The answers turn out to be some things we've heard about before, like the fact that she can now pull herself up onto poles and balance-walk them. The real treat of this trailer is seeing the latest animation pass in action. While Lara has been completely motion-captured for the first time in this outing, there's still a lot of work that's gone into hand-tweaking her 2,000-odd animations. We think the results look pretty darn great – if just a little too quick for natural human movement – compared to her animation in earlier builds. What do you think?
New Tomb Raider: Underworld trailer asks 'What could Lara do?'
by Randy Nelson 
on Oct 8th 2008 9:00PM
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The answers turn out to be some things we've heard about before, like the fact that she can now pull herself up onto poles and balance-walk them. The real treat of this trailer is seeing the latest animation pass in action. While Lara has been completely motion-captured for the first time in this outing, there's still a lot of work that's gone into hand-tweaking her 2,000-odd animations. We think the results look pretty darn great – if just a little too quick for natural human movement – compared to her animation in earlier builds. What do you think?
Reader Comments (14)
Posted: Oct 8th 2008 9:15PM crazedaku said
Great games play off of each other, they say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. Gears of war took its over the shoulder camera from Resident Evil 4 and now Resident Evil 5 is making it's aiming work more like Gears of War... around in circles we go, hehe.
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Posted: Oct 8th 2008 9:18PM iHavePants said
Yes, because we all know that Uncharted drew zero inspiration from Tomb Raider.
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Posted: Oct 8th 2008 9:24PM wocyob said
@Ihavepants
no one is saying its didnt....
what i was saying that it feels like uncharted was that it was smooth to control the main char
i played a few old tomb raider games and i hated it for the controls
but this new one looks like its very smooth.. like uncharted was
and im sure they grabbed some ideas from tomb raider.. just like im sure tomb raider got some ideas from Indiana Jones
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no one is saying its didnt....
what i was saying that it feels like uncharted was that it was smooth to control the main char
i played a few old tomb raider games and i hated it for the controls
but this new one looks like its very smooth.. like uncharted was
and im sure they grabbed some ideas from tomb raider.. just like im sure tomb raider got some ideas from Indiana Jones
Posted: Oct 8th 2008 9:43PM wocyob said
@cxm
thats why i said OLD tomb raiders.... but i did play this one tomb raider... i forgot the name for it... i had it for the computer... well you started out in an ally way and you had to climb up the ladders on the side of the buildings.... the controls were sooooo damn bad for that i took the game out of my cd drive and threw it out of the window...."it was free".... maybe you know the name of that tomb raider?
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thats why i said OLD tomb raiders.... but i did play this one tomb raider... i forgot the name for it... i had it for the computer... well you started out in an ally way and you had to climb up the ladders on the side of the buildings.... the controls were sooooo damn bad for that i took the game out of my cd drive and threw it out of the window...."it was free".... maybe you know the name of that tomb raider?
Posted: Oct 10th 2008 4:53PM (Unverified) said
Wow, if they are going to show off a feature suhc as animation they better keep up to what the bar has been set.
Uncharted beats the crap out of that "snap to new pose" animation sets for Lara that I see here.
They got a lot of work to do.
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Uncharted beats the crap out of that "snap to new pose" animation sets for Lara that I see here.
They got a lot of work to do.
Posted: Oct 8th 2008 11:45PM ThornedVenom said
Personally I'm still preferring the environments over her animations: I just don't buy it as credible.
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Posted: Oct 9th 2008 2:34AM (Unverified) said
I'm so sick of the "LOL ITS UNCHARTED" comments. this is crystal Dynamics adding to what they did with Legend. This is simply the next step up from Legend.
Guess What!? Legend came out a year and a half before uncharted. Now please take your trolling and fuck off.
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Guess What!? Legend came out a year and a half before uncharted. Now please take your trolling and fuck off.
Posted: Oct 9th 2008 7:30AM (Unverified) said
Still looks really quirky to me, if not 'quirkier'... Each animation looks fine, but as with all Tomb Raider games, they just dont fit together very well.
From jumping, to grabbing, or climbing up a wall then stopping, it just looks funny with the animation transition.
Still, it looks great, and it wouldn't feel like Tomb Raider if Lara didn't have these funny quirks. Looks good otherwise!
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From jumping, to grabbing, or climbing up a wall then stopping, it just looks funny with the animation transition.
Still, it looks great, and it wouldn't feel like Tomb Raider if Lara didn't have these funny quirks. Looks good otherwise!
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