Square-Enix announces new details of Tomb Raider, a new Lara Croft title where we will see a total reboot of the popular franchise from Eidos.
Lara Croft will see a younger will gain experience from the beginning from his adventure to end, but all is not as nice as in previous releases, since Lara will suffer enough physical shape to overcome various stages of his adventure.
Details Tomb Raider:
- This title is a complete reboot of the series
- The new Lara Croft is human; bleed and suffer like everyone else
- Lara will have to fight for survival
- The facial expressions that show fear and pain heroin
- Lara will be totally inexperienced at the beginning of the adventure, participating in an expedition where the ship that travels just sinking and being alone on a mysterious island near Japan
- There will be little help and directions on the map
- We enhance the skills and equipment at a base camp Lara
- There will be missions throughout the area to meet and gain "experience"
- The camera angles show to convey anxiety and claustrophobia
- We explore the island gradually depending on the equipment that we found / manufacturing
- The ability to "Survival Instincts" will allow us to see elements that can be used to overcome some missions, such as fingerprints or rock climbing
- The puzzles in this new Tomb Raider is much more complicated than those seen in previous titles, we must break our head over
Influences of other videogames / movies (out of Hobbyconsolas)
- The physics of Half Life 2: The use of gravity or the flow of water was already explored in this classic. Here we use boxes and barrels.
- The atmosphere of Uncharted: Nathan's soliloquies be "imitated" by Lara, as well as the extremes for the protagonist.
- The "vision" of Assassin's Creed: The Ezio eagle eye color separates targets. Lara will do something similar with its "instinct for survival."
- The origins of Batman Begins: The first act of the film showed the hard road of Bruce Wayne to become Batman. That "Hero's Journey" will also mark the first steps of Lara.
- The suffering of 127 hours: In this film the protagonist, has severely punish her body to survive. The most famous scene from the film inspired the guys at Crystal Dynamics and decided to force the resistance of Lara to the limit.
- The mysteries of Lost: Strangers wrecks?. A desert island in the ocean and full of mystery?. The influence of Missing argument has been recognized by the game's creators. Will polar bears?.
This reboot looks pretty good, hopefully Lara Croft returns with more force and give us great hours of fun side of this heroine. Tomb Raider coming to Xbox 360, Playstation 3 and PC, for now the release date is unknown but is expected to arrive before year's end.
