Tomb Raider Reboot Announced

reading this information and lookin at the concept art just makes me damn excited! and I'm not a big tomb raider guy either, even though I respect the series =)

AWESOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOME!! Lara looks great to >.< cant wait!!

This really could be the reboot that this series needs. Concept art, yum. A focus on survival and free roaming, is really something that interests me a lot and could make this an extremely quality experience. I want to see some of this gameplay now.

Let's hope this won't be another DmC

How many times are they going to reboot this franchise? Or release games outside any continuity?

This sounds amazing keep us informed on all the latest

I taught this project was scrapped

I'm both honestly surprised and pleased that the first official picture for this game isn't a close up of her breasts.

The GI cover is so awesome.

Lara's render looks beautiful and smokin hot. Also there's another version on the website.

I'm very surprised that ''sooo many people'' think that Lara looks like a boy in this cover.

I mean what the fuck ??? !!!!! :

''she looks manly and has a manly chin'', ''is this a boy?'', ''eww does not look feminine at all'', ''looks very Androgeny ,(''

Are you people fucking metrosexuals ? Do you play only jrpgs?

So many dum comments about the face...
Look at Elena from Uncharted or Faith from Mirrors Edge,both have so manly traits and are sexual enough. Even if this is only art-version it still is faaaar more beautiful lookin.

Anyway...only with few new details the expectations did not changed.Easily one of the top exciting games to look forward to. ,p

Strange that brad not wrote this news topic.Specially since he loves this franchise.

"One Cohesive World", We always think of the best case scenarios when it comes to open-world games, but i doubt the quality in pretty much the whole open world genre, it can be done right, just haven't been done amazing well to this day, we hope for more in a Tomb Raider game.

Apologies for the number of quotes and such. With so much information pouring in I imagine it looks incredibly cluttered. I'll fix things up later... probably.

Sounds and looks pretty cool.

But can they call it Tomb Raider still? Doesn't sound like a game where you're going to be raiding tombs...

http://thesilentchief.com/2010/12/06/new-tomb-raider-details/

There is the new info has come afloat about the new Tomb Raider and I must say, I'm pretty excited. More due to the aspects on exploration and progression through the game is what has my nipples harder than Lara in Tomb Raider 1.

Kinda gives me a........METROID-esque vibe, which can only be a good thing and what most (if not all) of us were hoping they would go for in this reboot.

sounds promising, bring on the dinosaurs

These changes sound great. I hope it doesn't change so dramatically that there isn't great underwater parts. Diving into a lake and swimming through an underwater passage into a new area? Yes please.

Though the fast travel part scares me to death. I saw the horse in the early concept art. That better be a way for getting around to world quicker. The sad thing is there will be no boats (as she is shipwrecked and trapped). Maybe she can make a canoe.

though i havent played much tomb raider, i will say i like the art direction...like she actually just survived shipwreck. DEFINITELY NEEDZ MOAR POUTY PARTED LIPS THOUGH...sheesh.

Frankly, I'm a bit disappointed and more than a little nervous

I've been a Tomb Raider fan from the very beginning. There have been highs and lows, but I was really enjoying the direction everything was going at the conclusion of Underworld. Sure it wasn't the most polished game, but between Anniversary (which was the peak of the series in my opinion, very well done) and then Underworld which was also very well done, but not the best, they were really onto something that was tweaking the series in terms of trying to improve it, but also trying to keep the old school Tomb Raider that many fans from the beginning know and love alive.

This new direction doesn't seem Tomb Raider at all. I understand the premise, and am all for them trying something new to try and bring the series forward. But I'm really concerned about how it will play out for the series as a whole.

As for me personally, I don't play survival horrors. I stink at them. I also am not very good at free-aim games, which is why I don't play much of them or FPS. So they are implementing two key changes that potentially screw me over as a gamer, as a poor gamer where these two mechanics are concerned. I'm good at puzzles, at jumping around, timing things properly, and etc. The kind of stuff that made up the original Tomb Raider and it just seems like they are getting further and further away from the original. Not that it is necessarily bad, but it's also not necessarily good either. The original Tomb Raiders were on fire they were so hot. Why must we change every aspect of this series in order to move it forward? If it's changing so much why still call it Tomb Raider when it isn't going to be Tomb Raider at all?

These are the concerns of an avid and long time Tomb Raider fan. If done properly, there could be absolutely nothing keeping me from playing the game and enjoying it fully. But there is also a big chance that it won't be done right or diverge way too much from what makes Tomb Raider Tomb Raider, and the series crumble as a whole, which would be heartbreaking.

THIS! Is what I've been wanting for Tomb Raider ever since I played TR2 on the pc. Guess I'll have to play Minecraft to tide over my exploration needs until this comes out.

This visceral deaths are what I missed in the new games the most though. I'm looking forward to many spike-pit related deaths!

Metroid Tomb Raider? Aww yeah.

Hopefully the fast travel isn't just a bullshit excuse for them not having to make the world memorable and interesting to navigate.

