According to Eidos Montreal’s Dan Bisson, Shadow of the Tomb Raider won’t feature Lara Croft’s Dual Pistols. The details were shared by Bisson in a recent interview with Official Xbox Magazine.
Since it is the final chapter in the young Lara saga, it was almost a given that Shadow of the Tomb Raider would be featuring the iconic dual pistols that have made the original franchise this popular for ages.
Anyway, according to game director Dan Bisson, it looks like this won’t be the case – the PC, PS4 and Xbox One title won’t be featuring dual pistols, as the “signature weapon” for Lara will still be the bow.
“No. I don’t want that. For us, this is her defining moment. We’re not going to put her in shorts with double-pistols, wearing a bikini; that’s not what this is,” Bisson told the latest issue of the Official Xbox Magazine.
“For this trilogy – not saying anything about, later on, I don’t know about the future titles – but for this trilogy, the bow is still her signature weapon,” he concluded, hinting at something obvious such as Tomb Raider not ending as a series with this game.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider is releasing as early as this September and will be the first game in the franchise to be developed at Eidos Montreal, the Deus Ex studio, rather than the usual Crystal Dynamics since they’ve been employed on the upcoming Avengers game.
