We had a chance to talk to LadyCroft team.
Thank you very much for taking the time for answering these questions Arakanga.
Let's begin with the main question. What is Tomb Raider Legacy? Tomb Raider legacy is a fan made Tomb Raider project, designed and created by LadyCroft team. It consists of nine parts with different locations. Like all Tomb Raider Games Lara has to fight her way to achieve what she wants with the help of others. She is not the only playable character. You can also play with Kraene, Kurtis Trent and Jill Heaton. Is Legacy a trilogy? No, it isn’t. At first we wanted to publish all the nine parts in one game but we changed our plan later due to some technical (and time) problems. According to the things we have seen so far, Kurtis is going to be back in this game. Does that mean Tomb Raider Legacy is a continuation of 'Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness' ? Well, not exactly. It’s post AOD and it has some references to Lux Veritatis and what happened to Lara back in So it's more like a side story? Kind of. Tell us about the antagonist. Who is the main Villain? Do we even have one?! Do we even have a Tomb Raider project or game without one?! *laugh* Yes TR Legacy does have an antagonist and this ‘antagonist’ is going to reveal himself in the last part. I can’t necessarily tell you more about he/she/it, otherwise I’d ruin the surprise. Tomb Raider and Lara Croft changed a lot after Legend. Crystal Dynamic changed Lara's biography .What is Lara's universe and history in Tomb Raider Legacy? Are you using the original biography? Yes, we are using the original biography, the one that was used for TR 1-6. As I said before, TR Legacy has some connections with TR AOD. Who are the people behind TR Legacy? At first it was only Pablo Fuentes and me. Two other members joined us later- Sethes and Constantine. Sethes helps us for game making ( he’s the one who voiced the guards leader in the first game) and What about the voice acting. How did you do that? Well...with difficulty, in my case :-D Have you ever tried to sound like four different people?! I do all the female voices and Pablo and Sethes do the male ones. We would’ve asked some of our foreign friends to help us if it wasn’t for the Czech version. We wanted the voices to be the same in both versions. What is the name of the program that you used for making 'Secret of Babylon'? - Tomb Raider Level Editor (TRLE) – I used it for making the intro, the Choice level and the outro - DxTre3D (unofficial level editor) - Pablo Fuentes used this one to make the menu and the On the run level -Wad Merger - we used it to create some animations for trailers, wallpapers and the set of objects for each level. -TGA studio – used for mixing the textures -Photoshop, Windows Movie Maker etc - these were used for the logo, the loading screen, wallpapers and so on. Do you want to use the same program for making the other parts of The Legacy? Any chance you use the new Next Generation level editor? Well, Pablo is using the DxTre3D editor and I don’t think he’ll start to use NGLE. But me and Sethes will most certainly work in Next Generation Level Editor. We’re not completely sure, though. Again, Thanks for answering the questions. Good luck with your project.
