Recently Crystal Dynamics announced the inclusion of a multiplayer component in its reboot of the Tomb Raider series. The announcement wasn't surprising, but left gamers wondering why.
In a recent interview with Eurogamer, Eidos Montreal's Daniel Bisson reflected on the decision to add the multiplayer mode and says that the mode is first step towards something bigger in the future.
"Yeah, that first reaction," Bisson told Eurogamer. "You know, I did the same thing - why do a multiplayer Tomb Raider? There are two reasons. The first is a selfish reason of mine. With single player, there's a start and there's an end. And you have some games with a rich universe, and you think you want to stay there forever and then it ends."
Bisson continued, "You want to stay in that universe - there are some games like that. One of things that was pitched was can we make that Tomb Raider universe persistent? We wanted to do that, and we explored new maps and new types of gameplay, and for me that's very meaningful - taking that world and making it persistent."
He said that the second reason Crystal Dynamic decided to add multiplayer to the game was because they had past success pushing the boundaries of Tomb Raider's core experience with Tomb Raider: Guardian of Light.
"They stuck to their guns and they ended up with something pretty successful, and that was pretty good," Bisson said. "Darryl [Gallagher, Crystal Dynamics' head] came in and said he wanted to push that, he wanted to create that core experience and have it also be a competitive experience."
Tomb Raider will feature several multiplayer modes including, Team Deathmatch, Rescue mode and a third game type called Cry for Help.
If you want to know more about "Tomb Raider's" new multiplayer, and read more of Bisson's comments on the project, check out the rest of his interview here on Eurogamer.
Tomb Raider will release on March 5, 2013 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and Microsoft Windows. Check out five facts about Lara's latest game here. Learn more about Lara Croft's personal journey here and here. Find out about Lara's inability to swim here. Learn more about Tomb Raider's multiplayer mode here.
