Not content with also giving EU PlayStation Plus members early access to Q-Games’ revamp of PixelJunk Racers, yellow-tagged PSN users will soon be treated to another early access offer in the form of seminal PS1 classic Tomb Raider.
Eidos’ groundbreaking 1996 title will be available on Monday, with what we’re starting to assume is the standard “two week VIP treatment” before being made available for the masses. It would also appear that this will not be the last of the PS+ treats for this month. James on the blog states:
Wherever we can, we are trying to get early demos and exclusive content for Plus members and this is by no means the end of these little mid month treats that you have requested, so keep an eye out for more.
The game will be priced at £7.99 and €9.99 depending on your European currency inclination. James has also confirmed that there is no discount for Plusers. Just early access.
Source: Official EU PlayStation Blog
sully1311
very expensive but i’m buying in two weeks time
philzy85
y not go along to your local carbooty and pick up a psx copy for a quid?
xHeatherx
WOW! Thanks for posting!
sully1311
yea sent tsa an email as soon as i saw it. should be a psone classic bestseller, hopefully we’ll see 2,3,4 and 5 appear as well. Basicaly just pure profit for Square Enix
xHeatherx
The 1st, 2nd and 4th Tomb Raider games are my fav. Would be brilliant to see them all coming to PSN :)
teflon
Hahaha… Seminal…. :P
Sounds alright, I guess, but it’s not for me. £8 is too much for a PS1 game I think. Specially when you can pick up TR:Anniversary for a few quid on 360 or PC and have it look all next gen for you…
Good to see them trying, and I hope they keep pushing, cos it’s the right direction. Just that this time, it’s not for me.
skibadee
feel the same way I have PS+ but will not pay that much for a PS1 game.
doomsday619
Early access for a still £7.99 Playstation 1 game, when you can buy it in cd format at any secondhand retailers or online for a couple of quid and still play it in your PS3. Seems a bit steep.
hobgoblin
True, but if I was personally to buy any PS1 titles (Resi Evil, I’m still waiting…) then they’d go straight onto the PSP.
Jas-n
£7.99, bloody rip-off, as doomsday619 said, can pick it up for a couple of quid on ebay and places like that, not paying that much for the convenience of having it on my hard drive.
cc_star
Can you get the CD to sideload on to the PSP, like the digital copy?
Jas-n
if I could somehow hook up the PS1/PS2’s drive to the PSP and get it working then yes :D.
The point was they shouldn’t be £8 when most PSN games don’t even go for that much, like your argument for mini’s that should be competitive with iPhone/iPod/etc. games.
IMO they should be about £5 max.
cc_star
Digital content is always dearer than 15 year old discs (unless they’re very rare)
The only PSOne Classics which cost £7.99 are the ones most people would regard as ‘Classics’ (MGS, FF & now Tomb Raider) everything that’s below the £5 you mention is generally shit and not worthy of the ‘Classic’ tag
big face
I did’t realise Driver, syphon filter, rayman 1 & 2, and both oddworld games were ‘shit’ as you so elegantly put it
Pitcher-T
I found with the psp playing psone classics you can’t use the d-pad. For some reason you can’t press (for example) up and right together to make them go diagonally. I’ve noticed this on several psone games like crash 1 and silent hill. So with this in mind I dont think I would like to play tomb raider on my psp if I had to use the analogue stick, as any one who tried it in tomb raider 2 will no what I mean lol.
teflon
*cough* CFW *cough*
cc_star
Re: Moaning about the price.
The original Tomb Raider is pure class and one of the few games released as a PSOne Classic that deserves the ‘Classic’ tag.
Aren’t all the true ‘Classics’ £7.99, everything I’ve seen for the usual £3-£4 has been little more than mediocre shovel-ware.
I can’t wait – Roll on Monday
jimmy-google
I think all the 7.99 games are third party, Sony seems to be keeping to £4 and under. Not sure who has the rights for Tomb Raider 1 now as Eidos was bought but I’d assume it’s SquareEnix which gives almost all the pricey classics.
£7.99 is hard to justify when you can play the disc on your ps3 anyway. The real benefit is playing it on the PSP but for £8 or less you get pick up games like Daxter, Monster Hunter, Burnout, Loco Roco, Patapon, Wipeout or Ratchet & Clank. All great games that are actually designed for the hardware.
As for decent £4 classic there is Command & Conquer, Theme Hospital, Cool Boarders, Syphon Filter 1 & 3, Vagrant Story, Kula World, Tekken 2, Crash 1 & 3, Crash Team Racing, Wipeout, Oddworld, etc…
I can slightly understand it with MGS and the FF games as they were on multiple discs but there is no good reason why Tomb Raider should be twice the price of some of the games.
Eldave0
I’m not sure the disk version of either TR1 or 2 work any more after a firmware update. Can anyone confirm this? I know TR2 certainly doesn’t work anymore
cc_star
A lot of them were good, but are dreadful now (except CTR).
Unlike MGS & FF which haven’t lost anything through the passage of time.WipEout & Oddworld and others are enough to make me want to hack my eyes out.
hazelam
the oddworld games, driver, wipeout, the syphon filter games, £3.99 and vagrant story, that was 4.59.
the only titles that are £7.99 is the multi disc titles.
and we’ve been waiting months for these and then they restrict them to plus users?
demos and betas i can understand, but why restrict access to a game you’re selling?
frakking stupid.
restrict a discount to plus users sure, but not the whole bloody game, fucking idiotic.
gazzagb
Starting to get interested in PS+. 8 quid isnt bad for this game considering how good it is. And 2 week exclusivity is more like it.
cc_star
Same price as FF & MGS
It seems to me the £7.99 pricetag is where all the true ‘Classic’ PSOne Classics hang out
hazelam
no £7.99 is where the multidisc games hang out.
there are four games that sell for £7.99.
ff 7, 8 and 9 and mgs, all multidisc games.
hobgoblin
Yeah, but 2 week exclusivity on a game that’s been on the US store since 13th August 2009….
Dlaf42
£7,99 is abit much for a ps1 game as people say, i would hate to buy it then 3 month down the line it would be one of the free plus games. If sony wanted to make plus a massive sell all they would have to do is find away to get ps2 games working and on the store and make them only available to only plus members and then watch the subscription come rolling in.
doomsday619
Fair one cc_star but when you can get Tomb Raider Underworld (I know not as good)for £7.99 and quite a few PS3 classics why spend so much money on this for a PSOne game, I know we got the choice of if you dont like it dont buy it but a fairer price may get alot more sales. Im a huge Tomb Raider fan but wouldnt spend this much to get it even a fiver is reasonable.
moshi
Stop with the PS1 games, they look and play terrible now. Not going to waste my time downloading it
cc_star
They do look, and often play dreadful.
IMO they haven’t aged as well as the spite based games on the Megadrive/SNES with their crisp graphics & 60fps gameplay
moshi
The megardrive/snes classics had such simple game play and controls that they stand the test of time now. Give me a copy of them to play or even a HD remake of them games any day or PS1 “classics”
hazelam
play em on a psp and they look pretty good.
on a hdtv though, not so much.
maybe if the ps3 actually rendered the ps1 games in higher resolution they’d look better, but it doesn’t, it just upscales the the image after rendering it.
Radboud
Indeed they look very pretty on my PSP.
Going through FF8 now and the cutscenes look really great. Same goes for more PSOne classics though.