No Demo for New Tomb Raider

By Chris Holzworth, Editorial Intern
Posted on January 17, 2013 AT 10:32am

Crystal Dynamics global brand director Karl Stewart revealed via twitter that because the new Tomb Raider is so narratively driven, the company has no intentions to release a demo.

For all those @tombraider fans asking. There are no plans to release a demo of the game pre-launch. We don’t want to spoil the story……..

— Karl Stewart (@CrystalDKarl) January 17, 2013

Of course, it could be argued that the demo doesn’t need to contain any story elements—it could simply be a chunk of exploration with a dash of combat pulled out of context purely to give players a feel for how the game plays.

Though if you ask me, his super ellipsis seems awfully suspicious. Then again, he did tweet this at 1:00 in the morning. Perhaps he passed out on the period key……..

Source: Twitter

Chris Holzworth has wanted to report on and critique games all his life. He first cut his teeth writing for enthusiast sites such as RPGFan, then took a break from gaming to study English, creative writing, and linguistics at Rutgers University. Started out as EGM's obligatory east coast correspondent before selling out and moving to the west coast. Chris is particularly keen on examining narrative structure, character development, and writing in video games. Frequently opens mouth, inserts foot, often where twittery things happen: @chrisholzworth. Meet the rest of the crew.

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