Tomb Raider (2013) Development: Ascension Early Footage
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- čas přidán 17. 10. 2021
- Check out footage from Tomb Raider: Ascension, which took Tomb Raider deep into survival horror territory during the exploratory phases of what would eventually become the 2013 reboot. It was through Ascension that the team homed in on telling an origin story through the lens of survival. #TR25
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Original TR has dinosaurs and mummys and pretty much a bunch of survival horror like enemies anyway.
The Black Isle section of Chronicles says hello!
dont forget that damn butler hes creepy
@@joshuagraham2843 at least you can just lock ol' Winston in the freezer, though! ;-)
3 had that weird spider thing
@@hustle_simmons Underworld too
I adore seeing stuff like this. Too many developers are too precious with their IPs to show any early, unfinished footage. I love seeing how a game progresses. It's absolutely fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
Its not like the dev dont want to share their development progress, they do it to prevents misleading article about their game which could hurt their sales.
It's a bit of a slippery rope here cause in a way if you do that and the end product doesn't align with the development process then things can go bad.
A month ago EA Motive showcased an early build for the Dead Space Remake and if you notice they showed what we would expect aka the combat and how the zero g parts would have Isaac use his thrusters instead of jumping around.
Regresses; gets severely worse than what was begun. How dare you say the trashy interactive movie is better than the actual game we could've had instead.
@@Jean-uw4tz lol
Should go back and make this into a spin-off game.
Honestly, they totally could pull this off as some sort of single extra game for Tomb Raider. Especially now that the new trilogy seems to be done for a while, they totally could throw an extra game out. With how many positive comments there are about Ascension, I believe it would be a great opportunity as well.
Yeeeess
@@vicaaxx we dont want another tomb raider game
we want ascension
Seria maravilhoso. Em uma pegada mais terror com a Lara Croft. Meu Deus!!!! Que demais que seria.
Eu amei esse vídeo e essas ideias
you mean make an actual tomb raider game for once?
Now I want a survival-horror themed Tomb Raider. This genuinely looks great.
I remember when the concept art leaked all those years ago. I still wish this was the game we had gotten. You guys have got to finish this project!
This gives me major young tomb raider demon island vibes from Chronicles. Also a bit Angel of darkness. I really hope we see something deep dark and unsettling like this in the future. It's one of my favorite missed opportunities. You guys should consider making this. People eat this up! Please!
Exactly! I remember reading a description for the TR reboot back in the day that sounded nothing like what we got and I was super confused as to why.
Now that I know the game in my head actually existed at one point, I really wish I could play it.
This!
Tomb raider 2013 was something that i never expected them to make, it was amazing, tomb raider will always be in my top games (specially 1-5) thru sickness and health but this, this could have been something special, i grew up with horror genre too, i personally didn't like rise and shadow, or legend and underworld.
The last clip is really interesting, I love the animations and Lara’s stance. Would have loved to see more of this, it was such a fresh concept.
Omg hiiii! I can't believe I ran into you here!
@@johnvendelerro71 hello there ❤️
@@telper- How are ya? 💙
OT: Imagine if we get hands on Ascension one day... OOH, THE POWER! 🤤
I hope THEY MAKE GAME THIS!! :)
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I've been fascinated by Ascension for years now and I still love this concept! One cam definitely find some aspects that made it to the reboot, but still even if they didn't do this as a Tomb Raider title, I think they should pursue it either way. They could do this as a classic Lara title still or as a different game, I'd love to play this!
Just what I said! They could work on this further and bring this out as sort of an exclusive / single game with no second or third game. Just this one, I believe people would be extremely hyped considering how much of joy those past behind the scenes videos the channel uploads currently is bringing to the fans! I would die to play this game to be honest.
