Lara pushing off of walls? (using the grapple?)

[MichaelK@NK]

Okay, so in this screenshot, Lara is swinging with her grapple, but she is also pushing off of the wall (maybe to make the distance farther?) Anyway, I remember a while back a mag said that Lara was able to Mario-Wall-Kick. Could this move be similar to that, only on a grapple instead?:ton:

http://i36.tinypic.com/2r5z4oz.jpg

[iamlaracroft]

woah...anyone else think Lara's left hand looks gargantuan and freaklishly huge???

[Tihocan9]

woah...anyone else think Lara's left hand looks gargantuan and freaklishly huge???

lol, I didn't notice that at first but ya it is huge!

Maybe it is used to get some momentum going?

[Christi]

What? Like shes hanging from a ledge, and while hanging from that ledge she lets go with one hand and throws her grapple up, then jumps off??

[MichaelK@NK]

What? Like shes hanging from a ledge, and while hanging from that ledge she lets go with one hand and throws her grapple up, then jumps off??
No. I said, while Lara's hanging/swinging. It looks as though she can push off of walls whilst on her grapple, to either get some motion to go farther or just a new way of swinging

[TombRaider#1fan]

Maybe it is used to get some momentum going?
That's what I always thought.. It seems more realistic to push herself off the walls than to smash into them :p
I see white ledges.. .:pi:

[Hateshinai]

Her hair looks incredibly fake ... Bad lighting maybe

[Tihocan9]

I see white ledges...:pi:

I had a feeling someone was gonna say something about them.

[takamotosan]

I see white ledges.. .:pi:

yes, and lara's hair is also orange.

and her hand is enormous.

this is ALPHA stage. or pre-alpha. something like that.

[amiro1989]

Wow. What a huge hand! I swear that Lara could kill Amanda if she would smack her with this huge hand. :D

[TombRaider#1fan]

^ True :p
yes, and lara's hair is also orange.

and her hand is enormous.

this is ALPHA stage. or pre-alpha. something like that.
Yeah, I figured it had to be, but the environment looks pretty great so far. Heard they took them out, anyway, sorry off topic :)

[takamotosan]

^ True :p

Yeah, I figured it had to be, but the environment looks pretty great so far. Heard they took them out, anyway, sorry off topic :)

hehe yeah.

but anyways, i love that lara will be moving even more in this game.

especially the fact that all her moves are motion captured. i can't wait to see some gameplay vids to see it all in action :D

[Tear]

I think her hand looks so big because it's closer up to us, same as how her feet (which look normal size) are farther back from the camera.

It looks as if she can push off of walls. Nice.;)

[MichaelK@NK]

Okay. So, I Have another question. Okay, so according to this TRU, is 70% complete.

http://www.360magazine.co.uk/games/tomb_raider_underworld/tomb_raider_underworld.html

So in this pic here, will Lara's hair look like this whilst underwater? I really hope it does. IMO, it looks really wavy and cool. What do you guys think, will it look like this or something completely different?

http://i33.tinypic.com/206k0nb.jpg

I like this one too.

http://i33.tinypic.com/kedzs4.jpg

[jaywalker]

I see white ledges..

Hey its Haley Joel Osment or Marlon Wayans from `Scary movie` :)

[jaywalker]

Okay. So, I Have another question. Okay, so according to this TRU, is 70% complete.


I love when people try and quote a games % of completion :) Theres only 2 accurate percentages you can give.. 0% (not started) and 100% (its on the shelves). Anything else inbetween is entirely subjective as graphics could be 100% but level design 50% etc etc etc.

Anyways.. back with regular programming...

ooops i realised i'd double posted *hangs head in shame*

[aussie500]

No. I said, while Lara's hanging/swinging. It looks as though she can push off of walls whilst on her grapple, to either get some motion to go farther or just a new way of swinging

And this is new how? We grappled while hanging from all sorts of places in TRA it does not really seem that new of on idea, the animation might be slightly be different but presumable Lara would push off to get momentum. The wall jump move is completely different to pushing of while grappling.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/aussie500/Tomb%208/Guidepg189.jpg

Or we saw a similar animation used in one of the early Legend trailers where Lara jumped at the gate of the Ghana temple knocked it down and rolled away. Another way of using the animation would be to jump from a wall or some other object to reach a lower level.

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/aussie500/Tomb%208/sq1.jpg

[kryptonite23]

I think the grapple canot do it by itself.

[Elmer]

woah...anyone else think Lara's left hand looks gargantuan and freaklishly huge???

It's the perspective that deceives you:)
The hand is very close to the 'camera':)

[RAID]

woah...anyone else think Lara's left hand looks gargantuan and freaklishly huge???
...yepp...

[lisa_croft]

i dont like this screenie. But the wall jump off thing would be pretty cool.

Say she's on a ledge,swings the grapple and pushes off with her feet, yeah i can see the image in my head (:

[x2crazyidiot]

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j215/aussie500/Tomb%208/sq1.jpg


wow, if Lara ever did that in a TR I'd die of happiness!
seriously though, we need more moves like this (and the one in the screenshot)
they are small moves, but they are moves which other game has tried before!
We need TR to really push the boat out when it comes to new moves!

[Minty Mouth]

I dont think shes pushing off the wall in the screen shot. I think its just the perspective and angle of the photo that makes it look like her feet are on the wall. Either that or the ledge on the wall is very very small

[Ward Dragon]

I dont think shes pushing off the wall in the screen shot. I think its just the perspective and angle of the photo that makes it look like her feet are on the wall. Either that or the ledge on the wall is very very small

That's what I think, too. It looks like she's swinging freely and the wall/ledge area is in the background.

[19Kegan19]

It's probably for momentum, they probably noticed that in Anniversary and Legend that when she was swinging on her grapple that when she went to high and hit a wall it knocked her off. So now I think when she gets momentum and hits the wall she will just push off.