After a year of speculation, Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics have
officially unveiled the new Tomb Raider game - and it looks a bit
different.
"After a brutal storm destroys the boat she was travelling on, a
frightened young woman is left washed ashore on an unknown beach,"
reads the game's synopsis. "On her own but not alone she has only one
goal, to survive."
In our world-exclusive cover story, we uncover a brand-new Lara Croft.
Rebooting the Tomb Raider franchise through an origin story wasn’t so
much a choice as an act of necessity, according to Crystal Dynamics.
Drastic measures were needed. To build an entirely fresh Lara – a
culturally relevant hero worth of the attention that once came so
effortlessly – they must break her first. In this new adventure – simply
titled Tomb Raider – a younger and inexperienced Lara Croft must endure
both physical and emotional trauma to survive.
The new game's described as "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 knew about TOMB RAIDER," 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 new Tomb Raider makes its debut in this month's Game Informer mag.
See the cover on this page (Lara doesn't look very well, does she?)
There's no platforms or release date yet, but we'll be sure to let you
know as soon as more details are in the wild.
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