Oi! They picked a strumpet to be Lara Croft!

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Karima Adebibe, 20 years old from London who has been chosen as the new international face of 'Lara Croft' action hero, poses for the media in London, Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006. Karima was chosen from thousands of hopefuls, and will now embark on a gruelling training programme to prepare her for the role. (AP Photo/Kirsty Wigglesworth)

No comment on the AP photog's name, either.

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:38 (nineteen years ago)

ugh, wtf with her neck

― TOMBOT, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:41 (nineteen years ago)

(L-R) gun, tit, tit, gun.

― JimD (JimD), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:42 (nineteen years ago)

yeah wtf IS with her neck???

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:47 (nineteen years ago)

she goes to the gym a lot.

i cant form an opinion on this until i see her swim from behind

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:49 (nineteen years ago)

"Karima has all the assets needed to accurately portray the world's favourite female action hero" said Matt Gorman, Brand Controller for Tomb Raider.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 19:55 (nineteen years ago)

No shortage of lollerz here:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4716152.stm

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/41335000/jpg/_41335058_lara300.jpgShop worker takes on Lara Croft

A London shop assistant and model is to become the new face of action hero Lara Croft after a worldwide search.

Karima Adebibe, 20, from Bethnal Green, east London, will travel the globe representing the archaeologist for the launch of the next video game.

Ms Adebibe, who worked in Top Shop, will now embark on a gruelling schedule including an SAS survival course.

To portray the 11th generation Countess she will also take courses in etiquette, elocution and archaeology.

The self-confessed tomboy said: "This is an incredible opportunity for me and one which I plan to grasp with both hands.

Seventh game

"It's a huge challenge to follow in the footsteps of people like Nell McAndrew and Angelina Jolie, but life is all about challenges and this is perhaps the biggest one for a model and actress..."

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

and don't forget(from the Daily Mail):

http://img.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2006/02/laracroftnewPA14020_314x450.jpg

Your sauciness is a little undercut by the WIRELESS CELL PHONE HEADSET

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:08 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.loresdelsith.net/universo/aliens/bin/querm04.jpg

― The Yellow Kid, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 20:24 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I understand. they're gonna model lara croft after her now? why does she need to take all those fucking classes then? she's not gonna be in another movie is she?

― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:17 (nineteen years ago)

So when geeks pepper her with archaeology questions at video-game conventions, she'll be able to answer properly.

― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:19 (nineteen years ago)

Do YOU come with the console?

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 21:49 (nineteen years ago)

I think the neck is hot.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:30 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.hollywoodjesus.com/movie/et/43.jpg

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:31 (nineteen years ago)

if wonder if she'll dislocate her pelvis by continuously standing like that for the next 24 months

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

I should be the new Lara Croft. I bet I know fucking EVERYTHING about at least the first one and a half Tomb Raider games.

― melton mowbray (adr), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

I don't think I understand. they're gonna model lara croft after her now? why does she need to take all those fucking classes then? she's not gonna be in another movie is she?

I'd hoped it was because they were actually going to make her run around ancient ruins shooting at bears.

― Philip Alderman (Phil A), Wednesday, 15 February 2006 23:15 (nineteen years ago)

So, she's the new one in the next movie then? Presumably Jolie had other commitments? Or she's just gonna roam the earth fighting crime and archeologizing?

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Thursday, 16 February 2006 00:59 (nineteen years ago)

I am revelling in the shock and awe that they picked a strumpet to be Lara Croft.

― Dan (Odd Expectations) Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 16 February 2006 02:19 (nineteen years ago)

I would've thought she would just be taking on the roles of other former "lara" strumpets who basically swan about doing promo for the game. they've always done this! what was the name of that... the britishes girl, she wasn't in any movie but she was "lara croft" at movie premieres and things.

― wu-tang clan analogue (haitch), Thursday, 16 February 2006 06:55 (nineteen years ago)

Rhona Mitra was Lara Croft for a while, I remember. Wasn't Nell McAndrew (in a wig) as well?

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Thursday, 16 February 2006 09:13 (nineteen years ago)

bear raider

― Milhouse is not a meme. But 'Milhouse is not a meme' IS a meme. (Adrian Langston, Thursday, 16 February 2006 09:44 (nineteen years ago)

that's a neck, alright.

