An interesting one is in the film 'The Descent', where one character says "I'm not bloody tomb raider". It's particularly amusing because that film became one of the defining inspirations for the reboot trilogy, with the climbing picks being used, several shots being recreated, and even the outfit Lara wears looking suspiciously similar to one from the film.
She also lands in a pool of human blood among a charnel house of corpses and bones in a cave, before resurfacing very slowly and clearly terrified. This was also in The Descent where the final girl does the same, before getting attacked by a crawler/ghoul stalking her in the pool. After killing it, she screams in terror and despair. The final desperate climb out of the cave at the end (sadly a hallucination in the original UK version ending here, which sucks) where the girl climbs up a steep slope to a tiny opening under the roots of a tree directly inspired Lara doing the same to escape from the sea caves at the beginning of TR2013, root cave and all. TR0 (2013) is what inspired me to watch The Descent a few years ago when I saw it on the telly while on holiday at the Scottish coast and I loved it so I got the DVD and that of its sequel. It was filmed in Scotland’s mountains too, though it takes place in America.
There is another Indiana Jones easter egg in Tomb Raider 2. One of the two first rolling boulders you encounter in the game has a unique texture. You will find Indiana's squashed hat on it, I think his whip as well.
@@AxMania did you know that Lara croft was supposed to be a man that reference Indiana Jones and was changed in to Lara croft the baddas now all we have is emotional Lara that no longer uses her pistols
@@skypemee4040 Yeah. She also was supposed to be a supporting character for a male character. Thank goodness Toby Gard fell in love with Lara and decided to make her the main and only protagonist. EDIT: Some people are misunderstanding my words when I say that Toby "fell in love" with Lara. I'm not talking about romance. I'm talking about how he loves Lara conceptually and as a character.
Loved this video sooo much! Fun fact, I started replaying TR3 this afternoon… The music in the jungle level gives me goosebumps every time! Didn’t know it’s a remake! Thank you…
Thank YOU so much for your kind words! I really appreciate it. Oh really, that's awesome! Enjoy your playthrough. The jungle music is amazing, I love it so much!
I can say I grew up with tomb raider even tho angel of darkness is older than me I always played all the games all the time I loved the series. I knew that the jungle theme had a similar feel to it but I could never put my finger on why. This video gave me closure lmao
I always loved how Crash Bandicoot Warped had a level called “Tomb Wader”, as well as a character in Spyro 3 being dressed like Lara - Desert Ruins, a character named Tara. Pretty cool! Plus, I loved hearing her name being mentioned in Disney’s Wreck-It Ralph Great video showcasing the Easter Eggs
Tomb Raider 1996 and beyond has had a huge influence. I remember when the first one came out they had it running on monitors in the background at the local video store and everyone was like, "WTH is that!" There were older family members who weren't gamers but would sit and watch me play that game as it was quite entertaining.
Sir, as a Scot I cannot express how happy I am to hear you pronounce 'Loch' Ness correctly. So many people the world over get it wrong! You have my respect.
Haha, thank you! Well, I must admit that I pronounced it the typical "wrong way" in my level ranking video, but I plan to fix it when I reupload it with more levels 😅
Loved this. Seeing Duke was so nostalgic, I remember watching my friend play his game when we were kids. And the Lara reference on the phone is something I definitely remember. Also those magazines from the 90s? I miss when gaming characters were almost like celebs. 😂❤️
Thank you so much! I agree. That was such a cool era. It was super nostalgic to make this video, and play through all those games again to capture the footage.
9:34 omigosh, she even repositions and runs back before doing a sprint jump it's so on point!!!! Sony should make vinyl Astro figures of many game characters, I'll definitely but many of them.
In the hugely underappreciated point and click detective game discworld noir there is a tomb raider by the name of Laredo Cronk with an English accent and her outfit on. It's very well done...
