Lara Croft Gets Dirty in Franchise Reboot

The January issue of American magazine Game Informer has unveiled the new look Lara Croft who will appear in Crystal Dynamic’s next game in the franchise, the imaginatively named ‘Tomb Raider’.

Caked in mud and blood the game is a completely original origins story in what Crystal Dynamics head honcho Darrell Gallagher describes as “an origins story that creates Lara Croft and takes her on a character defining journey like no other”.

Crystal Dynamics have been responsible for the series since their previous origins story Tomb Raider: Legend, since which they have released two full 3D adventures as well as 2010’s highly acclaimed digital title Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light.

In all honesty, who still cares for Lara? Her early adventures were fantastic forays into 3D, letting players lose themselves in huge labyrinths full of traps and unknown evils, but recent outings have become progressively more linear with obvious prompts degrading the joy of personal discovery.

That and the combat was still rubbish.

Perhaps Crystal Dynamics have big plans, Lara has certainly gone through a large transformation so we can only hope the gameplay has seen similarly extensive revisions.

Crystal Dynamics website is currently advertising for a few multiplayer design positions, so we wouldn’t think it too much of a leap to assume the game will support multiplayer in some capacity. As for single player content? That’s anyone’s guess.

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