The uncompromising expression is certainly familiar. The lady concerned is plainly in the throes of some sort of action too, judging by the funky flyway hair and her mud-splattered face.
Actually, this is Lara Croft – the star of a brand new Tomb Raider game for 2011 that the developers have decided to call “Tomb Raider”.
Fortunately, there’s no such lack of imagination where our heroine is concerned. This radical makeover portrays Lara as a much younger and inexperienced version of her former self. In the new Tomb Raider she’s just finding her feet as an up n’ coming action-adventurer and she’s doing whatever is necessary to survive – which perhaps explains her dirty mug and the bow she’s carrying. We can only wonder what dangers those stormy skies and that shipwreck hold, but can’t wait to find out!
Tomb Raider already sounds very promising, and we certainly like what we’re seeing of the new Lara Croft – fresher-faced, funkier of haircut and less overtly fetishised than the Lara of old. Moreover this is the most realistic Lara Croft yet. Squint and you’d swear you were looking at a photograph of a real person.
We guess that’s entirely the point. But do we detect a smidgen of Hollywood A-List glamour lurking beneath all that dirt? Jessica Alba’s pout, perhaps. And where have we seen those moody eyes before...?
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