If you’re a player of the new school, you may remember Lara Croft simply as that character who died over and over again in her video game in the most cruel and absurd ways possible. But the fact is, she has been an icon since 1996, when the first ‘Tomb Raider’ appeared for Sega Saturn, MS-DOS, and PlayStation. Now, with many adventures behind her, the time has come… to die again in grotesque ways, this time in a unique crossover.
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While we wait for the new game featuring the most famous archaeologist in video games (she hasn’t had a completely new one since 2018), we’ll have to settle for an appearance of her in the cruelest online horror game on the market. In July, ‘Dead by Daylight’ will feature the Tomb Raider, though it’s quite different from the genre she’s used to. In the past, characters like Chucky, Michael Myers, or Ghostface entered the game, but there’s also a place for Lara. Why not?
In the current season, ‘Dead by Daylight’ has borrowed a lot from ‘Dungeons & Dragons’; now Lara Croft joins this mix, a character whose abilities, according to the game’s developers (Behaviour Interactive), make her the ideal person to fight for survival. So, if there was controversy in the past due to the dozens of deaths in ‘Tomb Raider’, imagine what it’ll be like now. Let the “Tomb” stuff begin.