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Minnie Driver gives voice to Lara Croft

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I have fond memories of playing the first Tomb Raider video game on a dorky Acer PC that would now seem like a relic. That game was so pixelly — Lara Croft had those pointy torpedo boobs — but it had the perfect effort-reward ratio. For me, every TR game since then has paled. And the films don't really compare either, though I do enjoy watching Croft kick butt. Still, Tomb Raider should be about the adventure, not the Angelina.

This latest bit of Tomb Raider news is more along the lines of what I like. Minnie Driver will be the voice of Lara Croft in an online animated series called Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider. I take issue with the backslash (what the hell is that trying to do?) but I approve of the concept. And I definitely approve of anything that involves Driver's voice or Driver in general. (I only wish I could tolerate the rest of The Riches, because she's great in it. But I can't get past the virilization and bad-acting-ization of Eddie Izzard.)

Re\Visioned premieres Tuesday, July 10 on GameTap. The first three-part series was written and designed by Peter Chung, who did the Aeon Flux animated series (which was much better than the movie) and The Animatrix. But wait a minute. GameTap? Now I'm not so sure this is a good move for Driver. What would Bubble from Ab Fab say? "Minnie Driver? Is it a dwarf?"

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    • Submitted by
    scribegrrrl
    on July 6, 2007 - 1:51pm.
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    keeley

    Submitted by
    Sarah (46 posts)
    on July 6, 2007 - 2:21pm.
    it's too bad they couldn't get Keeley Hawes (Tipping the Velvet) to do it. Apparently she's been the voice of Lara Croft on the video games for the past few years.
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    I think Keeley Hawes did the

    Submitted by
    Wild Child (35 posts)
    on July 6, 2007 - 3:22pm.

    I think Keeley Hawes did the last two TRs. And I think they were good. Well, one is the remake... but Legend is a great game and I did play hoping to hate it (Angel Of Darkness trauma).

    But I gotta agree that most of'em paled. I can play the first two over and over but from there on... it's a one-time ride for me. TR3 specially, what a let-down.

    Legend saved the series though. Faithless fans give it a chance =D.

     

    Love Peter Chung's work. The animation's got a lot in favor of coming off great!

     

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    I got Anniversary as a gift,

    Submitted by
    Noclaf (53 posts)
    on July 6, 2007 - 4:54pm.

    I got Anniversary as a gift, and i was a little leary to try it out. All I could remember was the frustration of Chronicles, and the idiocy of AOD. But it's turned out pretty well so far. My only wish is that they would have had some humanoid opponents. I hope that they redo TR2 as well....the Venice level was awesome.

     

     

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    Laura Croft

    Submitted by
    Janelle (1 post)
    on July 23, 2008 - 4:22am.

    Tomb Raider started out amazing, and then went horribly wrong (just bad gameplay and everything), and now it's back on the track of awesome... hated to see such a title go down the drain & loving it back in the lime light. I think it's awesome that Minnie is going to be voice acting for Laura, she's a great actress and voice actress (loved her in Princess Mononoke). 
     
    I'm a huge fan of Minnies and I just saw her film Take,
    and fan or not the film was really good.  
     
    Has anyone else gotten the chance to see it yet?
    It just came out not long ago, so I'm curious.
    If you haven't you really ought to, Minnie is simply fantastic in it. 
     

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