Here's an odd one -- while perusing the E3 trailer for the new Tomb Raider game, we noticed that iconic pistol-packing heroine Lara Croft was using what are -- unmistakably -- Beats by Dr Dre headphones.
The iconic red ribbon cable tipped us off, but after a comical double-take we noticed that Miss Croft's headphones de choix also sport the Beats ControlTalk cable remote, which lets you control music playback and -- if you're using an iPhone -- take calls as well. That makes these action-packed 'buds the Beats by Dr Dre Tours.
Freezing the video a moment later we spied the headphones from the side, where (if you squint) you can see the round silver disk that adorns the side of each earbud.
Cementing her character as a well-to-do young trendy, Lara also appears to be using an iPhone 4 to crank out her tunes. We can't hear what she's listening to sadly, but your speculation is welcome (we think it's probably Ke$ha). Lara's clearly a woman who cares about call quality though -- she's fending off the iPhone 4's antenna issues with a rubbery-looking bumper.
The new game, which is simply titled Tomb Raider, charts Lara's first adventure as a bright young graduate. Seeking fortune and glory, her boat is shipwrecked off an island, and she's forced to survive with no tools or equipment. Presumably this means her bodacious Beats 'buds are lost to the briny depths. In any case, they probably wouldn't work very well after shipping so much sea water.
We don't know whether manufacturer Monster is behind the cameo, or whether the artists at Square Enix (the studio making the game) just decided to use the Beats likeness. And we're not sure how this fits with the Tomb Raider timeline either -- this game's supposed to be set before Lara's first game, which came out in 1996.
We've embedded the trailer below so you can check it out for yourself. Just try and ignore the horrible dialogue.
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Nyadach 7 June, 2011 19:07
Seems she's got a Canon EOS with swanky high end lens in a bag also. And a weird with of Ozzy Osborne? o.O
anonymous 8 June, 2011 02:35
"And we're not sure how this fits with the Tomb Raider timeline either -- this game's supposed to be set before Lara's first game, which came out in 1996."
Actually, this game assumes nothing in the entire Tomb Raider universe has happened before it. It's a complete reboot of the franchise and has entirely wiped the timeline. This is, essentially, the first and only time she's ever been on any sort of adventure period.
Anonymous 8 June, 2011 10:35
This isn't a reboot, this is just another lara set in the future since this lara has nothing similar to the proper lara, has some weird fake british accent.
Naryan 8 June, 2011 11:10
Yeah I think this is a reboot, which means nothing before-hand counts at all.
I don't expect them to try and fit DmC into the Devil May Cry universe. Which is a shame because all I really wanted was a story line progression and some more Vergil, all I've got since 2003 is prequels. They drive me crazy.
Anonymous 8 June, 2011 16:15
pause the trailer at 0:24 you can see that they are beats :D
Anonymous 9 June, 2011 11:57
Actually, this is ment to be set before the first game. It's a story of her first adventure, which was said in the July 2011 Playstation Magazine (and which actually corresponds with one of the stories told in Tomb Raider 5). And it's not a 'weird fake british accent', she's British anyway. She's just sounds like a young Keeley Hawes.
von dutch 22 June, 2011 17:01
she's probably listening to.... "bullet in your f@*~ing head!" by RAGE against the machine. c'mon, you gotta guess!
anonymous 30 October, 2011 11:52
I cant beleive they changed her eye colour. She always used to have brown eyes, but what i noticed in this trailer is.. she has blue eyes. I mean, are you not peed off? You cant exactally change a face feature like that in a heroin like Lara Croft!
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