@@vicaaxx They could make... a Tomb Raider spin-off. The main character is not Lara Croft, but rather one of the Endurance crew members, maybe an engineer (someone clever enough to craft a flamethrower). She wakes up in one of the temples or in the Shanty Town after the events of the 2013 game, and Yamatai is now a ghost island after the Sun Queen's ghost has been vanquished. Undead WWII soldiers, ghosts of people Lara killed, and victims of the Sun Queen worshipers, other creatures of the night. The goal is the same - escape the island - but this time the island is 100% open world and your goal is to find engine parts and boat parts while struggling against aforementioned monsters and maybe trying to survive in extreme weather conditions. Game title: Ghosts of Yamatai.
@@mac1991seth wouldn’t it be too similar to the story and plot of resident evil 4? That’s only the reason why I think they scrapped it.
@@buincqv67 Leon going to Spain to find and free Ashley Graham, the president's daughter? The similarities are very superficial but if that's their reason... well, I guess.
I'd prefer Ascension to all the reboot games we got, I'm so fascinated about it. Horror elements accompanied Lara since the classic games. You need to revive Tomb Raider Ascension!
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@@noth7ing bro your name is the lasty hush kid
@@GramCrackers15 and yours is dora🤡
@@noth7ing atleast she doesn't have a basic name
@@GramCrackers15 still hurting? Cope.
This would have been so cool.
My favorite parts of the reboots is when they venture into horror, like the catacombs of 2013, baba yiga in rise, or those weird creatures in shadow.
It always feels short lived :/.
True !
Would love to see these elements come back. This would have been a weird game, but a classic I feel...
This looked GREAT (For early footage). I love the monster designs, and the horse riding. I hope this is eventually revisited. The concept of "Tomb Raiding" leading to horror-like elements is perfect.
Like someone has said, this wouldn't actually be an Tomb Raider game, I like the gameplay moves and combat is nice, but the enemies aren't really the Tomb Raider style, from seeing this I get Tomb Raider meets Alan Wake + Resident Evil type of game.
I am glad Tomb Raider actually kept its core, it did change since the old ones, but it still feels like an Tomb Raider game.
Only thing I am missing in new games are the acrobatic moves you could have done in the old ones like those totally unneeded cartwheels but still fun to navigate around :D
I do think the horror elements would work with TR, especially the chase scene with the giant, but too many of these enemies are like... generic Devil May Cry/Infamous drones. They have no personality other than "booo! I'm spooky." Obviously they're early concepts. Tomb Raider is definitely no stranger to horror elements. There's a great viral video about how TR1 is actually a horror game, and TR2 was pretty terrifying at some points, like when you're in the pitch black room and all the yetis are screaming into the darkness in Catacombs of the Talion.
I do think horror-lite would be a good move for Tomb Raider, but it would need to be a bit more mature than the kinda soulless DMC monster mash they were going for here.
I completely disagree. Tomb Raider always had a creepy, horror element. Atlantis from Tomb Raider 1, if done in next gen it would actually be disturbing to look at. That includes floating islands from TRII , TR III Antarctica and the mutations (including Willard), TR Chronicles Ireland and AOD which also had a very dark and twisted vibe. Ascension definitely had a place in the TR world.
it definitely didnt keep it to its core 😹 but okay girl
you can't really tell all that much from the video. It shows nothing about the setting or how the combat or anything really would have been like.
It's concept art. Basically throwing ideas at the wall.
You say it wouldn't actually be a Tomb Raider game? It literally is a Tomb Raider game. The very early stages of one, but one nonetheless. It became TR2013.
I'm a game tester. I've seen how games evolve through development many times.
If they went back and developed the ideas in this video that didn't make it into TR2013 or the others into a 4th Tomb Raider game, you probably wouldn't even recognize it by the time they were done. You might even say it's the best one yet.
@@FreekinEkin2, well it didn't work out with "The Angel of Darkness".
I love how brutal the combat with the monsters was going to be. This mature Lara is the one we love.
Also the Silent Hill vibes were great. I think I would have liked this game much more than the one we got...
Same, I guess they had to go with more "safe" concept
There's nothing Silent Hill about anything on this video.
