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  1. Have you actually *seen* the new Lara Croft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Wanted: Female Game Testers

    ..she's be substantially redesigned from the previous games. She's still generously proportioned.. but the designs seem to be a little more sophisticated than previous versions. Before you're critical, please:

    Look here or here.

  2. Have you actually *seen* the new Lara Croft? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative · on Wanted: Female Game Testers

    ..she's be substantially redesigned from the previous games. She's still generously proportioned.. but the designs seem to be a little more sophisticated than previous versions. Before you're critical, please:

    Look here or here.

  3. What about Lara Croft? by Jim+Hall · · Score: 1 · on CG Idols - Human Not Required

    I consider Lara Croft to be the first CG idol .. I would actually put Lara as the first true idoru. Like Terai, Lara has a "biography" (she's still single, guys!) and a web site as well as many fan sites.

    Like an idoru, you can pretty much put Lara anywhere to advertise any product. Lara has already been in several commercials (Lucozade, SciFi channel, ...) and has modeled clothes from various designers. Of course you can also buy books about her, calendars featuring Lara, and movies about her. Not to mention the games that introduced us to Lara.

    I think Lara Croft the GG idol has now expanded beyond Lara Croft the game character. You have real-life models portraying her at conventions (E3) and in movies (Angelina Jolie). Fan sites are all over the place. And I'm sure I'm not the only person who would have preferred that the movie had starred the virtual character rather than Angelina (who was great and all, but not quite there.)

    It's nice that Yuki Terai is getting attention for bringing "idoru" into the every day, but I think someone else has been there first.

    (And don't even get me started on Ananova, who not only has a CG body and personality, but voice as well...)