Lara's Looking.. A little less like a man!

The first true gameplay trailer for the upcoming Tomb Raider: Underworld revealed plenty of things for us to see! The trailer is set in Thailand, with Lara (invariably) scouting around some ancient temple or other and uncovering something she really shouldn't (Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation anyone?).

What excited me most is that in action, Lara looks a little less like a man, and more like the Lara we all know and love... If you know what I mean... It's also the first chance we've had to see the game really in motion, outside of cutscenes and glimpses of gameplay inter-spliced in two-second shots in previous trailers. Anyway, go ahead and watch, and enjoy!

Oh hai...

Meet the new Lara Croft. Yes, old stand in, the beautiful Karima Adebibe has been replaced by Alison Carroll (picture above). Eidos have announced the new real life counterpart to everyone's favorite (or most loathed) video game queen, Lara, for her upcoming game, Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Carroll beat out over a hundred other applicants for the role, and, like previous Laras, will have to take up an SAS course and Archaeology tutoring before she can fully take the roll.

Why the switch? The Tomb Raider franchise typically has a new model for each game they release, with the exception of Karima, who stood in for both TR: Legend and TR: Anniversary. Personally, the Legend Lara (both in game and real life) to me seems to be the hottest. The new Lara looks a bit like she used to be a Russian man (in the game.. not so much the new real life lara), and it's all in the brow and cheek bones! Little too harsh for me juxtaposed with the itty-bitty nose and small but full lips, but hey, it could all work out. You can find high-res pictures of the new lara here.