Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Anniversary (First Edition)

Before Crystal Dynamics rebuilt Lara as a gritty survivor, they rebuilt her greatest adventure. The Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Anniversary First Edition on Xbox 360 is a ground-up reimagining of the 1996 original, and this particular version comes with a bonus disc that makes it the definitive physical release.

The First Edition is packaged as a 2-disc keep case. The second disc includes the game's soundtrack, trailers spanning the franchise's history, and additional bonus material. You can distinguish it from later standard printings by the marking in the upper left corner of the cover advertising the bonus disc. It's a subtle difference that separates the early adopters from everyone who came after.

That subtlety is exactly what makes first-print variants so appealing to collectors. There's no flashy box, no statue, no SteelBook. Just a small corner marking that says "this is the original run." It's the kind of detail that casual buyers overlooked entirely and that collectors obsess over. The soundtrack inclusion is a particularly nice touch, capturing the atmospheric score that made exploring those reimagined tombs feel both fresh and deeply familiar.

Tomb Raider Anniversary bridged two eras of the franchise, honoring the PS1 classic while proving the series still had life in the HD generation. On Xbox 360, it arrived during a period when the console's library was exploding with quality titles, making it easy to overlook. That's exactly why the First Edition matters now. It's a quiet collectible tied to a pivotal franchise moment, and the bonus disc elevates it beyond a standard release.