Tomb Raider reboot to be survival horror?
Eidos' Ian Livingstone has already hinted that a Tomb Raider reboot is on the way, though these are the first details.
The rumours come from site 4PlayerCoop, who reportedly got a bunch of details on the game, as well as some (since removed by request of Tomb Raider dev Crystal Dynamics) concept art from an insider at Eidos. While the concept art was up it showed a somewhat grubbier, more athletic and less voluptuous take on Lara Croft - who this time rode horseback and carried a bow and arrow, rather than firing machine guns from a motorbike.
The Eidos mole apparently also dished out some details on the story for the game, which is apparently a total reboot of the series after the conclusion of the last trilogy of games. The game will apparently focus on Lara getting stranded on an abandoned Japanese island after a storm wrecks her research vessel and will see Lara at a far younger age than we may have done before.
Typically, the game will feature a lot of exploration and tombs according to the leaked information, but it also seems to be putting a much larger emphasis on the horror element too - the eerily abandoned houses of the island and the vast, mysterious wilderness Lara finds herself in evoke images of a Silent Hill inspired game.
One thing's for sure judging by the concept art - the enemies will be gross, rotting zombies. That's always fun.
If the rumours are true (and Eidos has so far not offered any comment) then this will be the first Tomb Raider game since Eidos was bought up by Japanese RPG-maker, Square Enix. It's unclear whether the new owners are behind the new possible new direction for the series, though Eidos' Ian Livingstone has been hinting that a series reboot is coming for a while now.
Were you a fan of the last few Tomb Raider games, or was Tomb Raider: Underworld a disappointing finale to the story started in Tomb Raider: Legend in your eyes? Either way, let us know your thoughts in the forums and don't forget to check out our interview with Lara Croft herself.
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Discuss in the forums ReplyI'm glad that they've set it in the past, with a younger lara, as survival horror with current lara would just not work. Having seen her face off hundreds of big, bloodthirsty monsters, a few zombies hardly seems a threat.
Oh, and get rid of the quick-time events!
Lara was fun. All those years ago.
The franchise has been ****ed up with shitty remakes, shitty settings for 'new' games, and the unforgivable real world Lara's.
Ive got to say that i wasnt looking forward to this game because of the last 2, but seeing the pics and reading about it has got me interested in it again. Legend was a good come back for the franchise but since then it went downhill once again like it did years ago. The first TR game and Legend are my favourites.
This game seems liek it is going to take Lara and make her into something we have never seen her like before. Im glad their breaking form the habit of the dual pistols and the outfits, I like that she has a bow and arrow because its never been like that before in a TR game, plus she is looking better than ever with her more human like features including her clothing.
This.
Tomb Raider was cool at the time. TR2 was pretty good (I liked the demo but never bought the game itself...) TR3 I found boring. Any after that were... terrible. I think I've got a couple of the later ones as they were bundled with graphics cards or other hardware...
The story of the recent games were a bit.... weird... but the redeeming feature has been the control system - the new system is a lot better than the "programming moves" (to use the words of CodeMasters guys themselves!) method of old. Walk to edge, jump back one, run forwards half a second, press jump.
For me the game has been all about the acrobatics and puzzle solving - graphcs and cleavage were side points.
As for Croft Manor - that was always a great feature, my favourite being TR3 with the quad bike track, obstacle course and hidden aquarium! More of that please!
I have Tomb Raider Legend on the Wii. kinda a boring game, a few dinosaurs etc, but i immagine it wouldnt have a great multi.
Physics, vehicle destruction, and virtually limitless time....
I always wondered why they never made a 4th....TDR2000 seemed like a step backwards......
Strangely enough, I think that was when Hardware 3D came in.....(GPU 3D not CPU 3D...)
The first tomb raider was great, never got into the others....
also adding horror ai should give it a new twist and more interesting. If gamers will sit for hours playing l4d just killing zombies with nothing else to do this should work out to tr's benefit. there will
always be people that flame this game as they do with other games as for me I always ejoy playing
tr mostly for the exploring and lara's many abilities
Hardware 3D was around when Carmageddon2 was released, and before it.
Anyway I hope they improve her butt too... kinda skinny
yea TR2 was awesome at the time, the first one wasn't too shappy either.