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"Will people bring out something new and fresh?"

Ther's been at least 5 Tomb Raiders already, a couple of ridge racers, a load of FIFA games that are almost identical and even more sequels coming out soon.
What I'm trying to say is won't someone bring out something fresh and new nobody has tried.
Take examples of Deus Ex(a good mix of shooting and RPG exploring)
Vib ribbon (strange but addictive) and what about The Sims (different from many other games around but addictive as well).
There may well be a new genre in the near future as the consoles get more powerful. With more new genres we can bring more of a good range of games. People could use several genres in their games and bring out something new and different to the gaming world.
And the companies may benifit from it with big sales on their new product.

Yeah Fogmaster that was the reason why Rare got rid of the mace mapping feature on Perfect Dark, but it was also due to politics, what the problem was that there were numerous shootings by kids in schools and there was a huge debate on whether these were linked with computer games. Rare decided, as the game was to be released in the States after the UK to withdraw that feature as to not add fuel to the fire by creating a facsimilie in Perfect Dark to blow the hell out of say with the Farsight XR 20. Ill be getting Zelda to, for free thatnks to gameaday- I wouldnt have been able to get it otherwise!

Yep, I'll be getting Zelda. I got my expansion pak from france cos it was 10 quid cheaper, I sold my DK64 exp pak to a friend for a tenner.
The face mapping was removed for that reason and because of that shooting.

Cherz lock, I got an expansion pak, I thought they cancelled the face mapping was because if you took photos of your teachers or school mates then you might get the idea of actually shooting them from great distances with high powered futuristic sniper rifles and pistols that won't be invented until a few years to come(when we have forgotten about the people we were shooting on our games.
Will you buy Zelda?

It would of been great if we had face mapping in it.
It's all because someone thought they were James Bond.
There is a new Zelda:Majora's Mask. It's out in November and you'll need a expansion pak.

Tomb Raider TOUM-RAY-DER Adj):
1. Done to death; overused.
2. Making each one worse than the predessor.

Turok 1 was so bad i was insulted, Turok 2 was better but i'm glad I didn't buy it, I think the best thing to do is buy a game when it has been out a month or two, then you can read the reviews, and forget the preiviews and Americans comment on the game as it will probably be different when it gets over here(like PD and the face scanning) then you can decid whether it's worth getting or not, and you never know if it's good but not selling very well then it might have gone down a few pounds since it first came out, or there might be a special week price or something. you just don't know. Then theres the exception for every rule, Perfect dark was a must buy for most people, I was wrapped up in the hype I had to get my mits on it, whether I won it throught some fantastic web site or if I had waited a week to get it from a preordered system or a shop, I would still have got it and be playing it today on my N64, I can assure you that not every game is awaited for as much as PD, but I thought there was a new Zelda game coming out this month, but I havn't heard anything, so i'm guessing it'as next year.

But Tomb Raider 4 was good....oh hang on, no it wasn't.
Some games sequels are good, whether intentionally or not. However, there are loads of other games that aren't sequels and some of them are even playable! If we didn't have sequels we would simply have less games. Yes, you could argue that the games companies would be able to take more time to create more original software, but it takes a lot longer to come up with a new game idea and game engine. If a game did well and everyone liked the engine, then why not use it again? The only thing to avoid is the Tomb Raider factor, i.e. doing the game to death.

Tomb Raider 1.
Then Tomb Raider 2.
Then Tomb Raider 2.1
Then Tomb Raider 2.3 beta
Then Now Tomb Raider 2.4
Understand? Good!

I think they are using the past and present of Lara Croft this time. Maybe they will use her afterlife or before she was born.

Good pun Grix- why do you say theyre making Tomb Raider 2.4?