Square Enix and Crystal Dynamics have released a video, showcasing the prototype version of Tomb Raider 2013. This Tomb Raider reboot was originally meant to be a survival horror game, and was codenamed Ascension.
In this prototype version, Lara could ride horses and there were a lot of supernatural enemies.
What’s really cool here is that the cave level actually found its way to the final game. This may also explain why that particular scene felt completely different than the rest of the game.
Now as you will see, this prototype version is not that polished. I mean, this is to be expected. After all, that’s what the prototype builds of all games actually look like. Therefore, expect to see a lot of clipping, animation and physics issues. Still, and despite these issues, I believe that most Tomb Raider fans will find it cool.
Enjoy!
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Damn, Dark Souls really did a number on these people. Had everyone’s mind been rotted due to Dark Souls. They wanted to turn Tomb Raider into Dark Souls. Oh Boy, o’ Boy.
Why such hate for the series ? DS is not responsible for the lack of imagination of these devs just like Doom is not responsible for the Doom clones of the 90s
Yes it is Devo… If COD never happened, we’d have tons more and better single player games. Monkey see, monkey do…
This makes monkey guilty for that, and not what monkey saw
Endless f*king b*tching and moaning about Dark Souls for years on end.
You people just can’t get over Dark Souls lmfao.
yeah, it’s hard to get over the damn thing if it’s being constantly pushed in your face. But you wouldn’t acknowledge that part because it suits your fuqery of an argument.
It’s absolutely not pushed in your face. Nothing about this article and the video is about Dark Souls for a prime example.
You’re all deranged about Dark Souls so much that you see it everywhere, probably under your beds too.
It’s like Trump Derangement Syndrome, just with Dark Souls.
The final game is dull and inconsistent, plagued with gimmicky survival mechanics and trash AI and gunplay, the puzzles literally saved the game. I wish we had this one instead
the problem with the final game is that its too down to earth, most of what you do is shoot hobos while having infinite ammo lying around, generic collecthathon sidestuff and too many qtes while lara isnt that agile during gameplay and barely any puzzles. While i would prefer to explore tombs like the old games and having traps, a survival horror game with limited resource sand supernatural monsters would have been much better, just look how much more agile she is. Also an explorable island with a horse would be great too instead of being so scripted. Maybe respawn when you die but losing stuff like dark souls.
Instead it became moaning simulator. That stupid btch cannot act for sht. I remember i was in the metro and played IGN’s compilation of moaning back in the day. Ppl looked at me like i was a pervert lol! Man what a dump this game ended up to be. A moaning SJW Rambo tr**ny action!
feels like a lifetime ago that sites like ign could infact do videos like this and not get attacked.