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<title><![CDATA[Tomb Raider (1996)]]></title>
<link>http://retrokadabra.wordpress.com/2009/11/29/tomb-raider-1996/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 19:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Robert Bronson</dc:creator>
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<description><![CDATA[Tytuł, o którym chciałbym dzisiaj co nieco napisać uchodzi za jeden z pierwszych, który zapoczątkowa]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">Tytuł, o którym chciałbym dzisiaj co nieco napisać uchodzi za jeden z pierwszych, który zapoczątkował modę na multipierdolca związanego  z postaciami z gier komputerowych. Zjawisko to zazwyczaj objawia się w taki sposób, że obok premiery gry komputerowej na rynku pojawiają się równocześnie: film na jej podstawie, odrębna ścieżka dźwiękowa, t-shirty czy futra z norek sygnowane logiem gry. Oczywiście takiej mnogości gadżetów przy pierwszym Tomb Raiderze nie uświadczyliśmy, ale przygody Lary Croft stały się inspiracją do wykorzystywania jej wizerunku w każdy z możliwych sposobów. Czy to dobrze, czy źle pozostawiam do indywidualnych rozważań.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Lara po raz pierwszy</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><a href="http://retrokadabra.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tytulowy.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-623" title="Lara uśmiecha się z menusa :-)." src="http://retrokadabra.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tytulowy.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>Historia zaczyna się w czasach kiedy bawełna na ciepłe majtki Lary Croft jeszcze nie wykiełkowała, bo gdzieś w nieokreślonej przeszłości.  W tajemniczym Los Alamos dochodzi do potężnego wybuchu, który spowodował trzęsienie ziemi, a w efekcie taniec potężnych artefaktów wydobytych z pustynnych piachów znajdujących się pod jurysdykcją rzeczonej osady. Wtem, po kilku wizjach z tego tajemniczego intro, lądujemy w teraźniejszości u boku Lary Croft.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Nasza bohaterka to wzięta panna archeolog z szlacheckim rodowodem, która nie narzeka na brak zajęć, ale wkrótce jej życiu dostarczony zostanie dodatkowy zestaw emocji, który rozpocznie właściwą przygodę pierwszego Tomb Raidera.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Otóż kontakt z Larą nawiązuje niejaki Larson Conway, służbowy pies dony potężnej korporacji Natla Technologies, niejakiej Jacqueline Natli.<!--more--></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Owa businesswoman doceniając  walory Lary (w tym wypadku rzeczywiście chodzi o dobry poziom wyedukowania bohaterki oraz  inne umiejętności niekoniecznie związane z pysznościami) zleca jej odnalezienie tajemniczego artefaktu o nazwie Scion. Brytyjska panna archeolog nie rozważając długo propozycji, zlecenie przyjmuje i natychmiast wyrusza przetrzeć szlaki Donaldowi Tuskowi, a więc w kierunku słonecznego Peru.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Jak się jednak wkrótce okaże Jacqueline Natla, nie tyle uchodzi za bogatego zleceniodawcę mającego kaprysy, a za zimne i wyrachowane babsko, która rozgrywa swoją grę na kilka frontów&#8230; tak aby zrealizować demoniczny plan.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Na kilku krańcach świata, a nawet i w jego wnętrzu</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">W pierwszym Tomb Raiderze zwiedzimy łącznie piętnaście dużych poziomów rozmieszczonych w kilku państwach. Zaczynając od Peru (Jaskinie, miasto Vilcabamba, Zagubiona Dolina i grobowiec Qualopec), przez Antyczną Grecję  (klasztor św. Franciszka Szalonego, eee&#8230; greckie Koloseum, Pałac Midasa, cysterna i grobowiec Tihocan), po Egipt (miasto Khamoon, obelisk Khamoon i Sanktuarium Scionu), ku Zagubionemu Światu vide Atlantydzie (kopalnie Natli, Atlantis i Wielka Piramida).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Główną bohaterką gry jest oczywiście Lara Croft. Poza wspomnianym już angielskim pochodzeniem i błękitnej krwi płynącej w jej <a href="http://retrokadabra.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/lara-i-bujna-natura-pasuja-do-siebie.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-624" title="Lara i bujna przyroda. Pasują do siebie." src="http://retrokadabra.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/lara-i-bujna-natura-pasuja-do-siebie.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>żyłach, nie sposób nie napisać o innych zaletach Lary. Chodzi mi tu o wyjątkowo sprawne posługiwanie się berettami i innymi rodzajami uzbrojenia, dużą zwinność, wyjątkowy intelekt i piękne, duże&#8230; oczy.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Po drugiej stronie barykady dużo namiesza Jacqueline Natla, która jest święcie przekonana o swoim pochodzeniu sięgającym aż do czasów Atlantydy, którą miała władać.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Stali współpracownicy Natli to flejowaty Larson Conway dysponujący intelektem i siłą wynoszącymi w sumie zero oraz znany Larze już przed laty (a więc przed pojawieniem się pierwszej części Tomb Raider) Pierre Dupont, który będzie jej dosyć skutecznie utrudniał życie, a także kilku mniej istotnych goryli Natli (m.in. Skateboard Kid i Kold).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Panna archeolog zmierzy się bezpośrednio z częścią wyżej wymienionych postaci, ale główne walki przyjdzie jej stoczyć z pupilami Gucwińskich: misiami, gackami, lwami, szczurami, centaurami, wilkami, krokodylami czy innymi większymi gadami i jaszczurami (z dinozaurami włącznie). Osobną kategorią stanowi Natla po transformacji, ale to już pozostawiam każdemu do własnego przeżycia.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Nie byłoby Tomb Raidera bez elementów zręcznościowych polegających na walce, wspinaczce i unikaniu pułapek, ale  i bez zagadek logicznych, których w grze naturalnie nie zabraknie.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong>Głos zza monitora<br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;">Pierwszy Tomb Raider, znany w niektórych kręgach jako &#8220;Podziemny Rajdowiec&#8221; (sic!), to klasyczna gra akcji z widokiem TPP.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Panna archeolog z Wimbledonu w pierwszej części swoich komputerowych przygód prezentuje się ładnie po dzisiejszy dzień. Grafika i animacje zaprojektowane przez Core Design wytrzymały próbę czasu, o czym świadczą liczne reedycje pierwszego Tomb Raidera. Ok, może młodszemu oku nieco dokuczać kanciastość postaci, ale uwierzcie mi, że owe kanty naprawdę fajnie prezentują się trochę wyżej pępuszka Lary.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dubbingiem głosu Lary zajęła się niejaka Shelley Blond, która ze swojej roli <a href="http://retrokadabra.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/sfinks.jpg"><img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-625" title="Zagadka Sfinksa: Jakim rozmiarem biustu dysponuje Lara?" src="http://retrokadabra.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/sfinks.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="300" height="225" /></a>wywiązała się naprawdę dobrze. Jest to jej jedyny udział w Tomb Raiderze dzięki czemu urosła do miana postaci kultowej, wielokrotnie wspominanej jako ta, której zabrakło w następnych częściach. Na pocieszenie można dodać, że głos pani Blond mogliśmy jeszcze uświadczyć m.in. w Black &#38; White Molyneuxa z 2001 roku.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Poza oralnymi wdziękami Shelley Blond o mocnej oprawie audio w Tomb Raiderze świadczy też fakt, że obok podstawowej wersji Tomb Raidera w czasach premiery można było nabyć soundtrack do gry. Ścieżka muzyczna jest rzeczywiście niezła, ale i same odgłosy w grze wypada ocenić dobrze (ze swojej &#8220;naturalnej&#8221; roli wywiązują się perfekcyjnie).</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Reasumując trzeba powiedzieć, że postać Lary Croft i pierwsza część Tomb Raidera przyczyniły się w wielkim stopniu do rozwoju gier TPP, w których mieliśmy do czynienia z bardzo dobrze rozwiniętym indywiduum. Tym większa zasługa twórców Lary, że nie tworzyli swojej historii na podstawie istniejącego już pomysłu (vide Indiana Jones), a wykreowali coś zupełniego świeżego, nieznanego wcześniej, czyt. niebezpieczną seks bombę, której popularność zbliża się do popularności Che Guevary.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Zatem: Lara na koszulki!</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong>Musisz sięgnąć jeśli&#8230; </strong>lubisz czuć na skórze pejczyk przeznaczenia <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':-)' class='wp-smiley' /> .</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">a</span></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="color:#000000;">Screeny pochodzą po części z własnego źródła, a po części w internetowej encyklopedii o Tomb Raiderze.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tak Bongkot Kongmalai (ตั๊ก บงกช คงมาลัย)]]></title>
<link>http://sw-eden.net/2009/11/26/tuk-bongkot-kongmalai/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:37:04 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Sw Eden</dc:creator>
<guid>http://sw-eden.net/2009/11/26/tuk-bongkot-kongmalai/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Some Thai people think that her face is not beautiful, but only her boobs are so great. Thailand has]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Some Thai people think that her face is not beautiful, but only her boobs are so great. Thailand has too many beautiful people, is the reason that Tak Bongkot Kongmalai seems so regular. Her habit makes her different. She is internationally more famous than other Thai actresses. I know that foreigners keep google her name. Thay knew her from many export movies, such as Tom Yum Kung, Bangrajan, Ai Fak, etc.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sw_eden/4131598529/"><img src="http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2636/4131598529_7d174508a9.jpg"><br />
ตั๊ก บงกช คงมาลัย Tak Bongkot Kongmalai, Drawing by Sw Eden</a><img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sw_eden/4131598529/"></p>
<p>This is different from in Thailand itself. Most teenagers do not talk about her that much, although everyone knows her. Mostly they do talk about sweet-white-skin actresses and feminine-face actors. Some people who hate Tak Bongkot also rail her as a porn star. This word is not cool in Thailand. Thais do not consider it as Rock Star as American thought. She is actually not a porn star, but she has many rumors about her boyfriends. This is the main reason that some people cannot stand it.</p>
<p>Thai culture is intersection between low-context and high-context. Tak Bongkot tends to be very very low-context as America and Switzerland. Low-context people always do not care much about her rule in the movie or her gossip news, but they just catch up as fans. On the other hand, high-context people will keep talking and posting her bad news up on the website. Their leader is one old woman. These people like to blame other people, because they will be famous from their bad words. This makes me not sure that they are super high-context or they just want to show off.</p>
<p>The thing that make me interested in her more than other Thai actresses is how baring she talks. I like her interview. She is not super intelligent, but her words are friendly. When I look up English sources online, I am happy that she is so hot! I had watch her in a variety show. It is about making coffee and tea. The show sent her to be the cook&#8217;s assistant. First time, she knew that the camera was there, but when she was in hurry, she forgot everything. She tasted a milky sugar with her finger. She looks so innocence. The cook finished many cup of Thai Tea and gave them away to the audience, cup by cup, by cup, by cup. She stared at him as, &#8220;WTF?&#8221;. I like that face so much. She is not arrogant and pretending as many movie stars do.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sw_eden/3394609076/"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3554/3394609076_2a8f11e0b5.jpg"><br />
Tak Bongkot Kongmalai ตั๊ก บงกช คงมาลัย, Drawing by Sw Eden</a><img src="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sw_eden/3394609076/"></p>
<p>One of my friend let me know that &#8220;Tak Bongkot&#8221; represent a bad meaning in their group. About 3 years ago, I have dinner with a group of Thai students in New York City. We talked about entertainment in general. Ome said, &#8220;I do not like Brad Pitt&#8217;s new girlfriend, Angelina Jolie, because she is just like Tak Bongkot, I mean the harlot.&#8221; That shocked me!! Both Angelina Jolie and Tak Bongkot are my favorite!! They are self-confident women. They are such the female sexy heroes in the online game. I argued with Ome, and some other friends helped to separate us.</p>
<p>Ome&#8217;s word is half right and half wrong. Half wrong is they are not harlot. And the half right is they have something similar. I did not really notice that, too. Once, in summer 2009, the Post Today Newspaper printed Tak Bongkot with Lara Croft, Tom Rider dress. It was for The Reality Show in Bangkok. Thai actors and actresses dressed to be all famous Hollywood stars. Tak Bongkot is the most similar one. I saw Johney Depp and Tom Cruise and stuff, but they did not look like the real guys.</p>
<p>This is Tak Bongkot Kongmalai in Lara Croft, Tom Rider dress.<br />
<img src="http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/83/l_048fc561da504607aadda9299d1cd95f.jpg"></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Top 10 Hottest Girls in Gaming]]></title>
<link>http://chillinaris.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/top-10-hottest-girls-in-gaming/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:24:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>chillinaris</dc:creator>
<guid>http://chillinaris.wordpress.com/2009/11/26/top-10-hottest-girls-in-gaming/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[10. Akasha from Unreal Tournament 3 9. Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever series 8. Natasha Henst]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[Pandemic in your home...]]></title>
<link>http://littlejuicebox.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/pandemic-in-your-home/</link>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>littlejuicebox</dc:creator>
