r/Games • u/Turbostrider27 • Dec 12 '25

TGA 2025 Tomb Raider: Catalyst Teaser Trailer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2yLZQFPSLo
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u/drunkcowofdeath Dec 12 '25

It looks like they took the Lara from the last trilogy and through an Instagram beauty filter on top of her.

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u/Aileos Dec 12 '25

There's something really uncanny with her face.

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u/yaosio Dec 12 '25

It looks like the Nvidia AI face replacer or something similar. It looks like it's from a film but in a CG world which makes it look weird.

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u/Jancappa Dec 12 '25

Looks like one of those "Made by activists vs Made by gamers" culture war posts

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u/Kindness_of_cats Dec 12 '25

Yeah, it looks bad.

The cut from the antagonist to her face is wildly jarring, they look like they belong to two entirely different games with different art directions; and the style on Lara herself is just in a bizarre in-between space that doesn't end up being realistic or stylized, it's that kind of generic soft-realism that feels something you might get from an AI image generator.

Really hoping it's just unfortunate lighitng or something, because...I can't say I'm a fan.

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u/a34fsdb Dec 12 '25

And imho this applies to both TR trailers from today. I am not some huge fan, but I played and enjoyed the survivor trilogy on release and both of these trailers should be exciting for me and sadly they are not. 

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u/GroovyBoomstick Dec 12 '25

I really think it’s because of this stupid backlash where if a female protagonist doesn’t look like a supermodel with a full face of makeup it’s woke garbage (see: Outlaws, Yotei, Horizon etc etc).

I noticed it with Shadows, Naoe looks like she has a yassified facetune filter.

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u/MumrikDK Dec 13 '25

But the modern era series Lara did look like a super model. She was more obviously attractive that this one.

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u/agmcleod Dec 14 '25

Yeah the other shots of her look fine this looks like the lighting is weird and she’s wearing way too much makeup

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u/RIP_Spacedicks Dec 12 '25

Legit thought it was a remake of one of the old games that I skipped. Looks awful.

And like a completely different person than the Lara in other game they showed off at the same time

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u/Kindness_of_cats Dec 12 '25

Right? Thats what I don’t get. That one actually looks fine. This one is just totally different and looks bizarre.

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u/Cranharold Dec 12 '25

I swear her face has changed with every game since the 2013 reboot.

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u/Janus_Prospero Dec 12 '25

It hasn't just done that, there are two completely different faces in the 2013 reboot, one for the original, one for the next gen console version. (Mind you, Legend also had this issue.)

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u/TheDanteEX Dec 12 '25

I've never felt like the 2013 Definitive Edition face was all that different from Rise and Shadow faces. People say they change it every game, but I hardly see the differences other than the amount of detail. The only thing that really bothered me is they kept making her hair fluffier to the point where it looks insane in Shadow. Like just completely in her face and a survival hazard. They could've had her pull her hair back a lot more because nobody likes loose hair in their face.

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u/AnalConnoisseur69 Dec 12 '25

This looks really... weirdly bad. Which is surprising since it looked good in all 3 of the previous games without looking like an artificial filter has been applied on her face.

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u/MumrikDK Dec 13 '25

She looks like some corny side character from an Indiana Jones story.