Naughty Dog Wants Tomb Raider Reboot To Be Awesome

It’s a franchise many developers have taken inspiration from, namely Crystal Dynamics, the studio now at the helm of the Tomb Raider reboot who’s been open about taking cues from Nathan Drake’s adventures.

Naughty Dog says they’re “honored” by the respect they’ve been shown by so many colleagues, but at the end of the day, they want Tomb Raider to be awesome.

That’s according to Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception’s lead game director, Justin Richmond, speaking to Inc Gamers. He said: “It’s an honour, but at the end of the day I just hope that those guys make an awesome game. The reason we make these games is so that we can play them. I’m really interested to play the new Tomb Raider.., we’ve always been very open as a studio, go to GDC [Games Developer’s Conference] and there’ll be 15 talks about exactly how we made the game. We don’t hide that stuff.

And there’s a reason for that, we want to bring the whole industry up and raise the level of the games being made. I think the Tomb Raider guys are doing what they want to do and they’ve made some bold choices with the way they’ve approached the design of Lara. I haven’t played it but I hope it comes out really amazing.”

The Tomb Raider reboot will see a release some time next year.

Thanks, PSXextreme.