Oh my God, you are right! I played that game as a kid and loved it! I never finished it though. Aww, I feel bad about not having this easter egg in the video. It would have been awesome to have featured a hidden gem like Discworld Noir in my video.
@@taskentlutsow2110 I think I'll make a Part II instead, because I've been told about so many other Easter Eggs now, that I easily have enough for another 😅
Love all these easter eggs, the first one with the music track I never recognized even tho i love the classic series from 1 - 5 alot and played it multiple times :D
The Lara Croft cameo in Shadow Warrior was originally much more graphic in the game's leaked beta than the final game. They originally drew a completely different sprite that was later replaced when the game launched with a sprite that clearly used her ingame model from TR2/3.
In the Williard's Lair level you can see the PC game box of Tomb Raider II beside the computers in his office and in Sleeping With the Fishes there is a poster of Lara above the lockers at the start of the level.
I can't help but think that the dead Indiana Jones in TLR was a stab at the game Indiana Jones and the Infernal Machine, which released in 1999, just months before TLR, and was heralded as the Tomb Raider killer, but ultimately failed to really dent the TR franchise.
In Angel of Darkness, there is a weird reference to the TR series itself! Hidden in the shelf of Rene's pawn shop is a box for a game called "Crypt Raider", which appears to be a reference to Tomb Raider for the Gameboy Color.
There is another one that I love. In The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, Geralt can find a skeleton and he says "A tomb raider, seems this one likes elven tombs". Love the videos, keep it up!
Thank you so much! Yeah, I know about that one as well, but I've never played The Witcher 3 (I know...), so I'd probably have to make a lot of progress to reach that area? Anyways, I might do a part II to this video, and I'll see if I can include it in that one. Once again, thank you!
I just love that the TR3 jungle theme is a throwback to TR1’s Greece/Egypt theme. I didn’t make the connection at all, but I always thought the jungle theme sounded eerily TR1 to me, and now just made the connection. Love both tracks! Great video man! :)
Nice finds! One slightly more subtle easter egg I can think of is in C&C: Red Alert 2 - Yuri's Revenge. One of the Allied missions is called "Tomb Raided," it is set in an Egyptian desert, and a crucial part of it is done using the commando Tanya... a woman wielding two pistols (could it be any more obvious?). Garrisoning troops in one of the small pyramids around the mission map causes a mummy to spawn.
Yeah, I actually knew about this one, but I just couldn't get my hands on the game to record the footage :( I'll do another Easter Eggs video some day, and I hope I'll be able to include it in that one. Thank you!
I actually figured out that connection with the TR Jungle song and St Francis Folly just 3 days ago while listening to the TR3 soundtrack, before I found you channel. I couldn't believe after over 20 years it took me that long to realize the connection!
In TR2, the cutscene at the end of Temple of Xian is the sounds and music of "Indiana Jones and the temple of doom" played backwards. It's the ritual scene when they first find the thuggie ceremony
Firstly I've got to say that I really enjoyed this video. Then I peek around to the comments and see how you as a content creator go out of your way to interact with your community. It's not just a simple 'hearted comment' here or there, just about every comment with recollection or more info have actual responses from yourself. I've got major respects to you. You've got a new subscriber for sure. Do keep up the great work!
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! I genuinely enjoy reading about people's history with Tomb Raider, their own opinions on how to rank the levels etc. Thank you SO much!
