Tue, May 03, 2011 | 16:01 BST

Tomb Raider reboot “felt necessary,” says Crystal Dynamics

Crystal Dynamics boss Darrell Gallagher has said that a reboot for Tomb Raider felt right from the beginning.

The new Tomb Raider sees a Lara Croft out of her depth: inexperience and trying to survive after being shipwrecked on a Japanese island instead of having a Lara we’ve been used to before.

“A reboot for us felt like the necessary thing to do,” Gallagher said in the newest issue of Edge. “Lara had hit her apex in how she was before, and we didn’t really feel we could take that any farther. It was a chance to look at everything again, bring new people in who had been interested in the franchise before but didn’t feel like Lara was modern enough.

“We left no stones unturned as we were going through the concept, and then kept the right stones. The crucial thing is that it feels like her, even though it’s completely different.”

New details of the title emerged over the weekend, which you can get here. Game has no date yet, but it’ll release on PS3, 360 and PC.

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18 comments

#1

daytripper
03/05/11, 4:12 pm

looks a bit like cheryl cole in that pic

#2

Blerk
03/05/11, 4:13 pm

It’d be funny if she sounded like her as well. :-D

“Yeah, the ‘posh’ thing came about later, when she got famous, like.”

#3

StolenGlory
03/05/11, 4:15 pm

If she even has the REMOTEST trace of a Geordie accent I will disown my ears.

DISOWN THEM.

#4

daytripper
03/05/11, 4:18 pm

i love the geordies :-)

she’ll probably sound like kate middleton in the game or cilla black

#5

AHA-Lambda
03/05/11, 4:19 pm

isnt this like the 3rd reboot now tho? =s

#6

DrDamn
03/05/11, 4:21 pm

@5
Kind of – Angel or Darkness was a reboot and they then unbooted it back to the older style. :)

#7

Stephany Nunneley
03/05/11, 4:26 pm

What’s with the “bondage” pics of this we keep seeing?

#8

daytripper
03/05/11, 4:28 pm

there isnt enough of them , hopefully we’ll get a dirty muddy bra pic soon…..(looks for the guy who married the lara croft character in the 90s)

#9

Kabby
03/05/11, 4:31 pm

Chocolate Peanuts. Mmm.

#10

spiderLAW
03/05/11, 4:37 pm

im actually really interested in this reboot. I havent played Tomb Raider since the third installment.

@Steph
Erotic. Sex sells. Im sold.

#11

JonFE
03/05/11, 4:37 pm

@Steph,

Details are not fully known, but the next TR is supposed to be a survival adventure at heart and Lara is supposed to be portraited as a human who bleeds and gets hurt or ripped while facing whatever challenges opposed. I suppose, in that context, these images are kind of fitting…

…or Crystal Dynamics are just playing the “sex object” card…
8)

#12

daytripper
03/05/11, 4:41 pm

its wonder no one has made a website called pixelporn.com

#14

Stephany Nunneley
03/05/11, 5:19 pm

@11 Well,I can tell she is putting a bandage on, but, if you look at it and decide not to think at all, well, you know what it looks like. :)

@13 HA! I think I will have to trick someone with that site :D

#15

daytripper
03/05/11, 5:29 pm

lol :p

#16

minxamo
03/05/11, 5:35 pm

@4
‘Cilla Black’
YESYESYESYESYESYESYES FUND IT

#17

Thalius
03/05/11, 6:29 pm

Fuck Tomb Raider… what about Legacy of Kain?

#18

Moonwalker1982
03/05/11, 7:19 pm

I am anticipating this one alot. I really enjoyed the Crystal Dynamics Tomb Raider games, especially Underworld and its DLCs. This really feels like the right direction for Tomb Raider, i can’t wait to see it action, just hope the gunfights will be good now too cause they still weren’t all that good in the CD games.

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