Tomb Raider Producer Claims Game Will Have Attempted Rape Scene

She gets taken prisoner, one guy tries to fondle her, and she kicks his butt. Let’s move on here. There are far worse things done to females in Grand Theft Auto and Saints Row.

 Such a good point Matt. It’s absolutely being overdone. Saints Row, Grand Theft Auto, and even more games have stuff like this in each.

I am getting a little sick of the people who control the legal issues with games not understanding them

It would be a real slam to the story of the game, if a bunch of immoroal murderous scavangers, taking a pretty goirl prisoner, that they wouldnt try something, like sexual assault. If they were real, they would try it, you already dont care about her life, whats going another step to these characters? I have watched the scene, and the feeling i get is much like i would get from a thriller or horror film. she fends him off, mostly driven by fear, and a bit of brutal enginuity, and you get to see the bad guy lose his face, great story telling, keeps you at the edge of your seat stuff.

It’s suggestive just like other games. like fallout 3 and many other games. The scene is not taken too far I mean it only last a few seconds. I’ve seen far worse things on Lifetime network. People are just hypocrites. The same people who freak out over this nonsense toon in every night to watch men rape and brutalize women on the lifetime network. Why companies pander to people who don’t actually buy their games I don’t know. 

As a story teller you should not have to change your story just because someone doesn’t like it. If people don’t like the scene and have actually watched it then they have the right to not buy the product.That’s freedom right? 

it doesn’t matter whether or not there is an attempted rape scene.  it is a mature game and kids in no way should be touching it.  if they are its not anyone’s problem but the dumbass parent.  besides this specific scene is being shown to get the game attention.

I believe Mario’s dark past involved monkeys and barrels.

Don’t see the problem if the game is supposed to be mature rated. Everyone knows the gaming community is becoming older and also more people are becoming more accepting of it, its time that developers start taking some risks and tackle some difficult stories so that storytelling in games can evolve.

 Rape!? Shocking! Unacceptable! Ok… with that out of the way I need to get back to civ 5, I have to nuke Frances 5 major cities simultaneously,… wich is of course perfectly acceptable.

 And if the issue is sexually suggestive content in video games, they should remove the breasts from female video game characters like Lara Croft, Tifa Lockheart, Ivy, etc etc….

I recognize this is a hot topic right now. I know it makes tempers flair on both sides. But I would say this… If the issue is equality, as i’ve seen it proposed, then wouldn’t that mean that men and women should be treated equally in videogames? If we can take a character like Max Payne. A male protagonist, and for the sake of story destroy his life in every way we can think of (his family murdered brutally, himself tortured within an inch of his life, fallen to substance abuse and depression), and have that ok. But we take a female character, and destroy her in the most brutal way we can think of (in this case physical torture through rape), and all of a sudden its not ok? When a writer thinks of “What is the worst thing we can do to this character?” The difference of male and female makes a difference. You don’t destroy a male emotionally and physically the same way you do a female. If the point is to create a character that is broken physically and emotionally, and then have them overcome that and triumph, shouldn’t both male and female characters be fair game? Isnt that the point of equality? To tell the stories of both men and women?  And just for the record, the argument of “women are always portrayed in a negative light in video games” isnt necessarily fair, as most bad guys in games are men. Most thugs are men. Most of the thousands upon thousands of random cannon-fodder bad guys that we kill are all men. So if we added up the number of times men were shown to be stupid, slow, evil, mentally challenged or just generally showed bad qualities of, men would far outweigh women. 

I do not think raping women is ok. Just want that to be clear. And i’m sorry if my comment has become muddled somewhat here. I generally tend to side with the argument that if the writers are trying to tell and story, written for adults, then that is as acceptable as any other story of torture and abuse. If they are doing it just for a reaction, then it is not acceptable.

its a story element games are not meant for lil 7 year old kids anymore get over it.

and last but not least the tombraider site already has a press statement stating the scene you see in trailer is it it doesnt go any further than what they show. And they have no plans to remove it.

I have mixed feelings on this one. There’s a lot of legitimate adult themes that can be addressed in video games, and they should be brought up if they add something to the game. Sexual assault can help to provide background to a character. It’s not the first time such a thing has been suggested in video games, after all (you really think all those princesses getting captured were just being held to make into trophies…?).

On the other side of things, rape is such a charged word with so many emotional triggers – it’s an incredibly painful experience, physically and psychologically. And unlike warfare or nuclear strikes or what have you (also incredibly painful experiences), it’s a deeply personal experience – it’s not easy to capture the experience properly. It’s not the presence of that behavior in-game that would bother people, so much as the insensitivity it suggests. The scene shown looks mild enough, but if the game pushed her into a more compromised, vulnerable position, I could definitely understand backlash. Being an adult doesn’t mean you’re insensitive to how painful and life-altering rape can be – M for Mature isn’t a proper protection for that.

So Tomb Raider, in this instance, seems okay. Doing more than this would be dangerous and need special handling.

When I saw the picture, I didn’t see Jim Raynor (as someone else did), but Joel from The Last of Us. Then I thought of Ellie getting attacked like that, and all I could see was red.

why is it okay to depict a rape scene in a R rated movie (have you SEEN Dragon tattoo?!), but in a Mature rated video game it’s all of a sudden forbidden?

I for one refuse to be a player in the pussification of the human race.

I think with all the brainstorming here you kids will have the world sorted out in no time, while your at it why don’t you vote out religious freedom as well. that’s obviously pointless, no puppies saved there or rap star advice to be delivered.

You’re clearly very confused about a lot of things, starting with the meaning of the word “glorify”.

The problem I have with this stems from two things:

1. You wouldn’t have attempted rape if this were a male character.
2. They state in other parts of the interview that you want to protect her and help her through her journey. 

Uhm, no.  I liked that she was this crazy indiana jones type woman.  I don’t want to protect her.  I want to watch her be a bamf!