Tomb Raider: Underworld creative director speaks out on his layoff, DLC rumors

Chin up buster!

before you know it we'll be having tea and hot crumpets on the village green and look back at this with a smile.

Sounds to me like they should've pushed the release date back. But instead they went the route of almost every other game, leaving it sort of buggy.

I'd DL those C's

So basically they rushed production, put out a flawed, short product, and intended to sell what they cut out later, effectively selling the game for $80. Screw Eidos, no way will they get my money.

It's sad, the original Tomb Raiders were great in their day and the franchise could have continued to be a strong brand, but seems to me that Eidos has completely flushed the Tomb Raider IP down the toilet.

I will continue to not understand why Underworld is considered a failure...

Wow, you really just see what you want to see, don't you?

He said that they made the decision to cut parts of the game due to quality/time constraints...something that every game does. Then, the opportunity to use the assets in DLC presented itself AFTER THE FACT and they ran with it. After all, why waste what's already there?

The games sales more on the ps3 and the DLC is for the 360, Microsoft is screwing up the video game industry. Do us all a favor and back sega the next time you want a system ms at lest it'll work.

"...but on the day we made the cut, it was made purely for Underworld production reasons."

and the day after it was sold to Microsoft?

Sorry, this whole thing is disappointing. That, and exclusive DLC is the dumbest idea since the Electric Toaster Bath Buddy.

Its sad that DLC is now being cut out of games so they can make more money. Just make some new stuff. Try ideas that didn't really fit with the game but sound like cool ideas. The worse that happens is not a lot of people buy it but you already made the money on the original purchase. Few companies have been getting DLC right but a lot have been getting it wrong.

So he basically confirmed that the DLC content was cut of the final release for profits sake.... calling it 'production reasons' doesn't really change the goal of the move which was to get the game out in time for Christmas even though it would leave the game feeling rather cut short, and then to add to the insult sell the missing ending as platform exclusive DLC.

I think you guys are missing the fact that Underworld is a complete game, it is pretty short, but no shorter than the new Prince of Persia, or even Uncharted. It definitely has a complete story and ends in a decent way, it's not like there's a massive cliff hanger or parts of the game missing.

The new content is completely seperate from the main story (you don't even play as Lara) and is made up of almost totally new assests.

Anyone who actually buys this $20 "final level" pack deserves to have their gaming licence revoked and their xbox shoved up their ass.

God people suck at DLC. They just use it as a vehicle to get their bitchiness out.

Look, many games cuts crap out to meet a release date. Usually, that stuff that gets cut disappears forever, and no one ever gets to play it. Now, DLC gives big fans of the game a chance to play it.

If DLC didn't exist, the same stuff still would have been cut out, and the game still would have cost the same $60 to buy, and that would have been the end of it. But now that DLC exists, people who loved the game have a chance to play the stuff that was cut, and the developers have a reason to finish the stuff that was cut post-mordem.

If you don't buy the DLC, or just pretend it doesn't exist, then it's no different than it would have been had the whole concept of DLC never been invented. You still get the same exact game you would have for the same $60 price tag. Now, you just have the OPTION to get more if you want it. If you don't, then don't, and you're no worse off than if it never existed in the first place.

Eidos is determined to kill the Tomb Raider for the sake of a few dollars. And it never works, they lose more money on account of their butthole stupidity than they would of made if they did an honest days work. I knew they shorted TR already. Everyone is usually about 12 levels. Underworld only had 9. So basically they are half- assing the game and only giving us two thirds of it at retail. In summation, screw you Eidos.