Literally please finish this concept and release it. I would worship it.
flora queen
@@BloomixBoy Flora secretly is a Tomb Raider fan shush
It's a shame to realize that we will never see this game
@@vicaaxx ahahah don't worry, I keep the secret ;)
In a alternate universe, this is the TR we actually got 🥺🏹🏹🏹
This is why I love watching beta/prototype videos for games, I absolutely adore seeing where ideas come from, how they evolve, getting a glimpse at a very different game, and so much more. Thank you for releasing footage of this officially, I wish more devs would do this
Really would love to see this concept brought back in full. Fighting enemies with fire gives me Alone in the Dark 2008 vibes in a good way. Plus survival horror elements with horseback in huge maps is something I'd be interested in seeing play out.
yes!! this is what the fans wanted with the reboot!! Lara's original acrobatics, dual wield guns, creepy tombs and fast paced action...
I shocking how developed this part is 5:20
I would play this even more than TR2013 haha, imagine it polished and properly finished, I was hoping for a ''horror'' TR game since forever.
This looks like it would’ve been way more interesting than Shadow. I’m all for Tomb Raider going more fantasy or science fiction. It’s already completely unbelievable I mean no human could survive the stuff Lara goes through anyways so just turn it up to 11
I loveeee that this has been released. I always wondered what it would look like, although i'm glad we got the other game, this looks creepy as hell and fun too play!
I just started replaying Shadow of The Tomb Raider a few days ago and was thinking how awesome it would be if they made a horror version. I hope in a future game they make at least a full level like this.
We could have gotten more LAU Lara!? I would love to see it still but a unified timeline would be awesome. I personally just love the badass and sassy Lara and she still is that Lara in this beta!
Nah they were probably just using the model as a placeholder untill the model artist finished the one for the project. There's test fotage of legend with the AOD lara model, this happens all the time.
@@elenavaleria9943 She was still doing her acrobatic moves.
@@ghost_emre_a7710 In conceptual phase they don't have the full idea yet of how the final game will be. So they were testing stuff to see what works with the ideas the Designer came up for the game. This wasn't the 2012 reebot, but wasn't a sequel to the LAU trilogy ether. Most of this was scrapped in favor of the reboot. I do wish we've gotten this instead of what ended up being the final game and the trilogy tough since this is way more in line with what came before, and I despise reboot Lara. But, there's no way to say, based on the thigns we have on this project Assention, that this would be the same Lara from the LAU trilogy, even if in this early build they were using the Underworld model. Like I said, it was definetly a placeholder.
I love Tomb Raider from 2013. But boy I would give my soul for this game. I still can’t bear the fact that this was early game concept and that it was cancelled and scrapped. It would be so damn good if this horror version of TR would reach it’s full potential, I would gladly pay for this.
U HAVE TO FINIST IT
WE NEED THIS GAME!!!!
I'd love if reboot went that way, they can still make a spin-off now that the trilogy is done.
Man I remember when you teased this music in a podcast. I was so sad that the full version got nuked and we never got to hear it.
Damn, this definitely makes me wish more supernatural creatures/elements were included in the reboot trilogy. I did love the grounded, human aspect at first. However primarily fighting human enemies became less exciting as time went on.
I truly hope that a sequel with these elements is made in a few years. Though not necessarily as a horror game.
You literally stab God in the face in 2013 reboot
@@mattday7337 yeah but it happens for like 10 seconds. Through the WHOLE game we fight boring human males.
@@TheVintress what about the undead soldiers in Rise and the weird zombie things in Shadow?
@@ebm4205 they were a good addition to the games but felt also boring after a while. There was no variety in their designs.
Very interesting footages! I always thought that this game was a masterpiece, and seeing the evolution of its development and how it could have turned out is simply mind blowing! More video game developers should show stuff like that.
I love how dark the atmosphere of this is. Tomb raider was always at its best with more dark and sinister elements were introduced like in angel of darkness and the moral dilemmas in tomb raider anniversary.
