Shadow of the Tomb Raider Announced: Lara Croft Returns on September 14th

Raevenlord · Mar 15, 2018

Square Enix today announced that the final installment in the Tomb Raider origins trilogy is being released on September 14th this year. Moving on from their previous "timed exclusive" contract with Microsoft, which saw Rise of the Tomb Raider be first published on the Xbox family of devices, the latest game will be available for all platforms - PC, PS4 and Xbox - on release date.

The new game in the Tomb Raider series has moved hands, though, leaving Crystal Dynamics' studios (who is now working on an Avengers video game with Marvel), and was taken upon by Eidos Montreal - the studio best known for the latest (way better than they're given credit, by the way) Deus Ex games (Human Revolution and Mankind Divided). A full reveal of the game is expected next month, on April 27th - just two months before E3, which will certainly pave the way for even more content on the game. Square Enix is promising users they'll "Experience Lara Croft's defining moment as she becomes the Tomb Raider". Interesting, no? Look after the break for a preview teaser.

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GhostRyder · Mar 15, 2018

Looking forward to it!!!

EzioAs · Mar 15, 2018

Wait, this isn't done by Crystal Dynamics? I do have faith in Eidos Montreal and I would welcome some change in design/mechanics, but I hope it doesn't do a 180°.

oxidized · Mar 15, 2018

From the pot to the frying pan...
Mankind divided is embarassing to say the least.

rtwjunkie · Mar 15, 2018

oxidized said:
From the pot to the frying pan...
Mankind divided is embarassing to say the least.

lexluthermiester · Mar 16, 2018

Raevenlord said:
and was taken upon by Eidos Montreal

That's a good sign. Eidos was the original dev for the Tomb Raider series. The series has come home.

oxidized said:
Mankind divided is embarrassing to say the least.

Which version? (spell check would not go amiss BTW)

Prima.Vera · Mar 16, 2018

What's with all those shitty and retarded names for game sequels recently?? Is like all those managers in charge of naming the games are non English speaking Japanese with no imagination

No offense to any Japanese guys in here, just the naming scheme is retarded recently for most of the AAA games....

StrayKAT · Mar 16, 2018

I've yet to play Rise of the Tomb Raider or Mankind Divided... but I own them both.

I want to see their puzzles improve more and more, that's all I know.

NRANM · Mar 16, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
That's a good sign. Eidos was the original dev for the Tomb Raider series. The series has come home.

Actually, Tomb Raider was developed by Core Design. Eidos was just the publisher. Besides, I don't think Eidos of the past has much in common with Eidos Montreal of today, apart from the name.

All in all, I'm not particularly excited. The Tomb Raider reboot was quite decent. Rise of the Tomb Raider was technically very impressive, but lackluster overall gameplay (as it suffered from the "Ubisoft: the game" syndrome), and had a boring and bland story. So Eidos Montreal being developing it could be a good sign, or it could be all the same if Square Enix interfere too much.

Time will tell.

Readlight · Mar 16, 2018

What are system requirements?

oxidized · Mar 16, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
Which version? (spell check would not go amiss BTW)

?

lexluthermiester · Mar 16, 2018

oxidized said:
?

There are several versions including XBO, PS4, Windows, Linux and MacOS. The console versions, I would agree with you. The PC and Linux versions however are a much better experience. Thus my question about which version you were referring to.

oxidized · Mar 16, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
There are several versions including XBO, PS4, Windows, Linux and MacOS. The console versions, I would agree with you. The PC and Linux versions however are a much better experience. Thus my question about which version you were referring to.

I don't own any recent console, but anyway the term "embarassing" wasn't only referring to the technical part of the game, so it really doesn't matter what platform i was referring to.

raptori · Mar 16, 2018

Please less cheap action and more puzzles and challenging environment.

StrayKAT · Mar 16, 2018

raptori said:
Please less cheap action and more puzzles and challenging environment.

I rather like the action, but yeah.. I would say it's just more cheap when there's a glaring lack of puzzles.

lexluthermiester · Mar 17, 2018

oxidized said:
I don't own any recent console, but anyway the term "embarrassing" wasn't only referring to the technical part of the game, so it really doesn't matter what platform i was referring to.

Ah, so the storyline then? I personally wouldn't say "embarrassing", but I'll agree that it could have been better.

oxidized · Mar 17, 2018

lexluthermiester said:
Ah, so the storyline then? I personally wouldn't say "embarrassing", but I'll agree that it could have been better.

My "embarassing" referred to the whole game, it was, and still is a technical mess, and the storyline, characters and level design is very poor, atmosphere and setting were also not even acceptable for a Deus Ex game, but that's just my preference...

lexluthermiester · Mar 17, 2018

oxidized said:
My "embarassing" referred to the whole game, it was, and still is a technical mess, and the storyline, characters and level design is very poor, atmosphere and setting were also not even acceptable for a Deus Ex game, but that's just my preference...

Can totally see your point. It did have a different "feel" to it from other entries in the series.

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Shadow of the Tomb Raider Announced: Lara Croft Returns on September 14th

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