mmmm, woooow great, i very like tomb rider...

I agree about the sounds being recognisable. I can't imagine getting to that stage without some type of navigation sounds, but perhaps they just weren't shown there or were muted.

As I said, the game is in incredibly early developement, and I don't think we can base too much speculation on the recordings, sinse it's entirely possible not all features of the game have actually been coded yet.

conspiraZ, by your deffinition, these are not trailers, sinse there is at the moment no game to promote, ---- and it's entirely possible there is very litle of a game to reccord from sinse I know that Tom ward has been busy with other projects, and I'm not sure how long he's been working on this, or even how much of the game there is.

I'd personally view this sort of thing the same way mainstream games companies, ---- and often animation studios, release preliminary art sketches of single characters or scenes from an upcoming game or animation. All you know is that there's character X involved, or situation X, and nothing else.

this is particularly true where the thing in question is a sequal to, or continuation of something really famous, ---- for example, for the recent Avatar series 3, a year before the series was released one of the artists published a single picture showing two of the characters kissing.

sinse thom ward's obviously using original toomb rader sfx and music, that's what I think this is.

As to what Lara croft does, well unless the formular is changed, the toom rader games do involve a hell of a lot of jumping and solving puzles. though you collect artifacts, their at the end of a few stages and are part of the game's plot rather than treasures you just grab along the way Montizuma style.

for info on the plot, seting and gameplay of Toomb rader, I'd recommend reading this artical on Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomb_Raider

Yes, Monti Beta 3 is good, but make sure you read the instructions carefully, as doing the wrong thing in regeddit can be fairly desasterous.

Also andy, a litle written vocalization and weerd speech is fine, but too much of that sort of thing can really make people go Grrrrr! especially on a site where the majority of people use screen readers.

A litle bit is fine, but please use some discression.

Okay, I'll put my wagging finger away now ;D.

I hoped to catch somebody out with that news post, --- I'm rather pleased I managed it!