Fuck yes.

To all naysayers who are used to airbrushed women, beautiful models and perfect polygon game girls, I give you what Lara Croft would REALLY look like if she was real. An actual athlete, who, in Lara's usual hotpants, would provide crotch shots everytime she opened her legs to do some acrobat motions.

To hell with everyone saying she's ugly. She's darn beautiful, and she's REAL. This is a real Miss Croft that Eidos is providing us, instead of the usual pinup whore they always insert in the gaming PR so it sells more.

I aplaud choosing a girl like this, I really do.

Ashurahori

At first I thought she was a good looking gal now I am genuinely attracted to her. Most of the posters here don't know what a real girl is. Pretty obvious.

MisterMcThursday

Good Lara, now go raid some tombs, please?

Bokusatsu_Tenshi

Just as risky as watching gymnastics on tv.
I hope they let her do her own stunts.

Angryrider

poor girl... seems they didnt cover anything with photoshop this time.

fatez

A rip away from a kotaku fish

MysteriousStranger

yeah a photoshop would have been the proper thing here, too late now though.

Fenian

Hot.
Saying that make me feel like a stereotypical man. I do not like that feeling.

Wizzard

Lips anyone?

King of Fun UK

Goddamnit! this is why we invented photoshop people!

Ragarnok

@Ecks: lulz

@thisisasignin: Ba dum tsch

Winterbringer

i thought the TR games were supposed to be worse than the PR shots...not the other way around?

ruba-dub-dub

GASH!!!!!!!!!!

theTOMSTA666

Maybe she has heat rash and rubbed some cornstarch down there.

LasPlagas

gotta love the ï'm a model" face in every single shot

vinchbr

hmmmmmmm... the flying up skirt cameltoe kick eh?

jabbathesmut

@Đipic: I guess. That's what I see here...that and maybe they should adjust the wardrobe.

How did these pictures get on the internet without photoshop...

Ajh

"That day, when I finished taking those photos, all I remember was....whiteness"

:)

LSSJ

I "knew" UK-R would be all over this...
I feel for the Lass, world class athlete, and now internet shame.

Mr.Monkey

Action Packed Peewee!

Darkbeat

@thisisasignin: that was pure gold!!!!

Awoken

How the mighty have fallen...

ChaoticInfinityX

I hope that part gets airbrushed >__>

animat0

You do know this is how women actually look like before being Photoshopped, right? >_>

Shinkan

i dont get it. I cant see anything special at all.

mrmud

@scotty: YEP

Banjo-Paste

Obviously its hot in there and she`s just trying to catch a nice cooling breeze.

UFO

@Ecks: ROFL XD

ReignFury

That's... pretty skanky. I understand shots like happen during a normal photoshoot, but usually they don't go public. I'd be pissed if I were her.

Diet-Orange-Soda

goodness gracious

Winterbringer

The crotch shots look ridiculous, I thought Lara was supposed to be classy? Plus she really needs to sort out those tan lines.

ReignFury

"A woman from Croydon has become the new face of the action heroine Lara Croft, beating off over a hundred females for the role."

BBC fails English.

Ecks

I don't get it, what am I missing other than the fact she didn't get a full tan?

Đipic

The "Underworld" needs a tan too.

thisisasignin

....I prefer the model they used for the last Tomb Raider, This one doesn't really do it for me.

TheDoomer

@diebroken: OK, right, so... err... I'm a lot more interested now :P

Sexy new Lara Croft model revealed

diebroken

It would appear she doesn't frequent her local tanning bed. Way to stick it to cancer, honey.

Blind_Evil

@Iceman B.: There's some people who like it all natural.

tironabardheblu

Wow - I NEED ONE!!!

sofiabudapest

@karateka: No, he just knows when he sees an ugly.....snatch.....

Hehehehe, gross.

scotty

...that's photoshopped right?
How can you be so good looking and then not take care of yourself.....down there +_+

Iceman B.

Kotaku is killing me with this Tomb Raider girl! I've been thinking about this girl ever since the last Tomb Raider post haha

tironabardheblu

What she needs is just some tanning in the right places.

karateka

She made it onto the BBC in a more wholesome and less... revealing video too.
A role model for us all, except in hot pants.

stoneagedan

@Banjo-Paste: are you gay?

karateka

I was nearly sucked in!

