Ideas For Future Locations

[Lo]

Hi gang!

Last year I was in discussion with a pal regarding the possibilities for future locations for Lara Croft to visit.

As an on/off writer I am easily inspired and quite inquisitive. I am also quite creative when it comes to cooking up ideas!

I had this idea that a whole game could revolve around Lara exploring the NASA areas and going up into space by sneaking aboard a shuttle and going into deep space to uncover some sort of conspiracy!

Sounds like fun eh? Have you any ideas as to what would constitute as a good location or storyline for future games?

Lo

[Atheist]

India.
It would be soo cool if she went there and saw all the temples, or the rivers and the people and the statues and the people. India must have some tombs to raid and mysteries to solve.

[[Angelus]

I would love Lara to be in a tropical jungle with magnificant waterfalls, ferocious animals and wildlife, and lots of opportunities for Lara to jump around.

[Atheist]

Originally Posted by [Angelus

I would love Lara to be in a tropical jungle with magnificant waterfalls, ferocious animals and wildlife, and lots of oppurtunities for Lara to jump around.

Yeah they are my favorite locations in Tomb Raider, but she's done it all before. I'm kidna getting sick of tropical waterfalls and plants and animals.

[Lo]

I have to confess that I sometimes get a little fed up when playing the jungle areas in TRIII

I infinitely prefer more metro areas...London, Paris and so on.

Ridiculous really as the game is called 'Tomb Raider' and even though there are no tombs in the city areas they are fun to explore

[[Angelus]

I'd love it if Lara visited Bolivia again!

[Atheist]

Originally Posted by [Angelus

I'd love it if Lara visited Bolivia again!

Hmm...not again
I liked it, it was a great level, but scenery like that (as beautfiul as it is) gets boring after being fetured in almost every TR game in the last 11 years.

[Lo]

Originally Posted by [Angelus

I'd love it if Lara visited Bolivia again!

Oh indeed, Bolivia was certainly a cool area and very different to the usual hum drum in certain earlier levels/locations.

I'd like to see the Grand Canyon incorporated at some stage too. I can just imagine Lara scaling those rocks! Maybe a bungee jump is in order - anything to replace that dreadful rope-swinging business!

[Mangar The Dark]

A shopping mall in New Jersey.

Just kidding.
Actually, it would be cool to see her in a place like Skara Brae. They've never done that in a TR game, and it's not even SO far from where she lives.

[Atheist]

Originally Posted by Mangar The Dark

A shopping mall in New Jersey.

Just kidding.
Actually, it would be cool to see her in a place like Skara Brae. They've never done that in a TR game, and it's not even SO far from where she lives.

she lives near me

[ziad]

oo oo oo i would LOVE it if she went to iraq... ya know babylonian ruins, or sumarian temples, i sware she could go to the nine gates to the underworld there... (lets not forget the garden of eden is assumed to be there).. orrrr she could go to alhambra in spain... when i went there it was amazing, it's the kind of place that would hold an ancient artifact

[Gamer4Lyfe]

Lara belongs in the Tombs. Bring her back to Egypt in Legend 2!

[Atheist]

Originally Posted by Gamer4Lyfe

Lara belongs in the Tombs. Bring her back to Egypt in Legend 2!

NOOO NO MORE EGPYT I'M BEGGING YOU!!

I had enough egypt in TR4. I flinch at the sight of sand now. And I live near 3 near beaches.

[Rai]

Has she ever been to the Australian outback? Ayres rock and some aboriginal artefacts would be good. There must be some right? Swimming in the barrier reef?

Or perhaps a kayak ride down the Scandinavian fjords? The scenery would be breathtaking.

I'm not sure I like the outer space idea. What would she fight? Aliens? Too sci-fi for my liking.

[StarChampagne]

Originally Posted by Rai004

Has she ever been to the Australian outback? Ayres rock and some aboriginal artefacts would be good. There must be some right? Swimming in the barrier reef?

Or perhaps a kayak ride down the Scandinavian fjords? The scenery would be breathtaking.

Great ideas! I hope Lara gets a trip to Australia

[LisaB]

What about Africa? Timbuktu, perhaps?

Mexico. Mayan, Inca.

I too enjoyed the urban levels.

[RaiderGirl#1]

I don't know all of the places that she's been, and I'm sorry if I name a few.
I would like:
somewhere in the Caribbean
Brazil
Belize
Switzerland
And someplace in Africa other than Ghana, and Eygpt.
Like Morocco, Tunisia.
And maybe China?

[Treeble]

The Easter Island could be interesting, and the Andes in Chile too, but what sort of business would she have found there? Now I think about it... I think the Peruvian levels of Tomb Raider 1 are meant to be somewhere on that mountain system.

Definitely yes to Babylon, but I'm afraid they wouldn't tuck her in there because the Prince of Persia games featured that as main place and then Tomb Raider would be classed as a definite copycat.

What about Dracula's sanctum, wherever it is? (Tanzania? )

[Rai]

Are you thinking of Transylvania per chance? Lara exploring Dracula's castle? Hmmm interesting.

[Treeble]

YES! Yes, that's it! I probably got it mixed up with the Tazmanian Devil.

[TRBeth]

Lets go Far East, and maybe something really ancient like Babylonia/Mesopotamia. It would be so cool to visit the First King of China's tomb since there is such a myth about it, yet, a hint of it actually being real.

[Lo]

Originally Posted by Rai004

Has she ever been to the Australian outback? Ayres rock and some aboriginal artefacts would be good. There must be some right? Swimming in the barrier reef?

Or perhaps a kayak ride down the Scandinavian fjords? The scenery would be breathtaking.

I'm not sure I like the outer space idea. What would she fight? Aliens? Too sci-fi for my liking.

Great ideas!

As for outer space, I just thought it would be rather novel if it had a feasible plot. I guess aliens would be no less acceptable than dinosaurs I don't think a whole game could be played in outer space but a section of it at least - assuming there was some sort of space station up there.

[Xcom]

Hmm...I actually like space idea.

Although I am not exactly sure what Lara would do "just" in outer space, so I think maybe she can be a part of the first Martian expedition or something. Who knows -- maybe there are alien tombs there which is, by the way, entirely plausible.

[Lo]

Originally Posted by Xcom

Hmm...I actually like space idea.

Although I am not exactly sure what Lara would do "just" in outer space, so I think maybe she can be a part of the first Marsian expedition or something. Who knows -- maybe there are alien tombs there which is, by the way, entirely plausible.

Indeed, even though TR has been guilty of running implausible scenarios in the past such as dinosaurs and giant scorpions et al

I reckon she could be sneaking around the NASA headquarters and maybe she could accidentally get sent into space by sneaking aboard a shuttle

Either that or she could be a space tourist - she's financially quite well off and could afford such extravagance. I like your idea of the Martian influence!

Think about it - if aliens visited Earth and landed in the Sahara Desert they could be forgiven for assuming that Earth was desolute - an abandoned and arid planet with zero population. We went to the moon and the section that Aldrin landed on could have been just such a remote place. How are we to know that life doesn't exist in other parts?

Lara is just the girl to uncover the truth and the truth is out there!

[Xcom]

Originally Posted by Lo.

I reckon she could be sneaking around the NASA headquarters and maybe she could accidentally get sent into space by sneaking aboard a shuttle

I imagine this happens all the time at NASA.