History YMMV / TombRaiderIII

* PortingDisaster: Not as severe an example as some, but the PS1 version pales in comparison to the PC/Mac version, for a few reasons:
** The PS1 version is prone to patches of slowdown and low framerates, two problems which didn't really affect the first two games.
** The PS1 version dropped the "save anywhere" feature of the second game in favor of save crystals, which are limited in supply. The computer versions let you save anywhere.
** The PS1 version also has an unfortunate audio sync problem in the game engine-based cutscenes, which causes the audio to play almost a second after the video. It's especially noticeable in the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-IC7z_GENkY cutscene after the first England level.]] The FMV-based cutscenes don't have this sync issue, thankfully.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Changing the grenade launcher's trajectory to fall to the ground and roll didn't sit well for many fans, as it rendered the weapon almost useless. Likewise, making the flares flicker out way sooner than they did in the previous game wasn't a welcomed change, but at least there is an abundance of them throughout the game.

* HellIsThatNoise: The rattling and moaning of Winston in ''Tomb Raider III''. This troper always shut him in the freezer so he wouldn't scare her.

* ThatOneBoss: There's [[spoiler: Dr. Willard]]. You have to be extremely quick and focused in getting the various MacGuffin items into their proper areas, or suffer from its highly damaging attacks, one of which is a ''homing'' OneHitKill.

* UnfortunateImplications: South Pacific section is choke-full of them. Your human enemies are primitive cannibals with all kinds of associated stereotypes. And the only one with spoken lines talks in YouNoTakeCandle fashion. Lara instantly wants to help [[CapturedByCannibals a captured soldier]], while going through native population with blazing guns is glossed over.

* DesignatedHero: Upon its release, the game was harshly critisized for this approach. You see, in [[VideoGame/TombRaider the first instalment]], there were barely any human enemies and they were all hired crooks trying to kill Lara. [[VideoGame/TombRaiderII The second game]] wastly increased amound of human enemies, but they were again criminals or [[ItMakesSenseInContext reanimated ancient warriors]] and the plot gave Lara "saving the world" license to kill. By Tomb Raider 3 human enemies include [=MPs=], museum guards, homeless people living in [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground London's Tube]], tibesmen in their own village, security personel guarding private mine... you get the picture. And this time around there is no excuse to kill any of them, as the save the world plot doesn't kick in till you are out of human enemies.

** Snakes. They can't move, so it's extremely easy to avoid their attacks, but they are usually placed in the most inconvinient spot, requiring from player to kill them at absurdly close range.
** Anything that can poison Lara. The poison will slowly deplete health and can be only stopped by applying a medpack.

** Not counting Tony and Dr. Willard, the rest of characters shows up for single cutscene. Most of them managed to generate sizable fanbase from those.

** Whole London is usually That One Section.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Changing the grenade launcher's trajectory to fall to the ground and roll didn't sit well for many fans. Likewise, making the flares flicker out way sooner than they did in the previous game wasn't a welcomed change.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hardly a [=YMMV=], as the grenade launcher is useless when compared with its [=TR2=] incarnation.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hardly a [=YMMV=], as the grenade launcher is useless when compared with its [=TR2=] incarnation.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hardly a [=YMMV=], as the grenade launcher is useless when compared with its [=TR2=] incarnation.
* UnfortunateImplications: South Pacific section is choke-full of them. Your human enemies are primitive cannibals with all kinds of associated stereotypes. And the only one with spoken lines talks in YouNoTakeCandle fashion. Lara instantly wants to help [[CapturedByCannibals a captured soldier]], while going through native population with blazing guns is glossed over.
* UnpleasableFanbase:
** This part decided to use both predefinied {{Save Token}}s and normal, unlimited saves whenever players like to do them. It managed to generated uproar as "indecisive dev team".
** The series was getting more and more flak for being increasingly difficult, with Tomb Raider 3 being the biggest offender of NintendoHard. Japanese release, which tons down the difficulty considerably, got even more flak for being ''too easy''.
** To put it in perspective, the western release of ''III'' is so hard, that Stella, from tombraiders.net, had to quote the community that "the first two [=TR=] games are almost required to be played" to be ready for ''III'', due to the harsher difficulty. Again, doesn't help that the Playstation release didn't have unlimited saves, which is probably why a majority dislike the game. [[labelnote:Why?]]Not a lot of kids or people form the 90's/early 00's had a good PC to run games, if they even had one, so most fans probably got it for consoles.[[/labelnote]]

* ItsEasySoItSucks: While the game is infamous for it's notorious difficulty, Japanese release is an exact opposite - all enemies have half of their normal health, weapons and ammunition are abundant and many secrets aren't that secret. Fans weren't pleased.

* TheyChangedItNowItSucks: Hardly a [=YMMV=], as the grenade launcher is useless when compared with it's [=TR2=] incarnation.

* DesignatedHero: Upon it's release, the game was harshly critisized for this approach. You see, in [[VideoGame/TombRaider the first instalment]], there were barely any human enemies and they were all hired crooks trying to kill Lara. [[VideoGame/TombRaiderII The second game]] wastly increased amound of human enemies, but they were again criminals or [[ItMakesSenseInContext reanimated ancient warriors]] and the plot gave Lara "saving the world" license to kill. By Tomb Raider 3 human enemies include [=MPs=], museum guards, homeless people living in [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground London's Tube]], tibesmen in their own village, security personel guarding private mine... you get the picture. And this time around there is no excuse to kill any of them, as the save the world plot doesn't kick in till you are out of human enemies.

** The series was getting more and more flak for being increasingly difficult, with Tomb Raider 3 being the biggest offender of NintendoHard. Japanese release, which tons down the difficulty considerably, got even more flak for being ''too easy''.

** Snakes. They can't move, so it's extremely easy to avoid their attacks, but they usually are placed in the most inconvinient spot, requiring from player to kill them at absurdly close range.

** The very last cutscene of the game sees Lara boarding a helicopter after shooting the pilot inside, who had nothing to do with taking over the world whatsoever; she shot the guy because he was there.
* DisappointingLastlevel: After ''two'' {{Marathon Level}}s, Meteorite Cavern is nothing more than a boss fight and short route to leave the cavern. [[SkippableBoss And the boss fight can be skipped]].

** As mentioned below, you can combine firepower and fire rate of any two two-handed weapons thanks to the bug.

* DesignatedHero: Upon it's release, the game was harshly critisized for this approach. You see, in [[VideoGame/TombRaider the first instalment]], there were barely any human enemies and they were all hired crooks trying to kill Lara. [[VideoGame/TombRaiderII The second game]] wastly increased amound of human enemies, but they were again criminals or [[ItMakesSenseInTheContext reanimated ancient warriors]] and the plot gave Lara "saving the world" license to kill. By Tomb Raider 3 human enemies include [=MPs=], museum guards, homeless people living in [[UsefulNotes/TheLondonUnderground London's Tube]], tibesmen in their own village, security personel guarding private mine... you get the picture. And this time around there is no excuse to kill any of them, as the save the world plot doesn't kick in till you are out of human enemies.

* ItsEasysoItSucks: While the game is infamous for it's notorious difficulty, Japanese release is an exact opposite - all enemies have half of their normal health, weapons and ammunition are abundant and many secrets aren't that secret. Fans weren't pleased.