GOD

Um...excuse me while I go to the restroom.

karateka

Ouch... :D

Deenight

hahaha. gross.

Banjo-Paste

Womb Raider?

cheinzmann

My GOD.....er.....hey that IS a pretty high kick

excel_excel

I dunno, I am still imagining things.

penetraitor

I heard she's in her early 20's, but from the photos she looks a lot older :S

diebroken

she really doesn't leave much up to our own imagination, does she?

Horusz

shame? She looks good to me!

Awoken

Alright, that's it. I'm not eating when I visit this site anymore.

CardJoker

Wooo

SamL_

@cheinzmann: @thisisasignin: @Ecks:

You three win this thread.

Doesn't she look like a monkey in the first shot?

Tycoonalex1337

Why do they have her doing all these...expose shots?

Oh wait, to get people excited. Well, damn...ITS WORKING!!!

macr0planet

Hm, did she switch pistols on us? Those don't look like the Half-Life 2 alumnus pistols I'm used to seeing.

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

Womb Raider

MysteriousStranger

@Ecks:

"A woman from Croydon has become the new face of the action heroine Lara Croft, beating off over a hundred females for the role."

I bet she beat off a lot of people at Eidos for the role.

Chadders

@MisterMcThursday: that's exactly what i am talking about. the modeling positions themselves are atrocious, way over the top IMHO.

just having her standing would be fine, or have some cool stances with her pistols.

ruba-dub-dub

She's so bootilicious

sisedi

I'd like her to kick me in the mouth.

bluesquareapple

You know a man has to have goals, and one of mine is to at some point bed one of the Lara Croft models. Yeah, call me a pig, a typical sophomoric game geek…whatever. You will all bow before me when I post the pix ;)

-EDGE-

@ruba-dub-dub: why, because you see where a vagina starts or because there are places the sun doesn't see that you get a glimpse of? I guess we could talk about the technical merits of modeling shots but then I might shoot myself in my fucking face. I rather comtemplate on what I can see.

MisterMcThursday

Still...I would raid her tomb. :D

Arnold Rimmer's Garden Strimmer

@MisterMcThursday and @Ashurahori: oh she's pretty all right, but these are just bad shots. doesn't really give a great first impression whatsoever.

ruba-dub-dub

Hellooooo nurse!

Gray665

Good to see a Lara model with a bit more athleticism and muscle. Normally they just opt for TITS.

bitwize

@karateka: Don't you think they should have air brushed those pale patches?

get2sammyb

The difference between Kotaku readers and pickpockets? One snatches watches...

peztrip

@stoneagedan: Yeah, she looks a lot younger in the video. I guess she was so serious taking those pictures it made her look a lot older.

I know that the all of the crotch are a bit much, but she seems to be enjoying her work, and you don't actually see her lady business. All in all, not bad.

peacefuloutrage

She has a good kick.... Not sure if the shot was intentional haha.

DanteIX

@stoneagedan: I just watched that video you linked. Thanks for the link. She looks a lot better in motion. Hot stuff. These pictures, on the other hand...may not make her too happy. :P

HanJeSu

I think I saw (the flashing)location of a hidden item.

Silverwolf

That's it, you're all gay (except for those who say she is [rightfully] hot). Bunch of nuts in here.

crespo

Some people have ridiculously high standards for Internet nerds.

Entegy

And that, kids, is why Photoshop was invented.

James in Dupont

She looks so serious!

Project Thanatos

Very unfortunate shots, but watching the video... Damn, the girl can actually move like Lara Croft, for real! I bet she could kick our asses like nobody's business. I wouldn't say too many bad things about here, she'll probably track you down and kill you.

L_K_M

Daymn!!

Xavior

I like it how there is still room for my rather fertile imagination.

Pensador

*indescribable glee*

sqoon

Lets see, 2 min photoshop, and Voila! no more 5-o'clock crotch!

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2playedout

She needs to do some work on the Brazilian wax patch area... maybe a little full body copper tone spray down even things out and give her that Lara-I-Just-Been-To-The-Amazon-Croft tan?

okenny :) ...building bridges (to hide under)

@Ungruntled: poor girl my ass she should stay just like she is. tan lines ftw. we should all be so lucky.

