Games Inbox: Multiplayer in the new Tomb Raider, Horizon Forbidden West DLC, and Titanfall 3
The Tuesday letters page argues that free-to-play games are only made for a tiny minority, as one reader hopes for some Alien Isolation closure.
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Friends united I don’t really like the sound of multiplayer being in the new Tomb Raider. I know it’s not confirmed but it not only sounds like it from that leaked script, but it seems like the sort of thing they’d try. Square Enix might not own Tomb Raider anymore but they were in charge when this game was designed and started. I think that makes it reasonable to imagine that they were pushing for something similar to Avengers, before they knew that game was a flop.
Avengers does have a story mode, in fact it’s easily the best bit, so this isn’t necessarily the worst idea, but I think for Tomb Raider to get back to basics it needs to spend some time building Lara’s character and, most importantly, giving her a cast you can actually care about.
All these decades and she’s never had a memorable villain or a love interest. I think maybe there was a sort of boyfriend in a couple of them, Angel Of Darkness in particular, but none of it ever stuck and neither did the gaggle of non-entities in the reboot trilogy. Lara needs to stop being a killing machine and become a real person, and that’s going to be hard to do if everyone’s running around playing a co-op game. Jako
Fowl play Am I the only one that thought Sony came across as a little desperate with that Call Of Duty comment about Microsoft buying Activision? Basically none of the other publishers particularly cared but Sony realised that one of their big marketing deals was about to disappear and Microsoft has its hands on one of the biggest games ever.
Personally I
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