Real-Life Lara Croft: Guns Yes, Archeology No

[Retodon8]

She says she hasn't done here course yet, indicating she should be able to get some basic stuff right in the future at least.

I don't consider the questions asked basic anyway.
Actually I consider them history questions, about facts like names and dates.
Whether or not you know those kinds of facts has a lot more to do with your background than it has with your intelligence, as suggested.
I expected archaeology questions to be about things like the process of excavating, maybe the dating soil layers, something you could invent some relatively easy questions for at least.

The article title made me smile, after having played the new TR demo recently.
I mean, the "real" Lara isn't exactly practising proper archaeology either, kicking pottery into shards, hoping to find collectable statuettes.

 

[dthree]

This is news? Hurting so much for pageviews that you'll run any story with Lara Croft in the title?

 

[Dectilon]

This is news? Hurting so much for pageviews that you'll run any story with Lara Croft in the title?

Bah, news in the world of gaming isn't news one way or another.

Yeah... since when was there any archeology in a Tomb Raider game? The game's demographic would be put in a bad spot if they had to answer similar questions in the games, I'd say.

And to those who don't think this is funny, remember that there are people who think kicking puppies to death is funny. Finding a demographic for something like this isn't hard : P

 

[domicius]

I guess the questions would be about as fair as asking her to step into an arena with a couple of tigers, and asking her to dodge around for a while.

"So, lady, how many rounds can your average African Tiger take before dying?"

 

[Unknower]

I wonder what Harrison Ford knows about archaelogy.

Angkor Wat was in the news recently. Cambodia and Thailand had a small fight there.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Wow, that chick was hot.... What? Oh, yeah, the topic.

Yeah that really sucked. That guy shouldn't have pressed her like that. They said no. No means no, damnit! Anyway, I actually appreciate her not wanting to make Lara Croft look stupid.

 

[Susan Arendt]

On a completely other subject...how good a Lara Croft do you guys think she makes? I still consider Rhona Mitra to be the gold standard for "real life" Laras and this one...well, she's quite pretty, obviously, but just seems a bit too fragile to really be Lara.

Also, I agree with Emperor Inferno -- it's nice that they wanted to show respect for the character.

 

[Emperor Inferno]

Who is Rhona Mitra? Google search time!

Found her. Jesus, she's beautiful. I've seen her before. Oh yeah! she was in Hollow Man, he snuck into her apartment while she was showering and raped and killed her. (is it just me or does Kevin Bacon do a really good job acting a role as an evil piece of shit?) I don't know about all these women being called the official real-life Lara Croft. Anjelina Jolie was in every way perfect as her. Looks just like her and is all athletic and bad-ass. As far as I'm concerned Anjelina Jolie = the real Lara Croft.

EDIT: I know I've seen Mitra somewhere else. Time to go to IMDB to ward off having this bug the shit out of me.

 

[ThePlasmatizer]

On a completely other subject...how good a Lara Croft do you guys think she makes? I still consider Rhona Mitra to be the gold standard for "real life" Laras and this one...well, she's quite pretty, obviously, but just seems a bit too fragile to really be Lara.

Also, I agree with Emperor Inferno -- it's nice that they wanted to show respect for the character.

If I saw her walking down the street I definitely wouldn't have thought to myself "she'd make a good Lara Croft", it seems to me that they just hired a pretty model and just dressed her up as Lara.

 

[Sennz0r]

Well to be honest how great an archeologist is the Lara Croft in the first games?
I mean as I recalled it there wasn't that much sciency stuff that got talked about so I can't really say she was much more than the gametitles suggested: a Tomb Raider, just with the added perk of guns with infinite ammo and strange creatures to beat.

If I'm terribly wrong please correct me, my memory doesn't serve me that well since this was some time ago when I was time since I last played the games (yes, boobies) and the games were in German, which isn't really my best secondary language. In fact I think it's tertiary.

 

[ianuam]

Did an Archaeology A level, we all used to laugh at media portrayals of archaeologists, it's nothing like the real thing. We spend most of our times in offices, museums and libraries writing up reports, followed by a few days in a muddy field every month or so. So although the interview was laughable, perhaps it's a good thing to show archaeology isn't exactly what lara croft is known for..

 

[Lvl 64 Klutz]

Damn, I was off by five years. My guess was 1927. Oh, and I knew what Angkor Wat was...learned about it in Illusion of Gaia.

That game was all kinds of awesome, another hidden SNES gem.

Anyway, Archaeology expert or not, I won't consider super models smart so long as their agents/publicists/advisers are known as "handlers"

 

[The_root_of_all_evil]

Who is Rhona Mitra? Google search time!

Found her. Jesus, she's beautiful. I've seen her before. Oh yeah! she was in Hollow Man, he snuck into her apartment while she was showering and raped and killed her. (is it just me or does Kevin Bacon do a really good job acting a role as an evil piece of shit?) I don't know about all these women being called the official real-life Lara Croft. Anjelina Jolie was in every way perfect as her. Looks just like her and is all athletic and bad-ass. As far as I'm concerned Anjelina Jolie = the real Lara Croft.

EDIT: I know I've seen Mitra somewhere else. Time to go to IMDB to ward off having this bug the shit out of me.

No no no...I'm with Susan on this one. AJ has the appearance but she's really not got the right attitude. She's just such a cold fish. Lara really needs that flirtatious touch.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Lara from Tomb Raider:Legend is the only real Laura, and every other Laura has just been a lie wrapped in failure. What the series always should've been...

What? We're talking about real people?...

Well thats silly.