MisterMcThursday

Poor girl. Leave her alone, you sad bastards. One minute she's in relative obscurity, the next thrust into the limelight as a world-famous action role-model, without the time to sort out those tan-lines. Bless her... please go easy on the poor love...

Ungruntled

Shes fine looking, she just needs to fix that tan. I've never really been a fan of noticeable tan lines and markings, turns me off.

Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert

great kick!! :| she looks a lot better at the videos than in the pictures

ingerudo

Wax on... wax off...

And if I had the chance, yes I would wax it!

Enigma_20XX

Okay, we get it, this chick's hot. We get she's some dishy bird from south London and she can kick high enough to show us her bleached crotch springing from her short-shorts...

So what does this have to do with video games? Is there a new peripheral coming out with the next Tomb Raider that allows boys to fap to gain points or something?

Don't get me wrong: she's sexy as Hell but I'm not getting the correlation between her pale crotch and any videogame.

resvrgam

Entegy: "Some people have ridiculously high standards for Internet nerds."

Agree. Or gaygamer has pwnd kotaku.

victor-hvgo borges

The boob-mole is definitely a win.

osiris83

that tan is a bit nasty... looks sticky...

fadecy

@CardJoker: But if you really do have to eat, eat good pizza.

ChiChi_BBQ

Looks photoshopped to me. :-}

CaptCHAOS

where's the shot without the mini-shorts?

adilator

Well, too much crotch shot. But still, she had to have been told "you are going to be a sex symbol for teen to adult males worldwide" prior to signing anything. She may have second thoughts till the check comes in. :)

And there is nothing wrong with a lil' chafe. Photoshop will fix that right up. ;)

~19

Black_Ops_19

@MisterMcThursday: Ajh IS a girl. I still am surprised that they put these through without photoshopping them. I honestly thought that was the norm for photos like that.

Ajh

Why are all these pics in such poor taste?

Wolfers

Nobody said she wasn't hot that was just some friendly criticism(yeah right)

Fenian

I like how she constantly flashes "blue steel." <=== Zoolander... not a perv comment.

Anemone

:D a lot better than the last

Metal_Slug_Solid

What's with the people making scathing comments about tan lines, saying she needs to sort herself out 'down there' and things like that?

Jeez. Right.

I wouldn't usually pull this stereotype out of the bag, but some of these comments are offensive and therefore I'm now picturing a bunch of sad, fat, hairy and none too clean guys, sitting in darkish, messy rooms, alone, looking at that picture and then posting snarky comments. I bet all YOUR tan lines are fucking goergeous, yeah? I bet you are all SUPERBLY delapidated, mmm mmmmm I bet crotch shots of you all would be lovely... no hang on, this just in... similar pictures of you all would MAKE ME LOSE MY LUNCH.

Give me (and the girl) a break...

Badben

@resvrgam: This is a blog. They don't need a reason to post this or whatever its is you don't like. Plus Tomb Raider IS game related y'know?!

@2playedout: They look the same to me to be honest. =) The tan lines isn't that big of a deal is it? Or am I missing something else?

excaliburps

@Iceman B.: A mine.... is a terrible thing to waste.

CheckersMcGavern

They hired a shitty photographer. You should have hired me EIDOS. (I'm serious.. i'm a photographer) hehe

DwindleFlip

@Badben: that word you used should have been 'depilated'. Dilapidated is a fairly amusing error, because that's exactly what the dweebs on this site largely are. Like rows of rotten houses.

There's a better way to picture these people: Imagine their reaction when a woman like this approaches them to talk. I'm seeing shaking... choking on words.. a hastily hidden erection and possibly some spilled hot pockets/cheetos. I don't doubt there's even a few who'd shoot in their pants on the spot. That's the reality.

Cultivar

Crap, no edit button.
Make that "a pic of ME", not mine....whatever comes to mind.

Iceman B.

@Badben: I'll show you a pic of mine, I don't think I fit into your profile.

And let's face it, she IS undertanned in some areas, there is no denying that. So I(and a bunch of others) made a comment about it, sue me.
What I did realize just now is that it could've been FAR worse. It seems like she actually DOES take care of herself...I mean, that's one possible explanation for the ...undertanned-ness ;)

Also, she's british, and they don't get much sun right? *G*

Finally, I saw the BBC clip and I have to say she's a pretty cool chick indeed. Embarassing shots aside, I think she fits the role of lara pretty well.

