The next Tomb Raider could well disappoint if this new wave of information is to be believed. This risks dampening the enthusiasm of early fans.
Miss Croft is still turning heads almost thirty years after its inception (we won’t argue about two years). Recently, the adventurer has returned to the forefront with the Tomb Raider Remastered collection. A new interpretation of his first three adventures that really appealed to early fans and allowed newcomers to discover them. But if there’s one game everyone’s waiting for, it’s the next great adventure of beauty, currently in development at Crystal Dynamics.
A new game is still very secret as far as we know
The next Tomb Raider is a very well-kept secret, the studio has revealed almost no information, except that the game will run on Unreal Engine 5 and that it will represent a different Lara than the last trilogy, a kind of mix of all the versions from her that we have discovered over the years.
We have to look on the side of well-informed insiders. And although it was very sparse up until now, one of them has now revealed several pieces of information, V Scooper
We continue to take the tweezers with us as usual. However, the latter tells us that he has new information about the next Tomb Raider and if this turns out to be true, it risks turning off many fans.
According to his information, the next Tomb Raider would be a completely open world. Of course, we’re not talking about huge areas to explore like in the reboot trilogy, but rather an open world with a motorcycle that you can use at will and even a parachute. The game would apparently take place in India and would show us landscapes that are both vast and dense, which we can therefore explore with our vehicles, or of course with Lara’s usual means: the strength of her arms and her ice axes.
The next Tomb Raider might well disappoint fans, but…
A drastic and unprecedented change in direction for the franchise. Yes, Lara offered more or less open environments right from the start. Tomb Raider 3 In particular, it opens more than the first two 4
A bold decision for the studio, especially at a time when fans are massively demanding, as they did back then, a return to basics, more old-school games with real feelings of isolation and dangerous exploration.
It’s obviously too early to draw any conclusions, especially since the insider doesn’t reveal anything further. He says if everything goes well, the game should be out in less than a year and we should see it soon. Wait and see what they say.