Eidos reveals E3 line-up

By Ellie Gibson Published 29 April, 2005

Tomb Raider, Hitman, Commandos, Generic Urban Gangbanger #387. And more announcements to come?

UK publisher Eidos has confirmed four key titles going on show at this year's E3, hinting that there could be more announcements to follow.

The titles are Tomb Raider: Legend, Hitman: Blood Money, Commandos Strike Force and 25 to Life. All are in development for PC, PS2 and Xbox.

When asked if that was the full and final line-up, an Eidos representative replied, "That's all the games being announced at the moment" - suggesting that more will be added to the list in the future. New instalments in the Deus Ex, Thief and Freedom Fighters series have previously been rumoured.

Eidos puts Tomb Raider: Legend at the top of the bill, promising that Lara's latest adventure is "grounded in the series' roots" and will offer a challenge for the most hardened of action adventure fans. More details and screens are available via this page.

Next up is Agent 47's new outing, which sees him caught in the middle of a war between two contract agencies and rolling in cash. Click here for more Hitman: Blood Money details and here for screenshots.

25 to Life is Eidos' contribution to the growing mountain of urban gangster warfare games, but it does stand out with the option of online play for up to 16 opponents and the choice of whether you join the crims or the po-po. Screenshots are here, and there's also a trailer.

And finally Commandos Strike Force puts you in the shoes of a green beret, sniper and spy during World War II, and uses a first-person perspective for the first time in the series. Click here for more.

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About Ellie Gibson

Since joining Eurogamer in the mid 2000s, Ellie has written about subjects as diverse as the fall of Gizmondo, the rise of Hollyoaks actresses in Red Alert games and the noise a bear makes under NSFW circumstances.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 7 years ago

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  • Blerk #1 7 years ago

    Well, I'll be looking forward to having a butchers at Tomb Raider. The rest will have to work harder for my attention.

  • Sid-Nice #2 7 years ago

    If Blood Money was a remake of the old Psygnosis game, then I might be interested. BTW is it?

    Edit: Hitman: Blood Money. No thanks.
    Edited by Sid-Nice at 29/04/05 @ 14:07

  • MikeD #3 7 years ago

    How they going to do deus ex without ion storm?

    Badly :-)

    I doubt wether they'll do another deus ex, though.

    Hopefully the new hitman is a return to form. it's been gradually been getting less interesting.

  • oerhoert #4 7 years ago

    Yeah, sceptical about what they could to to Thief and Deus Ex franchises. The latest chapters of each weren't perfect, but at least they were honest attempts, games that understood parts of what made the originals so beautiful.

    Hitman: Blood Money is more or less guaranteed to be good though, what is it that people didn't like about Contracts? All three are exceptional in my book, even as the last one wasn't a big step engine-wise, it was gritty and nice in a way almost no other games are. And the music's phenomenal.

    And that new Commandos title could be exciting.
    Edited by oerhoert at 29/04/05 @ 14:07

  • MikeD #5 7 years ago

    My name is tone and I am in no way affiliated with Eidos!

  • Thamuhacha #6 7 years ago

    >My name is tone and I am in no way affiliated with Eidos!

    Eidos bashing again Mike? :-)

  • MikeD #7 7 years ago

    Eidos bashing again Mike? :-)

    I have never bashed eidos. I bash each game seperately, thank you veyr much. :-).

    I was just making fun of tone here, who sounds like he is in marketing.

    Tone, nonentity? That'll be you soon once EG no longe rallowes unregistered posters.

  • Thamuhacha #8 7 years ago

    Yeah, and Tone isn't as funny as Abner Cadaver. Who is my new comedy hero.

  • MikeD #9 7 years ago

    Oooh, pointing someones spelling/grammar mistakes out on the internet. big man. Not everyone here is a native English speaker you know.

    Seriously, if you can't take an innocent dig you are pretty pathetic.

  • Thamuhacha #10 7 years ago

    No. I was wrong. Tone IS as funny as Abner.

    EG has attracted quite a few wierdoes recently

  • MikeD #11 7 years ago

    Nah, my vote still goes to Abner.

  • tengu #12 7 years ago

    You really shouldn't, but you should register, tone. Your ability to insult others for no good reason would ensure you fit in around here perfectly. So come on and sign up already!

