Hardly. More like an icon for franchise milking and brand implosion. I would love to see another awesome TR game like the 1st (and to a lesser extent, the 4th), but after so many disasters, there seems little chance of that.
"The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality."