Lara Croft has evolved quite a bit over the years from the cartoony polygon boobs to a more modernized Angelina Jolie look and with the latest Tomb Raider reboot, it has a whole new definition of what the new Lara is.

The new Lara Croft looks much more realistic and with a quick glance, I was barely able to tell otherwise. Additionally, the Tomb Raider reboot takes a whole new spin to what it means to be Lara; a tough, and intelligent woman lost on an island, struggling with her last breath just to survive. The bruised and battered 21 year old Lara covered in blood and dirt, might be her most radical shift yet, the crypt nicker is no alien to redesigns and rethinks.

“We felt that it was very important to make her real, and forge her into the heroine that she’ll become,” says Noah Hughes from Crystal Dynamics in an interview with Spong. “Both of those really required her to go through an intense ordeal, to transition from the young and naive archaeologist and become the Tomb Raider. You have to assume that there’s some trials and tribulations over the course of that.”

“So, we started with that, and ultimately the boundary was ‘what delivers on those needs, of making her feel a human and forging her into a hero without being gratuitous. So that’s where the line is: come at it from the goal space and stop at gratuitous.”

If you missed the 6 min Tomb Raider gameplay demo from E3 earlier this month, you can find it just below