Who rushed it? Revelation came out in 1999, Chroniclas in 2000. And after 2 years, Eidos forced them to release the game for the christmas time in 2002. But they couldn't do it because they weren't finished yet. So they released it in the middle of 2003, after more than 2 years. And they couldn't manage to develop one decent game in such a long time?
@@DerTypausBielefeld They made mistakes, like letting not so expert people working on it at the start, so they couldn't do much apart of characters design, story and art, just that in 1 year.
@@MLPForever Eidos made some mistakes too. Core used the image of a real archaeologist, Jean-Yves Empereur, and Eidos didn't even manage to ask him for his permission, which is why he said he was going to sue them unless they stop using his image in the games. So Core was forced to swap the character of him in the game with Werner Von Croy even though they already developed so much with Empereur and the entire story makes no sense this way any more. Why would a German guy live in Frence? Why did he work on some strange stuff now when he was recently working in Egypt? Lara called him an old friend that he never was, and she was angry with him for no comprehensible reason. It was Core, however, that was responsible for the most problems with the game, they could blame nobody but themselves.
@@DerTypausBielefeld All of what you said are blatant lies, except for the Jean Yves image being used without his authorization part which is 100% true, why? they swapped his character in Chronicles with Charles Kane so they would have obviously not made anything 3d model\ cgi for AOD, and yes, TRAOD did was rushed, the main reason? Eidos dumbly enough wanted it to launch at the same time as the movie, proof? there is an "interview" with AOD Lara and one of the questions is about what she thinks about angelina jolie portraying her, so, yes, TRAOD, DO was rushed by Eidos.
Dann HA Eidos delayed the game multiple times. It was Cores incompetence, along with lack of leadership, in-fighting between developers, devs who didn’t even know what they were supposed to be working on and no real direction
If I had a genie, my first wish is that TR:AOD was not rushed which would result in the trilogy promised by Eidos. This game would have been the magnum opus of the franchise. Also, they should have renamed it to 'Lara Croft: Angel of Darkness' since it solely focuses on Lara escaping imprisonment.
I really want this game to be given one more chance! Even the broken mess we ended up getting was intriguing enough to want more. Imagine how the proper version would of went down
Controls are more fluid here than in the main game. It could have been such a great addition to the franchise. Though messy last TR in the style of old ones. There is one thing where this game is far superior to the first five and its the story.
I'm so sorry for deleted this video, because of copyright and need to change a little bit better. So I made it for 3 hours and really tired to find more but you can read TRF on description.
Honestly, I wish we got this version instead of the one Core rushed out with, definitely had huge potential to be such an amazing product for the next gen at the time!!
That was their own fault. If 2 years weren't enough to create one decent game, they got what they deserved. They couldn't even organize their own development, so instead we got a recycled clone of everything we've seen already that is so short, you can finish it in less than one hour, it's chroniclas. And we got this mess.
@@DerTypausBielefeld you re joking right? Core bwas exhausted. Ans they split the experiencedn ones with chronicles a totally unnecessary game. If the team would have rest for one year and then came back and finish it taking in account that it was started together with the older ones and the more experienced developers things would have been way different. This is on eidos, not core. They did the same woth TRU and the controls are clumsier than legend. And very buggy. There are people behind these games. Not machines
this is my favorite Tomb Raider game out of all the rest of the other Tomb Raider games. I just like darker atmosphere and mood to Tomb Raider like this one. this one is especially more of a darker theme into this Tomb Raider game. AOD is an excellent Tomb Raider game. I've enjoyed playing it.
I think we can all agree if Eidos didn't push core design for this game and let it happen naturally it would of been the best Lara Croft Game ever. But probably would have taken about 5- 6 years to come out since it was started on in 1999 and it tuck them 4 years for them to make it. But Core would of liked it since they were tired of making the same format game for 4 years straight
Hope someone can make a full game of what AOD would be like :) Credits to Core design and square enix at the ending credits and made in different engine.
Hey! There was a patch on steam. They made new moves and a HD remake of what the game should have been! I think it’s in the description of Steve of warr’s Tomb Raider AOD video.
