Lara Gets Serious in New Tomb Raider Teaser

[Netrigan]

Yes yes yes, I get it, grim and gritty. No need to beat the poor girl up and linger on her anguish like a CGI slasher flick. Within the course of three minutes we see her getting beat up and bloodied so badly I half expected Max Payne to step up and offer her some painkillers. Doesn't help everything has to be all darkly lit and edgy, grrrrr, Lara Croft is super serious now, grrrr!

But I'm being unfair. I did like the throwback outfit she's wearing and it's a neat premise for a game actually. Still... gah, I'm just grumpy because I'm one of ten people who apparently liked the colourful style and lighthearted adventure of the original games. Guess this is what the new age requires, ah well. Would have preferred a more Uncharted style approach rather than going all gritty, but we'll see how it works out.

Hopefully it'll be good and my grumpiness will have been for naught.

Uncharted, that would be the game whose second installment starts off with him limping his way through a train crash?

I think it's a bit early to call. Lots of stories start with a crash or misadventure, then head out in unexpected directions. The new Uncharted game has only teased about him being stuck in the middle of the desert after a plane crash and Naughty Dog has earned our trust so we don't think that's all the game will be. Hopefully, this trailer is just the start of her adventure and happier times lurk around the corner in addition to all the spills and chills.

Or they completely miss the point of adventure fiction and give us a hard boiled story of pain and anguish.

 

[Hungry Donner]

I like her new look but the trailer seemed over the top to me. We're talking about someone who does fancy acrobatics to loot tombs, and while some depth of character is welcomed if done well this quasi-coming of age story seems silly.

 

[Enkidu88]

Really like the new lara model. Yeh yeh, big tits and ass and all that, but at least now she doesnt look like your average porn star.

OT: Looks interesting. Maybe theres still hope for sqeenix. Consider me intrigued.

So big tits and ass isn't how your average pon star looks like?

Well In my opinion the breasts look a bit more "natural". It's partially because of the graphic engine used to render the cutscene I'm sure, but all previous Lara Croft incarnations featured Boobs that would require more silicon implants than exist on earth and a team of the most dedicated plastic surgeons working around the clock an entire year to produce.

What I'm saying is, they were huge. Unnaturally huge. I mean before you could nestle a humpback whale in her cleavage.

Also, if I could take up my quill pen for a moment, anyone find the piece of dialog "I knew what I had to become" (or something to that effect) incredibly cheesy? I mean, who the hell says that? If I'd just crashed on an island with the wrecks of thousands of ships on the shore I sure as hell wouldn't know what to become. Unless I could shapeshift into a dragon and make it my lair, then I know exactly what to do.

 

[GideonB]

Well, hopefully they wont go all "Other M" on this heroine, and really make a good game out of it.

This.
They better make sure it's good. I liked Legend, that was a fun game. The only game of Crystal Dynamics older Tomb Raider games I actually liked.

 

[Wicky_42]

See what a good old re-boot can do for you? That trailer was FANTASTIC beautiful, cinematic (overblown, perhaps, but what better way to begin an epic story?) - if the game can hold up to anything like this level of quality - even just the ideas and care demonstrated by this video - then it looks to be heading into the games as art category

Of course, it could still be just another platformer, riddled with cliches and garbage. But so far? Looking fine

 

[The Madman]

Uncharted, that would be the game whose second installment starts off with him limping his way through a train crash?

True, but it's still relatively light-hearted and adventurous. He makes a sarcastic quip, things go crazy, wacky amazingness ensues. Very Indiana Jones/Broken Sword/Romancing the Stone/etc. Ya know; FUN!

Here I just get to see some young girl get beaten up and bloodied, screaming in pain to the sounds of melodramatic music and dead-pan monologuing. Not so fun! Intriguing I'll admit, but not fun.

But like I said before, hopefully I'm just being grumpy and the game will turn out amazing regardless. It's a solid premise for a game after all!

 

[Woodsey]

Really like the new lara model. Yeh yeh, big tits and ass and all that, but at least now she doesnt look like your average porn star.

OT: Looks interesting. Maybe theres still hope for sqeenix. Consider me intrigued.

Her tits look fairly normally sized to me.

Uncharted, that would be the game whose second installment starts off with him limping his way through a train crash?

True, but it's still relatively light-hearted and adventurous. He makes a sarcastic quip, things go crazy, wacky amazingness ensues. Very Indiana Jones/Broken Sword/Romancing the Stone/etc. Ya know; FUN!

Here I just get to see some young girl get beaten up and bloodied, screaming in pain to the sounds of melodramatic music and dead-pan monologuing. Not so fun! Intriguing I'll admit, but not fun.

But like I said before, hopefully I'm just being grumpy and the game will turn out amazing regardless. It's a solid premise for a game after all!

A fun feel isn't necessary for a fun game. And I'd rather have two sides of the adventuring coin than just Uncharted's take. This seems like it could be something quite different to anything else.

