Lara Croft seems to be struggling to mark her return on video game consoles as her upcoming prequel has been pushed back to between, “Fall 2012 to the first quarter of 2013”.
Lara Croft is one of console gaming’s earliest icons since she burst onto the scene with her dual pistols and short shorts all those years ago. She was perhaps the first real Indiana Jones of the video game industry and garnered a huge fan following.
Even Hollywood could not deny the fact that Tomb Raider appealed to a massive number of gamers and even made two blockbuster films inspired by the video games. Although their casting of Angelina Jolie as the film’s protagonist was met with mixed reviews,
it signified real star power being associated with that particular type of project.
However, since then the series has gone underground, and the series has had only one of two mini-games launched under the same banner. All that seemed to change though when Eidos revealed the grittier, longer shorted version of Lara at E3 last year.
The trailer showed off the reboot of the Lara Croft series and would take gamers on a journey to explore her origins and just how she became the globetrotting adventurer that she did.
It turns out though that gamers will have to wait longer than they originally expected until they can get their hands on the Tomb Raider reboot, as Darrell Gallagher, the Head of Crystal Dynamics, posted on the publisher’s official forum that the game had
been delayed.
His post read, "Our priority now is to make sure we fully deliver the very highest quality game. In order to do this, we have decided to move the game's release date by a few months, from Fall 2012 to the first quarter of 2013.”
Gallagher also explained that the studio was taking the franchise in a completely new direction and that presented its own problems which the studio was trying to get back on top of when he said, "We're doing things that are completely new to Tomb Raider
in this game and the additional development time will allow us to put the finishing touches into the game and polish it to a level that you deserve."
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