It’s finally here, the much anticipated eighth episode in GameTap’s Re\Visioned: Tomb Raider series. Written by the legendary Gail Simone (Birds of Prey, The Simpsons and the upcoming Wonder Woman) and designed by Six Point Harness, Pre-Teen Raider tells the story of a young Lara Croft with itchy fingers breaking into Croft Academy (there’s a Croft ACADEMY?!) in her typical, flamboyant style to “borrow” yet another precious, ancient and potentially deadly artifact.

While the episode seems to draw inspiration from Disney’s Kim Possible, Pre-Teen Raider is just briefly entertaining, without the adolescent charm of Disney’s teen-hottie-slash-butt-kicker. With Lara sporting, for the first time since Chronicles, a table top bustline and nary a shout-out to Minnie Driver in the credits (Looks like she didn’t voice Ms. Croft this time, judging the by the pained “Ouch” in the basketball court), Pre-Teen Raider may be the best episode so far in the animated series, but that’s like saying BloodRayne is Uwe “Toilet” Boll’s best movie to date.

Bah! Looks like the series would have done a lot better with some more focus and a slightly more “connected” plot. At least it would keep bringing people back. Oh well, we’ve got the episode download at the bottom of this post. (Click here for previous episodes) Check back next week for Ep. 09 - Raising Thaumopolis, where our booby adventurer friend must solve three ancient puzzles in the lost underwater city of Thaumapolis. Once you are done watching, head over to Kotaku where Gail Simone talks about the show and writing and designing for it.

Gail Simone Talks Pre-Teen Raider [Kotaku.com]
Gail Simone Interview [Wired]

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Episode 08 - Pre-Teen Raider

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• the ANGRY pixel » [UPDATE] Tomb Raider: ReVisioned Says:
  August 10th, 2007 at 11:38 pm

  [...] As promised, we have the Ep. 08 - Pre-Teen Raider video right here for your download pleasure. Click here for more details and to download the [...]

• Yadu Rajiv Says:
  August 11th, 2007 at 1:31 am

  booby ftw!! *kekekeke*