<guid>http://littlejuicebox.wordpress.com/2009/11/22/pandemic-in-your-home/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[I havent written for about a week. I was planning to the other day, and then I got sick with suspect]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;">I havent written for about a week. I was planning to the other day, and then I got sick with suspected swine flu! I am taking the Tamiflu meds that I have been prescribed and feel slightly better; the pain killers seem to help me faze in and out of the real world. All in all, I dont think I have had the worst case of flu ever, but it has been horrible. I am still not better in the slightest but should be in a few days. To take 5 mins on your hands and knees to get upstairs to the toilet doesnt really help esteem&#8230;</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">It was my friend Lauren&#8217;s 21st birthday yesterday, but alas I was too poorly to go out with her, and then go to work <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_sad.gif' alt=':(' class='wp-smiley' />  I will make it up to you I promise, and I hope you had a good birthday!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignnone" src="http://photos-c.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs001.snc3/10847_166605599671_505534671_2660322_7310367_n.jpg" alt="" width="236" height="245" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Today I found out that my dad has been taking great photos of Lego men!? He stole a load from me before the summer but I hadnt seen any of the produce. Here is my favourite:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://www.perfectlycaptured.com/member.php?uid=498"><img class="alignnone" src="http://www.perfectlycaptured.com/data/530/thumbs/Bodum_cat.jpg" alt="" width="253" height="222" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Click the image to see all of his work. He does a lot of nature and macro photography, which I think is great. There is no dispute that my photography inspiration and knowledge has always come from him <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p style="text-align:center;">What else have I found while laying around feeling sorry for myself&#8230;? A beautiful place called Stitch Lab, which looks too good to be true!:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/903810/111809_stitchlab03_rect640.JPG"><img class="alignnone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/903810/111809_stitchlab03_rect640.JPG" alt="" width="205" height="164" /> </a><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/903830/110809_stitchlab05_rect640.JPG"><img class="alignnone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/903830/110809_stitchlab05_rect640.JPG" alt="" width="249" height="165" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/903890/110809_stitchlab11_rect640.JPG"><img class="alignnone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/903890/110809_stitchlab11_rect640.JPG" alt="" width="452" height="327" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">When I feel better I am planning to sort out the spare room into a spare room/sewing and crafts room! I cant wait!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">This living room is very cute! I love the crochet throw on the sofa, the little green table in the back and the kitchen too&#8230;:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/898550/2_APAK_111709_rect640.jpg"><img class="alignnone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/898550/2_APAK_111709_rect640.jpg" alt="" width="213" height="142" /></a> <a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/898650/12_APAK_111709_rect640.jpg"><img class="alignnone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/898650/12_APAK_111709_rect640.jpg" alt="" width="211" height="141" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">I also want a typewriter like this! Its amazing!:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><a href="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/891410/08_rect640.jpg"><img class="alignnone" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/atimg/891410/08_rect640.jpg" alt="" width="420" height="589" /></a></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Im not sure what else to write about at the moment, my brain is a bit fried from all the pain killers. Hopefully I will feel a bit better tomorrow.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">[No picture - poorly-state face]</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">Jenn xx</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">P.S I finished Tomb Raider: Underworld on the 360, and now I am in the middle of Wet. Both games are great!</p>
<p style="text-align:center;">P.P.S <span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/X0-Sv6YnxEc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/X0-Sv6YnxEc&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Lara Croft stripping in Silent Hill!? ]]></title>
<link>http://gameprefuse.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/lara-croft-stripping-in-silent-hill/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 10:29:06 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>gameprefuse</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gameprefuse.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/lara-croft-stripping-in-silent-hill/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[This new Pringles ad is ludicrous!]]></description>
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<p>This new Pringles ad is ludicrous!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Internet es para el porno]]></title>
<link>http://nachorequena.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/internet-es-para-el-porno/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Nacho Requena Molina</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nachorequena.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/internet-es-para-el-porno/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[El otro día, durante el ensayo de un Talk-Show en una de las clases de la Universidad, nuestro profe]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:justify;">El otro día, durante el ensayo de un <strong>Talk-Show</strong> en una de las clases de la Universidad, nuestro profesor de la materia nos eligió a Quique, José Mari (dos amigos) y a mí para la realización de un talk-show. Quizás porque somos los sin-vergüenza de la clase, los que hacer el payaso en tono serio nos da igual.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">El tema a tratar era <strong>Internet</strong>. Al ver los tres que era un tema que dominábamos, dijimos:<em> &#8220;vamos a hacerlo en plan coña; Internet es para el porno&#8221;</em>. Y hoy navegando por Internet me encontré este gracioso vídeo protagonizado por Lara Croft titulado:<strong> Internet es para porno</strong>.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Dedicad un rato a ver el vídeo y así dejáis a un lado redtube, youporn, pornoaburrirse y demás webs por el estilo.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Porque sí, internet es para el porno, y no mintáis&#8230; <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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<title><![CDATA[Tomb Raider: A Brief History]]></title>
<link>http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/tomb-raider-a-brief-history/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 22:40:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>realityglitch</dc:creator>
<guid>http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/tomb-raider-a-brief-history/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Brief History of Tomb Raider  Tomb Raider follows the adventures of Lara Croft, a British female a]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><h2 style="text-align:center;"><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">A Brief History of Tomb Raider</span></span> </h2>
<p><a href="http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tibet.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-72" title="Tomb Raider" src="http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tibet-e1258581573239.jpg?w=200" alt="" width="175" height="112" /></a>Tomb Raider follows the adventures of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures. Tomb Raider was widely praised by gaming magazines for its revolutionary graphics, inventive game play, and involving storyline.</p>
<p>It was developed by Core Design and is arguably its most famous (amongst other classics such as Chuck Rock and Heimdall) and most successful game.</p>
<p>Developed by Toby Gard (hailed as the creator of Lara) and Paul Howard Douglas, the original Tomb Raider began development in 1993 but was not released until November 1996 for the PC, PlayStation, and Sega Saturn. The game was critically acclaimed and widely influential, spawning 5 sequels with Core Design. Core developed Tomb Raider games up until the release of Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness, which can be argued as the most unsuccessful game in the series. </p>
<p>Publisher Eidos then passed the reinvention of the franchise onto Crystal Dynamics, who in turn reinvented Lara for a new generation of gamers and hardware in Tomb Raider: Legend and Tomb Raider: Anniversary (a rethinking of the original game by Core Design).</p>
<p><a href="http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fintrex1.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-74" title="Tomb Raider - T Rex" src="http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/fintrex1.jpg" alt="" width="139" height="117" /><img class="size-medium wp-image-75 alignnone" title="Tomb Raider - End Boss" src="http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen11.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="131" height="117" /></a><img class="size-medium wp-image-76   alignnone" title="Panther Mummies" src="http://realityglitch.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/screen5.jpg?w=300" alt="" width="144" height="117" /></p>
<p>There are two different continuities within the Tomb Raider video games. The first continuity was created by Core Design, and encompasses the first six Tomb Raider games. The second and current continuity was introduced by Crystal Dynamics for the series&#8217; reinvention in Tomb Raider: Legend. Both continuities were created with the participation of Toby Gard (Gard returned to assist with the reinvention of his character in Tomb Raider: Anniversary). Lara currently stars in Tomb Raider Underworld released in 2008.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><strong><span style="color:#3366ff;"><span style="text-decoration:underline;">Developers</span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong>Core Design:</strong></p>
<p>Core Design was set up in 1988 by Chris Shrigley, Andy Green, Rob Toone, Terry Lloyd, Simon Phipps, Dave Pridmore, Jeremy Smith and Greg Holmes. Most were former employees of Gremlin Graphics. Core Design was acquired by Eidos Interactive in 1996 through US Gold. Core continued development of the Tomb Raider games until 2003 with Angel of Darkness. The company became defunct in 2006.</p>
<p>The list of Tomb Raider games released by Core is:</p>
<p>Tomb Raider (1996)<br />
Tomb Raider II (1997)<br />
Tomb Raider III (1998)<br />
Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation (1999/2000)<br />
Tomb Raider Chronicles (2000)<br />
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness (2003)</p>
<p>And expansions:</p>
<p>Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (1998)<br />
Tomb Raider II: Golden Mask (1999)<br />
Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artifact (2000)</p>
<p><strong>Crystal Dynamics:</strong></p>
<p>Crystal Dynamics was formed in 1992 by Sega veterans Judy Lange, Madeline Canepa and Dave Morse (Amiga). Crystal was the first licensed developer for 3DO. Crystal Dynamics was acquired in 1998 by Eidos Interactive and by 2003, Eidos Interactive moved development of the Tomb Raider franchise from Core (which had limited success with its later Tomb Raider titles) to Crystal Dynamics.</p>
<p>The list of Tomb Raider games released by Crystal Dynamics is:</p>
<p>Tomb Raider: Legend (2006)<br />
Tomb Raider: Anniversary (2007)<br />
Tomb Raider: Underworld (2008)</p>
<p><strong>Eidos Interactive:</strong></p>
<p>Eidos Interactive is a publisher of video and computer games with its parent company based in England. Eidos plc became the parent company of Eidos Interactive and was founded in 1990 by Stephen Bernard Streater. In 1996 it acquired CentreGold which included US Gold and Core Design. Eidos has published all the Tomb Raider games to date. Eidos Interactive is now a part of Square Enix (April 2009). Some of Eidos portfolio of published games includes the Hitman series, Thief series and Deus Ex series.</p>
<p>Tomb Raider is the first game I had for my Sega Saturn and from the moment the title screen appeared and its signature title music began I was hooked. Even though I love the new games, and thoroughly enjoyed the anniversary Edition, nothing will match the feeling of playing the original for the first time. The graphics were impressive and a control system I&#8217;d not experienced before was quick and easy to get used to, it opened up a whole new world of exploration and puzzle solving as well as story telling and action.</p>
<p>One of my all time favourite retro games, some of my favourite levels from the original include St Francis Folly (Neptune, Thor, Atlas and Damocles puzzles) The Cistern and the Obelisk of Khamoon. The title music (and incidental music) make playing this through again worthwhile and certainly brings back a lot of memories.</p>
<p>For a taste of the original soundtrack see <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwpxk_xwpDU">Tomb Raider Title Music</a>!</p>
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<title><![CDATA[WOW!!! Así si como Pringles....]]></title>
<link>http://fanboyopolis.com/2009/11/18/wow-asi-si-como-pringles/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>richoropeza</dc:creator>
<guid>http://fanboyopolis.com/2009/11/18/wow-asi-si-como-pringles/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Choque de mundos en este comercial de Pringles&#8230;La supuesta Lara si me convence.]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Choque de mundos en este comercial de Pringles&#8230;La supuesta Lara si me convence.</p>
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<title><![CDATA[My name is Evelyn Salt]]></title>
<link>http://killer155.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/my-name-is-evelyn-salt/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 19:38:33 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>killer155</dc:creator>
<guid>http://killer155.wordpress.com/2009/11/17/my-name-is-evelyn-salt/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A Angelina, que adora um filme no style Lara Croft está com mais um pra ser lançado o ano que vem. S]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>A Angelina, que adora um filme no style Lara Croft está com mais um pra ser lançado o ano que vem. Se chama Salt, e ao que aparenta ela vai ter que provar se é ou não uma agente secreta russa atuando nos EUA (a guerra fria já não acabou?).</p>
<p>Saiu o banner e o trailler do filme hoje, ó:</p>
<p><a href="http://killer155.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/angelina-jolie-salt-poster.jpg"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-291" title="angelina-jolie-salt-poster" src="http://killer155.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/angelina-jolie-salt-poster.jpg" alt="" width="450" height="667" /></a>O trailer é legal até, rola aquela vontade de assistir e tudo mais, mas será que vai ser bom? O filme tem previsão de estréia no meio do ano que vem nos Estados Unidos.</p>
<p><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/ScVJE6RcyH4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/ScVJE6RcyH4&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[FuzzFactory Classifieds: Gaming's Forgotten Twins Visit the Loveshack]]></title>
<link>http://thefuzzfactory.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/fuzzfactory-classifieds-gamings-forgotten-twins-visit-the-loveshack/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 17:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Hot Fuzz</dc:creator>
<guid>http://thefuzzfactory.wordpress.com/2009/11/16/fuzzfactory-classifieds-gamings-forgotten-twins-visit-the-loveshack/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[A few game characters&#8217; brothers and sisters are out there looking for love&#8230; It can be ha]]></description>
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<p>A few game characters&#8217; brothers and sisters are out there looking for love&#8230;</p>
