But just when one starts giving up hope, along come some new tantalizing screenshots of Lara Croft in her quintessential Tomb Raider 2-era Croft Manor sports tracksuit (but gorgeously HD-ified) to remind us the team is still at it. In order to be able to run Tomb Raider 2 at a minimum standard for the game, you will need a CPU ranked better than 1.8 GHz Processor, more than 512 MB RAM, a GPU that is better ranked than 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9, while the PC system is running on Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7. The team has been careful not to put any end-date on The Dagger of Xian, obviously because there's never any guarantee such an ambitious undertaking could ever be completed. So as with any purely fan-led initiative of this kind, things take time. RELATED: Unexpectedly, Tomb Raider Underworld Was A Pretty Big Deal For AI Research As far as we can tell, they've been at it since at least 2016. By his side is a modest crew of five members, plus a handful of QA testers, who are undertaking the endeavor purely out of their love for the original game. One particularly dedicated fan based in France who goes by the name of Nicobass is heading up this initiative. It's also one of the most loved, having been crowned the second overall best selling PlayStation title in the UK. It's an ambitious project to say the least, seeing as Tomb Raider 2 is undoubtedly one of the longstanding series' most massive games.
The aim is to recreate the entirety of the second Tomb Raider game (which was released way back in 1997) in HD using the Unreal Engine 4.