In 1998 the German band "Die Ärzte" (all-male) released the song "Männer sind Schweine" (which translates to "Men are pigs"), which because of its self-deprecating nature went up in the charts and stayed there as the most most successful native language song for twelve weeks. It was even a cultural phenomenon and stayed part of the zeitgeist. Every German knows it still to this day and the song gets quoted and sung all the time. It even plays in the radio still from time to time. How is this important to this video? Well you should watch the music video. The whole plot of the video is the band members trying (and failing) to fight Lara Croft. It was a hilarious mix of real scenes mixed with an early 3D computer animated Lara Croft. The music video came out between Tomb Raider 2s debut late 1997 and before winter of 1998 when Tomb Raider 2 came out. So when you turned on your TV in Germany during that time and switched to MTV or any other music channel, chances were pretty high that you would see the Ärzte fighting Lara Croft. Here's the video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-404oPn6tudE.html Song lyrics are funny too. A translation is easy to find but RU-vid keeps deleting my comment when there are external links it seems. (If my comment eventually pops up three times, ignore the others)
That was AMAZING :D Thank you for sharing! Awesome find. The song is great too, haha! I've never seen this, so thank you! I actually understand German pretty well, so I got a lot of it from just watching. It's so crazy how mainstream popular Tomb Raider was back then. Lara Croft was SO hot! I kind of wish I had experienced this popularity when it was at its hottest, but I was just 7-8 years old :P
in classic TR games holding the Walk button before climbing up a ledge will make lara do a handstand up the ledge & flip herself over eventually. in sonic adventure 2 when sonic or shadow are hanging onto a ledge, if you avoid analog-sticking forward to climb up as usual & instead tap the jump button, they'll do an expedited handstand-over animation, closer to a front handspring
My favourite Tomb Raider Easter egg is a very obscure one that may be pushing it a bit: in the 2011 anime Thundercats (where my name comes from), our protagonists are searching for “The Book of Omens” which is basically the Scion from TR1 and Core’s TRAE, down to being lost technology which curbs tremendous powers. After navigating trapped ruins in an African jungle (the show and its 80s counterpart take place on a post apocalyptic Earth full of mobian wildlife and certain humans regressed to tribal states), they find the Tower of Omens where the book is kept in a large valley behind a waterfall, revealed just the same as the temple in Ghana, using a grappling hook. (OK, Tygra’s whip but whatever) I always imagine Zip piping up “Oh, _That’s_ where we put the temple” every time I watch this scene. The book is also kept clamped in a forcefield similar to the piece of Excalibur in Kazakhstan. The Sword of Omens itself is basically Excalibur from that game, down to the War Stone used to power it like the Ghalali Key, albeit the War Stone also gives the user Kurtis’s Farsee power.
Also, in the Primal videogame for ps2, there's a point in the Wraith world where Jennifer gets the new power and smashes tombstones. One of these has a RIP LAURA CROFT inscription on it! It's only for a brief moment so it's difficult to catch
Somebody else to me about this one, I really need to play that game! I understand that it's a PlayStation 2 classic that I somehow never got to play. Thank you, it has been noted for a future part II video!
Tara in Spyro 3 is a quintessential Easter Egg of Tomb Raider for me. Crash in particular is notable as both franchises were concurrent with each other with their PS1 outings from their respective 1996 debuts, with Spyro coinciding with the later Tomb Raider PS1 outings.
Can’t forget about the Natla Corporation elevator reference in The Matrix, although Toby Gard did humbly argue that they ‘homaged’ the whole scene in the TRA commentary.
In Witcher 3 Blood and Wine expansion there's a little part where you follow a tomb raider who left a bunch of gear behind and your paths divide where the said raider used a line to get to an opened tomb across a chasm :) That's a reference to the reboot Lara because you can see her climbing pick left in a column, none the less, still a fun easter egg!
I really need to play The Witcher 3, I've wanted to play that game for so long! Thank you for sharing that easter egg with me. I'm thinking of doing another Tomb Raider Easter Eggs video some day, so I'll try and see if I can play the game and capture the footage.
There was a PS2 exclusive in 2003 called Primal and in the third world the protagonist Jen gets a new power then goes to a grave with "Laura Craft RIP 2003" on it and destroys it." It's sad in a way because that was the year of Angel of Darkness, where classic Lara left us.
Yeah, noted! I'll make another Easter Eggs video some day. And yeah :( I remember how Angel of Darkness was butchered by reviewers and stuff back in 2003. Was a hard time to be a Tomb Raider fan.