<p>It can be hard to find a date when you&#8217;re the twin of a gaming icon. Nights spent all alone watching endless <em>Friends </em>re-runs or lying catatonic listening to William Shatner<em> </em>sing <em>Common People</em> on repeat; with dinner medallions from the microwave lasagne staining your crusty vest and sweatpants, and a half bottle of budget vodka for company &#8211; these things don&#8217;t help the love-life one little bit.</p>
<p>We thought we&#8217;d lend a helping hand to some of the medium&#8217;s forgotten siblings in their quest to find a soulmate by printing a few of their calling cards. It&#8217;s time for these brothers and sisters to step out of their shadowy cocoons and blossom into the love bugs they were destined to be.</p>
<h2>1. Larry Croft</h2>
<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-7769" src="http://www.dealspwn.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/LarryCroft1.jpg" alt="LarryCroft" width="540" height="749" /></p>
<p>Larry&#8217;s a tall and athletic fella with a penchant for digging, spelunking and hunting, much like his sister Lara. He&#8217;s a perfect gentleman too, coming from good aristocratic stock, although you&#8217;d best steer clear of enquiring about the parents.</p>
<p>A huge fan of all things old and curious, our Larry&#8217;s looking for a more mature woman, someone with a story or two to tell, preferably with strange and dubious links to mythological sects and texts. He&#8217;s also a fan of old-school smoking jackets, luxury liners and racy point-and-click adventure games. But no photographers: they always Photoshop ridiculously-proportioned organs onto the poor lad. And who can live with that kind of pressure?</p>
<p><strong><em><a href="http://www.dealspwn.com/lonely-hearts-gamings-gender-reversed-twins/">Read the full article at Dealspwn here!</a></em></strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Best and Worst Video Games turned into Movies]]></title>
<link>http://gheymedia.com/2009/11/16/best-and-worst-video-games-turned-into-movies/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 15:13:38 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>ashfordinkentucky</dc:creator>
<guid>http://gheymedia.com/2009/11/16/best-and-worst-video-games-turned-into-movies/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Now I have always had an interest in Gaming and Movies as my fellow colleague has and over the last ]]></description>
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Now I have always had an interest in Gaming and Movies as my fellow colleague has and over the last 15 years Hollywood has tried to turn some of the best selling and most loved games into marketable movies which kids and adults of all ages will love&#8230;. well they have tried and in my view there have been more misses than hits..</p>
<p>Click to view the full list and how much they made  since 1993:</p>
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<p>Figures are from the U.S. box office.</p>
<ul>
<li>Super Mario Bros. (May 28, 1993)Budget: $42mil/Grossed: $20mil</li>
<li>Double Dragon (Nov. 4, 1994) Grossed: $2mil</li>
<li>Street Fighter (Dec. 23, 1994) Budget: $35mil/Grossed: $33mil</li>
<li>Mortal Kombat (Aug. 18, 1995) Budget: $20mil/Grossed: $70mil</li>
<li>Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (Nov. 21, 1997) Budget: $30mil/Grossed: $35mil</li>
<li>Wing Commander (March 12, 1999) Budget: $30mil/Grossed: $11.5mil</li>
<li>Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (June 15, 2001) Budget: $80mil/Grossed: $131mil</li>
<li>Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life (July 21, 2003) Budget: $90mil/Grossed: $65.6mil</li>
<li>Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within (July 21, 2001) Budget: $137mil/Grossed: $32mil</li>
<li>Resident Evil (March 12, 2002) Budget: $32mil/Grossed: $40mil</li>
<li>Resident Evil: Apocalypse (Sept. 10, 2004) Budget: $43mil/Grossed: $50.7mil</li>
<li>Resident Evil: Extinction (Sept. 20, 2007) Budget: $45mil/Gross: $49.9mil</li>
<li>House of the Dead (Feb. 15, 2003) Budget: $7mil/Grossed: $10mil</li>
<li>Alone in the Dark (Jan. 28, 2005) Budget: $20mil/Grossed: $5mil</li>
<li>Final Fantasy VII Advent Children (Sept. 14, 2005)</li>
<li>Doom (Oct. 20, 2005) Budget: $70mil/Grossed: $28mil</li>
<li>BloodRayne (Oct. 23, 2005) Budget: $25mil/Grossed: $2mil</li>
<li>Silent Hill (April 21, 2006) Budget: $50mil/Grossed: $46.9mil</li>
<li>Dead or Alive (Sept. 7, 2006) Budget: $21mil/Grossed: $480,314</li>
<li>Postal (July 21, 2007) Budget: $20mil/Grossed: $18mil</li>
<li>BloodRayne II: Deliverance (Sept. 18, 2007) Budget: $10mil/Grossed: No U.S. figure.</li>
<li>Hitman (Nov. 21, 2007) Budget: $24mil/Grossed: $39.6mil</li>
<li>Far Cry (Oct. 2, 2008) Budget: $30mil (est.)/Grossed: €566,594 (Germany)</li>
<li>Max Payne (Oct. 16, 2008) Budget: $35million/Grossed: $40.6million</li>
<li>Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (Feb. 27, 2009) Budget: $50mil/Grossed: $8.7mil</li>
</ul>
<p>Now if I had to pick the best of the bunch they would have to be:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Mortal Kombat Poster" src="http://www.impawards.com/1995/posters/mortal_kombat_ver2.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider Poster" src="http://www.allposters.com/images/68/040_FP0953.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="Resident Evil Poster" src="http://www.filtersage.com/uploads/280px-Resident-Evil-Poster.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="Hitman Poster" src="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2007/10/25/hitman-intl-poster.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="Silent Hill Poster" src="http://dietrichthrall.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/silenthillposter.jpg?w=95&#038;h=142" alt="" width="95" height="142" /></p>
<ol>
<li>Mortal Kombat &#8211; Excellent game and the movie tranition was amazing.  Seeing Sub Zero and Scorpion running amok.</li>
<li>Tomb Raider &#8211; Every gamers dream come to life with Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft!!! how much drool factor do you need</li>
<li>Resident Evil &#8211; Only the First one, the rest weren&#8217;t that great, but the first included lots of gore, zombies and guns&#8230; just what we like.</li>
<li>HitMan &#8211; I don&#8217;t care what some of you say but I liked it, the acting was dodgy, the effects weren&#8217;t great, but it had a good story and Tim Olyphant (what a stupid name) was decent in it</li>
<li>Silent Hill &#8211; One of the most scariest games ever and an easy one to trasnition into a movie..</li>
</ol>
<p>Now for the worst</p>
<p style="text-align:left;"><img class="alignnone" title="Super Mario Bros. Poster" src="http://www.nattawat.org/stuff/images/movies/Super%20Mario%20Bros/poster.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="Double Dragon movie poster" src="http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/78/MPW-39299" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="BloodRayne movie poster" src="http://z.about.com/d/movies/1/0/U/6/8/bloodrayneposter.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="Max Payne movie poster" src="http://www.iwatchstuff.com/2008/10/09/max-payne-poster-20.jpg" alt="" width="95" height="142" /><img class="alignnone" title="Street Fighter movie poster" src="http://www.movieposter.com/posters/archive/main/14/A70-7108" alt="" width="95" height="142" /></p>
<ol>
<li>Super Mario Brothers &#8211; WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!</li>
<li>Double Dragon &#8211; The game as great, but the movie was dire</li>
<li>BloodRayne &#8211; more like PooRayne</li>
<li>Max Payne &#8211; ok how many more movies with Mark Whalberg as a cop on the other side of the law do we need&#8230; wait here comes another one</li>
<li>Street Fighter &#8211; the only good thing was Kylie and the late Raul Julia.. apart from that this film was a DUCK!!</li>
</ol>
<p>You probably have your own idea of what you liked and didn&#8217;t like.. if you have any comments Tweet me &#8211; ashman18874</p>
<p>Oh and a tease of whats coming soon:</p>
<ul>
<li>The King of Fighters (November 4, 2009)</li>
<li>Tekken (November 5, 2009)</li>
<li>Professor Layton and the Eternal Diva (December 19, 2009)</li>
<li>The Legend of Spyro 3D (April 10, 2010)</li>
<li>Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (May 26, 2010)</li>
<li>Resident Evil: Afterlife (August 27, 2010)</li>
<li>Mortal Kombat: Devastation (2010)</li>
</ul>
<p>- Ash</p>
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<title><![CDATA[The babes]]></title>
<link>http://retrojc.com/2009/11/13/the-babes/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:08:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>retrojc</dc:creator>
<guid>http://retrojc.com/2009/11/13/the-babes/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So, i felt, being in a laddish mood today, and still being 19, im aloud to say this&#8230;these ladi]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>So, i felt, being in a laddish mood today, and still being 19, im aloud to say this&#8230;these ladies are the babes of the video games world. Originaly it was a top 5, but there is just tooo many babes.</p>
<pre><em>I'm just doing this to annoy the misses, and have a laugh.</em></pre>
<p><strong>Number 10 -Dead Or Alive babes, as a whole.</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/deadoralivebabe.gif" alt="dead or alive lady" /></p>
<p>They basically used the babes in bakinis to sell this game, and well u know quite a few friends upon purchasing dead or alive whem it came out were not heard of for weeks, and they were slightly more muscular in the upper bodies after not leaving their room for a month. Needless to say, they&#8217;re still virgins and play the most recent dead or alive release on xbox 360 24/7.</p>
<p><strong>Number 9 &#8211; Nina Williams, Tekken</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/ninawilliamstekken.gif" alt="nina williams" /></p>
<p>Oh nina, you&#8217;re only in my list cause i was told you had to be, as well you just don&#8217;t do it for me.</p>
<p><strong>Number 8 &#8211; Jill Valentine &#8211; Resident Evil</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/jill.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Purely because if i was 32bit, you&#8217;d get it.</p>
<p><strong>Number 7 &#8211; Kiera knightley &#8211; because i would buy a agem if she was in it.</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/keira-knightley-03.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>I know, she is not in a game, but if she was, i would buy it. Its the same reason why i downloaded The Dutchess.</p>
<p><strong>Number 6 &#8211; Rinoa &#8211; Final Fantasy 8</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/rinoa_2.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Truth be told, how can you not fancy Rinoa? She is a main character in one of the most iconic games ever, and she looks similar to my girlfriend, score.</p>
<p><strong>Number 5 -Chun li &#8211; Street Fighter</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/chunli.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Sorry chun i don&#8217;t fancy you, but Ben in my class does, so you got number 5 spot. And yes i know&#8230; lots of people fancy her, japanese people make up anime street fighter porn about her, so yes i get it, she is special. Still think she doesn&#8217;t deserve top 10 spot though.</p>
<p><strong>Number 4 &#8211; Claire Redfield &#8211; Resident Evil</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/calireresidentevil2.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Claire, oh Claire, we&#8217;ve killed so many zombies together that i felt it would be unfair to you if you didn&#8217;t make the top 5.</p>
<p><strong>Number 3 &#8211; Aeris/Aerith &#8211; Final fantasy 7</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/aerith.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Because i love your character. And the game you lead in is probably my favourite game of all time.</p>
<p><strong>Number 2 &#8211; Xianghua &#8211; Soulcalibur</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/xianghua.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Xianghua is the reason i bought a dreamcast, and soulcalibur. She looks to beatutiful on the front of the game, infact i would marry her if i could/ if she was real. Ah well, babes do sell video games.</p>
<p><strong>Number 1 &#8211; Lara croft &#8211; Tomb Raider</strong></p>
<p><img src="http://i585.photobucket.com/albums/ss291/retrojc/lara.gif" alt="" /></p>
<p>Lara Croft, you&#8217;ve sold millions of games across like 8 platforms? and the reason you&#8217;ve sold so well is because your a babe. The babe; you&#8217;ve got 2 films about you, and well every man secretly fancies you, otherwise they would not buy your game. To justify:  your boobs did basically sell Tomb Raider 1, as lets be honest&#8230; that was shocking, but pointy pyrmaid boobs obviously did it for the millions as your game went platinum. Top babe.</p>
<p>Oh, and babe of the <span style="text-decoration:line-through;">month</span> week, thats right, <strong>babe of the week</strong> comming last friday of every week. Just for jokes.</p>
<p>Retrojc out.</p>
<pre><em>p.s if the masterchief was a girl, then she'd get it too.</em></pre>
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<title><![CDATA[Evolution of Lara Croft (Tomb Raider)]]></title>
<link>http://teusje.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/evolution-of-lara-croft-tomb-raider/</link>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 09:00:41 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>teusje</dc:creator>
<guid>http://teusje.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/evolution-of-lara-croft-tomb-raider/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Big difference at the end [ info ]]]></description>
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<p>Big difference at the end <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
<p>[ <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lara_Croft">info</a> ]</p>
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<title><![CDATA[If Lara Croft and Common Sense had a baby]]></title>
<link>http://ooooff.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/if-lara-croft-and-common-sense-had-a-baby/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:38:42 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>coffeetableread</dc:creator>
<guid>http://ooooff.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/if-lara-croft-and-common-sense-had-a-baby/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Uncharted 2 &#8211; Among Thieves (PS3) Uncharted 2 sees the return of Nathan Drake to our consoles,]]></description>
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<p><strong>Uncharted 2</strong> &#8211; <em>Among Thieves </em>(PS3)<em> </em><br />
Uncharted 2 sees the return of Nathan Drake to our consoles, and while Nate may be a fledgling adventurer in comparison to the likes of Indy and Lara he is certainly proving himself a worthy competitor.<br />
Uncharted set a high bar for itself  in its first outing, striving to seamlessly integrate the cut scenes into the game play to give a more cinematic feel and Among Thieves picks up right where it left off. <!--more-->The opening sequence sees Drake wake up battered, bleeding and teetering on the edge of a derailed train car somewhere in Nepal. What happens next can only be described as a baptism of fire as you must navigate Drake to safety by scaling the the ever crumbling train. A series of flashbacks get you up to speed quickly on the hows and whys of Drakes misfotunate train journey and puts you in a race against time with a loony warlord to find the secret kingdom of Shambala, Shang ri la to you and me!<br />
Uncharted 2 shines brightly, the storyline is as good as you would get from George Lucas (Pre daft crystal skulls) and a good deal of effort has gone into the voice acting with a few familiar faces lending their talents.<br />