Awesome, I can't wait for Crystal Dynamics' Fallout: Lara Croft Edition
:B

I am really excited for this, Tomb Raider really needed a reboot in my opinion.

I wonder if this reboot will stray away from the supernatural elements in the previous games. It seems like they are aiming for a gritty and realistic style for this game.

The tomb raider games never really appealed to me before but all of this sounds amazing

Hm, looks like I can finally get into Tomb Raider now. I was a bit too young to experience the original Tomb Raider, though the name has always been heard.

I never really found a TR game that looked worth playing with so many other games out there, but if this reboot turns out well, then I shall be promptly purchasing this one.

I'm sure it will be another mediocre Tomb Raider game just like the others. They get hyped up and then they fail to deliver.

I have played every tomb raider game so far, mainly because i was a huge fan as little kid when the franchise started. Though i must say, ever since last revelation..err... Anyway, regarding this numero 9, i must say i am not so crazy about this open world deal, the whole farcry/lost deal. Mainly because thats not why people want to play TR. (as far as i know) Personally, i don't really care anything about development of Lara Croft character (as long as she is there, and has short shorts), i loved the places she explored and the how different and memorable they were form each-other. Now here are my two other problems with this reboot. A muddy, gritty island. This reminds me of the TRunderworld design, and god that was so boring, everything looked like the same texture. It got me lost all the time. Now imagine a island where you have to navigate your self around. Witch brings me to my second problem, Crystal Dynamics. they couldn't a make a proper one way going threw halls TR game, i have no idea how their going to handle a open world game :(

I'm still reeling, like an old lady trying to grasp texting, that Square Enix now has the Tomb Raider IP.

While I'm not a fan of the cgi face Laura has (it just looks weird, like almost anime inspired but trying to look like its not trying) I think this reboot is looking a hell of a lot better than DMC:Dirty Junkie edition. From the sounds of it, I imagine a sort of Uncharted with a female lead, with Prince of Persia (sands of time) platforming physics, and some 3rd bit of Bear Grylls /Oregon Trailish trapping and killing and living.

However, one bit of news turns me off outright,
" You’ll need to gather food and water in order to survive"
That is NEVER a good thing. Adding hyper reality to games does not make them better it makes playing annoying. Being in the middle of a dungeon and about to die because you didnt press X near the lake outside to drink some water and having to backtrack through the whole thing is just silly. The whole thing will become repetitive and lame quickly.

It's really bothering me how whenever a new installment in any IP that tries to reboot itself comes out, people compare it to other games as a whole rather than letting their perception of the game develop based on what they understand about it, rather than concepts other games use that sound similar. They're trying something new and different, give them room to breath & grow before scolding them, or else you'll see more of the same. Let them experiment, they're taking the game's concept at heart & taking it in a fresh-new direction. Exploration and isolation were the original hallmarks of Tomb Raider back in the 90s.

Consider this when thinking about it from a conceptual standpoint:
What are the possible challenges for the player that the developers can create in an open-world survival game, where you're stranded on an island?
-Scavenging; food & water gives the player resources to keep their eyes out for while out and about, an axillary objective to aid in survival while exploring
-Exploration; natural landmarks, high hilltops, and step cliff-faces reward players looking to get their bearings and a lay of the land
-Weather/Night&Day Cycle; can create a necessity for the player to seek shelter on occasion put emphasis on survival & isolation to immerse the player
-Natural hazards; not so much traps as much as mudslides, landslides, cave-ins, strong under water currents, ect.

But that's not to say even half of what I mentioned will be in it. Just general thoughts on the vein this game could branch into. Fast travel would be detrimental to this title, though, there's no doubting that.

At this point I wonder why it's not called "The Adventures of Lara Croft" considering Tomb Raider is a name that has died over the years, especially since it's about the same character each game.

I have a feeling the end game will include a "Tomb" with same game twist.

Two things, the GI cover looks very nice. And am I the only one getting a serious Arkham Asylum/Arkham City vibe from this game?

I've played most of the Tomb Raiders over the years...I think Chronicles was the only one I didn't finish, kinda lost interest, and I haven't played the new top-down one.

On the one hand - yet another reboot, although a more exhaustive one hand.
On the other, I am open to giving this a try and seeing how it turns out. The closer is series is to true exploration and actual investigation of ancient tombs and chambers, and away from jumping around skyscrapers and chatting to people, the more I tend to prefer it.

I agree with Aged_Milk about the deaths too - the nastiness of them in the first Tomb Raider gave me a good incentive to avoid them! Like the horrible one when you fall on spike or the neck-cracking death from a great fall. Later editions would have Lara just sagging to the floor with a little sigh, not exactly ramping up the drama and horror, is it? If they're returning to that, which to be fair they'd been slightly moving to closer with the Crystal Dynamics games, then I think that's actually a very good thing. Not 'death porn', but a fate you want to avoid...like the chainsaw bloke in RE4.

Apologies for the number of quotes and such. With so much information pouring in I imagine it looks incredibly cluttered. I'll fix things up later... probably.