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Tomb Raider devs offer a peek at their new ‘unified’ Lara Croft

Polygon: "Tomb Raider developer Crystal Dynamics launched a new website for the franchise on Wednesday — Valentine’s Day is also Lara Croft’s birthday — with another peek at the impending “unified” design for its action heroine. New artwork of Lara sporting a post-Survivor trilogy look that evokes her classic design supports the theory that the Lara we saw last fall in Call of Duty is basically the character’s future appearance."

Christopher72d ago

Ah, back to jungle romping in a camisole and short shorts.

CobraKai72d ago

Love it. This look is iconic. Her reboot look was so generic.

VenomUK71d ago

What you talking about? This is the reboot Lara but in the original costume.

CobraKai71d ago

Yeah. And? The original costume is the important part buddy.

Vengeance113872d ago

Crystal Dynamics really going hard with the man face. They sure do hate feminine looks!

Vengeance113872d ago (Edited 72d ago )

If you honest to God think that face is feminine, says alot about you pal. Go outside and see what actual women look like. Go google Unified Lara Croft Man Face and you'll see you're in the minority thinking this looks good. This is highly masculine.

Christopher72d ago (Edited 72d ago )

***Go outside and see what actual women look like.***

Do you honestly believe I'm some freak hidden away from the world and don't have a mother, never dated, my wife isn't a woman, my daughter isn't a woman, and I work exclusively with men, some who choose to wear dresses sometimes?

***you're in the minority thinking this looks good. This is highly masculine. ***

Right. I'm in the minority. It must be me. Not online people making statements like yours.

isarai72d ago

Take your own advice Vengeance, good lord 🤦

Vengeance113872d ago

"men, some who choose to wear dresses sometimes? "

lmao, do you work at the circus? Definitely somewhere where clowns are present.

frostypants71d ago

@Vengeance maybe take your own advice and stop staring at anime all day. This doesn't look masculine at all.

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MrDead72d ago

A quick Google as to why this comment was made... Oh a twitch streamer Melonie Mac went right wing so all the brain broken little kids are following her crazy man face rants.

tracedinblood71d ago

I used to follow her, but she started getting real weird when she consumed more and more meat and talked about it on a constant basis. Her eyes bulge out of her head now and she makes the most unhinged arguments while claiming to be holy.

Meat is fine, but don't forget your veggies.

banger8872d ago

Glad I'm not the only one who thinks this looks like a dude in drag.

Vengeance113872d ago

Right! Glad to see atleast 1 sane person in here.

FunAndGun72d ago

Don't be ashamed you're attracted to her.

Barlos71d ago

Yeah, it kind of does tbh

Mr_cheese72d ago

Women come in all shapes and sizes pal, femine doesn't mean being put on a pedestal in looks.

Grow up lad.

SimpleSlave72d ago

You really going hard with the man face. You sure do hate feminine looks! Cuz if you honest to god think that face is masculine, says a lot about you pal.

Go outside and see what actual women look like...

Fixed it for you, bud.

On a serious note, you do need some help. Unplug, actually go outside, and soak up the sun. You'll be surprised of how much of a none entity you have turned into. Neither a man nor a woman, but a 4chan slime.

Seriously, seek help.

H972d ago

Don't worry everyone agrees with you but they don't dare say it

thesoftware73071d ago

I think she has many masculine features, but wouldn't it make sense for what she does in game?

This is not PS1, it's a detailed model of a very built woman, who has a tough as nail edge...so yes, she has masculine features and she looks cool to me, I think the 3 Remakes were excellent, and can't wait for the next one.

Why are people looking for attraction in video game characters anyway?

H971d ago

@thesoftware730 honestly I can say the same thing to you guys?, Why do you look for realism in fiction, I can't understand that at all, people like seeing something that looks good, we all like Ryu looking like Arnold times 2 because it's cool, not because it's realistic or anything, same thing for women

RaiderNation72d ago

@Christopher he only knows what women look like from OnlyFans and Pornhub.

