Game developer Eidos Montreal recently released a brand new trailer of upcoming action adventure Shadow of the Tomb Raider. It features underwater exploration and scenes.
Shadow of the Tomb Raider underwater gameplay
The latest short new video for the upcoming Shadow of the Tomb Raider features underwater exploration and gameplay. It is a short video that is over 40 seconds long, but it showcases a lot of underwater gameplay that players will be expecting after launch. There are different things that they can do underwater like stealth kills, exploring certain old ruins, escaping dangerous areas, and more.
The underwater scenes look pretty awesome with the spice of danger in every turn. There is one scene where Lara Croft is attacked by a dangerous looking fish that is biting down on her arm. She had to stick her dagger again and again just to kill it.
Implementation of options for players to choose from
In other related news, game publisher Square Enix released some new information about the game’s wide variety of options for players to choose from. They can make some adjustment if they may need a little more assistance with its more difficult areas.
Here are the details on each difficulty setting:
Easy – Aim assist will be enabled and enemies will have lower health, which will make them easier to kill and do less damage to Lara. Ammunition boxes are plentiful giving you the options to always have enough on you at all times, plus enemies will have illuminated silhouettes making them easier to spot.
Normal – Enemies will have normal health and damage this time around and ammunition boxes are rare, so make every shot count! Enemies will still have illuminated silhouettes, the same as in easy.
Hard – Enemies will have increased health now making them a little trickier to floor and with this, they’ll do more damage and locate Lara more quickly. There will be no health regeneration in combat and ammunition boxes are rare. No hit markers on the reticle and enemies are not highlighted in Survival Instincts, time to get your sneak on and eyes peeled!
Deadly Obsession – For the player looking to sweat a little. Deadly Obsession is the same as hard, but this time you will have no HUD icon when Lara is being detected by an enemy. This could be extremely interesting or extremely nerve-wracking!
Square Enix stated that the difficulty settings will make some changes on the players’ adventure as they explore the game. Here are the details:
Easy
- Obvious white paint on a critical path
- Longer saving grab timer
- Base camps are lit
Normal
- Discreet white paint on a critical path
- Normal saving grab timer
- Base camps are unlit
Hard
- No white paint on a critical path
- Reduced saving grab timer
- No Survival Instincts during exploration
- Base camps are unlit
Deadly Obsession
- Same as Hard
- Base camps are unlit and require resources to light
- The game only saves at Base camps
With the easy setting, puzzles will be easier to finish because Lara will give some direct hints on the next action to perform. The interactive objectives will be highlighted in her Survival Instincts mode. The objects that are necessary to progress the game will be highlighted in blue during Survival Instincts mode. There will be also a longer window of opportunity for timed mechanics while normal will give a slightly less time and hints for puzzles.
In hard and deadly obsession settings, there will be no hints. Survival Instincts will be activated and there will be a shorter window of opportunity for the players.
Check out the underwater exploration trailer below:
Source: Official YouTube Channel, Square Enix Official Website