  • MikeD #13 7 years ago

    Why wouldn't they impress me? They look alright. Closer to the original Tomb Raider which is good.

    Though maybe you can use your contacts with eidos to tell me why they are called hdtv movies when they are in such low resolution?

  • sam_spade #14 7 years ago

    IT'S GOT M()T()RB1K3S!

  • MikeD #15 7 years ago

    Your link doesn't work for me, tone.

    Anyway, Quirky is exactly the opposite of what I look for in a Hitman game. I like a serious atmosphere where you are a real hitman. Sure there was a Scarface imitation in 1 and a sumo wrestle bodyguard. But mostly they were normal people and believable environments.

    And exactly because they have been moving away from that (afghanistan bases, antarctic bases, warez leaders with crisps pakctes on teh floor, big fat meat plant criminals) the game lost it's adult edge and became too quirky. The realism was gone. (not just in characters but also in diana seeing everything you see, for example)

  • MikeD #16 7 years ago

    Well apparently in blood money the opera house mission is to take out a paedophile opera singer. I think that's about as gritty as you can get.

    That might have been gritty if you were in his torture basement and young children would be strapped up there. He could be singing 'dies bildnis is bezaubernd schon' while ramming it up an 8 year old boy. that would be gritty. That would be vulgar.

    Now it's just an excuse to kill the guy. Which is exactly what hitman doesn't/shouldn't need. He should only care about money, his anonymity and making as clean a hit as possible. Not that he is ridding the world of evil. Leave that for soldier of fortune and halflife. This is hitman.

  • The Old Bill #17 7 years ago

    Abner is Vermin, you do know that?

  • _mario #18 7 years ago

    You guys bring up alot of good points about the merits (or lackthereof) of Hitman's missions. I'd have to agree that Agent 47 has become more and more of a superhero than a true to form hitman, especially in Hitman 2.

    Also, my biggest pet peeve of the entire blasted series; why do I need to have played the mission in order to complete it successfully? So I want to take out the mob boss quietly, so I need to get to the driver... So I have to lose on purpose on my first playthrough of the level, so that I can monitor the behavior of the driver when he leaves the car... Then I play a 2nd time... Oops! Turns out you can't kill the driver for some reason! 3rd playthrough... ad nauseum. They need to find a way for people to be able to complete the map without having to play it 4 times to figure out how it works.

    "Not that it matters anyway. Eidos have lost, along with most of their money, the core staff who made the Glacier engine and made the first game."

    Thats completely false. The Hitman series has always been made, and is currently being made by the same exact company, IO Interactive.

  • MikeD #19 7 years ago

    Undoubtedly their new more intelligent clientele is exemplified by you. A half-wit who can't normally reply to people without insulting them.

    Eidos is being bought out because they couldn't compete. This isn't something beautiful, it's failure, pure and simple.

    The fact that you think 'quirky' moronic looking characters/stereotypes, that would fit more in GTA: vice city, will make for a better script and more interesting scenario's shows how clueless you are. More realistic, believable scenarios and a story which requires some thought. That would be catering for a more intelligent clientele. Like the first game did.

    This is being catered to 10-14 year old urban generation gamers. Who can't recognise a criminal unless he has a stupid looking, uber-evil grin on their faces and some kind of disfigurement.

    Eidos should have taken the ubisoft offer. Tom Clancy stories may not be high brow. But it's a whole lot better than this game seems to be offering.

    edit: well, I seem to be saying the same as pedro(though he said it better). And he beat me to it.
    Edited by MikeD at 30/04/05 @ 17:43

  • MikeD #20 7 years ago

    You're the first rich person I have seen who comes to gaming sites to defend games and insult people.
    If I may wager a guess, you are Tom Cruise? His new girlfriend is Katie Holmes and she won't have sex before marriage. So Tom-Tom has plenty of time to surf on the internet and a bunch of frustration to work out.

    Loved you in the last Samurai!

  • slyone #21 7 years ago

    This is the funniest message board I've visited in a while. I don't know who 'tone' is but come the revolution... Thanks chaps you've given me a chuckle on a bleak post bank holiday afternoon.