Would be great if someone recreated it with level editor. Based on what was not completed. All those missing levels etc. Don't see how it is impossible. 🙂
You really roll on with your videos. :D You really all of deserve them to be the best :D But this one will be a personal best for me. There's so many things to know about AoD even after all these years. I always get stunned and surprised. :)
I've heard about the Kurtis spin-off games. There were so many potentials in this TRAOD game. I feel sad that they were cancelled at the finishing stage just like TR:Anniversary Edition. :(
I always loved the look of this game because with the PS2 Lara now looked like the Renders of Lara from the first game, bought it, played it till the end, good game hamstrung by bloody awful controls.
The chocolate bar you are seeing at 24:08 is not beta It was used as an asset to market 6+ years old game in around 2008 in Russia. Nestle sold “Шок” (means Shock in Russian) chocolate bars that year and came up with this rather strange promotion idea where they would take TRAOD, replace some of the game’s assets to advertise those choco bars and - some graffitis were changed to represent the bars and you could also find chocolate at random spots and use it as a med kit. It was a time when we still bought games on cds, so the box cover also had some chocolate bars (google angel of darkness шок) It’s still weird to me that the game was reissued by Eidos hands and they also made that DVD player (!!!) version of the game around the same time? P.S. thanks for a great video, o had a moment of a hard hitting nostalgia😔
The sad part of this game is that it had too much ambition behind it for its own good. The term "next generation" really did put CD under a lot of pressure to put out the best game they could, which led to too many ideas unable to be put in just a single game, as shown in this fantastic video. Such a shame :/
I really wish they try to revisit what they were actually trying to do with the game. There's very interesting material in there, in what the franchise could've become and branched into. I know the legend trilogy would never have happened if this game didn't exist, but fuck man. Fuck.
I really don't get why they had to cut her dual pistols, its in the game accessible via cheats, it just that almost every promo pic of classic Lara wields dual pistols.. like why cut it when it was heavily advertised. Sad to see the cut levels, characters and animations.
Out of all the weapons that were supposed to have attachments like the lasersight and the silencer, the K2 Impactor is probably the most questionable. Why would anyone need a lasersight for a taser, even in a video game?
There is one minor thing I noticed that was removed last minute that you didn't mention. During the official Angel Of Darkness music video which provided tons of game cutscenes as the music plays, it showed the scene in the Bio-Research facility with Muller wearing what appears to be a mosquito head net. Yet, in the release of the game as we played, he is not wearing the head net. Here is the link to the official Angel Of Darkness music video and if you fast forward to time frame 0:35 you will see from there the head net he wears that I am talking about. I guess it was a last minute decision to remove his head net for the release of the game. th-cam.com/video/4lK5CXxRAXM/w-d-xo.html
My favorite early version of AOD is the ECTS version. Because it looks like it's finished properly especially with Lara's hair physics the way it moves while you're moving her around. There should be a way how we can add that in the final game. Is there?
All the stuff shown in final was in the game though? Also some stuff that didn’t make it was being able to use Kurtis’ magic flying shuriken to which I forgot the name of at the moment.
Where can I find a list of the possible titles that Core were thinking of calling/naming TR6 (around the 1:17 mark) before they went with Angel of Darkness? It's not listed in the description.
What happened to the controls though? Clearly at this point Lara’s movement controls were fully functional, so I don’t understand why we ended up with broken controls? I know the game wasn’t finished but that aspect looked like it was complete
i realy wish tr aod was back, ven if pole would say it sucked, i would play it. i wish thay made the promeses they said. i wish in 2021 tr aod is back.
Heh, at 24:08 actually that's an adversetiment for chocolate "Shock" in the Russian version of the game XD img3.labirint.ru/rc/53f8f3bed9983833cf9f57848255dabc/220x340/books14/132495/cover.jpg?1280394613 It was released with the adversetiment, though that was just a bit of it.
how do i sign up to the forms it says What is the name of the astronomical object that orbits the Earth? sorry i dont understand what that means lol sorry i am only 13 and have ASD mild so i dont always understand things please help what do i put in the Human Verification also large words can be confusing for me :(
You don't get to spring until mid "Galleries Under Seige". Once you get a respirator in that level, Lara will say "My foot speed has increased (…)" When walking, press and hold the look button to sprint.
