![]() The demo I played seemed to be in an early portion of the game, and unfortunately didn't really play to the series' strengths, leaning on linearity and climbing, with minimal stealth combat and puzzle solving. It's the first of the new Tomb Raider games to have Eidos Montreal at the helm, swapping the usual relationship of Eidos aiding Crystal Dynamics along its development. Yesterday at the reveal event for the third entry in the Tomb Raider reboot series, which promises to be the finale for Lara Croft's origin story, I played about an hour of Shadow of the Tomb Raider. In fact, that very disclaimer was the very first thing that greeted me when I launched the demo. If you follow that, that's an actual thing that will lead to these locations." The Eidos Montreal team also consulted with cultural experts for the game. "So the clue at the beginning, that will lead to Peru on those dates with those constellations. "We picked the Maya because the Maya were really concerned with time and astronomy," Dozois says. The description for the game's plot elicits a chuckle, with Lara on the journey to "stop the Mayan apocalypse"-Lara's come a long way from chasing her dad's old mysteries. The new Tomb Raider will largely take place across South and Central America, as Lara chases a hidden Mayan city deep within it. "And if she keeps going on the road that she's on, not understanding and just reacting, she fears she's going to become that." That, meaning, a person who doesn't consider others' cultures a person who acts without thinking things through a person whose already-existing narcissist tendencies get worse. "The feeling we have from that, that's Lara's greatest fear," Narrative Director Jason Dozois tells me at the Shadow of the Tomb Raider reveal event at The Mayan theater in Los Angeles. Lara's white savior act was probably a bad idea. ![]() He winces at her offer for help, and when she stumbles forward confused and injured, she sees an entire city of people gazing up at her from the ground below. The trailer cuts back and forth with a Mayan sacrificial ceremony as she wonders out loud, "After all I've sacrificed, what will I become?" In the sequence, she then interrupts the ceremony, in her eyes "saving" the young boy about to be sacrificed. Here we see Lara killing soldiers in a jungle as she narrates. The cinematic trailer, released earlier this morning, shows that foolishness plain as day. Lara and Jonah walk through Cozumel, Mexico. ![]() ![]() Big dumb idiot Lara Croft realizing that she should stop thinking about only herself all the time. (I can relate on that point.)Īnd that's what Shadow of the Tomb Raider is about. She acts without thinking of the consequences. And with all those accomplishments, tragedies, uprooted cultural artifacts, and dead bodies left in her wake, she's understandably cocky. I imagine for Lara, someone who's kicked more ass in her lifetime (and many alternate lifetimes) than nearly anyone, it must be an even weirder time. I feel like I'm 25 going on 30 at this point, even if I still have about half of my 20s ahead of me. Huh.īeing a girl in her mid-20s is a weird time. When I got back to my hotel later that night, I read that Lara and I were born in the same year: 1992. It's a culturally loaded sequence, but in addition to that, one thing that stuck out to me was her age: early 20s. At this point Lara's sneaking around in disguise (she's wearing a hoodie and a Día de los Muertos mask-the setting is in a small village on the island of Cozumel, Mexico). ![]() There's an offhand comment in the early goings of my demo of Shadow of the Tomb Raider where a foe reports to keep a look out for Lara Croft, a caucasian woman in her early 20s. ![]()
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