Great vid as always! Here's a really obscure one: the garage at the beginning of TR4's level "Street Bazaar" is a remake of the garage scene from the 1992 movie "Reservoir Dogs."
Watching these is making me realize how nostalgic I am for the Tomb Raider games even though I hadn’t really played very many of them at the time - I had Tomb Raider 2 on the PC when I was 15 or so and was only able to get through it very slowly with a lot of trial and error! The secret tyrannosaurs in the first level were an amazing secret - it was something absolutely nobody believed when you told them about it, until they saw it for themselves :) I am also astonished at hearing “loch” pronounced correctly :) I went through Tomb Raiders 1 and 3 a few years ago, but didn’t notice Nessie!
That's awesome, thank you for watching! I've actually often wondered if you like Tomb Raider, since I've always found those games to be sort of 3D counterparts to the original Prince of Persia game. Haha, thank you! The Scotland levels are in an expansion for Tomb Raider III, that's almost impossible to get your hands on nowadays, unfortunately :(
Yes, I feel so stupid! I played that game WAY BACK on PS1, but completely forgot about Laredo Cronk. Someone else reminded me a few days ago, but thank you! I'll include this in my Part II video.
@@Jay-qs2oi Hahaha! I know the feeling. Yes, I had it for PS1 :D I got pretty far in the game, but never completed it. It took me forever to get anywhere, because I didn't really understand English back then. But I enjoyed it nontheless.
Hey so I made a comment a few hours ago about 2 easter eggs in the soundtrack. I said A Long Way Up (TR3) was a slower version of Proceed With Caution (TR2) and that a particular sound in the Aldwych ambience (TR3) was also in the Sinking Submarine ambience (TR5). Well, I was partly wrong. Mind The Gap Part II (TR3) is actually a slower version of Proceed With Caution (TR2). And the sound in the Aldwych ambience is actually not the same as the sound in Sinking Submarine. It sounds similar, but it's not the same. You see, I was editing some videos almost 4 years ago. I recorded gameplay from new TR games but I replaced the soundtrack with the soundtrack from old TR games, because I loved it too much. When I was bored and couldn't think of what to use, I would just randomly increase the speed and pitch of the videos, which sometimes led to funny results. However, more importantly, this led me to discover these 2 "easter eggs". However, when I went back and verified if what I said was true, I realized that the sound from the Aldwych ambience is similar to the sound you hear in the Sinking Submarine ambience, but it's not the same, so sorry about that confusion. I feel a bit bad for not verifying before making the original comment, so you know what? I don't know what classifies as an easter egg, but I will write out some possibly interesting things I found when I was playing with the TR soundtracks (and this time, all of them are verified). In Tomb Raider 4, if you go into the audio folder, which is in the game installation folder, you'll be able to find tracks called Action 2, Action 3, Action 4 and Action 5, however, Action 1 is missing. That audio track was removed from the game, but it was still made and you can find it on RU-vid. It's kinda hard to find, but the exact video title is this: ""Action 1" ('Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation' soundtrack) by Peter Connelly [1999]". In Tomb Raider 3, you may notice that the final boss fight music is missing. That's because it was cut from the game, but again, you can find it on RU-vid. The video is called "Tomb Raider 3 Boss Fight Sequence with (Unused) Music". All of the music in TR 1, 2 and 3 was made by Nathan McCree, but this particular track was made by Peter Connelly and it was later remade and used in Tomb Raider 4. (Peter Connelly also did the whole soundtrack in TR 4 and 5.) You can also get a mod for TR3 on the Core Design website that will add that unused track to the final boss fight. Next up is just some small stuff. - The Lost City of Tinnos ambience from TR3 is a lower-pitched version of the Temple of Xian ambience from TR2. - The ambience in Temple Ruins, Caves of Kaliya, Temple of Puna, etc. (TR3) is very similar to the ambience of Caves (TR1), Opera House (TR2), etc. The "formula" for that ambience is the same, but a few sounds were changed. - In the Tomb Raider 5 audio folder, you can find a track called A_Andy_Out_Spooky. This ambience was only used in cutscenes, but I heard it was the original ambience for the exterior Ireland levels, until it was replaced by A_Andy_Out_Norm. - In the PC version of Tomb Raider 4, in Temple of Horus, the boss fight song (Boss 1) and the ambience (A2_In_Drips) are actually switched. The boss fight song plays at the beginning of the level when you're doing the waterskin puzzles, while the ambience plays during the actual boss fight. - In many PC versions of Tomb Raider 3, if there are multiple ambience tracks that are supposed to play in a level, then if, let's say, you trigger the second ambience, then save the game and reload, the game will start playing the first ambience of the level. Kind of annoying, because in Temple Ruins, if you die, the sort-of scary ambience (called Anyone There) is replaced by the In The Jungle ambience, which sort of ruins the atmosphere of the level.
