Lara Croft will make her return in the gaming world early in 2012 in the promising reboot of Tomb Raider by Crystal Dynamics. Although the story is the origin of Lara Croft, this headstrong heroine is more human and more mature than before. Despite the visual overhaul, classic action returns in this reboot which is famous in the franchise. It is noticeable that Dynamics’s team is influenced by the Uncharted series from Naughty Dog. Here are some of the things that the title reboot can learn from the adventures of Nathan Drake.
Set Pieces that is Incredible and Epic
Uncharted is very famous with its amazing set pieces such as falling out from the train carriage’s back and hanging on the face of a mountain in order to safely escape from the crashing airplane in a desert. This video game has indeed created very exciting and memorable moments that are worth treasuring for by lots of gamers out there. Despite the feeling of being parts of an amazing movie, you can feel interactions from these moments which keep gamers within the video game, instead of sitting and watching for a while. Above all, throughout the series, they’re never overused. The developer of the Tomb Raider reboot is also capable of replicating the same intense moments in Uncharted, and they should concentrate in developing spectacular sequences that are great watching. They should keep these spectacular sequences more interactive in order to keep gamers involved in the game.
Stellar Acting
The original PS1 metal Gear Solid game has shown how much solid acting can make a difference in the gameplay, and ever since, new titles have been doing their share to raise the bar and to match the standards in Hollywood. Naughty Dog ensures that the story of their games contain the best cast ever by bringing Nolan North, an A-lister voice actor as the voice behind Nathan Drake as well as Richard Mcgonagle as the voice of Sully. This decision of the publisher is a very wise one. Aside from making the video game better, stellar acting also made the verse of the Uncharted more believable ad engaging compared to other titles out there. The actors also did motion capture as they record the voice for the video game characters in order to provide extra authenticity. Obviously, the initiative worked and lots of titles have followed the same process.
Fresh Storyline
One of the wonderful things on the base story of Uncharted is its simplicity. The writers at naughty Dog took the plot of a classic treasure hunting movie in the motion pictures such as Indiana Jones which they have updated to suit the 21st century audience and letting it flow. The result is among the gaming industry’s best stories. The complex relationships of the conflicts and the characters which are revealed in Drake’s Deception have made the gameplay sequences more entertaining and the heartfelt emotional moments between the characters that are multi-dimensional. Most of all, the emotional problems Drake goes through make his character to look real and not just like those accurately animated things onscreen.
