Tomb Raider has slipped many times in the past year - the game was at one point mooted as a possible PS2 launch title, but the first realistic release dates we saw expected a launch in time for Christmas 2002. Eidos has always claimed that the delays were in order to allow Core to create the best game possible, but recent comments have suggested that Core rushed the game in an attempt to finish it in time for a launch before the end of Eidos' fourth quarter.