It sounds like the new game may end up being called Tomb Raiders, as a leak describes Lara Croft leading a team of adventurers.
The recent news that the rights to make new Tomb Raider films are up for grabs, just as Hollywood has gained a renewed interest in making video game movies, has only highlighted the fact that, officially speaking, we know next to nothing about the new game.
There’s certainly no clue as to when it’s out, except that it’s not soon, and the only real hint of what it’s like, is that it will ‘unify’ the timelines of the classic and reboot games.
It’s never really been clear what that means, given Tomb Raider lore has never been very dense, but the alleged leak of a test script for the game suggests that it will feature Lara at ‘the height of her powers’ and leading a whole team of Tomb Raiders.
Whether or not this means the game has multiplayer elements is unclear, since the description is more concerned with the story than the gameplay, but it’s difficult to read the details and not imagine it as a co-op game.
Apart from a couple of isometric spin-offs (the very good Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light and its sequel) Tomb Raider has always been a resolutely single-player affair, but the leak implies that’s changing.
The leaked document obtained by Sacred Symbols is supposedly being used to cast voice actors and is a simple two scene script – not the plot of the entire thing.
It describes the game, codenamed Project Jawbreaker, as ‘an action adventure game set in a modern day world rocked by a mysterious cataclysm.’
The tone is described as ‘grounded but with fantastical elements’, which could also easily be used to describe the recent reboot trilogy.
The script is being used to cast the new Lara Croft, who
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