Tomb Raider - march 5th 2013, reboot - come watch the trailer! Options

[ic1male]

Seriously, if they are pushing all these releases back to 2013, why not hold just a wee bit longer and make them launch titles for Xbox 8 or whatever it will be called. In an ideal world it would be nice but I guess publishers want money ASAP.

[Astron]

The new trailer actually peaked my interest for the first time.
I guess I came to terms with the fact that the traditional Tomb Raider is truly dead and it's now something new *coughblatantunchartedripoffcough*.
Looks very dark and disturbing.


This post has been edited by Astron: Jun 1 2012, 08:36

[Jonnycondom]

I still think the voice acting is awful, but yeah it does look fun, even if it is blatantly just Uncharted with a female lead. I guess it's tough to have an original game engine though these days.

[atticus]

I liked Keeley Hawes voice, not a fan of whoever this voice actor is. I'm a Tomb Raider geek so I look forward to playing this ... even though it doesn't look very good. Beggars can't be choosers and all that.

[short4astormtrooper]

I think it looks well rubs Not my cup of tea.

& incidentally why bother having her hair hanging in her face like that if you can't animate it properly?

[Uninvited]

& incidentally why bother having her hair hanging in her face like that if you can't animate it properly?

Ha! Crystal Dynamics haven't been able to get her hair right in any of their games. Shocking, but not as bad as the hair in MGS4!

I too dislike the voice acting. Well, Lara's specifically. Sounds too weak and girly for my liking. Hopefully as the game progresses she'll toughen up.

[dixie]

So what Tomb is she raiding?

[Jonnycondom]

Not many by the looks of it

[dixie]

That's what I think annoys me the most about the game. They should have called it Lara Croft instead of Tomb Raider, especially if they're changing the storyline, characters, game play, etc. But alas, they won't.

[Uninvited]

But Tomb Raider is all about Lara Croft - though I disagree with the decision to reboot her twice since Core were booted off the product, they couldn't just give us a different character under the TR brand. Lara is the only thing this franchise has any more that hasn't been taken and done by other developers with more success.

[dixie]

True. The thing with this is, they've gone back to what they call the beginning, but then what happens? When they want to make sequels, where do they go? Sooner or later they get to the point where she was in the first game, and then what?


I'll still no doubt buy it when it gets reduced and will enjoy playing it, like I have all the Tomb Raider games so far, even the ones panned by critics.

[Uninvited]

I think what they're (Crystal Dynamics) saying here is that none of the games happened - they've totally rebooted the character, eliminating their own earlier reboot when they took over from Core.

I can understand why, like. They needed to reboot Lara in order to claim ownership of the series, but 'their Lara' was generally not what the fans wanted, and by melding their series with the Core series (taking parts of her back story, eliminating others..) they made things difficult for themselves as they couldn't marry the two entirely different characters and their histories.

Now they're having another go at 'owning' the character by starting an entirely new Lara in a new universe, removing the rod they made for their own back, basically.

That being said, Lara to me will always be the vaguely sociopathic girl in TR3 who would gun anyone in her way down

[Uninvited]

For those that didn't see the E3 footage:



Very Uncharted but I'm impressed with how it looks! Not impressed with them releasing time-locked dlc on Xbox though - having exclusive content for Underworld on m'soft's console did nothing to boost their sales and while they've learned not to have extra content permanently exclusive, this is still pandering to a small portion of their consumer base.

Pah.

[Jonnycondom]

I sniff a certain amount of jealously Matthew

[Astron]

Stop sniffing Matt.

[Uninvited]

Jealousy? Don't be silly; it's a stupid thing to do. Doesn't boost sales of the Microsoft version (again, didn't with Underworld) and the money that Microsoft chuck at them will likely not compare to the amount they could make if they did a simultaneous release (again, based on sales of the Underworld dlc).

They've just fallen prey to the lure of guaranteed, upfront money. Again. By the time the DLC comes out on PS3, TR's halo may have slipped again at which point they will have missed out.

[Jonnycondom]

I kinda get the feeling this game is gonna be a hell of a lot more successful than Underworld though so I don't really think you can use that as an example.

Still though, you'd have to be an idiot just to buy a console so you can get the dlc a few weeks before your PS3 mates.

[Uninvited]

Yea, this looks much better put together than Underworld, but the proof will be in the playing. Certainly within the TR community, the fact that this is looking VERY Uncharted is splitting the fans. Exclusive dlc will split them even further since the majority are playing this on PS.

Trying not to get too excited - we'll see!

[jlover4eva]

Soooo excited for this game!! Been playin these games since day one and still have them!

I dont see how one can compare Lara to Uncharted...she is and will always be the original!!!

[ic1male]

Uncharted copied Tomb Raider anyway. So Tomb Raider can copy Uncharted for a bit.