Anatomy of a disaster: Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness

Angel of darkness tried to go with stealth, which was very popular at that time (mgs2-splinter cell). Didnt seem to work for a game that was popular for its action adventure qualities.

I'm always interested to hear tales of game development gone bad.

The problem with tomb Raider started way back when Lara became bigger than the game she was actually in. She is one character who needs an E-Hollywood story spoof.

legend is the only good tomb raider game

I have to say I feel for these guys. All we see if the hideous final result and the devs get the blame. Not the idiotic management, not the pricks in marketing that promise the moon on a stick. Nope, in their mind those narcissistic bastards are without fault. "It must have been everyone else that caused it to fail" they think. "Not my constant melding or or stupid ideas I demanded to be implemented becuase it was important, even though I forgot about it a week later. I thought of it so it must have been VITAL! Where was I? Golf? Yes! Let's fire all the talent first though for their incompetence! ... Oh we've gone bankrupt. Well it wasn't MY fault, becuase I'm awesome..."

I am apparently the only person in the world who didn't hate this game. I still don't really understand why everyone else disliked it so much...

I once spent a day at Core when I was about 8. A friend of my Mum's knew Jeremy Heath-Smith. I played some preview code of Chuck Rock on the Megadrive, and when I left he gave me a copy of Car-vup for the Amiga.

Fact!

All I can say is, as bad as AOD was, at least that disaster has led to two REALLY GOOD Tomb Raider games, Legend and Anniversary. If they hadn't screwed up, then maybe we would never have gotten these amazing games, and we'd be stuck with the same old same old still...

This reminds me of the Daikatana development diary they had on Gamespot (sorry for linking to another gaming site):

http://www.gamespot.com/features/btg-daikatana/