It would be so cool to see Lara in this type of setting/environments going forward. I love the combat animations. Hopefully we’ll see elements of this work in future titles. Especially considering the origin timeline is now finished, it’d be great to see a more mature Lara in more trap filled environments akin to the classic tomb raiders but in a more deadly and lore filled environments similar to the ones show here.
lara croft taod was the perfect balance of classic gameplay/world and creepy storyline/enemies, it would be great to see a remake or sequel. In this footage it is clear that there is a lot of influence from taod, even the animations (even if incomplete) are very reminiscent
@GiRayne bro what. The classic TR games literally had a bunch of dark and sinister elements in them. Not necessarily horror, but it set a spooky tone combined with all the music and jump scares. Angel of Darkness was the closest to what TR had been prior, but darker. Think of soundtracks like "The Puzzle Element" / "Something Spooky in that Jungle" from TR 3 and the T Rex theme from TR 1 and tell me thats not dark, mysterious / spooky whatever you wanna call it.
@GiRayne id say tr 1 to 6 was creepy at the time,
Atmosphere and creatures,
Childhood memories.
@GiRayne The London underground levels of TR 3, The Kurtis sequence from AoD and various other levels throughout the series served as a good example of more potentially dark and sinister elements. Not that a whole TR game should be based on that, but the series was definitely exploring those parts throughout its lifecycle, thats why people associate those elements with the series.
@GiRayne I personally loved the story ideas for AoD and it went into a darker, more serious story of Lara trying to solve a mystery of the Monstrum serial killer. The AoD trilogy could have been AMAZING if it wasn't forced out way before it was ready, scrapping half of the mechanics they were trying to include, and leaving the game a very buggy and clunky mess. This caused the rest of the trilogy to be cancelled, when I personally think it could've been one of the best in the series, story-wise.
I'd be down for a Tomb Raider horror game with scary enemies. Some previous games have had some horror-ish stuff going on. The Angel of Darkness enemies creeped me out as a kid.
Thank you for this video, I wish more developers share early/canceled footage like you did. I'm getting Tomb Raider Chronicles vibes (island part)
Why does this actually look kind of awesome
Any chance you guys upload this prototype to archiveorg?
wouldn’t mind if the build leaked 😳 but fr y’all should focus on a horror based-ish tomb raider this is actually gold
To be fair Croft Manor in Rise of the Tomb Raider was pretty creepy and the Baba Yaga dlc was kinda creepy too.
Is there a gameplay build that does have Aleksandar Dimitrijevic's soundtracks composed inside it?
My gosh I can't believe how atmospheric and legitimately unsettling this version was! The sense of isolation and almost hopelessness is very real. The huge enemy with smaller ones crawling all over its body has to be one of the most scary things that we've seen in the series.
1:45 whose face is it on the button prompt cause it's gotta be some dev inside joke LOL
The combat section seems far more into development than anything we had seen before! I'm quite shocked. Graphics look quite detailed and movement has some really nice motion blur effect to it!
Hope we will see even more of this project as it looks extremely interesting.
I remember! Omg! I remember all the concepts art work! Was so cool and scary x
“Silent Tomb on Raider Hill” coming never to all non consoles & PCs. 😭
They need to bring this into existence.
Throughout this short gameplay alpha and include in the document Final Hours of TR ( reboot), this is nothing like the TR even compare to the final version. Atleast the final version has strong setpieces, enough world building to explore, climbing and tombs to solve puzzles.
This demo alpha focus on horror and survival, even slower combat and i know for sure when it can actually come out, a lot will mock it as a "Tomb Soulborne" or some kind like that. This game would be better as a new IP. You guys should find and read "Final Hours of Tomb Raider", a really good documentary to let you know how struggle of CD to recreate and help the franchise to live again.
I agree. This looks like it has potential, but it doesn't feel like Tomb Raider.
@The_damag3 & The spy it has horror elements for sure, and there are many as well in the final version. I think you should search for final hour of tomb raider (i think it is free on Steam?). Even the developer themself felt that TR Ancension was not the direction that could relive the franchise again. Especially that TR franchise was on the line between totally disappear (because the Underworld fail to meet SE expectation [sales ofc].