This makes the game a joy to experience and keeps you playing. The gameplay itself is handled extremely well and any kinks from the first game have been successfully ironed out. For me Uncharted 2 succeeds where Tomb Raider fails, the controls are intuitive, paths are more clearly outlined with out feeling boxed in, and the camera&#8230;.oh the camera! It doesn&#8217;t fuck off and show you the unrendered pixels of the inside of someones head while you are trying to make a critical jump. A refreshing change from Ms Crofts adventures.<br />
All in all a heady mix of action and adventure, with nice weapons to play with a beautiful surroundings to climb the biggest let down of Uncharted 2 is an obvious one, with a 6-8 hour play time you will soon find yourself at the end and wishing there was more.
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Available on PS3<br />
<strong>Rent or Buy</strong>: Short play time means this would be a better rental: RENT<br />
<strong>Graphics</strong>: For the two hottest computer generated women since LC strapped on her leg holsters: 5/5<br />
<strong>Gameplay</strong>: With just a slight taste of disappointment with the short life span: 4/5<br />
<strong>Overall</strong>: 4.5/5</p>
<p>(Eamonn Cleary)</p>
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<title><![CDATA[Just another day in the life of a tomb raider-]]></title>
<link>http://daniellecorleoneandfelonita.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/just-another-day-in-the-life-of-a-tomb-rader/</link>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 00:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>felonitandaniellecorleone</dc:creator>
<guid>http://daniellecorleoneandfelonita.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/just-another-day-in-the-life-of-a-tomb-rader/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[&#8220;It&#8217;s all just a business&#8230; So go, go do business.&#8221; -Lara Croft. Danielle mad]]></description>
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-Lara Croft.</p>
<p>Danielle made the observation that I was g&#8217;d up from the feet up lookin&#8217; like that tomb raidin&#8217; Bo$$ bitch. </p>
<p><a href="http://daniellecorleoneandfelonita.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/p_802_602_2d179b5d-a71c-42db-802e-b5a6dc3d4779.jpeg"><img src="http://daniellecorleoneandfelonita.files.wordpress.com/2009/11/p_802_602_2d179b5d-a71c-42db-802e-b5a6dc3d4779.jpeg?w=225&#038;h=300" alt="" width="225" height="300" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-364" /></a></p>
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<title><![CDATA[What *does* check your corners mean?]]></title>
<link>http://berryblade.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/what-does-check-your-corners-mean/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 03:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>berryblade</dc:creator>
<guid>http://berryblade.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/what-does-check-your-corners-mean/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[So it seems that a lot of people are getting to my fantastico cornero of the web-o by looking up: Wh]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>So it seems that a lot of people are getting to my fantastico cornero of the web-o by looking up:</p>
<p>What <strong>does</strong> check your corners mean?</p>
<p>And let me put it to you plain and simple &#8211; it means just that. After many horror-movie and Left for Dead marathons you see, Aileen learned that there was often a fatal flaw in the survivors plans. They run into a room, don&#8217;t check the corners and then wonder why they die when a zombie/killer/monster springs out at them from behind the door and devours them alive/slaughters/does weird monster shit to them.</p>
<p>1. Check behind the door first.<br />
2. Check the corner opposite the door corner<br />
3. Check furtherest corner</p>
<p>You see, by doing this, you will potentially eliminate any of the undead swarming on you when you least expect it. Remember, the wise words of one of my many gods, Max Brooks:</p>
<p><strong>There is no safe, only safer.</strong></p>
<p><strong> </strong>Which is actually a pretty good rule for living under a patriarchy as well. There are no actual safety. There is only safer.</p>
<p>Has anyone ever seen <strong>Silence of the Lambs</strong>? I have, because Clarice and Hannibal is like my dream menage-et-tois but ANYWHOO that bit when Starling is at the training academy and they&#8217;re practicing storming a room? Remember? So yeah, Starling goes in and goes straight to the perp to arrest him and BANG well, not actual bang because:</p>
<p>(sic) <em>Why didn&#8217;t you check the corners Starling?/I forgot sir/Well that&#8217;s why you&#8217;re dead, check your corners </em></p>
<p>It&#8217;s just one of those little rules that will help to keep you alive in case of zombpocalypse. Well, that and knocking before you enter any room to test the undead numbers that lurk inside. If you don&#8217;t already know all these things &#8211; you&#8217;re not welcome on my survival wagon.</p>
<p>Always remember: Use your head, remove theirs. (but don&#8217;t forget to stamp the fuck out of it because they don&#8217;t die until you destroy the brain) see example below:</p>
<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 330px"><img title="bang" src="http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm54/berryblade/dawn-of-the-dead-head-explosion.jpg" alt="Successful Brain Destruction" width="320" height="230" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Successful Brain Destruction</p></div>
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Have fun being zombie chow, suckers. And my first and last exam is today w00t w00t w00t w00t.</p>
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<div class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 490px"><img class=" " title="play dough" src="http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/mm54/berryblade/Dawn08.jpg" alt="" width="480" height="276" /><p class="wp-caption-text">What will happen to you if you lag behind or fuck up my rules.</p></div>
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<link>http://novafrequencia.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/tomb-raider-redencao-2/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 02:45:59 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Aracnos</dc:creator>
<guid>http://novafrequencia.wordpress.com/2009/11/09/tomb-raider-redencao-2/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Tomb Raider: Redençao #2 &#8211; A cobra e a tartaruga No interior da Austrália, Lara Croft e Ogumby]]></description>
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<link>http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/halloween-shots-pictures/</link>
<pubDate>Thu, 05 Nov 2009 00:26:02 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>Akemi</dc:creator>
<guid>http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/2009/11/05/halloween-shots-pictures/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Alrighty, so I haven&#8217;t posted any pictures from Halloween and I just realized that I have to b]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p>Alrighty, so I haven&#8217;t posted any pictures from Halloween and I just realized that I have to because I&#8217;m so proud of my costume cuz of its super awesomeness <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  (side note: apparently awesomeness is a legitimate word, but alrighty is not &#8211; go figure)</p>
<p>Anywaaaay, here are a few pictures from Halloween. Enjoy!</p>
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<div id="attachment_226" class="wp-caption alignleft" style="width: 310px"><a href="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0331.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-226" title="IMG_0331" src="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0331.jpg?w=300" alt="IMG_0331" width="300" height="225" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">A friend going to the party as Rocky <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  They&#39;re trying to find a way to tie the sash lol</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_228" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px">&#8220;]<a href="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0350.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-228" title="IMG_0350" src="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0350.jpg?w=225" alt="IMG_0350" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Racer girl and Tomb Raider (me) :</p></div>
<div id="attachment_230" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0352.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-230" title="IMG_0352" src="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0352.jpg?w=225" alt="IMG_0352" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">without boots =p</p></div>
<p><a href="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0351.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-229" title="IMG_0351" src="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0351.jpg?w=300" alt="IMG_0351" width="300" height="225" /></a></p>
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<div id="attachment_232" class="wp-caption alignright" style="width: 235px"><a href="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0356.jpg"><img class="size-medium wp-image-232" title="IMG_0356" src="http://heysenseless.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/img_0356.jpg?w=225" alt="IMG_0356" width="225" height="300" /></a><p class="wp-caption-text">Two of my favorite people <img src='http://s.wordpress.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p></div>
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<title><![CDATA[LARA CROFT TOMB RAIDER: THE CRADLE OF LIFE]]></title>
<link>http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/lara-croft-tomb-raider-the-cradle-of-life/</link>
<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:21:17 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>zoeyclark</dc:creator>
<guid>http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/2009/11/03/lara-croft-tomb-raider-the-cradle-of-life/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft Lara Croft is originally a video game and this is the second movie base]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="attachment_915" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 371px"><img class="size-full wp-image-915" title="2619876660_0501af018c" src="http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2619876660_0501af018c.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" width="361" height="500" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft</p></div>
<p>Lara Croft is originally a video game and this is the second movie based on the VG character of the same name. I haven&#8217;t seen the first movie, but after seeing this one, I do want to see it. It&#8217;s by no means one of the best action/fantasy I&#8217;ve ever seen, but it is fast and fun- which is what I wanted to get from this movie anyway. It&#8217;s directed by Jan de Bont, who is actually more famous as a cinematographer than a director. He has worked on Lethal Weapon 3, which remains one of my favorite action movies. But I find him to be a talented director as well. Ever since he has directed the amazing Speed with Keanu Reeves in 1994.Sure Speed 2 was awful, but I&#8217;m willing to forgive him for that. Speed did rock. And although Lara Croft is no Speed, it is enjoyable.</p>
<p>Lara Croft is a British archaeleogist. She is also very fit, has amazing stamina and can kick anyone&#8217;s butt. Angelina Jolie is perfect in bringing a video game character to life; I have always thought her big eyes and extra full lips looked outer worldly anyway. The movie could very well be a spy flick because it does involve traveling around the globe, British Intelligence, a menacing scientist,Chinese bad guys and more. Of course it doesn&#8217;t lack sexual tension and intense chemistry since Lara picks her partner in this mission: Ex-marine-turned mercenary Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler for help). The mission is very difficult, if not impossible. They need to find Pandora&#8217;s Box before the scientist and his men do. And Lara isn&#8217;t exactly trusting her ex.</p>
<p>The movie isn&#8217;t trying to be intelligent. It doesn&#8217;t take itself seriously. It is strictly entertaİning. Kick back, and enjoy!</p>
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<div id="attachment_916" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><img class="size-full wp-image-916" title="TCOL_wallpaper09_1280" src="http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/tcol_wallpaper09_1280.jpg" alt="Gerard Butler as Terry Sheridan in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life" width="400" height="320" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Gerard Butler as Terry Sheridan in Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_918" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 330px"><img class="size-full wp-image-918" title="ph8_w434_h_q80" src="http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/ph8_w434_h_q80.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft" width="320" height="480" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Lara Croft. Who better to play the hot and smart archaelogist than Angelina Jolie? The British accent suits her.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_917" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><img class="size-full wp-image-917" title="2003_the_cradle_of_life_002" src="http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/2003_the_cradle_of_life_002.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie and Gerard Butler in Lara Croft The Cradle of Life" width="400" height="266" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Lara Croft (Angelina Jolie) and Terry Sheridan (Gerard Butler)</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_919" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 410px"><img class="size-full wp-image-919" title="TRaider_271" src="http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/traider_271.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie and Gerard Butler" width="400" height="240" /><p class="wp-caption-text">This is not a deep film. Enjoy your action scenes and eye candy. It provides enough steam for both sexes.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_921" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 280px"><img class="size-full wp-image-921" title="16037__TOMB_l" src="http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/16037__tomb_l1.jpg" alt="Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft" width="270" height="270" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Guns and Croft.</p></div>
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<div id="attachment_922" class="wp-caption aligncenter" style="width: 359px"><img class="size-full wp-image-922" title="gerard_butler_134742a" src="http://inthenameofmovies.wordpress.com/files/2009/11/gerard_butler_134742a.jpg" alt="Gerard Butler as Terry Sheridan in Tomb Raider in Lara Croft The Cradle of Life" width="349" height="305" /><p class="wp-caption-text">Terry apparently did have some free time in his hands to work out.</p></div>
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<link>http://nicegamer.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/uncharted-2-among-thieves-steals-my-heart/</link>
<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:07:00 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>nicegamer</dc:creator>
