TOMB RAIDER: Lara Croft Is Ready To Embrace Her Destiny In This Action-Packed New Trailer

@Ixconkid -

"the game was critically acclaimed"

The last two games were amazing.

"YET again, appealing to feminist , going lighter and being so cheesy... "

Okay now you've lost me.

Light and cheesy feminisim? People getting shot with arrows, guns, and axed in the heart is going soft?

Let's be clear, we don't know how violent the film will be but they can't show graphic violence in a standard trailer. This isn't going to be a Tarantino film, that's clear and you'd be a fool to expect that, but that trailer definitely doesn't make the film look like it's a G-rated romp at all.

Trying to stretch this into a "feminist issue" is just plain ridiculous. Lara Craft is a woman, always has been, and this depiction of her isn't any different from the game. If you want to criticize elements you wish were there, that's fine, but quit turning everything into "girls ruined my childhood" it's embarrassing for others who also value those same things.

The best elements of the Tomb Raider game series were never about how awesome someone's head exploded or body was torn apart.

It was much bigger than basic violence porn.

@Ixconkid -

No, not everyone loved the changes.
As I recall many complained about the "less sexualized" Lara redesign and argued that feminism (there's that dreaded word again!) had ruined the character and games. You must have seen all of that, right?

I personally loved the dark gritty reboot but that game wasn't created in a vacuum it came with a history. The original game was a major success, having sold 7 million copies worldwide and it wasn't nearly as dark and gritty as the reboot. It's on the list of the best video games ever made.

The new reboot games were successful on the backs of the previous games. Don't forget that.

People didn't play the original games for darkness and grit they played it for the action, puzzle solving, mystery, plotting and adventure. I don't know your age, but I notice a lot of the next-gen gamers seem to think that darkness and grit means depth and it doesn't. If used right it can (The Dark Knight) but it's not guaranteed to work (Batman V Superman) on it's own.

What worked for Tomb Raider were the elements I mentioned. Removed the superficial darkness and grit and the games would still shine.

"And they are appealing to feminist it was clearly there just by using that song and using the whole she’s the only one whose smart enough and can save the world plot line AGAIN!"

Here you contradict yourself. You declare that you want a survival horror film but complain when it uses a song entitled "Survivor" which has a chorus that fits the tone of not only the trailer but the 2013 reboot.

If you've played ANY of the previous games you'll know that it's never been a secret that Lara...wait for it...HAS ALWAYS BEEN THE SMART ONE THAT SAVES THE WORLD...like in every game she stops secret cabals and supernatural forces. How on earth is that appealing to feminism when the games were embraced and beloved by millions of male gamers too?

I respect you're views, even if they feel a bit biased, unusually gender-focused and slightly melodramatic.

Just relax.
We don't need to complain about everything.

Thanks.

@Christuffer - Agreed. And it looked really fake in those scenes

@Kadara - LOL. THAT TOO!

@BlindWedjat - It was certainly many times better than the first trailer. They should have released this instead of that one.