As in the original, you follow the escapades of Lara as she decimates the wildlife in Peru, Greece, Egypt and finally. While Ginn has been speaking, Lara has been impatiently waiting onscreen, an idle animation seeing her shift from foot to foot almost as if to counter the weight of those gargantuan breasts, squeezed once more into the famous skin-tight aqua-marine top. So that's the way we attacked the design: making sure that we identify the things that people really recall from the original game, things like atmosphere and the way the game made you feel really isolated. "However, then all the bits in between that no-one remembers, that's where you exercise a lot of creative license. He took those key moments and made sure that he paid due respect in terms of people's nostalgia, recollections and memories. Jackson talked about how he was looking at the key moments from the original King Kong film, the things that people remember, like the T-Rex versus King Kong fight from the original film, which is also an iconic moment in Anniversary with Lara and T-Rex. "That was a real turning point in the way that we now understand our creative process for this game. "At that time, Peter Jackson was doing loads of interviews for his King Kong film," explains Ginn. With game remakes proving largely uncharted territory, inspiration arrived from the film industry, in the shape of a hairyfaced man from New Zealand. There weren't many analogies in the games sphere for us to take inspiration from." But Crystal Dynamics didn't want to do that, wary that gameplay mechanics that were acceptable ten years ago simply don't cut it these days (try playing the original Tomb Raider now).Īs Ginn says: "The challenge for us was 'what the hell do you do with it'? How do we create a game which leverages all of the amazing character and level design, along with the atmosphere of the original game without it feeling just like a remake? We looked at how Capcom handled Resident Evil 4 on the GameCube and we didn't want to be that literal about it. The obvious thing to do would be to add a few fancy graphics to the original game and get it into the hands of those hapless punters as quickly as possible.
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We took those requests very seriously and started to think about how to approach an anniversary version of Tomb Raider." Ten Years After "We were thinking about what to do next and where to go, and Eidos had received literally thousands and thousands of requests from fans throughout the years to look back at the original Tomb Raider game and see what we could do with it in terms of bringing it up to date and re-releasing it as a new game. "The idea of doing an anniversary edition of Tomb Raider came up when we were just putting the finishing touches to Tomb Raider: Legend," says Ginn. Part of the team that rescued the Tomb Raider franchise from ignominy following the Angel Of Darkness debacle, he's now involved in this timely 're-imagining' of the original game. One man who doesn't share this view is Tomb Raider Anniversary executive designer, Dax Ginn (who sounds like a game character himself). If we're turning round remakes in the space of ten years, then we might as well all go home now. Something of an understatement, that hirsute beauty was of course Lara Croft, now one of the most recognisable game characters of all time.įast-forward a decade and I'm in luxury suite in a Covent Garden hotel to see the same cocking game! As well as a crushing reminder of the futility of my existence, it's arguably a chilling portent of the future of the medium. Not really comprehending what I was witnessing, I looked on inanely while Mallo assured the attendant PR person that the game seemed promising. Craning our necks at a Sega Saturn demo, we watched intently as a long-haired wasp-waisted woman swam underwater with her boots on. It was at E3 1996, and sometime ZONER Paul Mallinson and myself were doing the rounds. I Can Clearly remember the first time I ever set eyes on Tomb Raider.
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