<guid>http://nicegamer.wordpress.com/2009/11/02/uncharted-2-among-thieves-steals-my-heart/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[How wonderful art thou oh Naughtiest of thy Dogs, thou hath stolen mine heart with thy clever, nay, ]]></description>
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<p>How wonderful art thou oh Naughtiest of thy Dogs, thou hath stolen mine heart with thy clever, nay, wondrous narrative structures and cinematic excellence. Thy game is but a work of art and mine heart weeps for all others&#8230; particularly that girl in the tighter than tight shorts and vomit green skintight tee (that&#8217;s Lara Croft for those.. oh never mind). Enough of thy&#8217;s and thou&#8217;s, this is just a personal note to smother Naughty Dog with virtual nicety for making such a wonderful game, as Uncharted 2 most definitely is. If you have not had the pleasure, please rectify that situation forthwith.</p>
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<title><![CDATA["Black Archaeologist" Tomb Raiders encounter paranormal activity!]]></title>
<link>http://rashmanly.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/black-archaeologist-tomb-raiders-encounter-paranormal-activity/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:53:30 +0000</pubDate>
<dc:creator>rashmanly</dc:creator>
<guid>http://rashmanly.wordpress.com/2009/10/31/black-archaeologist-tomb-raiders-encounter-paranormal-activity/</guid>
<description><![CDATA[. . . Tomb Raiders Digging WWII Graves Witness Inexplicable Phenomena by Margarita Troitsina Yoki Oc]]></description>
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<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12080" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/w-lara-croft-16-1.jpg?w=450&#038;h=418#38;h=418&#38;h=418" alt="" width="450" height="418" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-34674" title="croftpaper01-11" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/croftpaper01-11.jpg?w=450&#038;h=375#38;h=375&#38;h=375" alt="croftpaper01-11" width="450" height="375" /></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:55px;"><strong><span style="color:#f81016;">Tomb Raiders</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:51px;"><strong><span style="color:#f91b50;">Digging WWII</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:48px;"><span style="color:#f91b50;">Graves Witness</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:59px;"><span style="color:#f8101a;">Inexplicable</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:59px;"><span style="color:#f8101a;">Phenomena</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:32px;"><span style="color:#f0f1ff;">by </span></span></span></strong></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><strong><span style="font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:32px;"><span style="color:#f0f1ff;">Margarita Troitsina Yoki</span></span></span></strong></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><strong><span style="color:#2a43fd;">October 30th, 2009</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:Verdana;font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:40px;"><strong><span style="color:#2871fd;">PRAVDA.RU</span></strong></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">A few years ago the so-called </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">&#8216;black archaeologists,&#8217; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">people conducting independent </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">excavations in the places of </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">World War II battles and looking </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">for precious war trophies, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">were extremely active. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Sometimes during their search </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">they would encounter very </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">strange phenomena.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-34654" title="angelina-jolie-como-lara-2-20070226" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/angelina-jolie-como-lara-2-20070226.jpg?w=433&#038;h=600#38;h=600&#38;h=600" alt="angelina-jolie-como-lara-2-20070226" width="433" height="600" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:29px;"><strong><span style="color:#ff00ff;">Bonfire hanging in the air</span></strong></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">In 1997, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">a group of six people headed to </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Luban in the Leningradsky region, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">where the ruins of Makaryevsky </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">monastery destroyed during </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">the war rest amidst the swamps.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Nearing the ruins, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">the group noticed bonfire flames. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">They were shocked to find </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">out that the bonfire was </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">hanging right in the air. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">As soon as they </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">approached the ruins, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">the bonfire disappeared.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-38524" title="alison-carroll-croft-8118-1" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/alison-carroll-croft-8118-1.jpg?w=450&#038;h=814#38;h=814&#38;h=814" alt="alison-carroll-croft-8118-1" width="450" height="814" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The </span><span style="color:#ff0000;">&#8220;black archaeologists&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">fixed a camp in the ruins. </span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Throughout the night, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">they were bothered by wild </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">human screams originating </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">from the woods. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">None of them rushed to help.</span></span></span></p>
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Next morning, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">one of the archaeologists went </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">to the woods and got lost. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">He came back three hours later, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">with his clothes dirty and </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">insane look on his face. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">He never told his friends </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">what happened to him.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-12076" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lara_croft2_1.jpg?w=450&#038;h=363#38;h=363&#38;h=363" alt="" width="450" height="363" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:31px;"><span style="color:#ff00ff;">Mines in Myasnoy Bor </span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><strong><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:xx-large;"><span style="font-size:31px;"><span style="color:#ff00ff;">(Meat Pinewood)</span></span></span></strong></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">One of the most famous </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">anomalous zones connected to </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">World War II is a marshy valley </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Myasnoy Bor</span> <span style="color:#ffffff;">located 30 kilometers </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">away from Novgorod. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Many warriors of the Soviet </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Second Attack Army, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">divisions of German Wehrmacht, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Spanish</span> <span style="color:#ff0000;">“Blue Division”</span><span style="color:#ffffff;"> and </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">other troops perished in this </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">area during the Lyuban Offensive </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Operation of 1942. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Many unburied remnants </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">are left here.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Galina Pavlova, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">head of the group “Search” </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">from Engels city in the Saratov </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">region told about an incident </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">that happened to her in 1997: </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">“The woods of Myasnoy Bor </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">are scary and mystical.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-38528" title="alison-carroll-croft-8118-16" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/alison-carroll-croft-8118-16.jpg?w=449&#038;h=813#38;h=813&#38;h=813" alt="alison-carroll-croft-8118-16" width="449" height="813" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;As soon as you are left </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">there by yourself, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">the woods start making sounds.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;You can clearly hear yells </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8216;Hooray,&#8217; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">as if restless souls of the </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">perished warriors still carry </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">out an attack.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;The day we found the mines, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">I was behind the guys on a trail.&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;I stopped at a spot that was </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">excavated many times before.&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;Suddenly, I saw that trees </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">were leaning towards the </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">same spot although it was not </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">windy at all.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-38532" title="lara_croft4_1-1" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/lara_croft4_1-1.jpg?w=450&#038;h=337#38;h=337&#38;h=337" alt="lara_croft4_1-1" width="450" height="337" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;I called the guys,</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"> and we found a decomposed </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">wooden box and old mines.”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">Alexei, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">a &#8220;black archaeologist</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">&#8220;</span><span style="color:#ffffff;"><span style="color:#ff0000;"> </span>who used </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">to excavate in the woods </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">near Bryansk where Russian </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">front was located in 1942-1943, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">told an interesting story.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><br />
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<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">“We excavated the bodies of six </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">Russian and 11 German soldiers, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">four of which were Wehrmacht </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">soldiers in a swamp </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">trench shelter.&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;We cut the logs and discovered </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">decomposed German boots with </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">bones sticking out.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-38530" title="alison-carroll-croft-8118-14" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/alison-carroll-croft-8118-14.jpg?w=449&#038;h=831#38;h=831&#38;h=831" alt="alison-carroll-croft-8118-14" width="449" height="831" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;Then we began a </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">more careful excavation, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">and found pelvic bones, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">a spine, and ribs.&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;Little by little we dug out </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">remnants of four people.&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;It was getting dark. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">We left the skeletons at the </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">trench and camped out on a </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">meadow about 200 yards away.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;At night something happened. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">We were woken up by Valera, </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">a guy on duty.&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;He told us that something </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">weird was going on. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">We got up and started </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">listening carefully.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-12082" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/lara_croft7_1-1.jpg?w=450&#038;h=397#38;h=397&#38;h=397" alt="" width="450" height="397" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;We could hear German speech, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">songs, laughter and clatter </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">of tracks. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">It was very scary.&#8221;</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;In the morning we </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">went to the trench. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">It looked the same </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">as when we left it.&#8221; </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">&#8220;But when we walked </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">a little further, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">we saw tank ditches and, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">most amazingly, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffff00;">fresh tank tracks.”