The second Tomb Raider trailer is out with the recent wave of videos from E3, and while reactions and speculation diverge, everyone agrees it looks pretty brutal.  Rich heiress Lara Croft finds herself shipwrecked on an island with dangerous men, wounded, without supplies, and struggling to survive in a rebooted origin that brings Green Arrow to mind.  The old Lara would dispatch a gigantic lizard in an underground lake and top it off with a dry action hero quip, the sort of moment that Sean Connery’s Bond might take to straighten his tie.  In sharp contrast, the reboot has her stabbed, broken, blown up, and sexually assaulted as she fights for survival tooth and nail in a jungle against impossible odds.  But does it cross a line into torture porn?

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