DrDoomer71d ago

She does kinda look like the very rational Finnish alcoholic IT cross-dresser.

isarai71d ago

Sounds like you know that category quite well.

xHeavYx71d ago

@Vengance I wonder what you look like. It would be so ironic if you were this chubby guy with an overly round face.

ZeekQuattro71d ago

I'm getting strong neckbeard vibes from him just looking at those comments. If you think average or plain Jane women look like men something is mentally wrong with you.

outsider162471d ago (Edited 71d ago )

"Go google Unified Lara Croft Man Face"

Lmao!!! Who..i mean seriously who..in their right mind would actually go the trouble to even type "Man" after Lara Croft. Jeeze..some you people need help really.

YourMommySpoils71d ago

I slightly see what you mean, but it's just concept art, so that will probably be improved.

isarai71d ago

Why would she wear an obscene amount of makeup to go out and plunder ruins? This proves even more you guys need to go touch grass and see the real world instead of E-girls

SyntheticForm71d ago

@isarai

I like your selective realism.

You could also ask why a woman would go and plunder tombs and ruins alone if you're going to go that route.

"This proves even more"

You have no better argument than I do; it's preference vs preference. I've been married for 16 years and my wife agrees - thinks Lara's face is cold and masculine.

thorstein71d ago (Edited 71d ago )

Why would she put botox in her lips that make her look like a circus clown? That look is hideous.

Women don't look like that except in AI. No wonder you're single.

SyntheticForm71d ago (Edited 71d ago )

@thorstein

Lol. Slow down and take a breather, then keep reading.

SyntheticForm71d ago

Lara always looked feminine. She looks decidedly masculine here.

https://x.com/MediaRaider19...

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smashman9871d ago (Edited 71d ago )

With all due respect (which is none at all) vengeance ur so off on this lol.

thesoftware73071d ago (Edited 71d ago )

@Vengeance

My man, she raids tombs, she scales building, mountainsides, trees, and anything else she can, she shoots guns,, fight hordes of men/women, animals, and dinosaurs, walks, runs, swims, and, swings on vines/ropes.. What do you want her to look like? Barbie?

So, I agree with you about her masculinity, but have no problem with it, for all the reasons above. Additionally, if you played the remakes(I highly enjoyed all 3)..you would see her actual physical appearance change from game to game, gaining muscle and more masculine features, the dev even had an interview talking about her change..this Laura that you see in this new artwork was always the end game.

Tomb Raider, Rise of the Tomb Raider, and then Shadow, all the same Laura as she gets more experienced, to finally become the iconic version, with the 2 guns and short shorts.

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-Foxtrot72d ago

Great artwork but please…this unified timeline shit sounds awful

It won’t work

Classic Lara and Survivor Lara have completely different origin stories meaning they are two separate timelines you can’t unify together

I really don’t want Survivor Lara anywhere near Classic Lara.

thesoftware73071d ago

Survivor Laura in the remakes was a better character imo lol.

But, they can infact retcon, and unify everything. Take note of the remakes, they were always leaning into Laura becoming the, 2 guns, short shorts wearing version, just a more fleshed out, better written and more believable version of the old one.

-Foxtrot71d ago

How? She just whined and whined

Then you think after her progress near the end of the first reboot game the sequel would continue that but she goes back to her old self

The same then happens in the third game but now she’s arrogant and a bit of an arsehole at times especially to Jonah.

First game - Become the Tomb Raider

Second game - Become the Tomb Raider

Third game - Become the Tomb Raider

They are completely different timelines they can’t be merged, even the origin stories are totally different

It’s just a bad idea

Make a new universe or continue the original one

isarai72d ago

As long as she had dual guns, and doesn't whine all the damn time. They really dropped the ball with the new lara, had such a good start and didn't know what to do with it.

