Comments on: Why the New Tomb Raider isn’t that bad http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/why-the-new-tomb-raider-isnt-that-ba/ Rob Goforth, creator of Lair of the Nerd and author of the upcoming Red Bargain fantasy trilogy. Wed, 18 Jul 2012 20:13:54 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Xaphod http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/2012/06/why-the-new-tomb-raider-isnt-that-ba/comment-page-1/#comment-15 Xaphod Sat, 16 Jun 2012 13:36:45 +0000 http://blog.lairofthenerd.com/?p=185#comment-15 from http://blogs.metro.co.uk/games/the-immature-violence-video-games/

What also concerned me was another post-E3 controversy over a supposed rape scene in Tomb Raider. The truth of the story seems to be that it’s only implied Lara’s captors intend to rape her at a certain point, but what confuses is me is why this should be in any way controversial in a mature-rated game. Especially as you’re playing the victim, not the aggressor.

Everything I’ve seen of the Tomb Raider reboot so far suggests it’s a far more psychologically complex game than any of its peers, and one of the few action titles at E3 that genuinely deserves to be called adult.

Not because of its violence or gore, but because Lara acts like a real human being: she’s terrified by her surroundings and she becomes almost traumatised at having to kill a man (whose designs on her are left uncomfortably ambiguous).

And yet according to the game’s developer some members of the American press have already criticised this approach because it means ‘she whinges a lot’. An exasperating attitude that seems to underline just how immature mature-rated games – and gamers – tend to be.

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