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New screenshots of the upcoming Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness, including pictures of Lara's new partner Kurtis, have been released. You can find more screenshots and images in our image galleries on the website.

The official website now offers a 'Making of - Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness' trailer.

At the moment it is hard to tell when Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness will hit the stores. Eidos and Core Design keep quiet about it. On eidosinteractive.com you can read "Winter 2002" as release date. It could well take until March.

Other sources keep changing their dates regularly. On amazon.co.uk the date was recently changed from February 14th to March 7th, on amazon.com the date is March 27th.

The story so far...

Tomb Raider Next Generation is planned as a three part adventure that begins in cosmopolitan Paris, where Lara Croft arrives only to be framed for a crime she apparently did not commit, and begins a hasty retreat through the dark Parisian underbelly relentlessly pursued by the authorities while attempting to piece together a puzzle surrounding the conspirators who seek her doom, vehemently led by the unscrupulous Eckhardt.

Weaponless and without a penny to her name, Lara must negotiate her way through the initial segment of her adventure combining a desperate acquisition of apparel and hardware with a search for five 14th century paintings penned by the famous "Obscure Painter".

The architectural majesty of the famous Musée du Louvre in Paris will play host to a spectacular robbery in Part II when Lara Croft actions the theft of the 14th century artworks to further her adventures, drawn deep into the poignant bowels of the catacombs rooted beneath the city where her traditional Tomb Raider skills will be resurrected by a series of mind-bending puzzles and action-packed, death-defying leaps and jumps.

Core Design's second playable character, Kurtis Trent, joins forces with Lara Croft and they both advance their challenge for beneficial resolution with the recovery of the five antique paintings. The surgical-steeled schematics of high-tech industry is sown into the game-play broth as both Lara Croft and Kurtis Trent travel to Prague, Eastern Europe, for the third and final part of their adventure and descend into the monstrous Strahov Complex for a final
showdown with Eckhardt. Here the first episodic adventure of Tomb Raider Next Generation will conclude.

In the upcoming sixth part of the Tomb Raider instalment Lara will have a partner by the name of Kurtis. Further the game will feature role-playing attributes, forcing the player to communicate with other characters. The player even has to take control of Kurtis for a short time during the game.

As the release of Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness in nearing, Core-Design.com and TombRaider.com have a new and promising Lara Croft picture on their sites, but besides that the sites are closed in preparations for the new game.

The title of the upcoming Tomb Raider game, planned to come out on November 15th 2002, will be "Tomb Raider - The Angel of Darkness".

Along with the announcement of the title several screenshots and images were published. Please visit tombraider.com for more.

The first trailer for Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness, the sixth instalment of the series can now be downloaded from TombRaider.com. This trailer shows in-game footage. The first gameplay trailer is announced for June. Further you can find new screenshots on the official website.

The Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness video game will be released on PlayStation 2 and PC by Eidos Interactive in November. Fans of the world's most famous cyber-babe have something to get really excited about - she can now be seen in 100 times more detail! The new Lara is made up of over 5,000 polygons as opposed to just 500 in previous games.

In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, Lara is both the hunter and the hunted. As a result she will have to show a new, darker side to herself and has to travel to some nightmarish places. She will also find herself in situations where choices are no longer obvious as the traditional demarcations of good and evil become blurred and the game takes on a new moral dimension. Lara will face more evolved characters and situations and must traverse an intricately detailed world which takes her from the back streets of Paris to darkest Prague in her struggle to clear her name and get revenge on her former mentor's killers.

According to rumours the release of the upcoming Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness will be delayed until February 2003.

The official Eidos website has not changed the date yet and is still promoting November as release date.

The delay of the release date for Tomb Raider The Angel has been officially confirmed. The date has been set to February 2003 on the official Eidos website.

15.01.2003
New details for the sixth game Tomb Raider The Angel of Darkness have been revealed. Jeremy Heath-Smith of Core Design stated that with The Angel of Darkness they are trying to create something different from the previous games to meet demands for an edgier character and a darker world. The controls have been slightly altered and the use of an action button for climbing on ladders and such is no longer there. One of the new gameplay elements is stealth: Lara is now able to sneak up to enemies and finish them silently from behind. She will also be able to free climb on rock surfaces where she finds handholds. Another new feature are the power-ups. Lara will be unable to do certain things (climbing a certain length or running in a door), unless she has the power to do so. There will be other tasks she has to do first to get a so called power-up. There are two types of power-ups, upper and lower body. The settings within the game will include the city of Prague in winter, catacombs underneath Paris and a Bio Dome facility.


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