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Lara Creator Returns To Tomb Raider Franchise 26

Posted by simoniker from the laura-craft dept.
KBV writes "According to Gamesindustry.biz: 'Lara Croft creator Toby Gard has joined [Eidos-owned] US development studio Crystal Dynamics to work as a senior designer on the next Tomb Raider title - marking his return to the series after leaving Core Design following the launch of the original game. The move follows reports that Gard's own studio, Confounding Factor, was set to disband after the release of Galleon - its long-delayed Xbox adventure title, which came out in Europe and North America this summer after almost seven years in development.'"
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  • TR1 (Score:2, Interesting)

    by Taulin ( 569009 )
    Now, here is someone who can make a 'true' TR sequal. There is just soo much room for improvement.
  • is that her breats get proportionatly larger to the estimated profit margin as always.

    :)

  • No worse (Score:3, Funny)

    by gyrojoe ( 600717 ) <gyrojoe+slashdot.gmail@com> on Friday August 06, 2004 @03:32PM (#9902958)
    Well, he certainly can't make it any worse!

  • Hmm (Score:5, Insightful)

    by Turn-X Alphonse ( 789240 ) on Friday August 06, 2004 @04:02PM (#9903348) Journal
    Big tits, hot pants, huge lips...

    Like we haven't seen enough Lara, most Tomb raider games have added little to the series and theres not a whole lot you can do with them.

    Lara locks on, you bounce around and shoot with pistols. RSPCA, WWF etc. start to bitch. Wolf diesin hail of bullets, you spend five minutes trying to find that tiny hole or back tracking to get some tiny key you missed.

    Find secret ammo, repeat untill new enemies, use better weapons and repeat, repeat, repeat.

    In the PSX games Tomb raider made me drool (T rex anyone?) but now... it's just average, the GBA games are making more improvements for the genre on that console then any Tomb raider game after the first has.

    Infact I think I've only ever finished was the one featuring various flash back missions. It made it intresting to some extent but it was still the same pattern and no real changes.

    Then again Doom 1, 2 and Final doom all kinda fall into the space hole and I'm spending stupid amounts of money on a new PC to play 3 so maybe this one will change it all and do more then pixely tits.

  • Tasteless? (Score:5, Funny)

    by MarsDefenseMinister ( 738128 ) <dallapieta80@gmail.com> on Friday August 06, 2004 @04:04PM (#9903371) Homepage Journal
    I hope it's not tacky of me to say that they are really milking Lara Croft for all she's worth.
  • Or is it another Daikatana? God, I just found out they did a Playstation port of Daikatana and it even looks better.
    • Its very good if you like tombraider 1. It will tank tho.

    • Re:Is Galleon any good? (Score:1, Informative)

      by Anonymous Coward
      The PS1 port of Daikatana never came out. The N64 port did, though, and it defines the term "average". On the plus side, that version removes the computer sidekicks (except for in the cutscenes).

      Oh yeah, and there was a barely-related GBC version, too. It's supposedly not too bad.
  • Here's another article [tombraider.be] on the subject of Toby Gard and Lara Croft. I wonder if he would have less of a problem with the sexualization of Lara if he hadn't based the character on his sister.
  • I just can't help but hear the voices of butthead saying "She has like, *heh*, big hooters and stuff... heh... and guns."
  • ...its long-delayed Xbox adventure title, which came out in Europe and North America this summer after almost seven years in development...

    How do you spend seven years developing a game for a console that's only been around for less than half that time? Couldn't they have just forgotten about wasting all that time porting it from whatever it was originally for and release the damn thing already?
    • > How do you spend seven years developing
      > a game for a console that's only been around
      > for less than half that time?

      Sometimes developement starts for a platform, but the product is moved to another one. For example, Elemental Gimmick Gear and Shenmue started as Saturn games, but went to Dreamcast... Eternal Darkness and Starfox Adventures started as N64 games, but went to Gamecube...
  • So, the creator of Lara Croft left after the first game? The first, largely unsuccessful game? And since then a whole franchise has been built up based around a name, surely?

    The whole point being that the Lara Croft franchise, as it were, is built around the game as it now stands, a game that has built upon not only Tomb Raider 1 (Why bother?), Tomb Raider II (Better, but no cigar), through Tomb Raider 3, 4 and 5 (Now we're talking) and the getting-into-it Tomb Raider 6 and successors.

    This poor guy, bless

    • Re:The point being? (Score:2, Informative)

      by Taulin ( 569009 )
      I disagree. Tomb Raider 1 was VERY successful. There were three games that saved the Playstation 1, TR1, Resident Evil and FF7. TR1 was huge when it came out, and I find it hard for anyone to say it was unsuccessful.
    • the first one was the best by far.

      the sequels turned it into doom with jumping
    • "So, the creator of Lara Croft left after the first game? The first, largely unsuccessful game?"

      You must be legally blind WRT your insight on this.

      TR1 was a massively successful game that truly made Eidos.

      Think for a moment. Why would a publisher commission a sequel to a "largely unsuccessful game?" TR1 was so unsuccessful that it catapulted Lara into the popular media - TV, mainstream mags, newspapers. U2 even commissioned "her" for their Zooropa tour.

      Real unsuccessful, yeah.

  • Idea! (Score:2, Funny)

    by Taulin ( 569009 )
    I just hope the next tomb raider game has tentacles in it.
  • I submitted this story as a SPOnG [spong.com] Exclusive at 05/08/04 19:20 BST, over 15 hours before Gi.b had the story up.

    Slashdot has a serious Gi.b bias, and they usually just nick stuff from SPOnG.
  • I read about this the day before - gamezindustry.biz are just a bunch of magpies and press release re-writers. Sorry - i take that back - its just one magpie/rewriter. LOL

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