Christopher72d ago

She wines a lot less in the 2nd and 3rd game (she's pretty solid on her goals in the 3rd), but, yeah, lots of whining in that first one. It's not that she whined, it's when she whined at times. At some point, you have to recognize you're not in Kansas anymore, but she still had some moments pretty late in the 1st game.

thesoftware73071d ago

She was new to Tomb Raiding in the first remake...she progressively became more confident, muscular and experienced in each game.

So the "whining" sort of made sense...even though I would call it inexperienced.

OtterX72d ago

Yea, I actually really loved the moment in 2013 Tomb Raider where Lara truly transforms into the badass, blows the fort doors down shouting "That's right, run you bastards! I'm coming for you all!"
https://www.youtube.com/wat...

I thought hey, there we go! She's become the Tomb Raider!

......bbbuuuuut then she reverts back to the whiney-ness immediately at the start of Rise of the Tomb Raider all over again. I never made it far enough for her to return to that confident Lara again, but the character evolution was just terrible IMO. Inconsistent.

Lexreborn272d ago

Whining wasn’t my issue with Laura in new games. The issue I had was the extreme homicidal aspects of her, she went from “surviving” treacherous scenarios in the 1st one to just straight up going to action murdering trinity.

Even to the point of flooding an entire town to “stop” trinity. She murdered a crap ton of innocent people.

And she also wouldn’t listen to reason from anybody else for the sake of her goals. I could never fully attach to her and it’s why the 3rd game is still unfinished for me.

I also remember when they were supposedly designing gameplay that gave you options for stealth but 0 scenarios in the game truly allowed you to progress without killing a wave of enemies. So that was just flat false advertising for me.

outsider162471d ago

Yeah she whines alot. You'd think by a third game..her whining would lessen but nope. Only reason i put it up with that..is because its a reboot and you know..before her roots.

No excuse now...

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BrainSyphoned72d ago

The Call of Duty version?! Surely there is a Fortnite version they can use instead to really nail the feel.

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thorstein1d 3h ago

Should have happened a long time ago. People wanting refunds after 50 hours in game.

fsfsxii23h ago

Pc gamers will take this as an excuse to pirate things

KyRo22h ago

I'm not sure why you're getting disgrees. Whilst not all PC gamers are petty, an awful lot of them are lol

Crows9022h ago

Entirely untrue. Not any more petty than console gamers. The only large difference is console gamers don't have much of a choice.

Michiel198913h ago

Not sure why you're getting agrees. an awful lot of console gamers are overemotional twinks ready to go to war over a plastic box, I'll take being a pc gamer then.

Speaking about overgeneralizing much.

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Inverno23h ago

Only scumbags? As if people don't play their games on console put in the most amount of hours and return it to GameStop and trade it in for another game. But also how many people are actually do this? And what games have been allowed to be refunded?

DustMan22h ago

You can refund any game you've purchased as long as it hasn't been longer than two weeks, and you've played less than 2 hours. I wish they would change it to 3 hours because some RPG's have so much exposition that you may only get an hour total of complete gameplay. That's my only knock on it. I've refunded plenty of stuff I was just curious to try. I typically stay away from Early Access titles which are the only ones affected by this policy change.

Inverno21h ago

Apparently early access doesn't count, only complete games with a play early preorder bonus.

Gaming4Life198122h ago

I definitely know if I want a refund in 2 hours.

SegaSaturn66914h ago

I never liked refunding anything. Even if a film is bad, i dont want my money back. Sometimes things just aren't for me, and it's not the creator's fault necessarily.

Gaming4Life19818h ago

I feel you and i have never walked out on a bad movie cause I payed my money. I also don't refund games cause I'm a gamer and I know what to buy lol. I think having a digital refund is great.

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The only PlayStation dev I care about tbh.

Inverno22h ago

Dayum did I hit a nerve. Sorry for not liking most of this gens games coming from PS, not really doe.

Cacabunga1d 18h ago

Hopefully doesn’t take them a complete gen to release it

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