I wish someday we could see this game how it was meant to be without rushing it
Who rushed it? Revelation came out in 1999, Chroniclas in 2000. And after 2 years, Eidos forced them to release the game for the christmas time in 2002. But they couldn't do it because they weren't finished yet. So they released it in the middle of 2003, after more than 2 years. And they couldn't manage to develop one decent game in such a long time?
@@DerTypausBielefeld They made mistakes, like letting not so expert people working on it at the start, so they couldn't do much apart of characters design, story and art, just that in 1 year.
@@MLPForever
Eidos made some mistakes too. Core used the image of a real archaeologist, Jean-Yves Empereur, and Eidos didn't even manage to ask him for his permission, which is why he said he was going to sue them unless they stop using his image in the games. So Core was forced to swap the character of him in the game with Werner Von Croy even though they already developed so much with Empereur and the entire story makes no sense this way any more. Why would a German guy live in Frence? Why did he work on some strange stuff now when he was recently working in Egypt? Lara called him an old friend that he never was, and she was angry with him for no comprehensible reason.
It was Core, however, that was responsible for the most problems with the game, they could blame nobody but themselves.
@@DerTypausBielefeld All of what you said are blatant lies, except for the Jean Yves image being used without his authorization part which is 100% true, why? they swapped his character in Chronicles with Charles Kane so they would have obviously not made anything 3d model\ cgi for AOD, and yes, TRAOD did was rushed, the main reason? Eidos dumbly enough wanted it to launch at the same time as the movie, proof? there is an "interview" with AOD Lara and one of the questions is about what she thinks about angelina jolie portraying her, so, yes, TRAOD, DO was rushed by Eidos.
Dann HA Eidos delayed the game multiple times. It was Cores incompetence, along with lack of leadership, in-fighting between developers, devs who didn’t even know what they were supposed to be working on and no real direction
If I had a genie, my first wish is that TR:AOD was not rushed which would result in the trilogy promised by Eidos. This game would have been the magnum opus of the franchise. Also, they should have renamed it to 'Lara Croft: Angel of Darkness' since it solely focuses on Lara escaping imprisonment.
This Game Was Thee Legit Best & The Story Line Was Spectacular👏🏽
This Deserves A Remake w/ The Rest Of The Trilogy
Boy, I've got some news for you
@@Ivan-cm6jv can't believe my wish after six years became a reality
I really want this game to be given one more chance! Even the broken mess we ended up getting was intriguing enough to want more. Imagine how the proper version would of went down
Sad to say but Beta is best than finish game
It’s the same thing just worse though
who is here for the remasters? 👌
Controls are more fluid here than in the main game. It could have been such a great addition to the franchise. Though messy last TR in the style of old ones. There is one thing where this game is far superior to the first five and its the story.
seeing all those levels we missed at 2:32 makes me wanna cry :(
I'm so sorry for deleted this video, because of copyright and need to change a little bit better.
So I made it for 3 hours and really tired to find more but you can read TRF on description.
Yeah I was wondering where that video went. Lol
I making Tomb Raider Modding Showcase (TR1-3,TR6,TRLAU,LCGoL and TR 2013).
Honestly, I wish we got this version instead of the one Core rushed out with, definitely had huge potential to be such an amazing product for the next gen at the time!!
AOD would have been such a great game if they had the proper time 😪 I remember being so excited for this game to come out
That was their own fault. If 2 years weren't enough to create one decent game, they got what they deserved. They couldn't even organize their own development, so instead we got a recycled clone of everything we've seen already that is so short, you can finish it in less than one hour, it's chroniclas. And we got this mess.
@@DerTypausBielefeld you re joking right? Core bwas exhausted. Ans they split the experiencedn ones with chronicles a totally unnecessary game.
If the team would have rest for one year and then came back and finish it taking in account that it was started together with the older ones and the more experienced developers things would have been way different.
This is on eidos, not core. They did the same woth TRU and the controls are clumsier than legend. And very buggy.
There are people behind these games. Not machines
I remember seeing that first montage in the extras feature in tomb raider chronicles and always wondered where that game went lol.
By far the best video in regard of compiling all the cut stuff from the final AoD game!
Thank you!