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

Just for once can't we have a fake Lara who's genuinely posh? :(

― Abu Hamster (noodle vague), Thursday, 16 February 2006 14:10 (nineteen years ago)

One of them, possibly Nell McAndrew, got fired for posing nude and "soiling Lara Croft's squeaky clean image".

The squeaky clean image of trespassing and shooting endagered species to steal stuff, that is.

― melton mowbray (adr), Thursday, 16 February 2006 15:25 (nineteen years ago)

i'm sure a google image search would show exactly how squeaky clean Lara's image is. and how soiled she can get. (unofficially, obv)

― the kit! (g-kit), Thursday, 16 February 2006 16:08 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah but when eidos designed her they must have realised her real life counter part wouldnt b as clean as a whistle

― Jimmy Bobbilly (bobbyblue), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:17 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, it's like the (d)evolution of Rikku from FFX -> FFX2

You go from "teen tech ingeune(sp)" to "Christana Aguilera"

― kingfish has gene rayburn's mic (kingfish 2.0), Monday, 20 February 2006 20:26 (nineteen years ago)

and Lara's new enemy

what are the opposite of ass antlers?

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:27 (nineteen years ago)

"delicious"?

― Dan (Woah) Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 3 March 2006 22:51 (nineteen years ago)

and it appears that

http://media.pc.ign.com/media/739/739585/img_3430260.html

the ass antlers are there as well

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 4 March 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Jeez. Less "hot" women and more raiding tombs and machine-gunning dinosaurs, pleez.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Saturday, 4 March 2006 09:42 (nineteen years ago)

A kinder, gentler, de-bustified Lara Croft.

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 4 March 2006 10:45 (nineteen years ago)

I said MORE machine-gunning dinosaurs, dammit.

This sounds like Lara Does Time Team.

― Raw, Uncompromising, and Noodly (noodle vague), Saturday, 4 March 2006 11:34 (nineteen years ago)

Lara Does Time Team.

oh god, now you're just going to give the doujinshi creators more ideas

― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Saturday, 4 March 2006 13:04 (nineteen years ago)

tits.jpg (or "screenshots of the new Tomb Raider")

― melton mowbray's APOCALYPTO! (adr), Saturday, 11 March 2006 14:38 (nineteen years ago)

Kirsty Wigglesworth, I'll best you yet!

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 11 March 2006 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

Is the new game worth getting? I was a big fan of Soul Reaver and was wondering if Crystal Dynamics had made Tomb Raider into something I'd want to play?

― Greig (treefell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 09:00 (nineteen years ago)

Having seen her on the Saturday morning kids show with Willy Holloughby this weekend, I can confirm that although she may be a strumpet she is a HOTT strumpet.

― aldo_cowpat (aldo_cowpat), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 10:39 (nineteen years ago)

xpost - It's interesting, definitely actually a new game instead of the incremental improvements that the last 12 have brought us. Proper analog control, more shooting and a much less fiddly exploring mechanism - you basically just have to throw yourself in the general direction of the next rockface and you'll make it (there's a nice thing where if you nearly make it, you might end up hanging on by one hand, so you have to hit a button to right yourself), so you can in theory have a much more fluid gameplay process. Less running into walls and going 'umph!' = a good thing.

Also a lovely bit of physics in one of the puzzles in the demo.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 11:11 (nineteen years ago)

I liked the running into walls noise! Next you'll be telling me she doesn't do her schoolmarm "No!" when I pick the wrong key.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 12:38 (nineteen years ago)

She says "No" but she means "Yes".

― Dogfight Giggle (noodle vague), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 13:23 (nineteen years ago)

I knew it.

― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

demo's out

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

lovely bit of physics

Heh heh hehheh. I'll say.

― c(''c) (Leee), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:22 (nineteen years ago)

i love all the tomb raiders but i hate hate hate using the analog controller. i never made it through angel of darkness because i couldnt stand it. i was hoping they'd go back to directional buttons.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 18:52 (nineteen years ago)

All the Tomb Raider games I played were awful -- are we talking about the same thing?

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:24 (nineteen years ago)

The first one was great; a great new experience. Of course, this was 10 years ago, w/ the psx being like a year old.

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:27 (nineteen years ago)

I'D RATHER PLAY TWISTED METAL

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

YOU'D PROBLY LIKE BATTLING AGAINST YOUR FELLOW JUGGALOS TOO

― kingfish ubermensch dishwasher sundae (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:32 (nineteen years ago)

I'm not the one from MI dude!

