In clearing away almost two decades of baggage that have weighed the franchise down, Crystal Dynamics have been freed up to create their own fresh take on Lara Croft. In sticking with the formula that served the classic Tomb Raider games, back in the day, these new efforts looked rather basic when compared to the likes of Sony’s Uncharted series.Īnd so for Lara Crofts new game, simply titled Tomb Raider, Crystal Dynamics have gone back to the beginning, giving us Lara’s origin story. The game wasn’t very well received and as a result the series was wrenched from the grasp of its original British development studio and placed in the hands of US outfit, Crystal Dynamics.įrom 2007 to 2009 Crystal Dynamics produced three Tomb Raider titles each of which was an extremely polished and competent affair, staying faithful to the earlier titles in the series.īut they were not the shot in the arm that the publishers were expecting. The game was very much in the style of an Indiana Jones movie but featuring a female character that couldn’t be more removed from Harrison Ford’s Fedora-wearing hero.Īfter five hit games for Sony’s original PlayStation, the Tomb Raider series took a fall with Ms Croft’s only PS2 adventure, the ill-fated Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. The first Tomb Raider game took the industry by storm, offering up an exciting mix of exploration and platforming. Seventeen years ago Lady Lara Croft dragged video game characters into the mainstream and, for a while, the English archaeologist was both a media darling and an astonishing commercial success. Just as Daniel Craig recently rebooted the James Bond franchise, another British sophisticate is being taken back to their roots.
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