It’s been announced for a while now, but Crystal Dynamics recently formalized that he had just started the development of a new video game tomb Raiderwhich will run under theUnreal Engine 5 ofEpic Games. And on the occasion of BAFTA Games Awards 2022the screenwriter of the previous installments Rhianna Pratchett quickly spoke with Eurogamer.
Rhianna Pratchett will not participate in the writing of the script for this next one tomb Raider, but she admits to being “very impatient to see what they will do with Lara”. And especially, she would like the adventurer to have fewer problems with her father. Richard Croft indeed died while looking for a mysterious artifact, at the center of the first two parts of the trilogy reboot. The opportunity to grow Laurabut Rhianna Pratchett would now like her to move on, and add:
I like to see her manage on her own and really enjoy what she does. Because, when we wrote the reboot game, she was really about to become a grave robber. So she was like a proto-Tomb Raider. And all the traits you associate with Tomb Raider like tenacity, bravery, and resourcefulness kind of came to the surface with it.
I want to see this full realization, I want to see the sassy lines and things that I wish I had written. But, you know, she wasn’t there yet, she didn’t have the confidence yet.
I think the trilogy has gone over very well with fans, so it’s going to be exciting to see what they do next.
Now that Lara Croft is a true warrior and adventurer, Rhianna Pratchett would therefore like her to live her own adventure, far from her father. The screenwriter quips, “and it comes from me! “, because even if Rhianna has an impressive career in video games (Overlord, Mirror’s Edge, Prince of Persia, Thief), she does not forget that she is the daughter of Terry Pratchett, famous author of the novels of Discworld.
In any case, we will have to wait a long time before discovering the pitch and then the complete story of this next game. tomb Raider developped by Crystal Dynamics. You can find Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition to €19.99 at Gamesplanet.
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