Tomb Raider: Anniversary Gets Episodic on 360
Eidos Interactive has announced that Crystal Dynamics' Tomb Raider: Anniversary will see an episodic release on Xbox Live Marketplace.
Tomb Raider: Anniversary is a new and improved reworking of Core Design's original 1996 action-adventure title Tomb Raider (PS1, SAT, PC). The game is already available for the PlayStation 2 and PC, with Wii and PSP versions currently in development. Four major locations from Anniversary's campaign will be split into episodes, subtitled Peru, Lost City, Greece, and Egypt. Each content download will feature two episodes, with the Croft Manor level being released as a free download for either pack.
The cost of all four episodes will total 2400 Microsoft Points ($30). In order to access the content, players must own a copy of Tomb Raider Legend, although Eidos is planning to release a full retail version for the Xbox 360 later this year.
"This is part of our strategy to grow our presence in online and digital distribution as we believe there are huge growth opportunities arising from this delivery format and we intend to capitalize on the increasing demand for digitally downloaded content," said Eidos CEO Jane Cavanagh. "Ultimately we also intend to make the title available at retail so that it reaches the maximum possible audience."
Eidos also released a few screenshots and some artwork for the game.
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I just picked up the PS2 version last week.
Only played the very first level; pretty good so far.
Never played the original game.
For some reason I was expecting the first level of the game to start out with Lara sliding down that rock wall and jumping down and then getting attacked by dinosaurs (or was it wolves?) . Maybe I remember that from the demo. They show this scene in the trailer for TR: Anniversary.
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