Revan
Excuse me...gorgeous
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2018
- Location
- UK
- Favourite title
- Shenmue
- Currently playing
- Tomb Raider 1, 2, 3 - Remastered
The original concept for the critically panned Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.
The project was too ambitious for its own good. Four locations had been planned: the criminal underworld of Paris, a Resident Evil-inspired bio-research facility in Prague, an alchemist's gothic castle in Germany, and the tombs of fallen angels in Turkey.
Murti Schofield, largely inspired by Lovecraftian horror, penned an ambitious storyline with tonnes of backstory in the hopes of kicking off a trilogy. Meanwhile, CORE Design built things physically impossible for the PS2 to handle and ended up binning 50% of their work as they hacked the game apart to meet its 2003 deadline which resulted in just the buggy and broken Paris and Prague sections to be semi-realised to scathing reviews.
As a Tomb Raider fan, I hope this unfinished game will one day be given the remake treatment.
The project was too ambitious for its own good. Four locations had been planned: the criminal underworld of Paris, a Resident Evil-inspired bio-research facility in Prague, an alchemist's gothic castle in Germany, and the tombs of fallen angels in Turkey.
Murti Schofield, largely inspired by Lovecraftian horror, penned an ambitious storyline with tonnes of backstory in the hopes of kicking off a trilogy. Meanwhile, CORE Design built things physically impossible for the PS2 to handle and ended up binning 50% of their work as they hacked the game apart to meet its 2003 deadline which resulted in just the buggy and broken Paris and Prague sections to be semi-realised to scathing reviews.
As a Tomb Raider fan, I hope this unfinished game will one day be given the remake treatment.