Wow, thank you so much! This has been an awesome read. I'm going to cross-check every track mentioned here later today. I had no idea so many Tomb Raider tracks were "related". I've saved your comment in a doc. I know about the missing boss track from Tomb Raider III, it's so interesting they had Peter Connelly on board for just that one track. I don't like the missing track very much though (if it's the one I think it is) - it's the one that also plays during Chambers of Tulun, when you try to trap the Minotaur right? It feels like it loops too much, like there's only 8 seconds of melody or so. Sincerely, thank you.
@@AxMania Also, I just remembered a few more things from Tomb Raider 3. - Refining Plant, which is an ambience from Thames Wharf (it plays as soon as you reach the 2 pools you have to keep draining and refilling), is a faster and higher-pitch version of the ambience from TR2 in Offshore Rig and Diving Area. - Old Smokey, which is an ambience from Thames Wharf (as soon as the level starts), contains the same wind sounds you hear in the ambience of the Greece levels in TR1, The Great Wall and the Tibet levels in TR2 and also in Antarctica in TR3. But the Old Smokey ambience also has some traffic sound effects in it. - In The Hut is a muffled version of the Antarctica ambience. I believe it's used only in cutscenes (I know it's used in the one where you meet Willard at the end of the Antarctica level). - There's a track called "Piranha Waters" in Tomb Raider 3, but I don't remember it being played ever. It's only played in the first level of Tomb Raider 3: The Lost Artifact. It's still in the audio files of the original TR3 though.
There is a Tomb Raider easter egg in another Core Design game called Herdy Gerdy. I'm not sure if there is any footage of this online, but there's an area in the Ancient Temple level where you can find a younger, fat version of Lara who tells you she's going to become a famous explorer one day but she's a little bit lost and asks you where the exit is. I'm not exactly sure what triggers it, but she isn't there when you first play through and complete the level so I think it only happens if you revisit later on at some point. I could be wrong but I think they might have even got Jonell Elliott to do the voice for her in the little interaction you have, or at the very least they got an actress who did an impression of her (the actors weren't credited). You can also unlock extras in the game by collecting cowbells which you get after finding all 100 bells of each level and giving them to the cowman in the Meadow Village level, and one of them shows concept art for Angel of Darkness.
I had no idea about this game, it looks super fun! :D I really want to play that, is it rare to find a physical copy do you think? Thank you so much for letting me know about this, I've noted it down for a future part II to my Easter Eggs video.
Oh my word … I NEVER noticed how similar-sounding those two melodies at the beginning were! And I've been a Tomb Raider vet for years! Man I feel dense.
@@AxMania In all fairness, this isn't the first time something like this has happened. When I first played the original TR, at Palace Midas I just randomly jumped on the hand, and then Lara turned into gold and died and I was like 😲. Then I remembered the Midas story and I was like, "Oooohhhh…" Then in Atlantis, when I came across Bacon Lara for the very first time, my first instinct was just to keep shooting until I ran out of med-packs and died. 😏And it was only after I died that I realized she was mirroring all my moves and I was like, "…How is this so bizarre yet so cool at the same time?"
