Lara Croft is still badass in Rise of the Tomb Raider

Don’t mess with Lara Croft.

Microsoft and Crystal Dynamics showed off new new gameplay from Square Enix’s Rise of the Tomb Raider, which is coming first to the Xbox One, today at its Gamescom trade show briefing in Cologne, Germany. The new game footage shows Lara Croft at her killing best. Playing as Lara, you can get kills by moving stealthily through water or do a brutal takedown by jumping on enemies from above and dispatching them with a knife. You can distract enemies by throwing a bottle.

The “guerrilla combat” system also showed how you can take out multiple enemies with the new bow. The graphics and environments look really impressive. The trailer shows awesome lighting, shadows, fires, rainfall and other cool special effects.

It debuts on Nov. 13, 2015.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP9D0pUodIw

Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat at VentureBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.