Next Tomb Raider a survival horror game? Weird.

Dont know if anyone else has seen the latest news on the next Tomb Raider game, but Ian Livingstone, head of what was Eidos, spilled some beans about the direction the franchise is going in.
Apparently the next game will be open world and even weirder a survival horror game. Its still rumours at the moment, but several blogs that featured leaked photos of the next game were threatened with legal action. Heres the link for the news story:

http://x360a.com/news/news-3121-Tomb-Raider-Reboot-to-Become-Survival-Horror-Title?.html

EDITED to add: Some of the removed concept art can be found here, at least for the time being anyway.

http://kotaku.com/5312553/rumor-tomb-raider-reboot-art-details-leaked

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw9FmUo2tPE

Open world as in RPG or Sandbox?

lyfesArcanum wrote:

Open world as in RPG or Sandbox?

By the way they are describing it, i'd say sandbox rather than RPG, either way its a fairly big departure from previous titles.

Strange...They need to go back to the roots...Can they seriously not see that? Nathan Drake is the new Lara Croft anyway. He's much better too.

NiteKrawler wrote:

Strange...They need to go back to the roots...Can they seriously not see that? Nathan Drake is the new Lara Croft anyway. He's much better too.

Well they tried going back to Tomb Raiders roots for the last three games, but sales werent as high as Eidos wanted. So some executive probably took one look at the 14+ Million copies of GTA4 sold in about a week, and the 6 million copies of RE5 that were sold in the opening weekend, and said lets mix the two and sell 20 million.

Except it wont work like that, all they are going to do is annoy the few Tomb Raider fans left who want to play a Tomb Raider game not Grand Resident Theft Evil.

Spiderpope wrote:

NiteKrawler wrote:

Strange...They need to go back to the roots...Can they seriously not see that? Nathan Drake is the new Lara Croft anyway. He's much better too.

Well they tried going back to Tomb Raiders roots for the last three games, but sales werent as high as Eidos wanted. So some executive probably took one look at the 14+ Million copies of GTA4 sold in about a week, and the 6 million copies of RE5 that were sold in the opening weekend, and said lets mix the two and sell 20 million.

Except it wont work like that, all they are going to do is annoy the few Tomb Raider fans left who want to play a Tomb Raider game not Grand Resident Theft Evil.

lol. Is Eidos still at the helm? I thought another dev took over.

Its still Eidos publishing it, well Square Enix Europe anyway. Whether or not Crystal Dynamics are involved is unknown. Hopefully not, since while i liked the recent Tomb Raider games i'd rather see that developer go back to making Legacy of Kain games and finish off its story.