More emotive than any Tomb Raider game ever made

The Sci-Fi Channel created several “I Am Sci-Fi” promos in the early 2000’s with both real stars and virtual ones. This is Lara Croft’s. Her facial reaction to losing at Pong is still one of the most emotive and impressive I’ve ever seen in animation. I don’t know if it was motion capture or a brilliant animator but I suspect that knowing the context of that situation as intimately as we gamers do is what makes it so perfect.

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