There's sequel and trilogy of Tomb Raider 6 but it's cancelled.
it should have NEVER been cancelled on the AOD trilogy what Core Design planned on doing.
this is my favorite Tomb Raider game out of all the rest of the other Tomb Raider games. I just like darker atmosphere and mood to Tomb Raider like this one. this one is especially more of a darker theme into this Tomb Raider game. AOD is an excellent Tomb Raider game. I've enjoyed playing it.
I think we can all agree if Eidos didn't push core design for this game and let it happen naturally it would of been the best Lara Croft Game ever. But probably would have taken about 5- 6 years to come out since it was started on in 1999 and it tuck them 4 years for them to make it. But Core would of liked it since they were tired of making the same format game for 4 years straight
Hopefully, Freakraider’s TRAOD 1.5 fan remake will do this game the justice it deserves.
Hope someone can make a full game of what AOD would be like :) Credits to Core design and square enix at the ending credits and made in different engine.
Hey! There was a patch on steam. They made new moves and a HD remake of what the game should have been! I think it’s in the description of Steve of warr’s Tomb Raider AOD video.
Would be great if someone recreated it with level editor. Based on what was not completed. All those missing levels etc. Don't see how it is impossible. 🙂
Level Editor is cool but nothing compared on the TRAOD one
Have you tried Delca's levels?
@@corentinguillo5577 No
@@MrJof92 enjoy then! 😊
@@corentinguillo5577 I shall have to try them. 😊
Seriously the best video on AoD EVER!!! Loved to see you back
Thank you and yes, this is best video but most views of TR video update is TR3-Unused,Beta & Deleted, while old one is TR1.
You really roll on with your videos. :D You really all of deserve them to be the best :D But this one will be a personal best for me. There's so many things to know about AoD even after all these years. I always get stunned and surprised. :)
Also, there's prequel of Tomb Raider 6 is call Kurtis Trent-Bloodline like spin off but still prequel.
I've heard about the Kurtis spin-off games. There were so many potentials in this TRAOD game. I feel sad that they were cancelled at the finishing stage just like TR:Anniversary Edition. :(
This here will be the perfect Tomb Raider game that's EVER BEEN DEVELOPED like no other Tomb Raider game that's ever been developed out there!! :)
I always loved the look of this game because with the PS2 Lara now looked like the Renders of Lara from the first game, bought it, played it till the end, good game hamstrung by bloody awful controls.
The game that was rushed out the door and caused Core Design to shut down.
The chocolate bar you are seeing at 24:08 is not beta
It was used as an asset to market 6+ years old game in around 2008 in Russia. Nestle sold “Шок” (means Shock in Russian) chocolate bars that year and came up with this rather strange promotion idea where they would take TRAOD, replace some of the game’s assets to advertise those choco bars and - some graffitis were changed to represent the bars and you could also find chocolate at random spots and use it as a med kit.
It was a time when we still bought games on cds, so the box cover also had some chocolate bars (google angel of darkness шок)
It’s still weird to me that the game was reissued by Eidos hands and they also made that DVD player (!!!) version of the game around the same time?
P.S. thanks for a great video, o had a moment of a hard hitting nostalgia😔
The sad part of this game is that it had too much ambition behind it for its own good. The term "next generation" really did put CD under a lot of pressure to put out the best game they could, which led to too many ideas unable to be put in just a single game, as shown in this fantastic video. Such a shame :/
I really wish they try to revisit what they were actually trying to do with the game. There's very interesting material in there, in what the franchise could've become and branched into.
I know the legend trilogy would never have happened if this game didn't exist, but fuck man. Fuck.
Here's link:
soundcloud.com/peter-conz-connelly/sets/tomb-raider-angel-of-darkness
www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=162235
www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=112473
www.tombraiderforums.com/showthread.php?t=216842
core-design.com/goodies_tr6_betadocuments.html
tomb-of-ash.com/post/151054472895/alternative-titles-for-tomb-raider-6
I really don't get why they had to cut her dual pistols, its in the game accessible via cheats, it just that almost every promo pic of classic Lara wields dual pistols.. like why cut it when it was heavily advertised. Sad to see the cut levels, characters and animations.
This game could of been something truly special
Now Core design is fired from the TR series :(
Not just fired, they don’t exist anymore
It's finally HERE!
Eddy's Tomb Raider Channel Good but... i like this game.
