Meet Lara’s new best friend: The blood-red climbing axe

Bestowed upon Lara by mentor Conrad Roth, this tool right here, from its name, will be used in the game to aid Lara in climbing.

Deets on the axe’s implications on the game’s climbing mechanic have yet to be shared, but as GI puts it, “the climbing axe is a piece of gear that has more than the obvious functionality in the hands of someone as resourceful as Lara.”

So then, R2 to swing at hostile natives?