It appears that Crystal Dynamics have dropped multiplayer for Rise of the Tomb Raider. The first reboot game, simply known as Tomb Raider, had multiplayer which pitted Lara’s team of suvivors against the island’s scavengers.
The news comes from the September issue of the Official Xbox Magazine, a scan of which was captured by All Games Beta.
Multiplayer was shoved in to a number of games that didn’t need it during last gen, including Tomb Raider and Bioshock, with multiplayer DLC providing extra profits for the publishers. Whilst many will not mourn the passing Tomb Raider’s multiplayer we have to wonder what other plans Square Enix have to monetise Lara’s next outing.
Source: Twitter
TSBonyman
Sounds good to me because it means the campaign is first and foremost.
JustTaylorNow
Thank goodness, the first one had to be one of the wurst MP experienced ever
Starman
Very good, 100% of development time on the single player, just like the reboot should’ve had.
The reboots multiplayer was the definition of a tacked on multiplayer just for the sake of it. With Gears of War on xbox and Uncharted on playstation there are far better 3rd person multiplayers available.
Stefan L
100% of Crystal Dynamics’ development time did go into the single player of the 2013 reboot. The multiplayer was developed by Eidos Montreal. Montreal are now working alongside CD for Rise of the Tomb Raider, but it would be silly to suggest that anything was left on the table for the reboot.
Starman
100% of the development budget then, to be pedantic.
rSp8
Completed the campaign on PS3 and PS4, and never even started the multiplayer mode once on either. Same with Arkham Origins (but only on PS3 obvs). Glad to see that they’re learning.
cam_manutd
The mp in TR wasn’t well executed at all. Makes sense they drop this as it would only detract from the game further. There were many games last gen that did not need mp however some of those that got mp made excellent use of it particularly The Last Of Us, Uncharted 2 & 3.
JR.
The trophy completist in me is happy. I know you don’t HAVE to play the MP but if I really like a game, I like to complete it 100% and I’m not about spending 6 months grinding XP for a bronze trophy.
I don’t mind if there are two or three MP trophies to get you to try the MP like the Uncharted games. If it’s fun, I’ll probably play a few matches. It’s when devs try to extend the life of the game by adding ridiculous trophies like kill 10,000 enemy players which requires thousands of man-hours to unlock. I won’t even try it at all then.
If they want to extend the life of the game, add extra difficulty levels or new game+. New game+ is a must and one thing sorely missing from the last TR game.
Not every game needs MP.
I wish more devs would do this.