And even some of you denied the success of TR 2013, but it did save both the developer and the franchise atleast in terms of sales and critics. I know it needs a lot to be better, and at the end of the document, dev asked fans whom purchased the TR 2013 what can they do to improve the franchise moving forwards after playing the reboot.
That is why you saw the improvement in Rise of the Tomb Raider which imo, still the most balance in terms of combat - puzzle - exploration. Sadly, SotTR was rushed and developed by different studio instead of letting CD continue improve from Rise.
Edit: it was hard to explain everything, that is why i keep asking you guys to search the Final Hours of Tomb Raider document and read for yourself to understand why they changed and chose the direction of TR reboot.
this game format wouldve been soo good to see lara in
Very interesting 🙂 I love to see such snippets of early game design and prototyping from the inside out. This really could be done more frequently among game studios, so more people could see how games are being created. This way people could understand that most new game prototypes don't survive, and that games are created more like a focused effort by combining different elements and throwing away other elements.
Love this!
Love the horse riding, even her short hair in the bit with the fire, this needs to be the next game!
This doesnt look tomb raider, but i do love the concept of it, They should make a spinoff. Im glad they went with the reboot a better concept and feels like tomb raider for me :) i miss lara hope she comes backs soon! ❤
what TR games have you played?
@@graveraider1029 all of them up to shadow 😁 personal fave tr last revelation and rottr haha
@@nikkolaiiii just curious what you liked about Rise? I personally couldn't even play more of it I didn't like how much combat was in it and hardly any puzzles or tombs
@@graveraider1029 i enjoyed the gameplay actually, i liked the mini hub areas, mini tombs aswell but i do think yeah not much puzzles and dual pistols haha but i personally loved it, a next gen lara was so good to look at 😅
this is just pissing me off at this point lmfao like. i just wanna play this. that “boss” moment at 5:47 wow. the atmosphere that has. oof. well. alright.
Now I totally need a survival horror TR.
Really wish the new series had had more horror and scary enemies in it. They didn't nessasarily have to be totally supernatural and off the wall bonkers but I feel like alot of the horror for the new 2013 game was only ever hinted at in tombs and with that one cannibal-esque part.
More creepy cannibals and shady characters would've been cool, instead of just making it a 'search for Sam' simulator and throwing all the supernatural stuff at the end in such an unsatisfying way. It's what I'd wished for when first reading about the remake.
This is where the Ascension stuff starts to lose me just a little bit. It looks awesome, don't get me wrong. But the character model and the way she moves doesn't give me Lara Croft at all. I love the horror vibe of it, but if Lara actually resembled Lara in her design and movements a little more i'd love it. The first two Ascension videos you posted were awesome, if you mixed those two videos character and movement design, with this gameplay and more horror vibe it would be perfect. The last clip in this video does fit that a little more, the dual pistols, acrobatic movement and design that looks a little more like Lara. This stuff is still super awesome to see, especially because not many developers release this much development footage, especially not of scrapped ideas!
A lot of the animation and combat seem to be imported directly from the Legend trilogy as a placeholder and reference point.
Looks neat. Kinda like a Tomb Raider alternate reality, parallel earth, or just a spinoff game of "What If" in the tomb raider world/universe. Even a short game of something like this(like 3 hrs) would be awesome if it didnt have any filler.
This must be a new game, I loved the ideas
At least make it into a spin off. I've been looking for games like this to play.
The makeshift flamethrower with a jerrycan strapped to her back! What an awesome weapon XD
Survival horror Tomb Raider sounds AMAZING
Please make this
this was interesting watching,i m the only one who feels pity that we didnt see such tomb raider?
Cool. Now the horror concept art from TR's Definitive Edition makes sense
This... is awesome. I wish these monsters were still in the final game, after killing genetic gunman nº 300 I realized how boring the combat was....
