Lara Croft and the Very Strange Perspective Shift
Much has been made of the new Tomb Raider game, mostly because it’s not called Tomb Raider at all, but Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light. This is because Eidos and Crystal Dynamics were taking the franchise in a whole new direction, and as this gameplay video premiere shows, they meant it. So now Lara Croft looks like she’s in a real-time strategy game, but it still looks like a platform/action game, just from a high-up third-person perspective. I honestly have no idea how I feel about this, other than it’s certainly a bold, interesting move. I think I prefer the original third-person style — it certainly made you feel like you were exploring whatever world with Lara — but then, I haven’t bought a Tomb Raider game since the PS1, so I doubt Eidos gives a shit what I think.
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Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.