Lara Croft Brought To Life
It appears that the job of ‘being’ Lara Croft is now more than wearing skin tight lycra and holding a couple of large weapons.
Eidos has entrusted the latest incarnation of the gun-happy, British heroine to actually speak, which is more than can be said for the first non-digital Lara, Nell McAndrew.
Apparentally, Karima Adebibe from east London was packed off on an intensive ‘Lara course’ before being paraded in front of the media. This included the obligatory weapons training, but also archaeology, deportment and elocution. However, she comes complete with fluent Arabic, so that was one aspect of the Croft skillset that didn’t need to be brushed up.
“I really do feel like Lara Croft now. It’s incredible,” gushed the 20 year-old inhabitant of the famous Croft hotpants to the BBC, before blowing away a couple of endangered species and throwing herself off a sheer rock face. OK, so we made the last bit up, but it’s easy to imagine the role becoming a little life-changing.
“I don’t like the shorts,” Karima told the Sydney Moring Herald proving that being Lara is not all a bed of roses.
The Guinness World Records recently named Lara as the ‘Most Successful Human Videogame Heroine’. This has left TechSmec.com scratching its virtual head for another human videogame heroine so perhaps competition wasn’t great.
Karima will be wearing her Lara Croft outfit at a shopping centre near you soon. She’ll be the one surrounded by salivating teenagers.
Add comment April 15th, 2006