Keeley Hawes will play Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld

British actress Keeley Hawes will once again reprise her role as gun-toting
archaeologist Lara Croft in Tomb Raider: Underworld. The 31-year-old star of
British TV will pick up from where she left off in Tomb Raider: Legend for
another round of globe-trotting exploits.

Tomb Raider: Underworld pits Lara Croft in Southern Mexico where she must
unravel the mystery surrounding the five missing days of the Mayan calendar,
an apocalyptic time when the portals between the mortal realm and the
Underworld dissolve, allowing ill-intending deities to causing disaster and
mayhem.

The game courts a slew of new features including a brand new Next-Gen engine
which uses a hybrid lighting model that combines dynamic lights with
carefully created light maps to make Lara's world look stunning, alive and
immersive.

Crystal Dynamics have also given Lara full motion capture to bring a more
natural fluidity to her movements, with proper weight and secondary motion.
Lara also interacts richly within her environment, pushing aside foliage as
she tramples through undergrowth and vegetation.

Tomb Raider: Underworld (Tomb Raider has been targeted for a 2008 release
and is expected to be released on Microsoft Xbox 360, Sony Playstation3 and
Windows PC. More information to come in the near future.


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