No Multiplayer System in The New Tomb Raider Game

Yesterday a report has surfaced (via Twitter) that the upcoming action adventure Rise of the Tomb Raider won’t have a multipalyer option. The tweet features an image from the September issue of Xbox Magazine.

Apparently, an explanation was also given with the following quote: “With multiplayer cut from the experience, Crystal Dynamics needed to make this core campaign as entertaining as possible.”

Well, it’s only fair. When people buy a game about Lara Croft, they want to play the game as Lara Croft and go on all sorts of perilous adventures with her, so removing the multiplayer feature really isn’t that much of a handicap in a game that is expected to be predominantly single-player.