4:00 I wouldn’t mind to play some sort of shadow of the colossus clone, even a TR-game, as long as it is good
Tomb Raider was always more about going to weird places and fighting weird beings instead of hordes of cover shooting hordes of thugs. As much as I like TR and RoTTR, this concept seems much more interesting and faithful. Maybe exagerating the supernatural elements of the originals would've been better nicer than having almost none
I think having monsters and demons to fight makes more sense than 150 people living on a damn island for years with very little access to food and medical supplies while fending off undead Japanese soldiers of the Edo period.
Omg i would have loved playing this! I played all the last three tomb raider games on PS4 and loved them! They look great on my ps5 BTW
Clearly the game would look diffrent and much better. Hit me hard. Breath taking and the feeling that this game will never be real.
So basically TR 2013 started as a video game loosely based on/connected to the movie The Descend and somewhere along the way the developers decided to pitch it as a TR game? 🤔😄😆 Would explain a lot 😄
Big fan of horror and the trilogy, the teams that worked on the trilogy implemented the shots of horror in those games very well, I'd really like to see a game dedicated to it.
Man this looks way better than fighting mercs with guns, looks very interesting.
What's the first song?
I still need this game
Looks crazy!
Very dark and ambitious!
This could be the ultimate action game when the focus is on the enemies and on the survival element.
And its not easy to kill those monsters and you should probably run for your life.
LOVE IT.
4:28 NOT THE HORSE 😰😭😭💔
Si lo muestran ahora seguro planean continuar la saga en esta dirección aprovechando el éxito de Resident Evil al volver al Survival
0:17 Would it have been the first TPS game that you can run backwards in? Overhead twin stick shooters you can do it in. Not sure how useful it would've been with this camera angle though. 2D run 'n' gun games, or even FPS on the other hand...
Would love to see this become a spin off of sorts, always loved the horror aspects in this series and it’d be amazing to see it be the focal point for once
when does this come out????
Please bring equestrian Lara into the next game I beg you!!!
I want this. Like, want want. Really fun direction for a tomb raider game!
Thank you for sharing.
Feels like Home! Not after stomp down the Reboot2013. Before waiting for This so long! And I remember and still love THIS xD
Oh maybe already wrote it 💯👍Thx.
This reminds me of Drakan: Order Of The Flame
Now i want this game
It's incredible .. I've never seen anything like it. It's a shame to tears that we have lost such a masterpiece
I really would love if they finished this game. I love horror games and Tomb Raider. It would be my favorite game of TR, probably.
But, these footage have so much potential, if even doesn't look like a TR game, I would definitely play a game like this, event without the TR name.
Honestly unbelievable we got robbed of a flamethrower
They really should have kept the acrobatics or at least something that classic Lara is capible of doing.
Jesus H Christ SOTC had such an enormous impact on game developers.
Is it just me or does it feel a bit like Resident Evil Revelations 2?
At around 6:40 you can hear the main 2013 TR theme
4:36 awesome scene!
Source on music?
This was very interesting to watch!
While I didn’t care much for 2013, I think I would’ve liked this less. Much more horror game-y than even 2013 felt like it tried to be. Like others said in some other comments, felt like it had some Resident Evil elements with the monsters.
And I’m still not sold on TR being open world (I think I read Ascension was supposed to be open world?)
However I really liked the last combat clip and loved the way Lara moved! I would love to see more of that and of course with the acrobatics from LAU!
I need play this game
Music name? 0:16
i love how this has a lot more horror elements. this is the direction the franchise should take honestly, it would go so well with classic Lara's hard-boiledness
No
@@gravit0nable Yes
Too horror. Too Silent Hill, nothing to do with Tomb Raider. Horror in Tomb Raider should be done as was in TR1 and Chronicles (which was very close to this Ascension).
@@Frjttr we need the horror elements that were in TR underworld!
@@graveraider1029 was TRU horror? 😂
Gods, this is the Tomb Raider we should've gotten.
I love Tomb Raider 2013 but i want that survival-horror vibes to Lara too, looks amazing!
It looks like they turned the entire Gallows section of Chronicles into a whole game
Wouldn't mind some of these features coming in a new game
we need this 😭
Tomb Raider with horror elements would be very interesting for me.
I would buy it.
This needs to be the next tomb Raider game