Lara scores with LSO!

Lara Croft has long been pulling the heartstrings of video gamers across the world. Yesterday she was pulling other strings as she conducted the London Symphony Orchestra in the recording of the soundtrack for her new video game, Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, to be released in November this year.

Arguably the sexiest real life Lara to date, Jill de Jong brought inspiration to 82 members of the LSO as they played the score of the new game. Peter Connelly and Martin Iveson of Core Design - the game's developers - crafted the music over three months to convey the darkly beautiful feel of the new game and continue Eidos’ commitment to the highest production values.

“To bring together one of the world’s most famous heroines and one of the world’s best orchestras in such a famous setting as the Abbey Road studios has been incredible,” says Peter Connelly.

The Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness video game will be released on Pla

yStation 2 and PC by Eidos Interactive in November. Fans of the world’s most famous cyber-babe have something to get really excited about - she can now be seen in 100 times more detail! The new Lara is made up of over 5,000 polygons as opposed to just 500 in previous games.

In Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness, Lara is both the hunter and the hunted. As a result she will have to show a new, darker side to herself and has to travel to some nightmarish places. She will also find herself in situations where choices are no longer obvious as the traditional demarcations of good and evil become blurred and the game takes on a new moral dimension. Lara will face more evolved characters and situations and must traverse an intricately detailed world which takes her from the back streets of Paris to darkest Prague in her struggle to clear her name and get revenge on her former mentor's killers.