Tomb Raider Legacy of Atlantis Enemies - Crocodiles
If the leopard hunts from the shadows, the crocodile turns something familiar into something dangerous: the water.
"Until you face a crocodile for the first time, the water feels like a place of respite where you can just relax and you don't have to worry about anything," says Billy Rosehag, Senior Technical Game Designer at Flying Wild Hog. "After facing the crocodiles for the first time, that's not the case anymore. You never know if a crocodile is lying in wait, just getting ready to nab you down."
Unlike the crocodiles of the original, these move freely between land and water. "They will lie in wait for you in the water and then grab you, try to keep you there," Rosehag says. "But you might want to run away, and then they can chase after you, which is a nice dynamic, making it more agile and relentless." And they are fast. "They're great sprinters. You see the crocodile and you think, I have the advantage. And then it just rushes toward you, and you don't feel safe anymore."
The trick is to control the ground. "You do not want to fight a crocodile underwater. Bad idea. Both in game and in real life," Raul Siqueira, Game Director at Crystal Dynamics says. "Part of what you're trying to do is bait the crocodile to come out of the water so you can fight him on your own grounds. When he gets to low health, he will prioritize going back into the water, because it's safer for him."
The advice from the team is blunt. As Bartek Schweiger, Lead Gameplay Designer at Flying Wild Hog, puts it: "When you're fighting a crocodile, don't get near the water. When it jumps out, then shoot it."
