Possible leak of Tomb Raider reboot details? |
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| BY Sang Nguyen Jul. 11th, 2009 | More on: |

The folks over at 4Player Co-Op are asserting that a mole of theirs, deep within Eidos, alerted them earlier in the day with snapshots of new details for a Tomb Raider series reboot. The new concept art for Lara has her in a red tank top, a bow and arrow, what looks to be a hatchet and a torch. She’s also partially covered in mud, bringing a Christina Aguilera type of dirty sexy to the proceedings (anybody else smell advanced dirt technology being announced?). Other art depicts our fair maiden riding horseback (presumably covered in dirt) and fighting off demon smurfs (I think) with claw arms. Art of the enemies has a creepy looking Samara-via-Alex Mercer little girl and the aforementioned claw armed demons.
Other important details of note:
- The game has a large M label on it, which marks a first for the series. Can underaged boy gamers finally see Lara nude? Probably not, but they can expect her eviscerating stuff. With blood and everything!
- It’s open world, folks. Labelling it “One Colossal World,” the game purports to have a large, diverse multi-region island filled with things to kill, M-rated style.
- This is an origin story explaining why Lara is the way she is. I had always thought it was because she was rich and British, and therefore felt entitled to rob priceless artifacts and shoot endangered species in the head. At least now she can do it M-rated.
- It’s a survival actioner, with enemies “hunting” you. Possibly looking to kill you in M-rated glory. Or have a tea party.
- Did I mention the game was M-rated?









July 12th, 2009
at 7:37 am
Bad idea. Tomb Raider has always been about cool puzzles on a linear path, in a lot of different and very cool locations. But, I liked all of Crystal Dynamic’s Croft games, gonna wait until we see more before dooming them all to hell. But not liking the idea one bit, not everything has to go open-world you know.
July 14th, 2009
at 3:07 am
Good lord, a proportionate and realistic woman as Lara Croft!? What is the world coming to? OR it’s just in the concept art, the developers will probably exponentially increase the size of her boobs in the real game.
July 14th, 2009
at 6:03 am
“One Colossal World” doesn’t necessarily mean GTA open world. Maybe it means Zelda open world. Sounds good to me.
July 16th, 2009
at 1:36 am
Maybe they’ll take the concept of sandbox world like Assasin’s Creed, or GOD i hope so. I think it’s great for the franchise because i’m a really hardcore fan of TR games and … i have been really disappointed with Underworld, it’s good, but really glitchy. Also i’m getting tired of the linear gameplay, they promise this HUGE environments that you finish in less than an hour, maybe minutes… I hate that. But let’s cross fingers on this one! Something like Snake Eater/Assasin’s/LARA! hurray!
July 29th, 2009
at 3:44 am
It looks like Lara is behind her mansion in her garden tripping on acid! “the way she is”