Another tomb raider easter egg i found was in the 2003 ps2 game called primal, at the aetha (3rd realm) part of the game, at a cemetery, you can spot a tomb stone that says, Laura Croft 2003, And i find it ironic because primal came out before the whole angel of darkness catastrophe, so it was like the game predicted the fall of tomb raider
Yes other commenters told me about that too :O That's really crazy, haha! I will play the game some day, and include this Easter Egg in a future Part II video. Thank you!
@@AxMania No problem!! I also really liked your video! Keep up the good work!! And yes omg primal is such a nice game, it really caltures the early 2000s Gothic atmosphere
In the original The Binding of Isaac game (and in the remake too) there is one enemy that behaves like the clone enemy that Natla creates in the first Tomb Raider game during the Atlantis levels. It doesn't attack the player and only shoots if you press one of the attack buttons. It can be killed by leading it on a spike field xD
There's a horror movie (pretty good one) called 'As Above So Below', it's a recovered footage style one. The protagonist is literally Lara (similar looking English archaeologist/explorer)
I think you may have said "this one is my favourite easter egg" 3 times at the very least throughout the video xD. Nonetheless, nice video and very well researched. A lot of these easter eggs, I didn't know till now.
Haha, well... That's because the Doom easter egg is my favorite from the Tomb Raider games, and the Astro's Playroom easter egg is my favorite from other video games. And the Crash Bandicoot easter egg is my favorite pun-related easter egg 😛 Thank you so much, I really appreciate it!
There was meant to be a reference in Neversoft's Spider-Man. During the Rhino boss fight, Spidey says, "Let's see YOU do that, Ms. Croft," after Rhino goes down. However, it cuts to the next cutscene before he sies. The full audio is in the game's files. There's also an MK reference meant for the Scorpion boss fight.
I love your videos, so good to see some classic and best of tomb raider. Maybe you should do a video of rumours/myths of the original TR games. One I remember was that at the very beginning of TR3 before you slide down the slope you can find a shotgun, looked everywhere so think that was just a rumour. There must be more you can showcase and either confirm or bust the myths, would be very interesting to watch. Consider me subscribed.
Thank you so much, I really appreciate it! That's a great idea! I actually think that shotgun at the beginning of Tomb Raider III is meant to be Lara's own shotgun that she dropped when she paraglided into the jungle - or whichever way she arrived. I'll write down this idea of yours, and see what I can come up with for a future video ;)
This one I actually knew about, but I've never played The Witcher 3 (*gasp!*), but I want to do so before the next Easter Eggs video, because I think this Easter Egg is important to include.
One of my favorites is the club enemies in Tomb Raider II's Living Quarters and The Deck levels who are apparently fans of the Seattle Supersonics, based on their hats.
In Duke Nukem Total Meltdown, the PS1 port of Duke Nukem 3D, there's an extra episode called Plug and Pray where the levels are references to games on the PS1. The first level pays homage to the first level in Tomb Raider 1.
The Lara Croft audio in Duke Nukem Time to Kill was more of a joke about how Judith Gibbons voiced Lara's grunts in Tomb Raider 2/3 as if Lara was having an orgasm. The groan she makes after Duke goes "Lara is that you" is almost exactly like the sound Lara makes after she pulls herself up.
"Duke Nukem - Total meltdown" (PS1) has entire level, which is strongly resembles level from first TR game. And Duke even says something like "Nice place. Perfect for a date with some nice lady with two big...pistols."
Yeah, someone else commented that, I'm so annoyed I missed this one :P Lara's outfit is also included in this level, right? I'll include it in a future Part II.
