Bad Sector
Arcane
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A: Toby Gard merely meant her to be "curvy" and "athletic" and not sexualized - that the latter was all Eidos' marketing department's doing,
The way internet discussion always goes it may have people thinking the game was an early 3D sleaze-fest which is not the case, and it really doesn't need to be an eternal discussion. You could replace Lara with some male generic bland Indiana Jones wannabe and it would hardly impact the appeal and value of the game.
Toby Gard certainly made Lara Croft sexy, but the marketing department focused on that aspect so hard to the point where there was practically nothing else beyond from how sexy Lara is. Which is completely misleading towards the game itself since as Ash mentions you could replace Lara with anyone else - male or female, ugly or sexy - and the game would be the same.