Tomb Raider Is The Problem, Not Lara Croft

Eidos has now made plain its desire to revise Lara Croft and the overall "look and play" of the Tomb Raider series after the latest installment, Tomb Raider: Underworld, underperformed in sales. In a recent BBC article, Eidos tossed around ideas like making Lara more "female-friendly" or giving the whole franchise a facelift in the style of Batman Begins. What's wrong with the series has nothing to do with Lara as a character or the tone of the series, though.