New Tomb Raider: Underworld trailer asks 'What could Lara do?'
by Randy Nelson 
{ Oct 8th 2008 at 9:00PM }
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 (Page 1 of 1)
wocyob @ Oct 8th 2008 9:07PM
so its going to feel like uncharted?
david @ Oct 8th 2008 9:15PM
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.
Ihavepants @ Oct 8th 2008 9:18PM
Yes, because we all know that Uncharted drew zero inspiration from Tomb Raider.
wocyob @ Oct 8th 2008 9:19PM
nice well i hope its as smooth as uncharted... cuz if so then this is a pick up for me
wocyob @ Oct 8th 2008 9:24PM
@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
cxm @ Oct 8th 2008 9:39PM
Where have you been? The controls haven't been the clunky tank style controls since Crystal Dynamics took over the franchise...about two or so years before anyone had even heard of Uncharted.
wocyob @ Oct 8th 2008 9:43PM
@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?
Wiizer @ Oct 8th 2008 9:51PM
'What could Lara do?'
I bet she could provide the same DLC XBox is getting to the PS3. Hell, she's been on it long enough.
cxm @ Oct 9th 2008 1:46PM
Even Lara can't fight the legal juggernauts at Microsoft...I'm sure providing the DLC to the PS3 would violate some sort of contract.
Blame Sony for not being willing to pony up some cash to counteract Microsoft's offer when DLC was put on the table.
J @ Oct 10th 2008 4:53PM
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.
ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Oct 8th 2008 11:45PM
Personally I'm still preferring the environments over her animations: I just don't buy it as credible.
Genuary @ Oct 9th 2008 12:29AM
what!? female prince of persia with two guns?
D @ Oct 9th 2008 2:34AM
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.
Tom @ Oct 9th 2008 7:30AM
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!