</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">There is an anomalous </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">zone Zheltoyar, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">better known as Novokhopersk </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">anomalous zone, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">in the eastern part of </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Voronezh region, </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">near the town of Novokhopersk.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Members of an expedition </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">of the Voronezh committee for </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">studying anomalous phenomena </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">led by a famous researcher </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Genrikh Silanov managed to </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">take pictures of people clad in </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">soldiers’ uniform near tents. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:x-large;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-38531" title="alison-carroll-croft-8118-13" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/alison-carroll-croft-8118-13.jpg?w=449&#038;h=797#38;h=797&#38;h=797" alt="alison-carroll-croft-8118-13" width="449" height="797" /></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">A plane phantom appeared </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">on one of the photos. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">The researchers believe that</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"> these were the pictures of </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">World War II. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">One of the pictures showed a </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">silhouette of a Czech soldier. </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Later </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">the researchers found that a </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Czech division that was a part </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">of the Soviet Army used to </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">be located in that area.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter', Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;"><br />
</span> </span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">Silanov believes that the </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">pictures were typical </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ff0000;">“chronal mirages”</span> <span style="color:#ffffff;">created by </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">the so-called “memory fields” </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">connected to dramatic events </span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="font-family:'American Typewriter';font-size:x-large;"><span style="font-size:24px;"><span style="color:#ffffff;">that occurred in the past.</span></span></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-41555" title="84670161_10_78883s" src="http://rashmanly.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/84670161_10_78883s.jpg?w=448&#038;h=421#38;h=421" alt="84670161_10_78883s" width="448" height="421" /></span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-58607" title="angelina_jolie_048-1-2" src="http://rashmanly.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/angelina_jolie_048-1-2.jpg" alt="angelina_jolie_048-1-2" width="389" height="1429" /><br />
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<p>&#160;</p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></p>
<p><span style="color:#000000;">.</span></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Famous Female Super Heroes]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[In the past, women in Super Hero movies were relegated to supporting roles usually upstaged by a les]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[GRANDES PERSONAJES - Lara Croft]]></title>
<link>http://gametraveller.wordpress.com/2009/10/25/grandes-personajes-lara-croft/</link>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 23:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Probablemente la bella y letal Lara sea el personaje femenino más popular en la historia de los vide]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><p style="text-align:center;"><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara02.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="370" /></p>
<p>Probablemente la bella y letal Lara sea el personaje femenino más popular en la historia de los videojuegos (el masculino sería sin duda cierto fontanero bigotudo y, entre los no humanos, cierta bola amarilla traga-cocos). ¿Y cuáles habrán sido sus méritos para alcanzar el más alto escalafón entre las preferencias de los jugadores?</p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="margin-left:10px;margin-right:0;" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara28.jpg" alt="" width="275" height="390" />Algunas razones sin duda &#8220;saltan a la vista&#8221;, pero bromas a parte, no cabe duda que el personaje de Lara Croft ha sido capaz de levantar pasiones entre jugadores (y jugadoras, entre las que también es inmensamente popular, por cierto) de todo el mundo a lo largo de nada menos que una década ya, y por motivos que van más allá de cuestiones como la simple &#8220;fachada&#8221; estética del personaje o si éste en esencia no es otro producto prefabricado más que obedece a unos estrictos patrones y estereotipos sexistas, tan habituales aún hoy en día en nuestra mal llamada &#8220;sociedad moderna&#8221;.</p>
<p>Probablemente el fuerte carácter con que se dotó al personaje, independiente, noble (y no nos estamos refiriendo a su origen aristocrático), valeroso y amante de los retos imposibles, sea una de las claves donde reside su éxito real, más allá de consideraciones puramente superficiales. Sirvan como claro ejemplo en este punto la enorme cantidad de heroínas &#8220;florero&#8221; de tantos y tantos videojuegos caídas en el olvido al poco tiempo por los aficionados, a pesar que en su momento sus creadores realizaran los mayores esfuerzos artísticos por dotarlas de unas buenas &#8220;razones&#8221; con las que seducir al siempre impresionable &#8220;gran público&#8221;.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara30.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="500" /></p>
<p>En el caso de Lara es todo lo contrario: no está ahí acompañando al héroe de turno que tiene que salvar el mundo, con la única misión de gritar como una auténtica histérica indefensa cuando se encuentra en algún peligro, o como el tópico personaje femenino que se limita a esperar pacientemente a que la rescaten para que el mencionado héroe pueda lucirse a su costa. Lara en cambio es la heroína absoluta, una autosuficiente exploradora a quien acompañaremos a lo largo de cada una de sus arriesgadas aventuras superando mil obstáculos, enigmas, y enemigos, contando únicamente con sus propias habilidades y con los recursos que ella misma pueda conseguir en el medio donde se encuentre.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara07.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p>Culta y refinada, como debe exigírsele a toda señorita de noble alcurnia (siendo hija de Lord Henshingly Croft, Duque de Saint Bridget, de quien ha heredado una fortuna que incluye la mansión donde vive sola con su viejo mayordomo), Lara es capaz además de exhibir muchas otras facetas cuando la situación lo requiere: experta en técnicas de supervivencia, en toda clase de deportes de riesgo (especialmente la escalada libre), en el manejo de los más variados vehículos y armas, en técnicas de lucha cuerpo a cuerpo y en un largo etcétera más. Incluso como último recurso Lara sabe que siempre podrá contar con una poderosa arma que ni siquiera necesita entrenar: su increíble poder de seducción, que puede resultar en ocasiones igualmente útil para superar algunos obstáculos.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara19.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="395" /></p>
<p>Repasando un poco la biografía del personaje tenemos a una joven y rica heredera de una noble familia inglesa cuya vida parecía transcurrir sin más preocupaciones hasta que un accidente aéreo en la cordillera del Himalaya la obligó a llevar a cabo la aventura más difícil en la vida de todo ser humano: sobrevivir. Tras esta determinante experiencia que cambiará su forma de ver el mundo, Lara decidirá tomar a partir de entonces las riendas de su vida y de su propio futuro, anulando su inminente matrimonio de conveniencia para embarcarse en mil y una aventuras que la llevarán a lo largo y ancho del planeta en busca de las más extrañas reliquias arqueológicas y artefactos mágicos, ocultos en lugares olvidados y remotos.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara24.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="428" /></p>
<p>Así, el siempre misterioso Egipto ha sido uno de los escenarios preferidos por los desarrolladores de la saga, lugar donde transcurría por ejemplo la totalidad del aclamado &#8220;Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation&#8221;, cuarto título de la saga y el favorito para la crítica por su perfección técnica y su desarrollo argumental, mostrándonos por primera vez a una aprendiz Lara con su maestro Werner Von Croy y los acontecimientos que sucederían años más tarde. Curiosamente éste no suele ser el título favorito para la legión de aficionados de esta popular saga, sino por norma general el segundo episodio, el genial &#8220;Tomb Raider II: The Dagger of Xian&#8221; (opinión que plenamente comparte aquí un servidor).</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara09.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="380" /></p>
<p>Pero no solo Egipto ha contemplado las proezas de nuestra saqueadora de tumbas favorita: Grecia, Italia, Francia, Gran Bretaña, Irlanda, Rusia, China, Estados Unidos, México, Bolivia, Perú, Japón, Tailandia, la India, la Antártida&#8230; ¡y hasta la Atlántida! Son tantos los lugares que Lara ha explorado que escapan a la memoria del aficionado más incondicional de la saga.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara27.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="346" /></p>
<p>Probablemente a nadie que haya jugado a cualquier título de la saga de Tomb Raider se le escape que tanto el personaje como el planteamiento del mismo están directamente inspirados (por no utilizar otra palabra menos diplomática) en las populares aventuras cinematográficas de Indiana Jones, algo que en principio no debería resultar más que anecdótico si tenemos en cuenta la multitud de productos de toda clase (novelas, películas, series de T.V., cómics o videojuegos) que han encontrado inspiración en tan mítico personaje creado por George Lucas, dirigido magníficamente por Steven Spielberg e interpretado aún mejor por Harrison Ford, formando un auténtico icono incorporado ya en la cultura popular de nuestro tiempo.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara12.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="346" /></p>
<p>Pero lo que no deja de parecer cuanto menos absurdo es que, después de la descarada copia/inspiración por parte de Eidos habiendo creado el videojuego &#8220;Tomb Raider&#8221; (la primera película de la saga de Indiana Jones llevaba además por título original &#8220;Raiders of the Lost Ark&#8221;, aunque en España se renombrara como &#8220;En busca del arca perdida&#8221;), después como decimos fuera capaz de hacer la propia compañía de George Lucas un videojuego a imagen y semejanza del propio Tomb Raider, como fue el desafortunadísimo &#8220;Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine&#8221;, una aparatosa y torpe mala copia de Tomb Raider (el cual propiamente ya era una descarada copia del original concepto de Indiana Jones). El mundo sin duda está tan loco que nunca dejará de sorprendernos.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara25.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="372" /></p>
<p>Afortunadamente, parece que ambas partes han aprendido la lección durante los años que siguieron, y así vimos cómo Lucas Arts desarrollaba un título con carácter propio y alejado de la inspiración directa de Tomb Raider como fue el estupendo &#8220;Indiana Jones y la tumba del emperador&#8221;, mientras que por su parte EIDOS comenzó a dotar a los sucesivos títulos de la saga de un carácter mucho más personal y diferenciado, alejado ya en buena medida de los originales planteamientos de la clásicas películas de Indiana Jones (como se puede ver en Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, mostrando a una Lara mucho más &#8220;humana&#8221; y menos heroína invencible). De hecho en los últimos títulos de la saga (los desarrollados por Crystal Dynamics) el personaje prácticamente parece ya una persona real de carne y hueso gracias a los avances de la técnica, más que un simple personaje de dibujos animados como habíamos visto en sus primeras entregas.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara03.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="704" /></p>
<p>Afortunadamente para la propia saga, la marca &#8220;Tomb Raider&#8221; ha crecido tanto y ha ido configurando un universo propio tan amplio y detallado hasta el punto que ya no precisa inspirarse directamente como antaño en otras obras icónicas de la aventura, sino que puede retro-alimentarse a sí misma de su propia mitología creada en torno al personaje de Lara y de todas sus aventuras a lo largo y ancho del mundo.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara06.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="227" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara11.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="400" /></p>
<p>El personaje de Lara ha sufrido como suele ocurrir con cualquier saga prolongada en el tiempo toda una transformación desde su primera aparición hasta nuestros días. Desde los (entonces) rudimentarios polígonos que le dieron vida en el primer Tomb Raider de 1996, en el que Lara aún no podía &#8220;hacer gala&#8221;  de una de sus señas de identidad (no, &#8220;esas&#8221; no, me refiero a otra) como es su larga trenza, pasando por las progresivas mejoras en los dos títulos siguientes (en los que la mencionada trenza ya ondeaba al viento, haciendo las delicias de los fans más fetichistas), evolucionando después radicalmente en el cuarto título ya citado (The Last Revelation), en el que  pudimos disfrutar de una Lara increíblemente mejorada y que se mantuvo prácticamente igual en el siguiente título.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara22.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="471" /></p>
<p>Pero sin duda donde sufrió una nueva y profunda remodelación fue en el sexto episodio (The Angel of Darkness), otorgándosele al personaje una impecable apariencia, mucho más realista y natural respecto a como nos habíamos acostumbrado a verla hasta entonces (siendo la Lara en mi opinión más atractiva y &#8220;humana&#8221; al mismo tiempo de las hasta ahora vistas, más incluso que la Lara hiper-realista de las últimas entregas).</p>
<p>No sabemos cuántas veces habrá tenido que acudir la bella Lara al cirujano plástico con tantas remodelaciones como ha sufrido a lo largo de estos años, pero lo que parece innegable es quién ha sido el máximo beneficiado de sus últimas intervenciones: su espalda.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara26.jpg" alt="" width="400" height="608" /></p>
