they new one :L D: :S

I'll be interested to see more about the gameplay. Sounds good though.

Sounds good, I like that they're going back in this, sounds like a good plot.

As an avid TR fan for over 12 years, I'm bitterly disgusted by all of this. :( I wish I could like it, but it infuriates me how they're changing everything. :mad:

Change is good, if things were kept as they were the series would have died at Angel of Darkness.

she looks like a boy *_*

AoD was extremely ambitions. Eidos royally ****ed with Core Design by forcing the game out before it was even done so that it would coincide with the film. AoD tried tonnes of new stuff without changing the core (no pun intended) elements of the series and Lara Croft, and it would have been an incredible game if Eidos gave them enough time.

Change is only good if the change is good.

I think the changes have been good, the level design is miles better and although Underworld was buggy most of the legend trilogy had great upto date gameplay. There's been very few changes that haven't worked well I believe.

I think it's a bit too early to rubbish this game as well since we haven't even seen a single picture of gameplay yet.

The gameplay in the trilogy is less good, IMO. She has tiny jumps, can ONLY grab edges that the developers want you to and the free climbing was less open-ended, unlike AoD where it was open-ended. In the first 6 TRs you could grab ANY ledge that looked grabbable etc.

I don't think it's too early. This TR is gonna be survival horror, rated 18+ so there's probably gonna be swearing. It's said that Lara's bio is gonna be re-written AGAIN, Lara looks completely different.

I liked that she had more realistic limits in the newer games, it was fairly ridiculous in AOD when she could do that silly Matrix jump. Also you could only grab certain ledges in the old games, the only difference with the newer ones is that there's signifiers on the grab-able ledges now.

It is too early as we haven't seen any gameplay. It's like throwing out a book because you don't like what's on the cover.

The game is going to be based around SURVIVAL, there's nothing about horror mentioned anywhere except for the enemy pictures. I took it to mean that it's more about finding resources and surviving the natural perils of island life with some supernatural enemies in the mix rather then out and out survival horror. Also I remember in the earlier games that they mentioned that she was in a plane crash as a young adult where she was the only survivor. It sounds to me that's what they're focusing on instead of completely rewriting her. As for the look, I quite like it.

EDIT: I don't think I've seen it mentioned anywhere that it's going to be rated 18 and the rating of games only occurs when it's finished so nobody knows what it'll be rated in the end as we've seen very little that shines no light on anything gameplay wise.

Nope, you could grab any ledge that looked like you could grip onto it. In the newer games you can only grab those which the developer decides you can.

True.

Yeah Lara was in a plane crash, but they're now changing that to her research vessel being crashed. She's also not rich anymore. She has been re-written again. There's more info at http://www.tombraiderforums.com.

Go onto http://www.tombraider.com, at the bottom it says it's rated 18+.

No, you could only grab hold of ledges that the designers wanted you to grab hold of. They weren't free plan at all since you still had to follow a path through the level. In the first level of Tomb Raider 2 you still had to make your way up the cliff in the path dictated to you by the game. The only difference with the new game is that some ledges lead nowhere and are just there for decoration.

I've read a few topics and they say she's 'ordinary' not anything about her not being rich. and so what if they've changed her? Why be so close minded about a project you know so little about? There's been plenty of times in other franchises when fans have thrown their toys out the pram because of a re-invention only to admit when they've actually played the game (shocking concept I know) that the fuss was for nothing.

It's not like they're gonna abandon the old style it's probably a deviation for the sake of versatility. Like that one off Prince of Persia they did.

18+ :amazed:

In the first 6 TRs, you 100% could grab any ledge you wanted. And there were dead ends. The levels were proper complicated. In Legend onwards they've been pretty straight forward, and you could only hold onto specifically scripted edges.

What do you mean so what if they changed her? They redid her biography yet again. She was my ****ing icon for years and they've destroyed the original character I idolised. :(

I am still being open minded about this. I just need to mentally accept that the original style of TR and the original Lara Croft will never return, then I'll be able to enjoy the game.

It's a different interpretation that's all. I imagine this will be a one off game and that they'll take elements of it and apply them to the normal style TR's in future. I love the fact that they're doing something so different and risky, when a series becomes safe it becomes boring.

I'm liking this the more I hear, I can't wait to see some gameplay footage.

I've now completely accepted this. I've gotten over the whole everything changing and am looking forward to it. :D

I just want Lara to have a ****ing braid!

hands up if you have asked girlfriend or wife to dress up as Lara Croft...

and what was the reply?!?!? :hugesmile:

I once casually suggested to my female friend that she could have her hair in a braid because she couldn't decide, and she immediately knew I wanted her to look like Lara Croft. :laugh2:

Sorry but this is not what I imagine Tomb Raider to be.

Like I had to, you'll have to accept these huge changes. They say that you must forget everything you knew about TR. This is a complete reboot.

I will not be buying a copy.