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Tomb Raider: Ascension Video Shows Abandoned Prototype in Action
Written Tuesday, March 19, 2013 By Lee Bradley
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A video has emerged showing footage from an early, abandoned Tomb Raider reboot called Ascension.

Apparently taken from the Geoff Keighley doc ‘The Final Hours’ of Tomb Raider,’ the vid shows a child AI companion being worried by a carrot, monstrous enemies, a horse that Lara could ride and what appears to be Dead Space-esque limb damage.

Watch the vid below and... I think... be grateful for what we got.

[via NeoGAF]




 
 

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Comment #5 by The Dutch Pinyo
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:34:03 AM
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Okay stop.


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Comment #6 by Jappe x360a
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:35:55 AM
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Seriously? Are they making Tomb Raider another Call of Duty? Don't do it Square Enix... Just don't...


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Comment #7 by DeadlySinz86
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:37:11 AM
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@6 Did you read any of the artical? Like ... any?


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Comment #9 by Mex xX J3k4 Xx
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:38:43 AM
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@Can you read the article??


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Comment #10 by BurnTheWelsh
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:41:54 AM
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@6 you should be forced to remove the x360a from your name. youre a disgrace. Your name is also racist


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Comment #12 by Hurricane Of 87
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:42:29 AM
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Fear the carrot.

Also @8: You're* cool!


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Comment #14 by Jack Frost
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:56:01 AM
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It looks like someone wanted to add in elements of Shadow of the Colossus...


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Comment #15 by mr-crix
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 10:58:24 AM
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Just think some of this might have been included if they didn't put that god awful MP mode in, except the carrot! that thing has no place anywhere lol.


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Comment #18 by littlejay
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 11:33:04 AM
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what's with the pedo carrot?

and there are some cool ideas in there but I am perfectly happy with the game we got :)


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Comment #20 by cheevo360
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 11:44:36 AM
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That's is really interested video that show Lara on horse and I wish full game allow some areas went through with horse will be good. But from what story in full game now is understandment that story need without horse. That is good yeah. Maybe clue for Tomb Raider 2 to have be have horse include. :)


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Comment #21 by KiddingPigeon
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 11:54:01 AM
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36 seconds in... dat ass


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Comment #22 by goobers
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 12:38:09 PM
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Stop bringing us stupid videos and fix the GT scanning system!!! It sucks my ass!!!


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Comment #23 by MyNameIsWill
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 12:41:09 PM
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This comment section is messed up


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Comment #24 by hipcagneyhop
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 12:49:26 PM
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Wow finally a video i can watch on my phone! This actually looks pretty good, more like a follow on from underworld! What a shame that we got a crying teenager with a crap online multi-player! Bye bye franchise!


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Comment #25 by Jappe x360a
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 01:35:29 PM
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@7 Yes I did.
@9 I can.
@10 Umm? How is my name racist? Says a guy whose name says BurnTheWelsh... Why am I disgrace? Because I commented on an article that has comments allowed?

Don't tell me you registered on the site to tell me this?


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Comment #26 by lazygammer13
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 01:47:45 PM
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It looks... interesting, but... I don't know. I like the shadow of the collosus vibe I got though. It's just not TR. Maybe they can make it a different game altogether?


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Comment #27 by FroZeNSouL
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 02:01:46 PM
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Very shadow of Collosus. Expected to hear "arror! Arrow!".
Tbh I wouldn't mind horse and that end hell fire bit in a sequal.
That bit reminds me of the original


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Comment #28 by AgentOrange330
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 03:11:34 PM
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@ 27 - Its "Agro". The horses name was Agro...


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Comment #29 by I mak3 big boom
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 03:11:45 PM
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@25 the project was ABANDONED


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Comment #30 by flechetteXXX
Tuesday, March 19, 2013 @ 03:17:44 PM
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What video? and also... WTF happened to all the comments!?


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Comment #31 by Callum x360a
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 @ 04:06:30 AM
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@25 - There is no point in lying about reading the artcle. If you had read it, your comment wouldn't have been about something entirely incorrect. As this artcle is about the project that was abandoned in favour of the released Tomb Raider reboot, it has absolutely nothing to do with an announcement or even a possibility of another game that's going to be released in the series.

All you have done is read Tomb Raider: Ascension and assumed that it was a new game announced right after the previous one. Saying that, it will take them at least 3 yearly releases to become like Call of Duty, as the series had a 3+ year gap between games, and this reboot is the series startung again.


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Comment #32 by BurnTheWelsh
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 @ 05:51:28 AM
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@25 ^ what he said. My name is based on local folk law as i am welsh you pleb. Calling a jap a jap is racist therefore you are racist.



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Comment #33 by chris555
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 @ 08:37:29 AM
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is this the new tomb raider game or what ??


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Comment #34 by mr wong tong
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 @ 09:11:21 AM
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I wish they made this game so haaaaaaaard. I mean imagine a fucking CARROT ENEMY. that would have been absolutely hilarious and they need to implement this idea in all future games.

"Why did you put a carrot in the game?"

"We wanted the banjo kazooie audience."


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Comment #35 by Jappe x360a
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 @ 11:31:56 AM
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@31 I read the article.

"A video has emerged showing footage from an early, abandoned Tomb Raider reboot called Ascension."

Yes I saw the word abandoned. There is always a possibility of waking it up some day and it just automatically came to my head to think that this was the case since there was a video released about it.

@32 You did know that Jappe is a common nickname in Finland, didn't you? My name has nothing to do with Japanese people. With your logic any name that consists of letters that indicate a racist word is automatically racist?


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Comment #36 by MilezDawg
Wednesday, March 20, 2013 @ 12:21:40 PM
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If this "abandoned" game came and had an easy 1000k I'd buy it a derp* derp* derp* says 80 percent of the gamers on this site


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Comment #37 by whtsnk58
Sunday, March 24, 2013 @ 01:08:47 AM
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Is it just me, or does the last part of the video when she's riding the horse scream "Shadow of the Colossus"?


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Comment #38 by KissMyUnicorn
Monday, April 15, 2013 @ 03:44:47 PM
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*Beginning of video* Not bad, not bad.
*Gets to horse section* Okay this is boring af
*Sees mansion house thingy with flamethrower* NO ABSOLUTELY NOT STOP IT RIGHT THERE

While there was no actual tomb raiding in the new game, I'd much rather have that than what this game could've been. Still going to stick with the older Tomb Raider games tho.


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