― Fight the Real Enemy -- Tasti D-Lite (ex machina), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 19:50 (nineteen years ago)

i like collecting a bunch of shit so TR=fun

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:33 (nineteen years ago)

and the landscapes are really pretty too. even the old old ones.

― sunny successor (katharine), Wednesday, 12 April 2006 20:35 (nineteen years ago)

I played the demo last night. Very nice graphics, had to run it at 800x600 to get a decent framerate though (only onboard video on my current pc, so not unexpected).
Control is pretty smooth, don't like the shooting but expect I'd get used to it. Nice puzzles. I think I might pick up a copy for the xbox.

― Greig (treefell), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:42 (nineteen years ago)

what is the new one called?

― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 13 April 2006 12:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/pc/tombraiderlegend

metacritic has this at about 80-85%

― kingfish, Monday, 17 April 2006 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

four months pass...

Corr blimey!

― c('°c) (Leee), Friday, 15 September 2006 01:42 (nineteen years ago)

I think I just blew my gamewad

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 15 September 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

sorry

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 15 September 2006 03:09 (nineteen years ago)

I approve.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:12 (nineteen years ago)

why's she have a Colorado Avalanche tattoo?

― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Friday, 15 September 2006 03:55 (nineteen years ago)

Not enough pouty lip action; she looks like an ANTM contestant trying to be Lara Croft.

― Young Fresh Danny D (Dan Perry), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:16 (nineteen years ago)

She's an old bifbaf.

― Darramouss (Darramouss ftw), Friday, 15 September 2006 13:17 (nineteen years ago)

This is an incredible opportunity for me and one which I plan to grasp with both hands.

AS WILL MOST OF YOUR FANS.

― a naked Kraken annoying Times Square tourists with an acoustic guitar (nickalici, Friday, 15 September 2006 14:02 (nineteen years ago)

She's no Kirsty Wigglesworth, I can tell you that.

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Saturday, 16 September 2006 02:35 (nineteen years ago)

I GIS'd Kirsty's name, and got pictures of old men.

I want my libido back.

― David R. (popshots75`), Monday, 18 September 2006 19:52 (nineteen years ago)

Kirsty Wigglesworth is no Kelly Wiglesworth, I'll tell you that.

― c('°c) (Leee), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:37 (nineteen years ago)

"If you saw Transamerica ... I'm talking ... you fuckwit, fucking photographers you should be shot, you should be all shot. Thank you."

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Monday, 18 September 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

http://blog.wired.com/games/images/2008/08/12/carroll2.jpg

Alison Carroll, a 23-year-old receptionist from the London borough of Croydon, has been tapped as the new live-action face (and body) of Tomb Raider heroine Lara Croft.
Unlike the pretty faces who have inhabited Lara's shoes in the past, Carroll has the physical chops to match the virtual plunderess: The official press release touts her "12 years' experience as a professional display gymnast."
"This is a fantastic opportunity and I am really looking forward to embracing Lara's world," Carroll said. "I still can't believe they chose me to take on the role of Lara -- and I can't wait to get stuck in. This is my dream job."

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

What the HELL is going on with her tits/torso?

― Abbott, Thursday, 14 August 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

Oh wait, that's her leg, not part of her torso.

― Abbott, Thursday, 14 August 2008 01:05 (seventeen years ago)

when unfortunate cropping strikes!

― Finefinemusic, Thursday, 14 August 2008 03:23 (seventeen years ago)

http://www.nydailynews.com/img/2008/08/12/amd_laracroft.jpg

she kicks high.

― Creeztophair, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:17 (seventeen years ago)

I am really looking forward to embracing her "world"

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:19 (seventeen years ago)

plz add to gams thread

― El Tomboto, Thursday, 14 August 2008 09:44 (seventeen years ago)

Lara "Hellion" Croft

― latebloomer, Thursday, 14 August 2008 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

Her resemblance to the computer game character seems a bit slight?

― Pashmina, Thursday, 14 August 2008 11:18 (seventeen years ago)

I always thought they should get Janice from the Muppets to be Lara Croft.

http://images.wikia.com/muppet/images/6/67/Janicevmc.jpg

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 14 August 2008 13:05 (seventeen years ago)

Where are you looking, Pash?

― Leee, Thursday, 14 August 2008 17:49 (seventeen years ago)

Gamer Cosplay Gone... good?

― Will M., Thursday, 14 August 2008 20:37 (seventeen years ago)

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