News: Revamped Lara Croft and new direction. And juicy pictures!!!

I'm sure y'all have had enough of reviews from me for awhile, so here's a bit of news nearly hot off the press (5 days old). It appears Crystal Dynamics are now taking Lara Croft in an entirely new direction.

Whilst I thoroughly enjoyed Underworld in its return to Lara Croft gaming of old, Crystal Dynamics understandably have to compete with many other titles in this next-gen era we live in. So the new Tomb Raider will be an open-world affair, in which a "younger" and "more human" Lara Croft is stranded on a mysterious island and have to survive attacks from strange monsters, engage in melee combat, and do what she does best... which is mind-blowing acrobatics over large crevices and pits and swinging from ravines and climbing up impossibly flat cliff faces and... well, you get the picture.

Essentially, this next game will be a reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise in which you watch the transformation of Lara Croft into the hardcore, gun-toting, animal-loving adventurer that she is today. And the best part?

She uses a bow. Yum yum.

And here's a picture for you to ... er.. get:

She looks like the Rhona Mitra version of Lara Croft. The BEST version of Lara Croft might I add.

And here's another 'un for you good folk:


If you're interested in more on this news, read here and here.