Eidos has a lot riding on the success of the next Tomb Raider game, so it's no suprise to see them drumming up publicity with the appointment of the latest (read: seventh!) Tomb Raider model: 20 year old London sales clerk Karima Adebibe.

"Karima has all the assets needed to accurately portray the world's favourite female action hero" comments Matt Gorman, Brand Controller for Tomb Raider. Wonder what those could be?

But before Karima can lay claim to supermodel stardom, Eidos is shipping her off for an "SAS survival, combat and semi automatic weapon firing course in Eastern Europe and a crash course in world archaeology, deportment, elocution and etiquette lessons". Whatever happened to the superhero girl next door?

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