The original gate where you are supposed to go through with the boat is locked and the room in there doesn’t contain the clock tower door, it’s just a white textured room, could this be an early alpha room from the previous level? The sword men have no sound effects whilst their sword goes down. In the beginning, you don’t start in the boat, they may not have created it yet. The health bar is also different in color, just an early placeholder. In the first level Bartoli’s Hideout, you can notice that the Pistols’ Sound effects are completely different. The alpha consists of 3 playable levels in early development As a result it is now available on many websites. Some early E3 preview videos show a similar build.īeta Stage – Date, 16th June 1997 (E3 Build)Īfter E3 1997, Tomb Raider 2 E3 build leaked onto the internet. However, Core Design began experimenting with Lara Croft having a braid. These are most likely the first set of screenshots showing Tomb Raider 2. There aren’t supposed to be stairs in Bartoli’s Hideout, the gate where the boat is supposed to drive through is missing. As you can see, Lara has no braid, her model is exactly the same to the first Lara in Tomb Raider 1. These screenshots come from an early alpha build of Tomb Raider 2. The port was cancelled due to unknown reasons but is available to download from some places on the internet.
In 2004, an external company ported Tomb Raider 2 to the Tapwave Zodiac handheld device which is now defunct.
Tomb Raider 2 was released on the Sony PlayStation and PC early November 1997. Core Design managed to successfully remaster and implement Lara’s ponytail which was a major issue back in 1995.
There is no evidence of this happening, if anybody has any official information please do update this. According to rumors, due to the original game being such a success, Sony paid for the game to be exclusively made for the PlayStation which in turn resulted in the Sega Saturn version being cancelled. Core Design of Derbyshire had already planned a sequel, the game underwent big changes through development.
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