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When Core showed an early version of Tomb Raider III to the assembled hordes, the reaction surprised them. Let's nip back to May this year for a moment - back to the E3 trade show in Atlanta. Perhaps the two are related.Īnyway, the game. It dawned on us that Richard's mannerisms are very similar to this college friend of ours. Actually, the sheer size is getting to be a worry, because we're & running out of time and space and memory to do things. So is Tomb Raider Ill going to be as sprawling and massive as the other games? Richard chuckles. They're so big, and take so long to play through, it's a fair bet that many punters never get anywhere near the end. The Tomb Raider games have always represented great value for money.
But since that's irrelevant we won't dwell on it.
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The PC version will have a 16-bit colour screen instead of a 256, so it'll have all the transparency effects - even without a 3D card.įascinating, but we weren't really listening we'd just realised that Richard's voice sounds exactly like someone we went to college with. We've gone in there and tried to speed everything up, put it in hi-res. Ninety percent of the code's been rewritten and the editor's been overhauled. If we can do a better Tomb Raider game than the last two, and we're a new team, and we've done it in a year. I think it's challenging to try and do something new with Lara.
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scary? After all, the Tomb Raider series is a globally recognised brand.ĭefinitely. Well, a couple of us designed some of the levels for Tomb Raider II to get us into it and up to speed, but everybody else is brand new. What's going on here, Richard? Is everybody on the team a Cnew boy?
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Instead, a room full of unfamiliar codesmiths greets PC as we arrive at Core Design's Derby HQ.īewildered, we turn to a kindly faced man nearest the door, nouveau level designer Richard Morton. God only knows what happened to the old Tomb Raider team, but one thing's for sure: they're not working on Tomb Raider III. It is not a bad game, but it sure as hell is a game that requires a great deal of patience to get through. Some of the jumps need to be nailed perfectly as the controls can be quite imprecise. Some of the puzzles are very hard to solve as the backgrounds make it hard to know where switches are. Even at the time, Tomb Raider was a game that took a great deal of patience to get good at, but this game takes it to a whole new level. I like the idea of this, but the game is frustratingly difficult. The first Tomb Raider game was more about puzzles, the second was more about action and this one here I would say is trying to find a balance between the two. One thing that pretty much everyone will tell you who has played Tomb Raider 3: Adventures of Lara Croft is that this game is brutally difficult. Lara in particular looks notably better as do many of the locations that you will be going to with more finer details. The game looks great, I would say it looks similar to Tomb Raider II, but things are sharper and a bit more detailed. It serves as an excuse for Lara to travel all over the world. That is the basics of the story, in all honesty, the story at this point is probably the weakest of the initial trilogy. The story is kind of strange, Lara Croft hears a story about how millions of years ago a meteorite crashed to earth and that an ancient civilization carved these things out of the meteorites and now she wants them.