 at 09:26
XD
RinceThis
January 6, 2016 at 12:52
You mean ‘I bet it breaks on the PC and needs a shit load of patches’ Cough, Batman, cough…
Hammersteyn
January 6, 2016 at 13:36
HAHAHAHA!
justlikemo
January 6, 2016 at 08:14
aloooooo , there is life after all! how your’ll doin n all
Hammersteyn
January 6, 2016 at 08:17
Just glad that things are back to normal. Was like limbo in Decemeber
justlikemo
January 6, 2016 at 08:21
It was sad, like the only guy working, looking for some one to talk to during the day, no one around, playing by myself, IT is za lonely game. But now I have company again!
Hammersteyn
January 6, 2016 at 08:21
XD
VampyreSquirrel
January 6, 2016 at 08:15
I want to play this, but it can wait until I finish a few games, and it’ll probably have to be on special too.
iusedtobe(a)regular
January 6, 2016 at 09:04
A good game, absolutely, one of the very best? I dont think so.
oVg
January 6, 2016 at 10:52
They just sold over 1million copies and Microsoft is happy. Sorry, somebody please explain to me why Square Enix were very disappointed with the 3.8 million sales in the first month of the re-boot again?
Francois Knoetze
January 6, 2016 at 12:31
Multiple platforms and not just a single platform. So the outlook on units sold is looked at differently?
iusedtobe(a)regular
January 6, 2016 at 14:44
But this game didnt just sell on one platform and people tend to forget that.
RinceThis
January 6, 2016 at 12:51
LOL. I remember when people lost their minds thinking this was an Xbox One exclusive…
Francois Knoetze
January 6, 2016 at 14:49
glad this is out on another platform now. had a blast with this and looking forward the the baba yaga dlc