Only a few months until the new Tomb Raider hits! You know, the game everyone thought looked super rad until the game’s “let’s beat up on and maybe rape the pretty lady” theme was revealed at this year’s E3, and everyone got mad and/or uncomfortable. Haven’t heard or seen much of the game since then!
Well, it’s now or never time for promoting the game, so the makers of Tomb Raider have released the first of what will eventually be several “Guide to Survival” videos. The video details some of Tomb Raider’s mechanics, while making sure to emphasize that Lara Croft is smart, and resourceful and an independent lady who totally isn’t going to get raped, okay? She still moans a lot in the video, but now they’re mostly “I’m exerting myself destroying something or murdering somebody” moans. You know, the good kind. I guess?
Hit the jump for the video…
Scanning for controversy, scanning for controversy. Uhhh, I’m not sure I like what’s going on with that wolf at the beginning. You heard it here first — interspecies rape in the new Tomb Raider! You better credit us Jezebel.
via Digital Spy
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Wow. I am now sold on this game.
That video says it all.
I haven’t played Tomb Raider since I was in middle school. It really fell off for me. But I love Laura’s character and I’m liking the new environment that they’re putting her in. And I can tell it’s going to be a game of puzzles as much as adventure which is why I love Zelda, one of my favorite games to play.
And really – when has she not been moaning?
Laura and her crew set off on what was supposed to be an adventure of a lifetime but instead are shipwrecked and forced to go on a uh ….. adventure of a lifetime?
Adult themes in video games? No thank you. If there is implied rape in this game, it will surely lead me to imply rape a Lara Croft at the next E3
Now you’re thinking like Fox News wants you to!
Tomb Creed 4: Drake’s Cinematic Island. Coming to a QTE near you!
I am pretty sure that wolf at 0:25 was trying to rape her.
Climbing axe as a weapon? More like “social climbing axe!” #britishchicksamirite
I’ll really love it if they manage to convey the sense of growing from barely surviving to unstoppable badass. And this is a full reboot, right? Not in the Legend/Anniversary/Underworld continuity?