OT: Looks really interesting, although I wonder if we will actually be raiding any tombs. Hopefully they've fixed the controls after 15 fucking years!

Writing of the voice over seems a little in love with itself though.

 

[Calico93]

I liked the old and new TR games, and this looks great. I just hope the game is as good as this trailer is pretty.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

this is probably the best looking trailer i have ever seen.(watch on youtube and go 1080p quality, full screen, its amazing)

never going to pre-order though, ive learned my lesson with FF13.

 

[Dwachak]

I'm going to blind myself from this game, and buy it on release. If they are able to retain the mood in the trailer through the game, it will be a game made in heaven for me Maybe I'm going to get disappointed story wise, but no matter what I will end up with a decent action game, that I'm sure of.

 

[Ragsnstitches]

this is probably the best looking trailer i have ever seen.(watch on youtube and go 1080p quality, full screen, its amazing)

never going to pre-order though, ive learned my lesson with FF13.

You are probably aware of this but I just feel urged to point it out. Squenix isn't developing the game (as they did with FF)... they are the publishers. Apart from (maybe) setting dates and establishing vague target markets, they won't be involved in it's development.

Not to say that is any reason to pre-order it, just saying don't give them more credit then is due to them

 

[Squallie Greenthumb]

I like where they're trying to take this. They want to give the sex symbol that we know Lara to be a much more human look. She's not a supermodel in tight clothes swinging about for our pleasure (I'll leave Tecmo to deal with that). She's fighting to survive, which to players can make her a much better character to relate to.

I agree with you there but what it seems like they did was take away her confidence and badassery along with the loss of her "fuck me" looks. While I for one think her vulnerability will make for a better game model I can already hear the feminists gathering.

"So the only way a woman can be strong is with silicone and botox!?" and so on.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

this is probably the best looking trailer i have ever seen.(watch on youtube and go 1080p quality, full screen, its amazing)

never going to pre-order though, ive learned my lesson with FF13.

You are probably aware of this but I just feel urged to point it out. Squenix isn't developing the game (as they did with FF)... they are the publishers. Apart from (maybe) setting dates and establishing vague target markets, they won't be involved in it's development.

Not to say that is any reason to pre-order it, just saying don't give them more credit then is due to them

yeah i know, but EA doesnt develop games, and everything they touch, or 'try to appeal to a wider market' and such, turns to shit (in my opinion). im just worried square enix is going to do the same, like push eidos to make this more of a linear interactive film than an action puzzle game.

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

As an English lass who played the TR games back when I was 16, Lara was a big role model for me I hope they don't screw her up just sayin. She's one of the reasons I did a History BA at University. hehe.

Crystal Dynamics and Square...hmm well, we will see.

 

[IceStar100]

I wonder if she will end up as one of many. Their alot of the same stuff out there.

 

[Netrigan]

Uncharted, that would be the game whose second installment starts off with him limping his way through a train crash?

True, but it's still relatively light-hearted and adventurous. He makes a sarcastic quip, things go crazy, wacky amazingness ensues. Very Indiana Jones/Broken Sword/Romancing the Stone/etc. Ya know; FUN!

Here I just get to see some young girl get beaten up and bloodied, screaming in pain to the sounds of melodramatic music and dead-pan monologuing. Not so fun! Intriguing I'll admit, but not fun.

But like I said before, hopefully I'm just being grumpy and the game will turn out amazing regardless. It's a solid premise for a game after all!

At this point in the marketing, I think they're trying to emphasize that the rules have changed. That this isn't your father's Tomb Raider. Emphasizing the scary aspects of her adventures would make sense in that context and would still leave room for light hearted adventure. Or they'll drone on endlessly with the scary and leave you wondering what sort of masochist she is. Time will tell.

 

[thecoreyhlltt]

that's what she gets for taking the titanic for a ride...
PLUS!! you know (yes you) full well that as soon as she slipped from that fellas grip he was like, "awwww damn! did see her rack?!?! WHY?! DIDN'T?!? I?! HANG ON TIGHTER!?!?!!?!?!?!?!!... i miss those bizzongas already... frowny face"

well, that's what i was thinking anyway. and i'm sure every other guy thought the same thing so meh!

 

[rossatdi]

Gone is the older, more confident Lara, and in her place is a younger, less experienced version, who looks like she's in for a rough time if this teaser trailer is anything to go by.

I wonder if there's any coincidence that the publisher is Square Enix and the fact that the experienced, bad ass Lara has been replaced a childish waife who's very first action is to be rescued by a grizzled man. I've got vague recollections on the first FMV in the first Tomb Raider of Lara gunning down wolves while her guide gets munched on. Does this not seem odd?

"Character development"? This is tomb raider, not the oscars. Hot rich lady, steals stuff, shoots things. Get that right and the rest follows.