The Tomb Raider Remastered trilogy was led by a fan who's spent the last 8 years working on an unofficial Tomb Raider game engine

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.Here’s how it works. (Image credit: Aspyr) A Tomb Raider fan, who’s been unofficially remastering the first five games for the last eight years, has announced they worked on the official remastered trilogy. XProger, the developer of game engine OpenLara, has spent the last few years upgrading the first five Tomb Raider games and allowing players to enjoy Lara Croft’s early adventures in their browser. According to thisbreakdown, the project stays true to the original’s look and feel but adds some enhancements that make the old-school games “look a bit less archaic.” OpenLara alters the original games' framerate so that it’s no longer fixed to 30FPS and can instead reach between 60 and 144FPS. It also allows players to set the internal resolution and adds things like new water effects, self-shadowing on all the player models, improved lighting effects, a local …