![]() It was also the year that Eidos named Rhona Mitra as the first official Lara model. In 1997, excitement hit E3 once again as Tomb Raider II demoed alongside other iconic games including Fallout, Half-Life, and Panzer Dragoon Saga. Click the image below to watch the first Tomb Raider E3 trailer. Tomb Raider gained a vast amount of coverage from the press and laid a solid foundation for its release later that year. It was buggy, but journalists still saw the potential in a game that, by today’s standards, came from a small, somewhat indie, team from the UK. Pretty much all the animations were different, including swimming and landing, and the items were scattered throughout a world much larger than what we saw in the final build. Lara could not dive or roll, and she could not fire her weapons without locking onto an enemy. The build shown at E3 1996 had some serious stylistic differences. Both the Tomb Raider franchise and the E3 expo have grown up and developed together. The game’s first appearance at the 1996 expo not only blew away critics and helped to cement Sony’s new system, the PlayStation, on the show floor it was also only the second E3 in existence. In a way, Tomb Raider holds a special place at E3. ![]() ![]() Described as Christmas for gamers, E3 has rolled around again and is ready to provide more fuel for the hype train than you can wave your shotgun at. ![]()
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