Tomb Raider will proceed. This might be not the most important shock, however the developer and writer is: Amazon is devoted to the subsequent journey of Lara Croft.
The firm confirmed this in a press launch. It states that Amazon is working along with Crystal Dynamics on a brand new Tomb Raider game. This consists of each improvement and worldwide distribution.
Tomb Raider: first scraps of information concerning the new game
There is not a lot information on the deliberate new Tomb Raider for the time being. Nevertheless, Amazon mentions a couple of first particulars within the press launch, however they nonetheless scratch the floor. On the one hand, the subsequent Tomb Raider will likely be based mostly on the Unreal Engine 5 and however, it will likely be the “largest and most in depth” game of the sequence thus far.
In addition, it’s mentioned that Tomb Raider will proceed to be a single-player narrative journey, additionally sustaining the basic gameplay components of the sequence. As a participant, subsequently, you will as soon as once more take management of Lara Croft in an “setting that requires exploration and artistic pathfinding, with tough puzzles to unravel and a wide range of enemies to defeat.”
Further particulars can’t and won’t be revealed on the present time. The motive for that is fairly easy: The improvement remains to be on the very starting, which is why there’s at present no identify for the subsequent game.
Amazon Games as an alternative of Embracer
The announcement that Amazon Games is taking up publishing and even taking part in improvement is sort of stunning. After all, the Embracer Group solely purchased Crystal Dynamics, Eidos Montreal and Square Enix Montreal together with Tomb Raider, Deus Ex and Legacy of Kain for 285 million euros in May 2022.
Fans have subsequently assumed that the subsequent Tomb Raider will thus even be created below the management of the brand new writer. Apparently, nonetheless, this isn’t the case. The improvement can also be new for Amazon, as a result of thus far the publishing arm of the mail-order big has concentrated totally on massive multiplayer games with New World and Lost Ark.