Crystal Dynamics officially announces a new Tomb Raider game, and Lara Croft’s been given a new, rather windswept make-over…
Crikey, what’s happened to Lara Croft? According to Crystal Dynamics, she’s been in a shipwreck, leaving her normally well-groomed hair messy and unfettered, and her skin in desperate need of a good pot of moisturiser.
It’s the new, rugged look for the rebooted Lara and her freshly announced Tomb Raider game. Here’s the official word straight from Crystal Dynamics HQ:
After a brutal storm destroys the boat she was travelling on, a frightened young woman is left washed ashore on an unknown beach. On her own but not alone she has only one goal, to survive.'
Here begins the first adventure for a young and inexperienced Lara Croft in a story which charts the journey of an ordinary woman who finds out just how far she must go in order to stay alive.
"Forget everything you know about Tomb Raider, we are exploring things that have never been done before in this game," said Darrell Gallagher, Head of Studio, Crystal Dynamics. "This is an origins story that creates Lara Croft and takes her on a character defining journey like no other."
The first image of Lara, which appears here courtesy of Game Informer, is the first glimpse of Lara in her post-shipwreck state, and after years of well-scrubbed visuals, lovingly rendered bosoms and tight shorts, it’s a bit of a shock – which, we’re guessing, is precisely the point.
There’s not much more to go on just yet, but we’ll be sure to let you know as soon as we hear more about the new, messier, Tomb Raider reboot.
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