Tomb Raider reboot announced

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Crystal Dynamics\' long-rumoured Tomb Raider reboot is official.

"After a brutal storm destroys the boat she was travelling on, a frightened young woman is left washed ashore on an unknown beach," reads the press release.

"On her own but not alone she has only one goal, to survive."

Tomb Raider features a young and inexperienced Lara Croft in her first adventure. US magazine Game Informer has the first images, which you can see below.

Lara is shown battered and bruised with a crumbling ship in the background.

"Forget everything you knew about Tomb Raider," said Darrell Gallagher, head of studio at Crystal Dynamics.

"This is an origins story that creates Lara Croft and takes her on a character defining journey like no other."

The Tomb Raider reboot was one of the worst-kept secrets in gaming.

In June Eurogamer brought you the news that Crystal Dynamics was hard at work on the game. We heard then that it should be released during the Christmas period 2011.

Eurogamer understands Tomb Raider will be released for multiple platforms including PC, PS3 and Xbox 360.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2010-12-06-tomb-raider-reboot-announced


Please Crystal Dynamics give us an AAA Title this time !
I know we have Uncharted now, but I still miss a wonderful Tomb Raider.

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- The adventure is divided into 3 big "episodes", each one corresponding to a part of Lara\'s transformation into an adventurer : survive, rescue, run away.
- The article insists on the fact that the game engine uses the laws of gravity, of centrifugal force... To allow Lara to go through her obstacles.
- The transition between cinematics and game is almost invisible.
- The grief of Lara is accentuated by some effects like close-to-face cameras, on-screen blur (flou, in french)
- Lara\'s changing through the game. She will evolve from a young inexperienced woman to an adventurer. It will be apparent on her equipment (the article says that it might be possible to see her double pistols back), for example.
- The "survival instinct" which makes some elements of the world shine to help the player cans only be used when Lara doesn\'t move.
- There are many ways to solve puzzles, and sometimes you have to try again and again as laws of physics are random.
- Buddha statues are visible through the game... Although they think these are save points, their exact role is unknown for now.
- Some elements of the world fall when Lara stand too long on them.

Yet Lara scans, listen, assimilate. She is already not quite the same when she rushes into the narrow gut. The water level is flirting with her delicious lips. The torch falters under the friction of the rock. The camera shows all that very closely. Claustrophobia gets to her, and to us too. Little Croft takes quite a lot ... and it is far from being finished! As soon as she gets out of the water, an earthquake resounds, threatening to bury her alive (but isn\'t she already half-dead?). Finding an inclined passageway, Lara climbs furiously, clinging to rocks as you cling to life, while the point-of-view narrows as the passage is collapsing. Breathtaking gameplay, literally! Finally, in a last effort, Lara returns to the surface, taking in a big breath like she is being reborn in the open. Final step of a scenography that promises to be immersive and visceral. Outside, at a point in time we imagine a little bit after, Lara finds a survivor from shipwreck. Conrad Roth was the captain of the Endurance and he seems to have had his leg bitten by a furious canine. Lara has no choice, she must go and recover the medikit located up there, in the distance. It\'s the opportunity to admire her emerging acrobatic abilities, which are very useful to bounce from rooftop to rooftop towards the lookout located up in the distance. What, another cave? Well ... So, decidedly Lara lights up her torch and advances step by step, asking if she is intruding (yes, really!). She recovers the stuff not before killing the big bad wolf who was passing by. "Excuse me, but it was you or me..." unglazed, altruistic and vulnerable: how much do you bet we\'ll all fall in love with the new Lara?

http://www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=180784

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[size=+1]Tomb Raider: E3 2011 Trailer [/size]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFBrgeSjj-0&feature=player_embedded














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No one in love with this Lara ?  

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Sign me up...i\'m lovin the new look of Lara and i\'m glad they\'ve made her more realistic in terms of her personality and abilities....it\'s refreshing that she isn\'t much of a badass anymore...her attitude and personality back then was kind of annoying.

I\'m looking forward to this...it\'s the first TR game that i\'ve actually been interested in a looooong time....the new dark setting and art direction looks great...

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[size=+1]Tomb Raider: Official Trailer (E3 2011) [/size]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFBrgeSjj-0&feature=related