Now that she's "survived" and proven herself, I hope the sequel focuses more on raiding tombs and solving crazy puzzles while still busssin' heads when people get in the way.

Surviving is a good idea when it is not synonymous with "shooting dudes in the face".

@larrydavis: I keep hearing that her run on Birds of Prey was good, but Batgirl has been so actively terrible that there's not a chance in hell I ever want to take part in anything she writes, past or future. Her legion of tumblr fans certainly doesn't help things either.

Fantastic, the reboot was great.

Well, of course. This is a blockbuster franchise. How is this news?

Well, Suicide Squad was ok in a 'this seems like one of those Joss Whedon shows' kind of way, and she does have a sizeable following, so to have her as a bullet point when they're just going to be giving her editorial mandates about what needs to happen anyway, it's probably a smart move. Especially after the pre-release conversations the last time around.

edit: she's just writing the comic series bridgin the two games anyway. Which might be a trial run for hiring her, but anyway. No need to panic.

Great game, it deserves another shot!

I agree, and while I'd prefer the latter route, it's much more likely that they're going to build on from its action-heavy and bombastic beginnings. As such I'd prefer they then add in some personality, instead of toiling over all of this gritty doom and gloom. Or at the very least don't force Lara through a series of hardships in the cutscenes, only to contrast that with stuff like regenerating health and earning ''XP'' for skinning animals.

Though since her origin 'story' is past us, hopefully that means she'll be a lot more comfortable in kicking ass and blasting fools with her dual-pistols in the sequel. More tombs to raid would be nice, too.

Will this one be declared a financial failure too when it doesn't sell eleventy million copies?

I don't like that he felt the need to apologize for incoming business models, just hire a better animator and we're golden.

Just beat Tomb Raider, this makes me pretty happy.

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Ah, okay, good to know then. Thanks!

@kkotd: The graphics card thing is cross-promotion which most likely gives Square free marketing for products. Similar to the way you see Iron Man on Dr. Pepper cans and Taco Bell commercials.

And having pre-order incentives on their own site doesn't equate to losing money. If they were to give you 10 dollar for a purchase of the next Square game on their site they're essentially making the price equivalent to what they would be selling at retail (or around the price I suspect they'd be making at retail after retail's 10-20% cut).

Saw it everywhere? I never saw a single ad apart from the first E3 trailer and that Conan Clueless Gamer. That's anecdotal, but so is your view of it. It's a case of them needing to find better ways of marketing their product, not necessarily less of it.

Excellent I really enjoyed playing Tomb Raider earlier this year and would like to see a continuation of this TR universe.

Yay. Stoked for this!

Great although a can wait a few years... Mass Effect next please... take your time though Bio-Ware.

What does "next-gen" mean? It will only work with the next cycle of graphics cards or something?

Look forward to the next generation of hair-tech.....

@gunslingerpanda Is that a joke I don't get? It means it's for PS4 and XboxOne

I loved tomb raider, so im super game for this!

Hopefully this one will be a prequel to the prequel telling me the story about how she became so skilled at everything, and i mean everything. Hopefully somewhere along the way there might be story, i dont know, we have to see if that part fits in somewhere.

Hopefully now we've gone through the survival phase, we can can get into the 'raiding tombs and shooting wolves in the face' phase.

More focus on stealth, less on killing a million dudes. More focus on survival, more focus on tombs... then I am in. Tomb Raider was alright, but imo the "kill every guy in sight"-mechanics of modern gaming is becoming tiresome. I want alternatives, I want tension in my games and just shooting everyone doesn't provide that tension.

Hence the quotation marks, implying irony.

Going through Tomb Raider at the moment and my only knocks against it are the QTE's and the locked FoV.

Lotta fun otherwise.

And those DLC skins for Lara are actually kind of worth it, esp. at the Summer Sale price.

Hope TressFX 2.0 is in it.

Actually I don't think this helps. The last TR games was far too spiritually distant from teh souce than I woudl have liked. I think a bit of time, a new studio, and even a whole new mindset is what is needed. Hey, it okay if you like that game, but I (just talking about me here) think Crystal D will just double down on their poor choicies, and that is not what I want at all.

Liked the reboot alot. Not my GOTY but I really liked it. I'm down for a next-gen sequel. Just remove multiplayer altogether please.

Awesome! I really enjoyed Tomb Raider so I'm happy it's getting a sequel.

@yummylee: Well woulnd't it just be a clone at that point? I'm playing through it at the moment and i really like the tone. I think it's a really great setup for the evolution of Lara :)

Awesome, now hopefully Square Enix won't have their sales expectations like 20 million in the first month

Glad to hear this. I really enjoyed the game and was worried from all the talk about Square Enix calling it a "failure."

Yay! More tombs, less killin', please!

Well, that is fantastic news. Tomb Raider is one of the few games I've played that has come out this year, and it's already my game of the year so far. The story was dark, and great. Lara herself was a surprisingly badass character yet endearing at the same time. And, the graphics were beautiful, too. My only complaint was the Quick-Time Events (Or QTE). They were really frustrating, and tested my resolve to continue playing the game.

But overall, I am so looking forward to a sequel to Tomb Raider. I was on the fence about buying an X-Box One, but I'm on board now.

I was hoping with all of the big level executive changes going on at Square that hopefully they would cut back on some of their lamer business practices, one of which is announcing all of their games way too early. Guess not.

this is good news. I purchased Tomb Raider recently and was immediately struck by how much care and attention they put into the game. While I haven't finished the game and in fact find a lot to dislike with the combat, if they can learn from some of the low points of the current game I have no doubt they can make something special on their next one.

More adventuring and less getting blown up or burned up! That simple. Thanks!

I should really get around to playing the "first" one.

This. TR sold well and was an awesome game. Square-Enix just wanted it to sell an unreasonable amount because THEY suck. So I'm really glad their suckage didn't stop them from making a TR sequel.

Love the new LC

I hope they make a better sequel. The last game was all Michael bay explosions , constant action ,constant enemies that wouldn't stop pooping up:P. Less enemies would made the game better , pace the break times of the action ,more exploring and discovering. Tomb Raider should have been more like The Last Of Us , that game has a perfect balance when it comes to action and exploring. Constant shooting tires me out , and then I put the game down, that's how I roll.

I hope it's harder. The upgrades and enemy placements made the shootouts too quick and easy. I would prefer if they removed the upgrades for most weapons, to let you pick up any weapon during combat. The arrows need to be more easily noticed and it would be nice if the survival elements weren't as shallow. There should be a bigger incentive for exploration than main menu extras and game completion. Lastly, I hope setpieces are used more sparingly and realistically. They felt overly staged.

Now I just need to get the first one... well I'm betting this will be on PC... and Steam will throw in the first one as a preorder bonus. So it will work out nice for me... in a year or so.

Glad this is getting a sequel, was worried the rebooted franchise was going to get canned after Tomb Raider didn't sell enough.

YAY!

Great game, it deserved a sequel.

I just want a decent Tome Raider game to come out...

Kind of surprised to see this after Square's earlier comments. Really pleased though, would have been a bummer to just ditch it all after setting everything up like that.

This is great news!

The reboot is the only Tomb Raider game I actually finished and I really enjoyed it (As opposed to just muttering "fuck it" and never coming back when I got stuck on the olde games) glad it's getting a sequel.

Promising start, but I'm hoping for fewer enemies, fewer WW2 links, better environments, more historical architecture and more puzzles and platforming.

I haven't played the first one yet! Is it worth playing?