<p>Lara ha protagonizado la totalidad de la popular saga &#8220;Tomb Raider&#8221;, desde la aparición del primer título en 1996 para P.C. y PlayStation hasta el año 2008, con el de momento último título llamado &#8220;Tomb Raider: Underworld&#8221;. Tan solo en la sexta entrega de la saga, Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, compartió por primera vez algo de su protagonismo (hasta entonces absoluto) con otro personaje llamado Curtis Trent. Esta importante novedad no acabó de agradar en demasía a su legión de fans repartida todo el mundo, como tampoco desgraciadamente el juego en sí, a pesar de los esfuerzos que se realizaron por intentar renovar la saga, en un título bastante innovador que a mí desde luego me gustó bastante, tanto por su ambientación como por la novedosa posibilidad de elegir nuestras respuestas en los diálogos con diferentes personajes del juego, que le daba un toque aún más de aventura que de mero juego de acción.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara08.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="600" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara05.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="508" /></p>
<p>Cabe destacar el relevo en el estudio encargado de desarrollar las entregas de la saga a partir de precisamente esta entrega tan denostada, desplazando Crystal Dynamics a Core Design tras los decepcionantes resultados en público y crítica del mencionado &#8220;Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness&#8221;, y para intentar de paso enderezar la tendencia general a la baja que estaban evidenciando los últimos títulos de la saga. Tomb Raider Legend supuso la reincorporación de Toby Gard, el creador del primer Tomb Raider, al equipo de desarrollo, lo cual supuso toda una garantía para ofrecer ahora sí a su legión de fans un título a la altura de las altas espectativas depositadas siempre en esta mítica saga.</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara16.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="357" /></p>
<p>Tras una gran acogida de este innovador Tomb Raider (aunque fue criticada su corta duración y su control no demasiado preciso en ocasiones, como en las fases submarinas), le siguió al poco tiempo un remake del juego original que empleaba el reciente motor gráfico estrenado en Tomb Raider Legend, y en el 2008 hemos visto finalmente el último título aparecido hasta ahora: Tomb Raider Underworld, que concluye la trama dejada a medias en el anterior Tomb Raider Legends (otra cuestión que fue de lo más criticada también en su momento junto a su corta duración y control).</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara01.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="375" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara04.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="343" /></p>
<p>Recientemente han aparecido los primeros bocetos de la que será la novena y aparentemente revolucionaria nueva entrega de la saga, con un estilo muy diferente al habitual, ya que cambiará la habitual linealidad de misiones por un amplio escenario situado en una isla japonesa en la que tendremos una libertad total de acción y en la que habrá que demostrar nuestras habilidades de exploración, investigación y supervivencia.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider09new.jpg" alt="" width="470" height="294" /></p>
<p>Éstas han sido hasta ahora las portadas de los 8 títulos que conforman la serie principal de Tomb Raider:</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img title="Tomb Raider 1" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider01.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" />  <img title="Tomb Raider 2" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider02.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" />  <img title="Tomb Raider 3" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider03.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" />  <img title="Tomb Raider 4" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider04.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><img title="Tomb Raider 5" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider05.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" />  <img title="Tomb Raider 6" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider06.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" />  <img title="Tomb Raider 7" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider07.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" />  <img title="Tomb Raider 8" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaider08.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" /></p>
<p style="text-align:left;">Y aquí tenéis una muestra de cada uno de los 8 juegos principales: </p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 1" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider01.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 2" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider02.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 3" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider03.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 4" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider04.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 5" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider05.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 6" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider06.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 7" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider07.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider 8" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaider08.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /></p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="margin-left:10px;margin-right:0;" title="Tomb Raider Anniversary Wii" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaiderAnniversaryWii.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" /><img class="alignright" style="margin-left:10px;margin-right:0;" title="Tomb Raider Anniversary PC" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaiderAnniversaryPC.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="140" />Por supuesto no podemos olvidarnos del espectacular remake del primer título de la saga aparecido poco después de Tomb Raider Legend: Tomb Raider Anniversary, conmemorando los 10 años de vida de la franquicia desde 1996. El juego empleaba el innovador motor gráfico y controles de Tomb Raider Legend y nos volvía a sumergir en la apasionante aventura original de Lara contra su archi-enemiga Natla. <img class="alignright" style="margin-left:10px;margin-right:0;" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara18.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="425" />Aunque para mí el tipo de control &#8220;moderno&#8221; no es tan agradable como el antiguo, la verdad es que disfruté de este título como desde hacía tiempo que no lo hacía con esta gran saga desde sus tres primeros títulos.</p>
<p>El juego contó (además de la habitual para P.C.) con versiones para diversas máquinas de la actual generación, pudiendo la de Xbox 360 incluso ser descargada directamente por episodios del Bazar de Xbox 360 y añadirse sobre la base de Tomb Raider Legend (debíamos tener este juego previamente), como si fuera una expansión más, saliendo así más económico en su momento que comprar el título completo en una tienda convencional).</p>
<p>También es de destacar la notable versión realizada para PSP, con una calidad visual impresionante, así como la realizada para Wii, que añadía nuevos puzzles y retos pensados para el original control de la Wii.</p>
<p>Paralelamente a la &#8220;serie regular&#8221; aparecida tanto para ordenadores (P.C./Mac)  como para las más variadas consolas domésticas (PlayStation 1, 2 y 3, SEGA Saturn, Dreamcast, Xbox, Xbox 360 o para Wii), a Lara la hemos podido ver también en las pequeñas pantallas de las consolas portátiles, con títulos por otra parte de notable calidad como el desarrollado  para Game Boy Color (Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword), para Game Boy Advance (Tomb Raider: The Prophecy y una versión de Tomb Raider Legend), para N-Gage (con su versión reeditada del primer Tomb Raider) y también para las portátiles de nueva generación, como Nintendo DS (con versiones de Tomb Raider Legends y Underworld) y PSP (con versiones de Tomb Raider Legends, Anniversary y Underworld). Además de para todas estas consolas portátiles, otros dispositivos móviles han visto también a Lara en sus pantallas, como en la impresionante versión para PDA del primer Tomb Raider y varios títulos para teléfonos móviles (como Tomb Raider: The Osiris Codex, Tomb Raider: Quest for Cinnabar o versiones también de Tomb Raider Legends y Underworld).</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider GBC" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaiderCurseSword.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="100" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider GBA" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaiderTheProphecy.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="100" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider N-Gage" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Cover-TombRaiderNGage.jpg" alt="" width="100" height="68" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider Curse of the Sword" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaiderCurseSword.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider The Prophecy" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaiderTheProphecy.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider Legend Advance" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaiderLegendAdvance.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="184" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider para móviles" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaiderMobile2.jpg" alt="" width="176" height="208" /></p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider Underworld DS" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaiderUnderworldDS.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="368" /> <img class="alignnone" title="Tomb Raider para móviles" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/TombRaiderMobile1.jpg" alt="" width="240" height="319" /></p>
<p>Por último entre el nutrido número de títulos que componen el universo de Tomb Raider no hay que olvidar tampoco las expansiones oficiales que tuvieron los primeros títulos (en el ámbito estrictamente de P.C.): Tomb Raider I: Unfinished Business, Tomb Raider II: The Golden Mask, Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artifact y el nivel especial de Tomb Raider: The Exclusive Times Level realizado con el motor gráfico de la cuarta entrega y que podía descargarse gratuitamente de Internet. Precisamente ese &#8220;Engine&#8221; gráfico fue incluido en el siguiente título para deleite de su extensa comunidad de fans, que gracias a él han podido desarrollar cientos de nuevos niveles para seguir disfrutando de las aventuras de Lara de forma prácticamente ilimitada.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left:0;margin-right:10px;" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara29.jpg" alt="" width="250" height="350" />Como decía estas expansiones solo pudieron ser disfrutadas por los usuarios de P.C., no siendo incluídas en las versiones para consola de aquella época (Playstation, SEGA Saturn y luego Dreamcast) ya que estos packs de niveles extras salieron con posterioridad a los títulos originales (habitualmente en las versiones económicas que aparecían al cabo de un año, como un extra que hicera aún más interesante adquirirlas), pero en las actuales sí que se han visto aparecer nuevas expansiones gracias a la distribución online, como las dos recientes aparecidas para Xbox 360 (siendo además exclusivas para esta consola): &#8220;Tomb Raider Underworld: La sombra de Lara&#8221; y &#8220;Tomb Raider Underworld: bajo las cenizas&#8221;, que nos brindarán unas horas adicionales de entretenimiento.</p>
<p>Para finalizar con este artículo dedicado a nuestra ilustre cazadora de reliquias no podíamos dejar de hacer referencia a las numerosas modelos y actrices profesionales que han encarnado alguna vez a Lara. Éstas fueron las más recordadas en su momento:</p>
<p><img class="alignnone" title="Modelos de Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara15.jpg" alt="" width="500" height="332" /></p>
<p><img class="alignright" style="margin-left:10px;margin-right:0;" title="Angelina Jolie" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara17.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="389" /></p>
<p>A lo largo de los años Lara ha sido encarnada por numerosas modelos en sus campañas publicitarias para la promoción de los distintos videojuegos de la saga. Algunas desde luego que no se parecían ni de noche, y simplemente estaban ahí marcando tipo &#8220;disfrazadas&#8221; de Lara, pero alguna que otra como Nell McAndrew o Rhona Mitra lo hicieron realmente bien en mi opinión, teniendo un cierto &#8220;aire&#8221; al personaje virtual, por lo que quedaban bastante bien encarnándolo (además de ser ya de por sí unas modelos muy atractivas).</p>
<p>Pero sin duda si hay alguien de carne y hueso que para siempre se recordará asociado al nombre de Lara Croft es la popular Angelina Jolie, que encarnó al personaje en sus dos primeras adaptaciones cinematográficas, unos films de lo más discretos artísticamente pero que se dejaban ver dentro de lo que cabía (al menos como films &#8220;de palomitas&#8221;).</p>
<p>Y hasta aquí hemos llegado con este amplio repaso sobre uno de los personajes más idolatrados en el mundo de los videojuegos y que mayor número de fans incondicionales tiene (incluído un servidor, por supuesto). Espero que haya sido de vuestro agrado esta retrospectiva sobre un personaje tan irrepetible como éste.</p>
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<p><strong><img class="alignleft" style="margin-left:0;margin-right:10px;" title="Lara" src="http://i754.photobucket.com/albums/xx182/SigBCN2/gametraveller/TombRaider/Lara23.jpg" alt="" width="245" height="484" /><span style="text-decoration:underline;">ALGUNOS DATOS PERSONALES:</span></strong></p>
<p>Nombre completo: <strong>Lara Croft</strong></p>
<p>Lugar de nacimiento: <strong>Wimbledon</strong></p>
<p>Nacionalidad: <strong>Inglesa</strong></p>
<p>Fecha de nacimiento: <strong>14/2/1967</strong></p>
<p>Altura: <strong>1 metro y 75 cm.</strong></p>
<p>Peso: <strong>52 Kg.</strong></p>
<p>Medidas: <strong>95-55-85 cm. (originales)</strong></p>
<p>Grupo sanguíneo: <strong>AB-</strong></p>
<p>Color de cabello: <strong>Castaño</strong></p>
<p>Color de ojos: <strong>Castaño</strong></p>
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<title><![CDATA[Knives Glamourised...New Blu-ray uncut release of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider]]></title>
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<description><![CDATA[Read more BBFC Cuts and Bans at MelonFarmers.co.uk The uncut region 1 DVD is available via UK Amazon]]></description>
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<td valign="top">Read more  <a href="http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/latest.htm">BBFC Cuts and Bans</a> at <a href="http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/">MelonFarmers.co.uk</a></td>
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<blockquote><p>The uncut region 1 DVD is available via     <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CXZ1/melonfarmers-21" target="_blank"> UK Amazon</a><br />
The uncut UK Blu-ray is available at <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0000714EN/melonfarmers-21" target="_blank"> UK Amazon</a></p>
