Tomb Raider : Underworld

melchy · 26 Jan 2008 at 17:53

Anyone know much about this. Just stumbled across it, due for release later this year.

http://www.tombraiderchronicles.com/underworld/index.html

yaboy · 26 Jan 2008 at 18:00

Isnt SCi or whoever in debt? and it caused a big delay?

If its anything like Legends im gonna get bonjour to it tbh, glad i only paid £10 for it

NokkonWud · 26 Jan 2008 at 18:08

I know 3 big people in SCi left which isn't good news for either the game or SCi (who are struggling).
Looking forward to it though, I thought Legend was brilliant.

melchy · 26 Jan 2008 at 18:13

I thought Tomb Raider : Legend was great as well, im just a little suprised i hadn't come across some information about Underworld before now

NokkonWud · 26 Jan 2008 at 18:18

Because it's still quite early in development really, Tomb Raider isn't a AAA franchise anymore and doesn't interest people to the same level games like Assassins Creed, Bioshock or The Orange Box did, or games like Alan Wake, Metal Gear Solid 4 or Gran Turismo 5 do.

Legend didn't release to a lot of hype and the game was probably better for it.

bingham67 · 26 Jan 2008 at 18:18

Games been delayed until late 2008.

http://www.xboxic.com/news/4212

SiD the Turtle · 26 Jan 2008 at 18:54

I'm personally looking forward to this one.

Looks like SCI/Eidos delayed everything until next financial year so that they can get this one out of the way, and hopefully bump up the share price once the games have come out.

Faded · 26 Jan 2008 at 19:02

I'll be getting this if its as good as anniversary/legend.

JaFFa · 26 Jan 2008 at 20:57

NokkonWud said:
Because it's still quite early in development really, Tomb Raider isn't a AAA franchise anymore and doesn't interest people to the same level games like Assassins Creed, Bioshock or The Orange Box did, or games like Alan Wake, Metal Gear Solid 4 or Gran Turismo 5 do.

Legend didn't release to a lot of hype and the game was probably better for it.

its still a massive seller.

http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2156571/lara-croft-takes-tomb-raider

http://www.videogamer.com/news/22-05-2006-2858.html

In the five weeks since its release the game has sold over 2.6 million units worldwide

pretty impressive.

NokkonWud · 26 Jan 2008 at 21:01

The headline "Better than expected" says it all though. When Tomb Raider (1) and Tomb Raider 2 were released it was unmatched in terms of hype, the series isn't like that anymore. As I said, it's not like the games I mentioned. Closer to its release we'll hear more, but the overall public demand isn't high enough for the media to be showing us new screenshots or reports daily.

Legend was also helped by the wait since the previous (and completely underwhelming) effort.

yaboy · 2 Feb 2008 at 01:42

What’s really new?

Huge epic stage multi puzzles.

New moves for Lara.

New engine.

New animations as well as contextual animations.

Use objects either as weapons or to aid your advancement.

Slippery poles and environments reaction to the weather.

Lara’s reaction to the environment.

Exert force on grappling hook.

Free climbing.

Game specifically designed for Next Gen consoles. Next generation version worked on separately.

No more medi packs.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news.php?id=686

Intresting

Shamikebab · 2 Feb 2008 at 01:52

Looks like somebodies been playing Assassins Creed then. Still some nice features in there, especially the environmental factors.

yaboy · 2 Feb 2008 at 02:07

Tomb raider made climibing

Shamikebab · 2 Feb 2008 at 02:14

well yeah obviously, but stuff like free climbing, no health packs just made me think they've looked at assassins creed as an influence for a true next gen tomb raider for some reason. Nice to see them stepping away from a finding health pack system. Im glad we're starting to see the back of that.

yaboy · 2 Feb 2008 at 02:16

lets hope this game gets released after all

NokkonWud · 2 Feb 2008 at 06:16

Tomb Raider has to go the way of Assassins Creed in fairness, it needs to be that free.

Inoshishi · 2 Feb 2008 at 09:33

Tomb Raider would do well to look at Uncharted, Uncharted steals a lot from Tomb Raider but does it all better imo.

I believe the next Uncharted will also have Co-Op (not confirmed but hinted at in an interview with lead dev) - Be nice to have Lara and one of her mates on screen at the same time, double the boobies

SiD the Turtle · 2 Feb 2008 at 10:44

NokkonWud said:
Tomb Raider has to go the way of Assassins Creed in fairness, it needs to be that free.

I bought and played Tomb Raider Anniversary just after completing Assassin's Creed. Compared to Altair, handling Lara was like handling a shopping trolley with a wonky wheel. They definitely need to look at AC and see what it does well.

yaboy · 2 Feb 2008 at 11:45

Inoshishi said:
Tomb Raider would do well to look at Uncharted, Uncharted steals a lot from Tomb Raider but does it all better imo.

I believe the next Uncharted will also have Co-Op (not confirmed but hinted at in an interview with lead dev) - Be nice to have Lara and one of her mates on screen at the same time, double the boobies

meh

Shamikebab · 2 Feb 2008 at 12:04

Im still waiting for the next gen Indy, Indy and the Infernal Machine hasn't been beaten yet in my books. "Hmm, that looks whippable"