Tomb Raider (First Edition)

First editions carry weight. The Tomb Raider First Edition on Playstation 3 is the day-one package that gave early adopters a 48-page comic book called "The Beginning," bridging the gap between pre-shipwreck Lara and the survivor we meet on Yamatai. That comic isn't throwaway marketing material.

It's a genuine narrative prequel that adds context you won't get from the game alone, and finding it in good condition inside a complete package is becoming a legitimate hunt. You also get the Aviatrix skin DLC and the Shanty Town multiplayer map, both locked to this first print run. The PS3 era was full of these quiet first-edition bonuses that publishers used to reward launch buyers, and most of them vanished into the secondhand void within months.

This is one of the more understated Tomb Raider packages, no statue, no steelbook, no survival pouch. But that comic book alone makes it essential for Tomb Raider lore collectors, and the sealed first-edition premium is real. We're at a point where PS3 first prints are starting to get the same reverence that greatest hits variants got mocked for years ago.

The wheel turns. If you spot this one complete with the comic and DLC codes (even expired ones, for the purists), grab it. It's the kind of thing that only gets harder to find.