<p>The uncut region 1 DVD is available at     <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B00003CXZ1/melonfarmers-20" target="_blank">US Amazon</a><br />
The uncut US Blu-ray is available at     <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B000I0QLZU/melonfarmers-20" target="_blank">US Amazon</a></p></blockquote>
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<blockquote><p><a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002JARDU4/melonfarmers-21" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.melonfarmers.co.uk/images/amgpb002jardu4.jpg" border="0" alt="gp" width="240" height="240" align="right" /></a><strong>Lara Croft: Tomb Raider </strong>is a <span style="font-size:x-small;">2001 US action film by Simon West </span></p>
<p>The 2009 Paramount Blu-ray is noted as the Uncut Feature and has been      passed without BBFC cuts but with a 15 certificate</p>
<p>Previously the BBFC stated that the 2001 Paramount DVD is cut as per      the cinema release: <span style="color:#800000;font-size:x-small;"> <em>Cuts required to glamorising     shots of flick knife (including sight and/or sound of knife opening, a close shot of the     knife covered in blood, and clear sight of knife being twirled) and to sight of a headbutt     delivered by heroine, to take account of the large, young, 12-14 year old audience which     has already been created by the similarly cut film version.</em></span></p></blockquote>
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<title><![CDATA[Tomb Raider 1 ao Underworld cada vez melhor e com mais novidades!]]></title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 19 Oct 2009 09:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[O novo Tomb Raider baseia-se em vários mitos de civilizações antigas que de alguma forma apontam par]]></description>
<content:encoded><![CDATA[<div class='snap_preview'><div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">O novo Tomb Raider baseia-se em vários mitos de civilizações antigas que de alguma forma apontam para um mesmo lugar,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Lara deverá percorrer vários lugares do mundo e alguns submundos ainda não explorados.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">No jogo há uma moto (semlhante a de Legend), que agora  poderá ser usada para explorar os cenários do jogo.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Será a continuação da história de Legend, quem não o jogou pode não perceber maior parte do enredo do game.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Além de Legend, a história também é baseada em Tomb Raider Anniversary, em Underworld, a antiga inimiga de Lara,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Jacqueline Natla, retorna juntamente com Amanda. A história baseia-se toda na mãe de Lara, sendo que nesta aventura,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">descobriremos se a mesma ainda está viva. A primeira fase funciona como um treinamento na Mansão Croft em chamas.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Underworld basea-se no martelo do temível deus nórdico do trovão, Thor.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Lendas dizem que ele possuía um martelo com o poder de &#8220;esmagar&#8221; vales e montanhas, com a força para</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">destruir até mesmo os deuses. Por mais de mil anos, tem existido apenas como um mito …</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">pelo menos até agora. Lara Croft vai tentar encontrar esse martelo para ver se ele lhe dá respostas sobre o paradeiro da sua mãe.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Na versão anterior Anniversary deixou muitos mistérios que em Underworld deverão ser desvendados.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Lara passará dos limites para descobrir coisas que a humanidade jamais deveria descobrir!</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Aparentemente, no trailer oficial do jogo, Lara explode sua própria mansão. Mas depois de jogar a fase Protegidos pelos Mortos,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">é possível ver o estilo do novo clone de Lara (que não é o mesmo da verdadeira), e ainda por cima é igual ao estilo da &#8220;Lara Croft&#8221; do trailer.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">É no final da fase Protegidos pelos Mortos que ocorre o momento em que a mansão Croft é explodida.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Para conseguir o Martelo de Thor, Lara precisará do cinto e das luvas do mesmo, pois, reza a lenda que Thor só podia carregar Mjolnir usando</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">um par especial de luvas e seu cinto que lhe dava mais força para sustentar o peso e dobrava seus poderes.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">O que deixou a desejar é que no final do jogo, Lara encontra a mãe de uma forma intimidadora, um clone de sua mãe criado por Natla,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">com a aparência de que está com metade do seu corpo sem a pele e age como alguns inimigos de Lara neste episódio (soltando um vapor azulado da cabeça).</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">O clone da mãe de Lara chegou a tentar ataca-lá, mas sem sucesso, pois Lara atirou nela com suas &#8220;famosas&#8221; pistolas antes do ataque terminar,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">e fazendo assim, a Lady Amélia DeMonay &#8220;falsa&#8221; cair de uma altura assustadora em direção a uma &#8220;Lava Azul&#8221;, que era presente em volta de todo o ambiente.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Apesar de que alguns diserem que a mãe de Lara só irá aparecer se todos os tesouros do jogo/game foram recolhidos ainda tem pessoas que dizem que não.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oluN9QNufps</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">o jogo possui expansões como o modulo Lara&#8217;s Shadow (Sombra de Lara) onde você pode controlar a clone de Lara. Mais rápida, forte e com grandes poderes!</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Desde sua primeira versão Tomb Raider não pedeu seu estilo e jogabilidade, ja seus gráficos e principalmente Lara Croft foram amadurecendo com o passar do tempo.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">O primeiro Tomb Raider já possuia bons movimentos e jogabilidade,Lara com suas inseparáveis pistolas Dual,e belos cenários como cachoeiras,mosteiros e até mesmo a mansão Croft.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Os gráficos eram muito fracos se igualados aos de atualmente ,ao invés de matilhas de lobos  mais pareciam  quadrados ambulantes, hoje existe muito  mais realidade e assimilação</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">com a realidade nos levando a cenários ainda mais aprimorados e belos.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">E lara que deixou de parecer uma boneca e cada dia mais se parece com uma mulher extremamente sensual&#8230;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Novidades&#8230;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">O veterano da indústria dos games Ian Livingstone, executivo da Eidos, falou sobre Tomb Raider ao site Gaming Indians.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Segundo Livingstone, as baixas vendas de Tomb Raider: Underworld, lançado no ano passado,</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">não prejudicaram o futuro da icônica heroína dos games Lara Croft. Tanto que uma continuação já está em andamento.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">&#8220;O próximo Tomb Raider, acredito, surpreenderá muita gente e revigorará a franquia&#8221;, disse. &#8220;Há algumas</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">coisas incríveis que estamos fazendo na nova aventura que vão fazer você dizer, &#8216;Oh Lara, eu te amo tanto!&#8217;&#8221;, concluiu enigmático.</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">No início do ano, a Eidos declarou que uma reinvenção ao estilo que James Bond ganhou em Cassino Royale</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">é prevista para a aventureira. Fala-se até em deixar Lara Croft mais &#8220;amigável&#8221; às jogadoras de videogames&#8230;</div>
<div id="_mcePaste" style="position:absolute;left:-10000px;top:0;width:1px;height:1px;">Fonte: Omelete</div>
<p><strong> Tomb Raider Underworld e novidades da Core &#8230;</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><strong><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-413" title="Get-to-See-Lara-039-s-Shado" src="http://apertaox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/get-to-see-lara-039-s-shado.jpg" alt="Get-to-See-Lara-039-s-Shado" width="500" height="334" /><br />
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<p style="text-align:justify;">O novo Tomb Raider se baseia em vários mitos de civilizações antigas que de alguma forma apontam para um mesmo lugar.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Lara deverá percorrer vários lugares do mundo e alguns submundos ainda não explorados, agora com ainda mais emoção.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;"><!--more--></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">No jogo há uma moto (semelhante a de Legend), que poderá ser usada para explorar os cenários do jogo.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-418" title="tomb-moto-trat" src="http://apertaox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/tomb-moto-trat1.jpg" alt="tomb-moto-trat" width="350" height="294" /></p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Esta será a continuação da história de Legend, quem não a jogou pode não entender boa parte do enredo do game.</p>
<p style="text-align:justify;">Além de Legend, a história também é baseada em Tomb Raider Anniversary. Em Underworld, a antiga inimiga de Lara, Jacqueline Natla, retorna juntamente com Amanda. A história baseia-se toda na mãe de Lara, sendo que nesta aventura, descobriremos se a mesma ainda está viva. A primeira fase funciona como um treinamento na Mansão Croft em chamas.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/bOlXq7yeE5s&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/bOlXq7yeE5s&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>Underworld basea-se no martelo do temível deus nórdico do trovão, Thor.</p>
<p>Lendas dizem que ele possuía um martelo com o poder de &#8220;esmagar&#8221; vales e montanhas, com a força para destruir até mesmo os deuses. Por mais de mil anos, tem existido apenas como um mito…</p>
<p>Pelo menos até agora. Lara Croft vai tentar encontrar esse martelo para ver se ele lhe dá respostas sobre o paradeiro da sua mãe.</p>
<p>Na versão anterior Anniversary deixou muitos mistérios que em Underworld deverão ser desvendados. Lara passará dos limites para descobrir coisas que a humanidade jamais deveria descobrir!</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-416" title="tomb-raider-underworld-2008" src="http://apertaox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/tomb-raider-underworld-2008.jpg" alt="tomb-raider-underworld-2008" width="500" height="224" /></p>
<p>Aparentemente, no trailer oficial do jogo, Lara explode sua própria mansão. Mas depois de jogar a fase Protegidos pelos Mortos, é possível ver o estilo do novo clone de Lara (que não é o mesmo da verdadeira), e ainda por cima é igual ao estilo da &#8220;Lara Croft&#8221; do trailer.</p>
<p>É no final da fase Protegidos pelos Mortos que ocorre o momento em que a mansão Croft é explodida.</p>
<p>Para conseguir o Martelo de Thor, Lara precisará do cinto e das luvas do mesmo, pois, reza a lenda que Thor só podia carregar Mjolnir usando um par especial de luvas e seu cinto que lhe dava mais força para sustentar o peso e dobrava seus poderes.</p>
<p>O que deixou a desejar é que no final do jogo, Lara encontra a mãe de uma forma intimidadora, um clone de sua mãe criado por Natla, com a aparência de que está com metade do seu corpo sem a pele e age como alguns inimigos de Lara neste episódio (soltando um vapor azulado da cabeça).</p>
<p>O clone da mãe de Lara chegou a tentar ataca-lá, mas sem sucesso, pois Lara atirou nela com suas &#8220;famosas&#8221; pistolas antes do ataque terminar, fazendo assim a Lady Amélia DeMonay &#8220;falsa&#8221; cair de uma altura assustadora em direção a uma &#8220;Lava Azul&#8221;, que era presente em volta de todo o ambiente.</p>
<p>Apesar de que alguns diserem que a mãe de Lara só irá aparecer se todos os tesouros do jogo/game foram recolhidos ainda tem pessoas que dizem que não.</p>
<p style="text-align:center;"><span style='text-align:center; display: block;'><object width='425' height='350'><param name='movie' value='http://www.youtube.com/v/oluN9QNufps&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' /><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true' /><param name='wmode' value='transparent' /><embed src='http://www.youtube.com/v/oluN9QNufps&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;hd=0' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' allowfullscreen='true' width='425' height='350' wmode='transparent'></embed></object></span></p>
<p>O jogo possui expansões como o modulo Lara&#8217;s Shadow (Sombra de Lara) onde você pode controlar a clone de Lara. Mais rápida, forte e com grandes poderes que inclusive aparece no 1º video aqui no post!</p>
<p>Desde sua primeira versão Tomb Raider não perdeu seu estilo e jogabilidade, ja seus gráficos e principalmente Lara Croft foram amadurecendo com o passar do tempo.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-410" title="antes-e-depois-tomb" src="http://apertaox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/antes-e-depois-tomb.jpg" alt="antes-e-depois-tomb" width="500" height="388" /></p>
<p>O primeiro Tomb Raider já possuia bons movimentos e jogabilidade,Lara com suas inseparáveis pistolas Dual,e belos cenários como cachoeiras,mosteiros e até mesmo a mansão Croft.</p>
<p>Os gráficos eram muito fracos se igualados aos de atualmente ,ao invés de matilhas de lobos  mais pareciam  quadrados ambulantes, hoje existe muito  mais realidade e assimilação com a realidade nos levando a cenários ainda mais aprimorados e belos.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-414" title="tomb_raider_anniversary_01" src="http://apertaox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/tomb_raider_anniversary_01.jpg" alt="tomb_raider_anniversary_01" width="500" height="297" /></p>
<p style="text-align:center;">E lara que deixou de parecer uma boneca e cada dia mais se parece com uma mulher extremamente sensual&#8230;</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-415" title="Comparação-lara" src="http://apertaox.wordpress.com/files/2009/10/comparacao-lara.jpg" alt="Comparação-lara" width="350" height="525" /></p>
<p><strong>Novidades&#8230;</strong></p>
<p>O veterano da indústria dos games Ian Livingstone, executivo da Eidos, falou sobre Tomb Raider ao site Gaming Indians.</p>
<p>Segundo Livingstone, as baixas vendas de Tomb Raider: Underworld, lançado no ano passado, não prejudicaram o futuro da icônica heroína dos games Lara Croft. Tanto que uma continuação já está em andamento.</p>
<p>&#8220;O próximo Tomb Raider, acredito, surpreenderá muita gente e revigorará a franquia&#8221;, disse. &#8220;Há algumas coisas incríveis que estamos fazendo na nova aventura que vão fazer você dizer, &#8216;Oh Lara, eu te amo tanto!&#8217;&#8221;, concluiu enigmático.</p>
<p>No início do ano, a Eidos declarou que uma reinvenção ao estilo que James Bond ganhou em Cassino Royale é prevista para a aventureira. Fala-se até em deixar Lara Croft mais &#8220;amigável&#8221; às jogadoras de videogames&#8230;</p>
<p>Fonte: Omelete</p>
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