New Tomb Raider Confirmed for Xbox 360 and PSP
Eidos firefights, plants key franchise on new platforms.
In the face of increasing pressure to find a long-term financial partner or buyer, Eidos has fought back, announcing new Tomb Raider titles for all platforms, including Sony’s PSP and Microsoft’s Xbox 360.
In a financial statement to its long-beleaguered investors explaining further delays to various games, Eidos stated that, “…further development work to be undertaken on these titles (including additional versions of Lara Croft Tomb Raider for the next-generation PSP and Xbox 2 platforms) and allow the company to take advantage of more favourable release windows."
As well as putting weight behind what is expected to be a corking return to form for the downtrodden busty PlayStation icon, this news also confirms the fact that Xbox 360, as seemingly/possibly/officially named just today, will indeed make its pre-Christmas 2005 launch window.
We’ll bring you more on this, and all things Eidos, as they break. Stay tuned.
In a financial statement to its long-beleaguered investors explaining further delays to various games, Eidos stated that, “…further development work to be undertaken on these titles (including additional versions of Lara Croft Tomb Raider for the next-generation PSP and Xbox 2 platforms) and allow the company to take advantage of more favourable release windows."
As well as putting weight behind what is expected to be a corking return to form for the downtrodden busty PlayStation icon, this news also confirms the fact that Xbox 360, as seemingly/possibly/officially named just today, will indeed make its pre-Christmas 2005 launch window.
We’ll bring you more on this, and all things Eidos, as they break. Stay tuned.
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Dreadknux 16 Mar 2005 19:33
1/12
Good news for Eidos. Or is it? Tomb Raider's seriously lost its appeal. If this new version bombs, it'll be all over...
kid_77 16 Mar 2005 19:52
2/12
Haven't cared about Tomb Raider since the original.
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Ditto 16 Mar 2005 20:23
3/12
So which platforms does Eidos intend to release this game on? Xbox/PS2/GC/Xbox2/PSP?
This could be the revenue-generator Eidos needs. Dispite what you people think, I reckon that the Tomb Raider brand with the right marketing is a winner. Just look at the films.
I'm sure you guys wouldn't disagree with a new Lara modelled on Ms/Mrs Jolie.
This could be the revenue-generator Eidos needs. Dispite what you people think, I reckon that the Tomb Raider brand with the right marketing is a winner. Just look at the films.
I'm sure you guys wouldn't disagree with a new Lara modelled on Ms/Mrs Jolie.
Joji 16 Mar 2005 20:46
4/12
What if it all goes pear shaped Eidos? It could spell the end of you.
I also see they have ruled Revolution out already though I can understand them play it safe, there still has been no TR game on a Nintendo system apart from the GBA. Here they go again with Tomb Raider when there is so much other stuff they could do instead.
When will they learn we are tired of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider. She's now like an unwanted party guest you can't get rid of, who Eidos flogs and pushes out there to sell try sell their games. Lara Croft is old news now, and a dusty PSone 90's relic.
There is also something else which is that Lara has no plight for us to have sympathy and connect with therefore we don't really care what height she falls from and breaks her arse. She raids tombs etc and she is loaded enough that she could sit on her polygon buns all day. While most games make you earn your keep and care about your character (Leon in RE4/Snake in MGS etc, find better examples if you can) at least a little.
The solution IMO is for Lara to loose all her money and status and have to work her arse off to climb the ladder again. Burn her mansion to the ground and then have to use money earned to rebuild it, this is the kind of thing that we can connect with and would enhance the series somewhat. Start with small jobs and have to earn repsect to be able to have a try at more prestigious work and/or work for hire like in the recent Mercenaries. Her having so much money has killed any kind of progress the storyline could have made IMO, and perhaps they should have left her dead when they killed her off and replaced her altogether with a fresh face or two.
I'll give Crystal Dynamics (if they are still on the TR project) a chance to solve the problems with a once good series but after the last three games I really don't know. Also wish they would stop calling it the series Tomb Raider when very not everything happens in tombs within the games now.
I also see they have ruled Revolution out already though I can understand them play it safe, there still has been no TR game on a Nintendo system apart from the GBA. Here they go again with Tomb Raider when there is so much other stuff they could do instead.
When will they learn we are tired of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider. She's now like an unwanted party guest you can't get rid of, who Eidos flogs and pushes out there to sell try sell their games. Lara Croft is old news now, and a dusty PSone 90's relic.
There is also something else which is that Lara has no plight for us to have sympathy and connect with therefore we don't really care what height she falls from and breaks her arse. She raids tombs etc and she is loaded enough that she could sit on her polygon buns all day. While most games make you earn your keep and care about your character (Leon in RE4/Snake in MGS etc, find better examples if you can) at least a little.
