Tomb Raider: Underworld Comments by Ellie Gibson

Tomb Raider : Underwear?

so no bold monsters to kill in tomb raider? what about the giant squit ;)

sounds good.
I hope they have some fun with the achievements
5 points - gratuitous ass shot

Starting the preview with her a** and ending it with it. Way to go Ellie!

Mega mega white thing, mega mega white thing.

Feck-Arse-Girls.....

All sounds great. Never played any TR first time round, (how the feck were you meant to control her in the earlier games) I enjoyed Soul Rever (s) a lot more. I did play and completed Legend, couldn't get on with Anni, however this looks good.

That arse is wonderfull!

I'd buy that for a dollar.......

Noooo another game to buy!

I love the music reference :)
Getting this game definetly!

Shouting Lara, Lara, Lara, Lara.

Is she going back to Romford?
[Going back to Romford]
So many things to see and do...

Glad to hear the QTE are gone. These adrenaline moves sound quite good, a bit like in Beyond Good & Evil.

Looking good, I just hope there is more exploring, less shooting and none of those god awful motorbike sections. By the way anyone who enjoyed the 1st game and haven't played TR:Anniversary yet, do so as it's surprisingly excellent.

@ Arbiter

I suppose it wont help to point out that on first glance I thought your name was Arse-biter

ha ha.. genius sub-heading!

"He was shouting... something about a key and 'You can't shoot straight you big-titted bitch!'"

Another prime example how shallow Brits can be without too much effort.....*sighs*

So much for introducing more female protagonists to appeal to the female demographic. If they can't concentrate on the game for obsessing over their avatar's arse, then why bother? ;)

Why can't she appeal to male and female?

Lara Croft is a strong character, independent and all that goodness. That she has a nice arse should really be secondary to that and suggesting that attractive female characters won't appeal to women is a curious one.

So this sonar-equipped PDA - did they nick it from The Dark Knight or did The Dark Knight nick it from them? ;)

*cough* axle *cough*

Oh dear, Ellie doesn't like the fact that Lara Croft is designed to look like a male fantasy. She's had over a f*cking decade to GET OVER IT. Unprofessional.

Too few pictures of Lara's arse. In fact, the preview would have been the same, but more enjoyable, if it consisted solely of pictures of Lara's arse.

@TheDeadEye

It's pretentious comments like that which are exactly the reason why the world hates Germaine Greer.

MrEd... chill mate. Very funny article.

I do dig arse and legs over tits.


about the game itself, I really don't pay much atention to previews anymore, they're always indulgent.

Have Crystal Dynamics finally got the game engine running at 720p then and without framerate hitches or is it another sub-HD effort? The previous two games on the 360 were so obviously upscaled from 600p, thanks to the horrible blurry text.

big head, tiny arm.

"I do dig arse and legs over tits. "

ahem to that brother ;)

The pert arse is a clever move. How often do you get to see Lara's tits when she's facing forwards most of the time?

It always made her look unbalanced anyway. A bigger arse lowers the centre of gravity so it makes acrobatics easier.

Shouting Lara, Lara, Lara.. That was INGENIOUS! :D

They will have to go a long way to match the arse physics of MGS4.

Brian - What's that?
Tim - Tomb Raider 3
Brian - She's drowning. Is that the point of the game?
Tim - Depends how you're feeling really

@ Azazel '
"He was shouting... something about a key and 'You can't shoot straight you big-titted bitch!'"

Ahahaha.

'What are you doing?'
'I'm drowning her'
'Are you supposed to be doing that?'
'No, but I just had a chat with my ex-girlfriend, and it MADE ME FEEL LIKE KILLING THINGS'

(or something like that)

oh and @ TheDeadeye, lay off the generalisations, kk.

Hope this one is good ^^

I think Ellie knows exactly what she's doing with all the arse-ness.

If the thing that struck her most about the demo was the Lara-arse shoved in your face (no sniggering at the back please) then doesn't it make it worthwhile to point out how much it dominates things and maybe even detracted from the game itself. If this is a first showing and the people running it chose such an obvious point of comment to demo then they know the coverage it will generate. It's calculated and targeted. If that's what gamers are going to be seeing in front of them for large parts of the game then it seems not far off the mark for the review to do the same.

Besides, it was funny anyway and made me chuckle. Unlike some I was able to read the humour AND the facts at the same time without running out of stamina after only two pages.

Maybe another purchase to add to my list.

Ar$e.

Just a big big well done for anti status update on facebook sentiment.

Although it is great when they unintentionally hilarious like "Joanna Smith is looking forward to doing London tonight" all of london? Boys AND girls?

Carpathian, talk more shit please.

If this were truly a British reaction Ellie''d probably have written 'bum' instead.

I know exactly what she means - PN03 on the GameCube had a bum-wiggling protagonist who would roll her hips while firing her guns. It came off as very stylish, but you could help notice just how much the bum defined the character while you were playing it.

Lovely writing!

I cant be arsed.

Resist the arse.

Did anyone get a feeling of 'Zero Punctuation' from this preview?

@butler; Thanks for your input. If you need an adult to explain any long words then I'm sure somebody can help.

@Doctor_What; yep, that's the same sort of thing - when I think of that title it's sadly one of the first things that comes to mind for me as well.

Bollocks to all this real life invading our games! If MGS4 proved anything it's that I like carrying around an unfeasible number of things in my backpack...

I'm a Lara Croft Slave!!!

I WANT THIS GAME!!!! MORE THAN LIFE!!!

Mega mega round things, mega mega round things, shouting, Lara Lara Lara...

"Oh dear, Ellie doesn't like the fact that Lara Croft is designed to look like a male fantasy. She's had over a f*cking decade to GET OVER IT. Unprofessional."

I love the idea that this retard knows what constitutes professionalism.

The arse is a lie!

I've never bought a tomb raider game, but I always read the features. They're never less than hilarious.

am I the only boobie man left in this world? where did this arse fad come from? I guess it is true, repeat something to the mass enough times, it becomes the mainstream.