Eidos Reveals Lara’s New Arch-Enemy
Meet Amanda Evert – mardy, evil, confused hippy.
Following on from our earlier news about Driver: Parallel Lines, we have some more news on yet another once great videogame franchise in dire need of some sullied reputation restoration – the one and only Tomb Raider.
Eidos Interactive’s once vaunted series was pretty much ruined by 2003’s shockingly poor Angel of Darkness, so the firm has more than high hopes for the forthcoming Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend. This is a make or break title for their flagship series, and it has just announced details on Lara’s one time friend (now nemesis) the crazed hippy anthropologist, Amanda Evert.
SPOnG has just been sent a few details on this interesting new character pictured here. Check out the extensive tats, bleached blond hair and worrying signs of anorexia. Most right-thinking men would clearly avoid this girl in a nightclub, no matter how blurred the beer-goggles were! SPOnG has conducted a quick survey around the office and she has been awarded a below average four, in comparison with the new Lara, who is a solid nine. Amanda only managed to scrape a four because she looks a bit dirty.
Lara had last seen Evert, so the somewhat convoluted storyline goes, when the two were battling some kind of malevolent entity whilst excavating a Peruvian tomb that Lara believed contained the last queen of Tiwanaku. All in a day’s work for Ms Croft. As far as Lara knew, she was the only one to escape from the disastrous mission. Amanda, meanwhile, had set off a trap that sealed the room she was in, brought down the roof, and was considered drowned.
Well, apparently not, as Amanda turns up again, but this time she is far from Lara’s friend and innocent graduate student. It seems that her somewhat misguided beliefs and ideas, which she and Lara used to joke about, have developed into something much darker.
Amanda used to be, according to her biog:
So, in other words, she was a mental hippy with a clear disregard for rigorous scientific methods - the exact opposite of her older, more intelligent and accomplished mentor Lara. And it now seems that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants, even if it means bumping off her more attractive, wiser teacher.
SPOnG will bring you further information on Tomb Raider: Legend as we get it. The game is out on PC, PS2 and Xbox on April 11, with PSP and Xbox 360 versions to follow. Check out the latest Quicktime trailer (2.3MB) featuring this embittered ex-hippy witch right here on SPOnG.
Eidos Interactive’s once vaunted series was pretty much ruined by 2003’s shockingly poor Angel of Darkness, so the firm has more than high hopes for the forthcoming Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend. This is a make or break title for their flagship series, and it has just announced details on Lara’s one time friend (now nemesis) the crazed hippy anthropologist, Amanda Evert.
SPOnG has just been sent a few details on this interesting new character pictured here. Check out the extensive tats, bleached blond hair and worrying signs of anorexia. Most right-thinking men would clearly avoid this girl in a nightclub, no matter how blurred the beer-goggles were! SPOnG has conducted a quick survey around the office and she has been awarded a below average four, in comparison with the new Lara, who is a solid nine. Amanda only managed to scrape a four because she looks a bit dirty.
Lara had last seen Evert, so the somewhat convoluted storyline goes, when the two were battling some kind of malevolent entity whilst excavating a Peruvian tomb that Lara believed contained the last queen of Tiwanaku. All in a day’s work for Ms Croft. As far as Lara knew, she was the only one to escape from the disastrous mission. Amanda, meanwhile, had set off a trap that sealed the room she was in, brought down the roof, and was considered drowned.
Well, apparently not, as Amanda turns up again, but this time she is far from Lara’s friend and innocent graduate student. It seems that her somewhat misguided beliefs and ideas, which she and Lara used to joke about, have developed into something much darker.
Amanda used to be, according to her biog:
An intense chronicler of the metaphysical. She believed wholeheartedly that the common notion of reality is nothing but a thin, drab layer pulled over the infinite truth of the soul. She studied every religious and mystical system in the world, past and present, and while still at university was already something of an expert on theology and mysticism. She had a pet theory that fragments of a single, long forgotten mystical belief system exist within the rites and rituals of shamanism, witchcraft and many religions. Her dream was to rediscover this supreme knowledge from the past and teach it to people so they could gain spiritual enlightenment.
So, in other words, she was a mental hippy with a clear disregard for rigorous scientific methods - the exact opposite of her older, more intelligent and accomplished mentor Lara. And it now seems that she will stop at nothing to get what she wants, even if it means bumping off her more attractive, wiser teacher.
SPOnG will bring you further information on Tomb Raider: Legend as we get it. The game is out on PC, PS2 and Xbox on April 11, with PSP and Xbox 360 versions to follow. Check out the latest Quicktime trailer (2.3MB) featuring this embittered ex-hippy witch right here on SPOnG.
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majin dboy 6 Mar 2006 14:15
1/6
how original
LUPOS 6 Mar 2006 15:34
2/6
Kudos to her for maintaining such top notch cleavage in the face of anorexic adversity!
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SPInGSPOnG 7 Mar 2006 08:43
3/6
Mmmmmm. Tall!
Radiant 7 Mar 2006 12:07
4/6
She has a tatoo over her punnani.
That's a video game first right there.
That's a video game first right there.
schnide 7 Mar 2006 14:42
5/6
Oh w0w! She's a babe. I hope Eidos have some heavily suggested faux-lesbian sexual tension between Lara and er, whatever her name is! Oh anyway who needs names, she's H0t!
NOTHING gets me more fired up that girl-on-girl action between two characters who don't actually exist!!!!!111
(American readers/under 12's = irony)
NOTHING gets me more fired up that girl-on-girl action between two characters who don't actually exist!!!!!111
(American readers/under 12's = irony)
DoctorDee 7 Mar 2006 14:58
6/6
Radiant wrote:
She has a tatoo over her punnani.
That's a video game first right there.
That's a video game first right there.
Are you SURE about that. I am pretty sure that the BMXXXX chicks had same... But I might be wrong.