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Eidos warns as new Tomb Raider disappoints

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Sharecast: "Computer games maker Eidos has revised down its revenue forecasts and cautioned it may need to renegotiate bank finances after disappointing sales of its new Lara Croft game, Tomb Raider: Underworld.

Eidos, which changed its name from SCi Entertainment, now estimates full year revenue will now be in the range of £160m-£180m compared to previous guidance of £180m-£200m.

"We have passed our peak net debt position and we retain sufficient headroom within our committed banking facility but given revised profit expectations we may need to enter into discussions with our lending bank regarding our June 2009 covenants," it added."
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AdolfBinBush - 357 days 12 hours ago
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1 - will tomb raider ever die..
the game, the movie, the story sux donkey balls.
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SL1M DADDY - 357 days 12 hours ago
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1.1 - Agreed.
If they simply released a true to story remake of the original in FULL HD glory and no other crap included, I would buy it but all these others I have rented and have fallen short of truly enjoying them. Honestly, they just need to kill off Lara Croft and surrender to the fact that Nathan Drake is the new Tomb Raider. At least he does not go around punching Great White Sharks and jumping and dodging massive tigers shooting them with 9mm pistols... Realism folks, it's the new adventure game. Even in it's most unrealistic parts of the game, Uncharted was still believable and engaging. This Tomb Raider junk is just not any of that.
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GrieverSoul - 357 days 12 hours ago
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Underworld story sucks, gameplay sucks and is outdated, enemy IA... please!!! Circle walking lizards!? Guys that try to shoot at U when or right next to them??!! The lack for the Trophy system in the PS3? Exclusive content to one platform where it sells less than the platform that will not have DLC! They made all the wrong choices and based themselves that the name LARA CROFT and TOMB RAIDER would save them. Its a shame though. TR 1 to 3 were some of the best games I ever played!

With games like Uncharted in the market, Tomb Raider as a high bar to reach with its mechanic and outdated formula.
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Kingsora - 357 days 12 hours ago
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2 - How can you hate Lara Croft
She is the first real gamebabe ever, se was on the cover of playboy!!! I mean c'mon...
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Sangria - 357 days 12 hours ago
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IMO, Tomb Raider Underworld is pretty decent. I've finished it on 360, i'll redo it on PS3 soon and i really enjoy it (even if Lara is obviously used as a sex symbol).

My first Tomb Raider finished without cheating or trying to get Lara nude by doing an "angel diving" from a candelabra to a swimming pool. Underworld is not perfect but fits perfectly with (and not against) Uncharted Drake's Fortune, one focuses on action and shooting, the other on exploration and platform.
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Saint Sony - 357 days 11 hours ago
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3.1 - Have to agree.
Underworld was very decent. Surprisingly good.
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Johnny Rotten - 357 days 11 hours ago
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I beat it over the holidays and have to say it's the best one to date. The controls were alot better which in return seemed to make it a little shorter but the puzzles were pretty fun!
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shamv - 357 days 11 hours ago
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@GrieverSoul. enemy IA?
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labwarrior - 357 days 11 hours ago
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5 - Well, they focused on making the PS3 version, thus the 360 port failed visually, WTF did they expect ? 360 users to buy an inferior product ?
They should have optimized fully for 360 than spend all their time on PS3 development, that would have made 360 sales vastly more
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Rockstar - 357 days 7 hours ago
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5.1 - What?
Do you think the majority of gamers in the world care that one version of the game looks SLIGHTLY better than the other version of the game?

Hell, they probably don't even know that there is a difference because they likely don't go looking for comparison videos.
Maybe they wanted 3 games that week but could only afford 1, or people just buy what they are interested in and this wasn't it.
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name - 357 days 10 hours ago
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I would have bought had it not been for the exclusive DLC crap. Just the principle of it.
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MADPIRAHNA - 357 days 9 hours ago
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7 - @name
You saved yourself some money because the game is pure junk. I dont want to see any software company go out of business but they have to make a better game.
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tplarkin7 - 357 days 8 hours ago
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8 - Some good company should buy TR.
It would be cool if real talent went behind a TR game.
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demonic25 - 357 days 8 hours ago
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9 - it was..
Tomb Raider underworld is AMAZING!

An actual game that makes you THINK.I love the game.
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DARK WITNESS - 357 days 7 hours ago
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lol...

seems M$ didn't pay them enough for that exclusive DLC.

I didn't play the last one, so i can't say if its good or not. I tried the demo for about 30 sec and decided i had had enough.

how many TR games are there now... and people say halo is milking it ! lol.
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Red_Eye - 357 days 6 hours ago
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Tomb Raider can no longer compete with the likes of Uncharted hitting the market.
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Magnus - 357 days 6 hours ago
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I tried the 360 version of the game it looked nice and i mean i never played any of the thoer Tomb Raiders. But the game was given to me for x mas on the PS3 and i like it better on the PS3. I could careless about DLC the story was alright its not Uncharted but it better than playing shooter after shooter games. I like shooter games but this game i like.
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DARKTRINITYxxx - 357 days 5 hours ago
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Serves em right tbh for jumping on the greedy train and making exclusive DLC for MS BS.
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P_Bomb - 357 days 5 hours ago
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14 - They've sold 1.5 million units ALREADY and are STILL in trouble????
Ummm, that's not the game's fault, that's the company itself being a corporate Titanic.

Underworld selling 1.5 million units already despite being glitchy and having had Eidos piss off the PS community by excluding them from demos and DLC (both free and paid), they should be MORE than happy with 1.5 million, especially given the time of year it was released and with better competition.

Clearly the company has issues and was expecting Framerate Raider to save them from themselves. Time to get another Hitman game out there if they wanna do that.
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shovelbum - 356 days 23 hours ago
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I continue to have a soft spot for TR and actually enjoyed this latest outing. It would be much better in more capable hands but I found it entertaining enough to purchase.
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