History YMMV / TombRaiderIII

** The actual combat difficulty is heavily reduced, thanks to the abundance of ammo for the Desert Eagle and [=MP5=], and human enemies having more telegraphed attacks, slower movement and never coming at Lara in groups larger than 2 or 3, almost all of the player's deaths will simply come from the unfair at times level design.

* SequelDifficultyDrop: The remaster tweaks a few things that make the game easier than the original. Enemies that died with DeadMansTriggerFinger now only fire a single bullet, bosses have their health bar visible, and, perhaps the most important change, [[spoiler: Lara can regain all her pick-ups when reaching the gun storage in the High Security Compound, including otherwise unusable Desert Eagle ammo from India levels and previous Nevada Desert]] - thus negating the reason why players picked Nevada first ([[SelfImposedChallenge or last]]). The Polynesian dart-blowers are also much easier to dodge, since they no longer operate on {{Hitscan}} mechanics and thus their poisoned darts are not only possible to dodge, but also much slower than any other ranged attack. And lastly, while this was done unintentionally, thanks to the new graphics and textures, the first secret is no longer so secret.

* BreatherLevel: City is a ''much'' shorter level than Lud's Gate before it; although it contains a rather tricky boss, she's all that's in the level and it can be beaten in only a few minutes.

* NintendoHard: Everyone marvels at the [[VideoGame/TombRaiderII bloody spikes in the Great Wall]], but in this one, you can break Lara's neck just by performing a wrong jump right in the beginning. The game introduced poison attacks, which [[DamageOverTime slowly dip Lara's health]] and require a medkit or a save crystal to stop it - and three of the five locations in the game are choke-full of things that deal poison damage. The NoGearLevel is much tougher than any such instance in the franchise (and it permanently strips Lara of all her ammo and medkits), the final levels of the game have NoSell enemies making laps around Lara, only a single boss fight is a straightforward shoot-out with a baddie and South Pacific can be UnintentionallyUnwinnable with the "wrong" combination of level order and amount of ammo saved before getting into it. Oh, and Temple Ruins, the ''second'' level of the game makes the already mentioned Great Wall look like a walk in the park, thanks to the sheer amount of dead traps and enemies made out of ir... well, stone, but still. Did we mention that the Platform/PlayStation version amped it a notch further with the infamous CheckpointStarvation and also came with nonadjustable gamma, so certain places were dark even with lit flares? All of this is part of the ''appeal of the game'', both design-wise and as a playerbase reception.

* UnintentionalPeriodPiece: This game is probably the only one in the franchise that can be pin-pointed to a specific period - late 90s - due to the fashion, tech and pop-culture used and presented, with stuff like: big, blocky satellite phones (and not just due to engine limitations) and mini notebooks; camo cargo pants in all possible configurations; tear-drop belly piercings; heavy use of Desert Eagle pistol, the "super-gun" of the era, by Lara and her enemies; stealth aircrafts as the new, hot, secret thing; the high profile presence of genetics (or at least their pop-science version) or the early internet craze about the Area 51, too. Various elements started to further stand out when the remaster either enhanced their textures or removed them, making their original presence more obvious once omitted.