While Lara’s adventure seemed to do well enough abroad, it’s in America that she faced her greatest challenge, competing against the likes of Call of Duty: World at War and Prince of Persia for the male gamer’s gaming dollar. Look at how Batman changed succesfully, from the rather sad character of the Michael Keaton era to the noir style of The Dark Knight.” Robert Brent, the chief financial officer of Eidos, said: “We need to look at everything, as we develop the next game. Now, it seems that following the underwhelming sales of Underworlds, Eidos wishes to take her back to her roots, and give her a more “female-friendly” makeover, according to a story in The Times Online. However, when taken from his hands, outfits became more revealing and it seemed evident that Eidos knew what they had on their hands. Rather, her original designer, Toby Gard, found such portrayals to be detrimental to her character, who was meant to be intelligent and athletic, tough as nails and determined. One might argue that Lara was never exactly meant to draw in a female audience, though she wasn’t originally created to be a sex symbol. The first item of news here is that Lara seems due for a makeover, at least according to her bosses. Or so scandalous, but I guess that’s Eidos and those wacky Brits for you. Last week, we reported that Tomb Raider: Underworld didn’t perform to spec for Eidos, and then speculated that this could lead to some change in the series’ dynamic… Crystal Dynamics, that is.īut we had no idea that the changes would come so soon, or be so sweeping.
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