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Lara Croft: From Big Boobs to Bloodied and Bruised

Crystal Dynamics' reboot of Tomb Raider sees the emphasis being placed on a new Lara Croft, one who is now "human" and fallible. In creating a more human protagonist, are they taking away the power that Lara once had and replacing it with something worse?

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shreeveera4807d ago

Whatever they doesnt really matter.
Only thing that truly matters more than the graphics and makeover is excellent Gameplay.

zeeshan4806d ago

I really like the new Lara Croft. She is more believable! Really looking forward to this game. I hope it delivers and I hope they learned a few things from Uncharted franchise.

Jezuz4806d ago

What is wrong with your statement. What you said is true, i guess most people one N4G just bow down to whichever game has good graphics.

StbI9904806d ago

Trust me shreeveera, I doubt you would play any game for most fun that it is if the graphic were par to the NES era ;), in this kind of genre? graphic matters then gameplay, equally if there is to be guessed.

danielle0074806d ago

While I agree this game would not work back in the NES graphics stage, it was never ever created back then, so that's completely irrelevant. But, I can literally go back and play Tomb Raider 3 (my favorite) to this day, and still love it. Even with it's "sub par graphics."

You're still exploring, there's still so much shiz to find, and the game play is perfection.

So, sure, the graphics on this thing will probably be pretty. But, if the gameplay is crap, it won't matter one bit. Gameplay is always > graphics. I'd still play this game if it's not the most beautiful if it was still super fun.

Misterhbk4806d ago

She's clearly still got big boobs. Just got the boobs in much better graphics now.

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femshep4807d ago

i like the new lara...she actually looks like a woman now instead of a 40 year old basement fantasy....im looking forward to this

03214807d ago

Couldn't agree more.
They compared the Lara Croft reboot to Uncharted when it comes to humanity. Well Uncharted is an amazing franchise. So with the new Lara Croft reboot adding "humanity" Lara Croft could be an amazing thing to. Just because they wanna make her look more woman like doesn't mean its a game breaker. It could be for the better. Ether way I loved the Lara Croft franchise and look forward to playing this one.

femshep4807d ago

yeah, tho no lara game is going to beat the butler following you all around your mansion....and finally locking him in the freezer

WitWolfy4806d ago

Man I remember doing that in Tomb Raider 3 , lol good times!

A day one purchase for me, cant help but feel excited about it. If Uncharted inspired a reboot like this, then we can expect nothing but good things all the way

Vitalogy4806d ago

I actually like it more now. Doesn't look like a barbie with inflated boobs anymore, looks way more real and tough.

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Dead by Daylight Devs Showcase July Roadmap

Dead by Daylight's July roadmap showcases a new 2v8 mode, Lara Croft as a Survivor, and future game updates and changes to the game.

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cammers199517d ago

If it's talking about Lara Croft why does the picture show Ate A Wong from resident evil

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A Brief Look at The Evolution of Video Game Mascots

BY MICHAEL WESSON: Gaming mascots have long served as the faces of their respective games and gaming platforms.  They have embodied the essence of what their titles are about and often transcend their digital origins, becoming cultural icons with a significant impact on merchandise, movies, and even theme parks.

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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."

Christopher162d ago

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

CobraKai161d ago

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

VenomUK161d ago

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

CobraKai160d ago

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

Vengeance1138162d ago

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

Christopher162d ago

Please tell me this is satire.

Vengeance1138162d ago (Edited 162d 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.

Christopher162d ago (Edited 162d 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.

isarai162d ago

Take your own advice Vengeance, good lord 🤦

Vengeance1138162d ago

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

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

frostypants161d 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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MrDead162d 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.

tracedinblood161d 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.

banger88162d ago

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

Vengeance1138162d ago

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

FunAndGun161d ago

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

Barlos160d ago

Yeah, it kind of does tbh

Mr_cheese161d ago

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

Grow up lad.

SimpleSlave161d 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.

H9161d ago

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

thesoftware730161d 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?

H9160d 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

RaiderNation161d ago

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

DrDoomer161d ago

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

isarai161d ago

Sounds like you know that category quite well.

xHeavYx161d ago

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

ZeekQuattro161d 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.

outsider1624161d ago (Edited 161d 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.

YourMommySpoils161d ago

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

isarai161d 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

SyntheticForm161d 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.

thorstein161d ago (Edited 161d 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.

SyntheticForm161d ago (Edited 161d ago )

@thorstein

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

SyntheticForm161d ago

Lara always looked feminine. She looks decidedly masculine here.

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

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smashman98161d ago (Edited 161d ago )

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

thesoftware730161d ago (Edited 161d 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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-Foxtrot162d 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.

thesoftware730161d 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.

-Foxtrot160d 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

isarai162d 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.

Christopher162d 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.

thesoftware730161d 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.

OtterX162d 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.

Lexreborn2161d 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.

outsider1624161d 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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BrainSyphoned161d 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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