The solution IMO is for Lara to loose all her money and status and have to work her arse off to climb the ladder again. Burn her mansion to the ground and then have to use money earned to rebuild it, this is the kind of thing that we can connect with and would enhance the series somewhat. Start with small jobs and have to earn repsect to be able to have a try at more prestigious work and/or work for hire like in the recent Mercenaries. Her having so much money has killed any kind of progress the storyline could have made IMO, and perhaps they should have left her dead when they killed her off and replaced her altogether with a fresh face or two.
I'll give Crystal Dynamics (if they are still on the TR project) a chance to solve the problems with a once good series but after the last three games I really don't know. Also wish they would stop calling it the series Tomb Raider when very not everything happens in tombs within the games now.
SPInGSPOnG 16 Mar 2005 20:58
5/12
Joji wrote:
When will they learn we are tired of Lara Croft and Tomb Raider. She's now like an unwanted party guest you can't get rid of, who Eidos flogs and pushes out there to sell try sell their games. Lara Croft is old news now.
Harsh! As is FIFA Soccer, rolled our YEAR after YEAR isn't tires. As if Quake III isn't Doom with bells on.
There are no new ideas, and while TR is old, it doesn't have to be tired.
There is enough good will in the franchise, and it has enough depth and an uncharacteristically (for computer games) rich characterisation, that if they do a good game, it could be massive.
Pandaman 16 Mar 2005 22:17
6/12
Oh goody! A Tomb Raider game for the new X-Box and PSP! It's like 1994, but BETTER!
Crocomire 16 Mar 2005 22:38
7/12
I haven't been fond of Eidos seeing as they decided never to make a GameCube game. And I love the Tomb Raider games. I have them on the PSone and Dreamcast and I'd love so much for them to bring the series to DS and Revolution.
But TR for Rev may happen. This article says a Tomb Raider for next generation consoles including Xbox2 and PSP. No mention of even the PS3 but seeing as they mention next generation consoles, it could mean PS3 and Rev. Still, going on what Eidos has done with the GameCube (or hasn't done), it's not looking hopeful unfortunatly.
But TR for Rev may happen. This article says a Tomb Raider for next generation consoles including Xbox2 and PSP. No mention of even the PS3 but seeing as they mention next generation consoles, it could mean PS3 and Rev. Still, going on what Eidos has done with the GameCube (or hasn't done), it's not looking hopeful unfortunatly.
kid_77 16 Mar 2005 23:26
8/12
Alan is my first name wrote:
Oh goody! A Tomb Raider game for the new X-Box and PSP! It's like 1994, but BETTER!
No. I was younger, thinner, and better looking in 1994 (chicks don't go for primary coloured facial features it seems)
locopuyo 16 Mar 2005 23:59
9/12
You mean this XBox 360? http://www.locopuyo.com/xbox360.png
Crocomire wrote:
I haven't been fond of Eidos seeing as they decided never to make a GameCube game. And I love the Tomb Raider games. I have them on the PSone and Dreamcast and I'd love so much for them to bring the series to DS and Revolution.
But TR for Rev may happen. This article says a Tomb Raider for next generation consoles including Xbox2 and PSP. No mention of even the PS3 but seeing as they mention next generation consoles, it could mean PS3 and Rev. Still, going on what Eidos has done with the GameCube (or hasn't done), it's not looking hopeful unfortunatly.
But TR for Rev may happen. This article says a Tomb Raider for next generation consoles including Xbox2 and PSP. No mention of even the PS3 but seeing as they mention next generation consoles, it could mean PS3 and Rev. Still, going on what Eidos has done with the GameCube (or hasn't done), it's not looking hopeful unfortunatly.
config 17 Mar 2005 09:32
10/12
I think Eidos was stung over TR on the DC. Of course, virtually everyone who cared for TR:Last Revelation had already bought it for PS1, so any trepidation was prolly misplaced. Since then, I reckon Eidos has shied away from less than sure-fire platforms.
tyrion 17 Mar 2005 09:42
11/12
Crocomire wrote:
But TR for Rev may happen. This article says a Tomb Raider for next generation consoles including Xbox2 and PSP. No mention of even the PS3 but seeing as they mention next generation consoles, it could mean PS3 and Rev. Still, going on what Eidos has done with the GameCube (or hasn't done), it's not looking hopeful unfortunatly.
No mention of PS3 would be the clue here. Since the game will be released this year, they are only going to release it for platforms that are available this year. That rules out PS3 and Rev. Simple.
Can't explain no DS announcement however!
SPInGSPOnG 17 Mar 2005 10:32
12/12
kid_77 wrote:
chicks don't go for primary coloured facial features it seems
My Andorian friends tell me otherwise.
Perhaps you chose the wrong primary.