This is how the protagonist of Tomb Raider changed

Lara Croft She is known as one of the most popular heroines in the world of video games. Since the first time she starred in Tomb Raider in 1996, she has appeared in a good number of different adventures that have been on a multitude of consoles, although one of the greatest curiosities about her is that she was originally going to be different from how we know her today.

At first its designer, Toby Gard, contemplated the possibility of a man being the character that the players were going to control in the franchise, but the fact that it could be considered a clone of Indiana Jones was what tipped the scales to create a better woman

. In turn, it also had to do with the fact that Gard saw how his co-workers mainly chose female characters in fighting games.

Between one thing and another, in the end all this led to the creation of an archaeologist who was going to respond to the name of Laura Cruz and whose origin was going to be from a country in South America. Regarding her physique, she was going to be that of a somewhat more muscular woman, with hair that was actually similar to that of the Lara Croft that we know, although her clothing was different, since she was going to have some military trousers.

Core Design, the company that was responsible for the development of the first Tomb Raider

, I did not end up seeing this whole set of ideas favorably. Therefore, the first thing he did was choose another outfit and give it a design more similar to the one we saw almost 30 years ago, with a tighter top, shorts and hiking boots, but this was not the only change that was made, because the name did not seem appropriate for the famous archaeologist.

To begin with, Laura was modified because English-speaking players were considered it was going to be difficult for them to pronounce his name, hence she became Lara. Regarding her last name, since it was decided to alter her nationality and become a British woman, the team believed that Cruz did not sound very suitable, hence a telephone directory was consulted and Croft was selected as the last name she was going to have. .

In this way, Core Design was convinced that Lara Croft was going to sound friendlier for English speaking players, so since then she became the archaeologist that we have seen so many times since her first appearance on SEGA Saturn, PC and the first PlayStation. In addition, for a few months now you can also relive her origins thanks to the Tomb Raider I-III remastered compilation.

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