Do not invest more money than you can afford to lose.
When developers Crystal Dynamics rebooted the Tomb Raider video game series in 2013, telling the origin story of Lara Croft, the game showed her in a new light: as a survivor. Presumably, the goal is to get broadcasters, who are influencers in their own right, to get their viewers interested in Rise of the Tomb Raider enough to buy it for themselves.
If you take the best picture and post it by 8 pm Wednesday 18 November, you will win two nights in Queenstown staying on the waterfront at Rydges Lakeland, flights with Air NZ and an extreme adventure package. The game is very much an open world RPG where Lara is constantly evolving in terms of character ability trees and crafting. You can watch this play out live on Twitch through the embed above (commercials for Rise of the Tomb Raider also run during the stream).
The effects of the cards that are activated through Twitch voters are mostly quite silly. One of the cards gives everyone giant heads, another one gives Lara a rainbow trail.
A neat aspect about gameplay development for this generation of games comes from design choices centered around interactivity.
“For these rewards to work, broadcasters will need to be streaming through the Xbox One Twitch App”, adds the announcement, which you can read in full here. Let us know what you think of this feature; does it suit you as a gamer?
The diabolical social experiment that was Twitch Plays Pokemon proved that a million monkeys on typewriters can indeed play a video game, and now the recently released Rise of the Tomb Raider has effectively given those monkeys the nuclear launch codes by letting viewers mess with streamers directly through the game.
