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Lara Croft And The Guardian Of Light -- Facts and Features
List of Previews
List of Reviews
Release Details:
Platforms: Xbox Live Arcade, PSN, and Steam for PC (Steam has a page for the game already up, and now so does Xbox.com)
Release Date:
- Xbox 360: August 18th
- Steam and PSN: September 28th (source)
- As of right now, online co-op is NOT included (will be added later in a patch)
Method of Delivery: Digital download ( link for release details)
Price: $15 or 1200 Microsoft Points ( source)
Download Size: Approximately 2 GB ( source)
ESRB Rating: T for Teen ( source)
General Game Information:
- Will be a separate game, not an add-on (link)
- Crystal is working on this game in addition to TR9 (link)
- It was intentional to leave "Tomb Raider" out of the title (link)
- The game is intended to be very new and different from the rest of the series (link)
- The game is not a tie-in to the movie (link)
- The game is not an internet mini-game (link)
- In-game there will be a new Lara model (link)
- The game will be approximately six hours long (link)
Gameplay Specifics:
Co-op:
- Will feature two playable characters, Lara and a Mayan warrior named Totec 1
- Can be played single-player or co-op, online or locally, and a second player can jump in "on the fly" 1
- In single-player mode, the player controls Lara with more powerful athletic abilities 3
- In single-player mode, the levels will change a bit and have more items to allow Lara to progress on her own 5
- Lara and Totec each have unique abilities and need to work together to get past obstacles 1
- Lara has her grapple for getting across large gaps and can assist Totec with jumps or he can use her grapple as a tightrope 1
- Totec can throw spears into walls which Lara can then climb on 1
- Totec can hold his shield up as a step for Lara to jump off of 1
- At the end of every level players get points based upon how many items they have each found and how many enemies they have each killed 2
- Points can be used to unlock weapons and other items 2
- There will be leaderboards tracking scores 4
Combat and Controls:
- Controls are meant to be simple and the combat fast-paced -- combat requires aiming at enemies and shooting until they are dead, then moving on to the next enemy 1
- Controls are similar to many other XBLA or PSN games with the left stick moving the character, the right stick aiming the weapons, and the trigger firing the weapons 3
- Lara has her dual pistols with infinite ammo 1
- Totec has infinite spears and can also pick up a gun (either a machine gun or a rifle depending upon the source) 2,3
- There will be infinite landmines that players can use against enemies or environmental obstacles 2
- Enemies will include undead tribesmen and giant salamanders, among others 1
- There will be hordes of enemies to fight at once, and points are gained for each enemy killed 1
- The game seems evenly split between combat and puzzles 2
- Players will have a limited time to revive each other if one falls in combat, else that character will be respawned with much lower health 2
- Each level will end with a boss fight of some sort which requires a mix of puzzle-solving and combat to win 4
Visual Style:
- The camera will be isometric with fixed angles providing a semi-top-down view 1
- Despite the arcade feeling of the game, the graphics are realistic and detailed 1
- Vegetation reacts to the characters and sways in the wind 1
- Camera angles give a sense of scale by showing off how far the platforming sequences extend 1
- The camera will pan out if the characters need to split up to solve a puzzle 2
- Uses the same engine as recent TR games, so expect the same level of detail including shadows and in-game physics 2
- Cutscenes are hand-drawn in a comic-book style 2
Locations:
- Will take place in a Central American jungle 1
- Includes tombs to explore in order to break up the fast-paced combat sections 1
- Tombs will contain puzzles and booby-traps that require both characters to get past 1
- The Spider Tomb has nonlinear level design and a map so players can orient themselves if necessary 2
- There exist optional "challenge tombs" with more difficult puzzles for players to solve in order to get bonus artifacts and points 2
- There will apparently be sixteen levels 4
Story:
- Story is done in a lighthearted Hollywood style 1
- Lara will team up with Totec, a Mayan tribesman, in order to fight an evil spirit named Xolotl that was released from the Mirror of Smoke and can control other spirits 2
- Story is set outside the series' main timeline and is independent of the other games 3
- More specific story details are described in the GameInformer article (I'm not sure how much of a spoiler it is so I have not written it all out here)
Sources:
1) this Gamespot article
2) this GameInformer article
3) this Kotaku article
4) this JeuxVideo article translated here
5) this IGN article
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Last edited by Ward Dragon; 02-10-10 at 03:41.
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