17-09-21, 21:56 | #11 |
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If we get a good TR3 Remake sometime, that could be an interesting way to more properly merge TR3/Lost Artefact by making this canon.
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18-09-21, 06:44 | #12 | |
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As for the "explosion" when the characters die - i suppose you could explain it as a gameplay mechanic, as Willard returned to his human form, and presumably Sophia was just knocked unconscious in the City level. As for the mysterious Sir, it's strange that he is never mentioned again, although he could have been anyone! IIRC wasn't Willard also recovering oil from Antarctica? Maybe it was simply an investor or oil magnate simply wondering how far Willard was getting? XD |
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18-09-21, 19:20 | #13 |
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Imagine Willard got some rich sucker to fund his dig because he said there was oil there
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06-12-21, 08:05 | #14 | |
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A lot of people often think that the helicopter Lara hears on Sophia's roof must be the same helicopter Lara takes onwards to Antarctica which then sinks into the ice water. I believe you even present this as a potential theory that Sophia herself wanted to make a quick getaway in the helicopter to head to Antartica and meet up with Willard, but Lara takes her place instead. A friend of mine actually works as a helicopter pilot, and I once ran this scenario from TR3 past him. He laughed and explained to me that if Lara boards a helicopter at the end of the London levels, the chopper would only be able to take her to a main airport in London, at most - or back home to Surrey. This is because of how much fuel a helicopter can hold. She would have to board a real airplane, and even change airplanes twice (at least) on her way to Antartica from London or Nevada, if she really is making the journey directly without going back home. South Pacific Islands is the only location she might be able to do distance-wise in one trip, but only with a normal airplane, not a helicopter. Helicopters simply do not have enough fuel for such a long journey. So, while most fans play the London levels right before the Antarctica levels due to difficulty, and often imagine there being a continuity due to the helicopters (and this may even have been Core's mistaken intention) it really makes no difference logistics-wise in the story which location is played before Antarctica. If Lara boarded that helicopter after killing Sophia, then she probably flew it back home to Croft Manor in order to change and pack before heading to Heathrow Airport in order to begin the long two-plane journey to Antarctica. Once arriving in Antarctica from her international flight, she would then probably have been met at the airport by an RX-Tech representative, with whom she boarded the helicopter that was meant to take her to the excavation site with Willard, but of course it freezes and crashes on the way. Just some musings and info from my end. I hope this helps you with some of your fan fiction. |
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06-12-21, 13:24 | #15 |
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Nevermind.
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07-12-21, 16:15 | #17 | |
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Anyway, my post was simply pointing out the fact that one helicopter couldn't fly all the way from England to Antarctica. So, she would have had to have some sort of alternative means of transportation - whether plane, ship, dragon, or broomstick - between the London helicopter we hear at the end of the City level, and the Antarctica helicopter we see in the FMV. Last edited by .snake.; 07-12-21 at 16:18. |
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07-12-21, 17:19 | #18 | |
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And today I learned there are 14 airports in London. I'd only heard of 4 of them. Does not change your point in the slightest, and most of them probably wouldn't give her what she wanted in the time frame she'd like. Just interesting to note in case anyone wanted to work things out "realistically". Last edited by jvry; 07-12-21 at 17:20. |
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