March 2, 2006 - Eidos has worked hard on re-creating Tomb Raider in the manner it was originally supposed to be handled: Lara Croft is a beautiful, athletic female Indiana Jones with the uncanny knack of surviving the most amazing potential catastrophes. Only, under the helm of Crystal Dynamics, Lara is growing out of the cardboard shell of the past with a deeper, more involving story incorporating a ghost from the past.
As players engage in this new adventure, Lara experiences numerous flashbacks to the past. One such visitation reveals the old story of Amanda Evert, Lara's old, dead friend. Eidos tells Amanda's backstory like this: On the outside, Amanda Evert was a graduate student of social anthropology. On the inside, she was 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.
Amanda 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. At the time it seemed more like a youthful dalliance than a true obsession; something Lara considered harmless. She was undoubtedly comfortable with exploring beyond the boundaries of scientific inquiry, but she was also a brilliant researcher who was still in touch with the modern world. She was young, a bit bookish, not too self-confident, and a bit of a hippy. Her relationship with Lara is typified by playful philosophical banter; they disagreed, but they crossed intellectual swords without becoming exasperated or angry at the others' firm viewpoint."
All of this is told in the past because of the accident that killed Amanda, or so Lara thought. One day in Peru, while excavating a tomb Lara believed contained the last queen of Tiwanaku, her team of graduate students breeched a new room and all hell broke loose. Lara was the only one to return to the surface, where the team's structural engineer, Anaya Imanu, listened in horror to Lara's story of how a malevolent entity of some kind slaughtered everyone in the tomb, except for Lara and Amanda. But as the two tried to escape, Amanda set off a trap that sealed the room, brought down the roof, and drowned Amanda.
As players progress through the story, they learn that Amanda didn't in fact die. She escaped. Later in the game she returns to become Lara's nemesis, in search of the same artifact Ms. Croft searches for. While this seems to be a bit of a spoiler, Eidos wanted to reveal this to us, indicating that there is much more to expose. This, apparently, is the tip of the iceberg. Check out the first shots of Amanda in our media section and watch her in the premiere video below.
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