Don't Write Off Tomb Raider Based On The Leaks

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Tomb Raider fans have been left out in the wilderness for a little while now, but we finally have a credible insight into the next game. We were initially told it would somehow continue on from Shadow while looping in the as-yet unrelated Legend trilogy, and while I’m not quite sure it does that, the news does give fans reasons to be excited. And yet, no one really is. The leaked pitch sounds like a great idea for evolving a character that badly needs her return to the big time, but I appear to be alone in those thoughts. Why is a community experiencing its longest drought ever, after one of its most poorly received games, turning its collective nose up at a good idea? More to the point, what does a good Tomb Raider game even look like these days?

The basic pitch for the game is that Lara is now an icon in her own world, and as such a bunch of younger ‘Tomb Raiders’ look up to her. She also is more concerned with protecting the historical integrity of artefacts rather than actually raiding tombs for them, and there’s not a daddy issue in sight. The leak adds that the game will have a ‘grounded tone with fantastical elements’ but that’s just Tomb Raider. The leak might as well claim it stars a white British woman with a brown ponytail - we know that already.

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This seems to me like a phenomenal pitch for a Tomb Raider game. Now that the series (and gaming as a whole) has embraced a greater focus on narrative, something had to give. I know it’s called Tomb Raider, and I know the original games were all about back flipping and stealing goblets, but these days things are a little different. Playing as said white British woman and travelling to once