Oh and her voice is cute.
NO sarcasm.

Iceman B.

Dude...wax much? At least get a tan afterwards.

radrider82

What on earth am I missing here? Looks good to me.

TurboFool

I guess tanning beds don't cover EVERYthing. The womb raider comment above was hilarious.

Lobotaku

I'm sure they were trying to go for sexy but pushed it too far to the level of obscene. I don't really want a Gynecologists-eye-view of some woman dressed as Lara Croft.

mixtech

It is kind of out here compared to normal photoshoots, i suppose when you want to be famous you will do the extra things that you wouldn't normally do....or maybe she does do those high kicks in her normal life.

BR4DL3I9H

This is the company that got pissed about their model going nude in Playboy? And they endorse these crotch shots as the first round for their new model?

Oooookay.

Or is Eidos completely dissolved and Crystal Dynamics taking the reins now...

sir_carrot

I really don't see the problem. When I have sex with a girl I sure don't feel "disgusted" if she doesn't have her um... inner thighs tanned.
C'mon she's smoking hot, she seems cute judging by the videos, and Lara Croft would be fit like that if she really did climbing and jumping around and acrobatics, unlike pin-armed Jolie or the other model "softies" (Not that I wouldn't hit that, either), but keeping a healthy fit look without looking all Ms. Muscle.

Maybe I'm biased to true stuff, seeing as I like my porn amateur better... did i just typed that?

BigBooBuddy

@Ashurahori: Amen, brother!

Zwei Voltage

@resvrgam:

I agree. It's not like she's playing an iconic character from one of the best selling and influential game series in history or anything.

I mean, come on people. Since when is Lara Croft related in any way to video games.

PapaBear434

I honestly think the last photo just looks awkward. One foot level with the floor, one with the ceiling, arms jammed out at odd angles... she's pretty and undeniably athletic, but it just looks damnably uncomfortable.

Does Not Equal

Is it me or do the tanlines just make it that much better?

Altima NEO

BigBooBuddy: Right there with you!

zombie16thc

Thank you sir may I have another!

zombie16thc

I thought it was a Tomb Raider game not "The Avengers"

VideoVampire

wish i would've had a camera on, i just did a great spit take.

TheOtherBarber

id sure splunk her underworld.

maraxusofk

.@Enigma_20XX:

I agree with you %1000

HannibalKing

Cute girl. Bad pose for a model shoot.

I can imagine the scene for the second shot sort of like:

Photog: "Good. Let's get a couple of action shots. Kick really high in the air."
SNAP!
Photog: "Woah. Ok, maybe a little less high."

I cannot imagine any instruction that would explain the first shot save for:

Photog: "Ok, pretend you are a porn queen at a hoedown."

moofrank

She needs to get a tan down there if she plans on doing any more kicks like that...

DannKnee

Ah, so that's what the Underworld in the title is.

Terance!

For some strange reason I feel like buying a tomb raider game....

excel_excel

She needs to apply her fake tan to her inner thighs too.

Mr Butterscotch

I felt this was worth posting.
I'm doing my daily look through Kotaku while listening to music, I see and click this story, and what would come on the ol' winamp? HashPipe by Weezer...
Come on and kick me! :P

Made me chuckle...

Carry on.

Citan359

Nothing tied behind or under.

NotoriousJnX

Well now THAT'S what Lara has always been about: gratuitously suggestive exhibitionism. They sure picked the right girl!

tabion20

Why all the crotch shots? Surely the photographer and whoever else at the shoot knew the crotch needed some work. That can only mean one thing....ITS A TRAP!!

dirkxxdiggler

Besides, I think we can all safely assume that japanese TR players will feel juuuuust fine with the new spokemodel.

She just needs to go down to akihabara and kick some people around.

BigBooBuddy

My god it looks like sandpaper

:(

Majpain007

Attack the giant enemy crab where?

def PD

Screw all the innuendo (no pun intended), but this might be the best Lara we've had. She can actually match the role atheletically.

Now if someone knew the wonders of Photoshop and could touch up that tan spot. :/

Karisu-Zero

It's not that bad... right? Right?