Not-so-fun fact: the Shadow Warrior Beta leaked a few months before the initial release features an even sleazier version of the Lara cameo, which can be seen with a BUILD Engine editor for the ART files used to store textures and sprites of the games on the engine. IIRC, the map is absent in the leaked beta, so that's the only way one gets to know about that.
@@AxMania no problem! I thought it was so wild! I remember being a kid and having that Janet CD and I played tomb raider. I got that magazine in the mail and was like this cover looks really familiar and I thought it was so cool! .. that was such a long time ago lol
Seeing you recording TR1 with no texture filtering, but all other Tomb Raider games with texture filtering, gives me the feeling that I am right with my thinking. I would have in front of me a playthrough of all TR games. I played the classic ones since I was a child, but never finished them (except TR Revisited, a TR1 remake as a TR4 mod). I was think how should I play. And I could never play TR1 with filtered textures. It looks so much nicer in the DOS and PS1 version without filtering. TR2 on the other hand was released on pc with filtering. You could still argue that since TR2 the PS1 was the lead platform and it had no filtering. But since TR4 it was obvious, that the PS1 version was later on not the best choice. So somehow I would also tend to use filtering since TR2. You could also argue that at least the developers intended filtering for pc at least since TR2. You didn't had a choice if I recall correclty. Don't know if the setup file with the options would offer that. Maybe nostalgia also plays a big role. But yesterday I finished Quake 1 for the very first time. And there I also deactivated the texture filtering. For me it looks nicer and sharper then. Unfortunately I paused this video at 0:57. Maybe I will discover some of the easter eggs by my own first? :)
I agree completely! I deliberately chose to record my Tomb Raider footage without filtering, because it's the standard setting in the game, and it's how I've always remembered the game. I think bilinear filtering was introduced to the original game when the Unfinished Business expansion was released, and that it wasn't in the original version of the game? But I could be wrong. Also, I think the game looks better this way. Tomb Raider II and onwards look better with filtering, but not the original game. I don't know why, but I've just always associated it with that particular PlayStation look ;)
One of my favourite Lara Croft Easter eggs is from Just Dance 4 the song Brand New Start features a coach with a brown braid, red shirt, trousers, hat and a whip dancing nearby a temple This is obviously a reference to Lara and Indiana Jones
Did you know about the Jurassic Park related Easter Eggs of Tomb Raider 3? 1. Throw a flare at the T-Rex as a distraction. 2. If you crouch and stop moving, the T-Rex will sniff Lara and not kill her, because it reacts to movement.
Yes, but not until very recently when someone told me about it! 😮 It's such an amazingly cool little detail. The amount of care that went into the little things in these games is just astonishing.
Great video, it’s so funny, when you mentioned Astro’s Playroom I thought for sure you were going to mention the uhh, last boss which is a certain very familiar dinosaur.
Ohhh, haha! Yes, but ACTUALLY... that T-Rex is from the first ever PlayStation tech demo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-k7Lk7idveeU.html Unless of course, that the T-Rex in Lost Valley was an Easter Egg referencing this particular tech demo dinosaur :O!!!
there's a ps2 exclusive title named Primal which has an easter egg with a tombstone saying "RIP Lara Croft, 2003", which seems to be a reference to AOD release
@@AxMania but it gets deeper in a way. In the game there is a unit called Tanya who wears green tank top and camo pants AND wields dual pistols like Lara Croft and you get to control her in many missions including the mission "Tomb Raided"! Tanya isn't a reference character by the way, she is a series staple! Also if my memory serves me right, her sprite for that mission shows she is wearing a tank top as the same color that is associated with Lara Croft which is teal/very light blue.
My personal favorite is the Easter egg from "Spyro: Year of the Dragon." And speaking of Tekken, in Tekken 4 Julia wears an outfit that is the same outfit we first see Lara wearing at the beginning of "Angel of Darkness."
@@AxMania Oh, no, she was DEFINITELY inspired by Lara Croft, to the point where I'm surprised Namco didn't get sued by Core Design for copyright infringement.
