And I think in ’96, Tomb Raider stepped into that and said, “We’re going to give the same platforming promise of clambering across these vast landscapes as Mario does, but we’re going to try to deliver that Hollywood aesthetic of an Indiana Jones movie and that high adventure and that fantasy fulfillment and we’re going to do that in a way that’s less abstract. You also had an influx of Hollywood at that time, and their intent was to take the potential of these great, gameplay-centric experiences but start to bring them to more of a mass-media–consuming audience. When the first Tomb Raider game came out in 1996, what was the media environment like at that time as far as video games?Īt that time - and to maybe put it in the context of Tomb Raider a little bit - you had a fairly robust expression of video games as skill challenge, as platformers with some amount of abstraction and some amount of realism. Noah Hughes, the franchise creative director for Crystal Dynamics - the developer of the TR games since 2003 - spoke with THR about what it was like to take over such a huge franchise, Lara’s legacy, and how the character has changed over the last two decades. A new film starring another Oscar winner, Alicia Vikander, i s schedule to hit theaters on March 16, 2018. The latest entry in the franchise, Rise of the Tomb Raider, originally released in October 2015, was reissued for the PlayStation 4 last month as a special 20th anniversary edition with enhanced 4K graphics, tons of DLC content and a bunch of other bells and whistles.
The game, which combined the intense platforming of Prince of Persia with the exploration and puzzle-solving of Legend of Zelda and the run-and-gun enemy onslaught of Doom, was an immediate hit, selling over 7.5 million copies worldwide and setting a new standard for third-person adventure games.Īlicia Vikander's 'Tomb Raider' Reboot Gets Release Date
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Released for the Sony PlayStation, Sega Saturn and PC in November 1996, the first Tomb Raider launched a franchise that over the past two decades has included 17 games - plus two films starring Angelina Jolie. On this day 20 years ago, a new video game heroine named Lara Croft jumped, almost fell into a pit of spikes but caught a ledge with her hands, and pulled herself up into our hearts.
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