SensAzn

@DanteIX: "She has a good kick.... Not sure if the shot was intentional haha."

Don't you mean "hoo-ha?"

jmsalal

that bottom picture is actually pretty sexy.

that girl is in great shape.

joeloliol

so, those shorts are so tight wearing undies will rip it?

hmm..

Tychonius

@resvrgam: Impractically high kicks that bare goodies are at the core of every modern 3D fighter.

MysidianMan

ha - the bbc news site says:
"beating off over a hundred women to win the role"

velvet396

also, i'll probably get in shit for this, but for a site that wants to hold its readers to a higher standard and generally raise the bar for comments, what is this post supposed to accomplish? i'm honestly asking.

disappointing.

bialia

@radrider82: the people criticizing this woman are like a group of vultures. you're treating her like a piece of meat. god damned cannibals.

i'm at kotaku, not perez hilton, right?

bialia

@2playedout:

Could all the girls in this thread please speak up for how much a brazian hurts? You bleed out of your pores when you get one for crying out loud.

They just shouldn't have taken sych tasteless shots anyway. the 1st shot looks horrble without a horse in it and the second has poor artistic form, she looks liek a tangle of limbs.

Tweezle120

I'd find an ancient stone tablet that would have a strange raised symbol on the back. Then I would place that stone tablet into an inset in the wall with a depression matching the symbol. This would cause a large, unnaturally round boulder to come free of a niche in the wall. I'd roll the boulder over to a pressure sensitive switch in the floor, which would open a door to a chamber where Alison Carroll was hanging out dressed as Lara Croft. Then I'd press "B" to hit it. Like it was going out of style.

Slothboy

people complain too much. i like pics that haven't been photoshopped into oblivion:)

and finally they choose a lara that can do the moves!

Justifan

@GOD:

ROFL This is the best comment I've ever read on a blog!

GT-Sythis

These press guys never hear of Photoshop?

CockneyKaiser

idk, i find that waaaaaaaay hotter than if she was tan down there.

futurehobo300

I'm very aroused.

Dorikin

Thank godness that I only need one hand to operate my mouse...

What?! My other hand? it's operating the keyboard!! >_<

Now I know why they call that area of the body the area where the sun doesn't shine. :P

Shooter McGavin

Man.

And I thought that Lara Croft going commando was just an ironic statement, not a fact.

Polterg3ist

Yes please.
That is all.

CanaryWundaboy

@Darkbeat: Action Packed Peewee

Classic, absolutely classic

Here Mickey, one *foot* long....

willyt9

Looks she's british... she likely just shaved off 10 years of muff

Denver80203

O_O uhhhhhh.... these are really... not... flattering.

B-Minus

Why such hate on this girl, she looks fine to me...?

TheXanadu

That is the cheepest belt/holster props I have ever seen they could have at least painted the buckle to look somewhat real instead of looking like a crappy piece of plastic which it is. And don't even get me started on the cheep leather toy gun jc penny holsters. Come on you can do better. Oh ya and umn id hit it......

redice

holy shit. She's flexible alright.

SolInvictus

@Cultivar: Lol - yeah. Depilated. I knew something was wrong when I read it back. Couldn't put my finger on it though :-)

Badben

@stoneagedan: "A woman from Croydon has become the new face of the action heroine Lara Croft, beating off over a hundred females for the role."

I believe the term is "lulz".

icegoat

I love that bbc video of her... It's like they sat down and were like:

"Ok, so we're going to show you some shots of her rolling around in front of some mirrors... We're not entirely sure why, but oh well."

asthepenguinflies

Still don't think she looks like Laura. Where are the signature lips? Where's the boobs? Angelina Jolie was a better Luara, IMO. I give it to her for the high kick though, that's just amazing.

BlkMagik07

Looks like it's Tomb Hustler now.

m-p{3}

*chuckle-chuckle*

DORKRAWR

@icegoat: I was thinking that she had to do the same with about 200 males as well. Ladies and gents, we have a weine... ahem... winner.

The Magnificen7

@bialia: I'm.. I'm sorry, but are you lecturing the commenters about treating women as 'pieces of meat' and that they're disgusting WHILE you're rockin' the creepy Burt Reynolds avatar? XD

Epic Fail.

The Magnificen7