Im that kind of a person
I hope they add all the unused beta outfits to the remastered AOD
Out of all the weapons that were supposed to have attachments like the lasersight and the silencer, the K2 Impactor is probably the most questionable. Why would anyone need a lasersight for a taser, even in a video game?
i like that intro it reminds me the classic old school original lara in core design era man i miss them
I just realised that acid synth at 0:49 is the same one used in the Planet X music from TimeSplitters 1, another game published by Eidos.
I'm just listened Planet X from TS1 and exactly same music but I like the music.
Yeah me too! It's so cool!
There is one minor thing I noticed that was removed last minute that you didn't mention. During the official Angel Of Darkness music video which provided tons of game cutscenes as the music plays, it showed the scene in the Bio-Research facility with Muller wearing what appears to be a mosquito head net. Yet, in the release of the game as we played, he is not wearing the head net. Here is the link to the official Angel Of Darkness music video and if you fast forward to time frame 0:35 you will see from there the head net he wears that I am talking about. I guess it was a last minute decision to remove his head net for the release of the game. th-cam.com/video/4lK5CXxRAXM/w-d-xo.html
Tomb Raider 6-Unused,Beta & Deleted (Update)
They shouldn’t add Kurtis unless he’s a side character who can stand his own man but isn’t there to dominate the story.
1:32 Invisible Lat Syndrome
This game would have been better had the controls been more manageable
My favorite early version of AOD is the ECTS version. Because it looks like it's finished properly especially with Lara's hair physics the way it moves while you're moving her around. There should be a way how we can add that in the final game. Is there?
All the stuff shown in final was in the game though? Also some stuff that didn’t make it was being able to use Kurtis’ magic flying shuriken to which I forgot the name of at the moment.
Where can I find a list of the possible titles that Core were thinking of calling/naming TR6 (around the 1:17 mark) before they went with Angel of Darkness? It's not listed in the description.
Lara Croft- Raiding Tombs, woulda been great
What happened to the controls though? Clearly at this point Lara’s movement controls were fully functional, so I don’t understand why we ended up with broken controls? I know the game wasn’t finished but that aspect looked like it was complete
Is the version shown in this video using Sasho’s patch, perhaps? That did a lot to correct aspects of the controls.
I want Turkey and Germany😭
Now, do you have any unused Tomb Raider 2013 beta and everything else like that for Tomb Raider 2013 to put up on youtube next?
720p what are you doing here? :D
Wish they made a continue 😕
i realy wish tr aod was back, ven if pole would say it sucked, i would play it. i wish thay made the promeses they said. i wish in 2021 tr aod is back.
What
Lol Epic explosion!!!!!!!............Beta Chocolate?
Heh, at 24:08 actually that's an adversetiment for chocolate "Shock" in the Russian version of the game XD img3.labirint.ru/rc/53f8f3bed9983833cf9f57848255dabc/220x340/books14/132495/cover.jpg?1280394613
It was released with the adversetiment, though that was just a bit of it.
are you sure that the right sequence was Germany levels before Praga's????
very interesting video btw 👍👍
Yes, it is.
how do i sign up to the forms it says What is the name of the astronomical object that orbits the Earth? sorry i dont understand what that means lol sorry i am only 13 and have ASD mild so i dont always understand things please help what do i put in the Human Verification also large words can be confusing for me :(
Can we get this beta files somewhere?
Unfortunately, 17 year later still not Playable E3 or Beta of TRAOD but you can read beta documents:
core-design.com/goodies_tr6_betadocuments.html
Were there really going to be 53 levels?
Nice job very good video
ბევრი კარგი მაპი და სცენა ამოიღეს :(
Is it over? You won't show us another TR?
No, it's not!I'll try to make new video this week.
Ok :-)
Gotta love tr chronicles putting their ugly watermark on material they don't own 😂
Pretty much half the game was unused or deleted lol
please tell me how to sprint or is it just a mod please answer !?!
free man u can sprint after a certain level i think it's the gallery under siege
you need your leg to be strong when Lara says my legs feel stronger now
You don't get to spring until mid "Galleries Under Seige".
Once you get a respirator in that level, Lara will say "My foot speed has increased (…)"
When walking, press and hold the look button to sprint.