There’s now co-op support for Endurance mode – think a Don’t Starve-style hunt for food and resources while trying to stay alive – and Lara’s Nightmare, a score attack mode with zombies stumbling into Croft Manor. The new stuff comes in the form of an hour long piece of story content called Blood Ties, set in Croft Manor, which is also playable in PSVR. There’s also an Extreme Survivor difficulty, which removes the checkpoints from the main game, and host of new outfits including a few classic skins. So that’s Baba Yaga: The Temple of the Witch and Cold Darkness Awakened. The 20 Year Celebration of Rise of the Tomb Raider contains the original game released on Xbox One a year ago – you can read our full, four-and-a-half stars out of five review here (opens in new tab) – along with all existing DLC. But what else do you get in the Rise of the Tomb Raider: 20 Year Celebration package – and how does it stack up? Rather than re-reviewing the core Rise of the Tomb Raider solo campaign again (that we scored 4.5/5 last year), we decided to go through all the new stuff and deliver a verdict. Riding a quad buggy around the garden, locking Winston in the freezer, that line when you get out the pool – Croft Manor has been home to some of the most memorable moments in Lara’s long career, so it makes sense that Crystal Dynamics would want to set the new Blood Ties mode (available for the first time via the 20 Year Celebration) in this famous location. Is the '20 Year Celebration' content worth £19.99/$29.99? In truth, probably not… but allow us to explain. The trickier question is for Xbox One owners who are yet to fork out for a season pass. PS4 owners, who missed out on last year's Xbox 'exclusive', are now getting a much more complete package – plus a virtual reality Blood Ties experience, of which more below – so, again, this verges essential purchase, especially for those who loved Uncharted 4 (or who, whisper it, felt Drake's final chapter lacked a little depth). And with plenty more games set to support it (opens in new tab), it looks like Intel should be good in a good place come October 12 and the launch of its Arc A770 GPUs.Xbox One owners who paid for a Rise of the Tomb Raider season pass get all the '20 Year Celebration' content free – so, yes, this well worth your time. Overall, this is an encouraging start for Intel's XeSS. Intel has also made the SDK for XeSS available on Github (opens in new tab). DLSS 3 only works with the new Ada Lovelace GPUs though, which limits its appeal somewhat. Of course, Nvidia has just announced DLSS 3 will launch with its RTX 40-series graphics cards, and that promises big things for frame rates. This also gives owners of AMD's RDNA 2 GPUs an option for higher performance too. The Quality setting produced a good final image and enjoyed a 17% bump in performance at the highest settings.įor comparison the DLSS Quality setting ups the performance by 25%, so that's still the better choice if you have an Nvidia GPU, and it's tough to see any difference between the final images. As far as quality is concerned, I saw no notable artifacts while benchmarking.
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