Lara Croft loves a good crossover. She's in Fortnite, but then every character on Earth is in Fortnite too, so I'm not sure that counts for much. I think I might even be in Fortnite these days. While a lot of characters lay claim to Fortnite as their one big cameo, Lara has more crossovers🔜 than David Beckham - fun fact, that joke was relevant 25 years ago when Lara made her debut, and it's still relevant now. Shut up, yes it is.
Lara Croft has crossed over with, amongst others: Hitman, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy, Gex, Witchblade, Fear Effect, The Darkness (the comic book characters, not the band), Kane & Lynch, Legacy of Kain, Championship Manager (yes, really), Rainbow Six Siege, Brawlhalla, Thief, Gh✤ost Recon: Breakpoint, Whiplash, and Deus Ex. This isn't even all of them, and doesn't begin to account for all the unofficial crossovers where games, movies, TV shows, and comics where Lara is heavily referenced. Think of them as the Expl✱orer With Twin Pistols And Braid Halloween Costumes of crossovers.
With such a rich history of appearing here, there, and everywhere, I asked a few of the most influential names in 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Tomb Raider's history which ga🌳me would make the best home for a future Lara Croft crossover. A Croftover, if you will.
"Any universe where there are secrets to unravel or mysteries to solve is a place where Lara would feel at home," Will Kerslake, one of the game directors at Crystal Dynamics tells me. "There is just an inherent playful joy for her in discovery." Since that's not a specific answer, I'm taking that as direct confirmation that Lara Croft will be in the next 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Mass Effect game. You heard it here first, folks.
Dallas Dickinson, executive producer and current overseer of all things Tomb Raider, focused on the crossovers Lara is already in. "Tough one. She’d probably be more comfortable in more grounded worlds like Ghost Recon while cartoony worlds with cartoon physics, like Brawlhalla, would be a bit weird. That said, since she’s Lara she would likely do well in anyꦯ of the crossover worlds she has appeared in." Bringing experience to Tomb Raider from Star Wars, Dickinson🍸 also reckons Lara and Leia would be good pals.
Gavin Rummery, who worked on the original two Tomb Raider games, understandably opts to focus on the series that were directly inspired by Tomb Raider. "I think she’d enjoy hanging out with Aloy and digging into the mystery of the Horizon world, but struggle with Nathan Drake because they’d be competing for control," he tells 🍬me.
Meanwhile, given that Lara Croft had fairly humble beginnings, it’s no surpr🧸ise that her original co-creator Paul Douglas wants to seꦕe her pay it forward. “It would be cool to see her promoting or crossed over into a new property from an unknown developer,” he says. “A game that could do with the exposure. That would be adventurous.”
Jeff Wajcs, senior designer at Crystal Dynamics with experience across five different Lara Croft games, offers his take too. "I can see Lara right at home in a sci-fi universe like that of Halo or Mass Effect where there are ancient threats for her to investigate and overcome, like the Forerunners or Reapers," he said, offering vilification and complete and utter confirmation that Lara Croft is definitely, absolutely, 100 percent appearing in the next Mass Effect. "A world like that of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dark Souls sprang to mind, and I do think that Lara would thrive there with her bow, but I don’t think she’d be very happy with the world already destroyed and nobody sane left to talk to. It’s hard to come up with a gaming world where she would truly struggle. Perhaps something like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Animal Crossing, where she’d be bored to tears!”
Personally I’m still disappointed she wasn’t in Sཧmash. Maybe the next Tekken or Street Fighter or… something. I just want to be Lara and punch people in the face to be honest.
