Lara in her TRU wetsuit is a barefoot vision of awesomeness.
I think it’s high time that I rectified a glaring absence in
my blog. After almost three years of gushing about barefoot gaming babes, I
have not given a proper post for one of interactive entertainment’s sexiest and
most well-known heroines- and in fact, one of the hottest barefoot babes in all
of videogames. I am of course talking about the one-and-only Lara
Croft. Yeah, I’ve posted bits of her, but I noticed I’ve never really
focused that well on her. So I’ll fix that now.
Why after all this time? Well, for starters, I just recently
got a PC copy of arguably the best past Tomb Raider game (certainly MY
favorite)- Tomb Raider: Underworld from Steam (at a
wonderful cheap price), and I’ve been playing it for a bit.
That’s of course no surprise- being the last and latest game
(the Ninth, in fact) in the series prior to the upcoming Reboot, TRU features
the most life-like and detailed look for Miss Croft, albeit still retaining the
trademark cartoonish style. Lara is more expressive, more detailed and wonderfully
animated. In fact, she was motion-captured by a top gymnast for TRU, so she
walks with noticeably sexy, catlike grace and poise. Aside from that, her
character model is really gorgeous, with bare legs and feet that we are treated
to not too long into the game!
Lara's barefoot, wetsuit-clad adventure starts early in Tomb Raider Underworld.
Lara spends the first couple of levels (barring the prologue
intro level at a burning Croft Manor) clad in her wetsuit- which I have to say
is probably hands-down her sexiest ‘normal’ outfit in the entire series. Yeah,
some may prefer the old ‘Sola’ diving suit in TR2, but I prefer the TRU suit’s
bikini-style cut that shows off more of Lara’s perfect legs. To add to the detail, Lara’s skin and outfit gets wet and
glistening when she just got out of the water, and gets noticeably dirty and
soiled if she rolls around too much on the ground. A nice detail if that’s your
kind of thing.
The thought of Lara's bare, fleshy soles running through caverns... mmm.
Not even a mythical monster like the Kraken can withstand this barefoot beauty.
Anyway, TRU’s first couple of levels are certainly a
foot-lovers fantasy; Lara swims to the bottom of the sea, battles sharks, runs
and tumbles through dangerous caverns, battles mercenaries and escapes a
sinking ship- all in her bare feet! This is, in my estimation, gaming’s
equivalent of Chun-Li’s Barefoot Fight with Vega in the SF2 Anime… a sequence
made with foot-lovers in mind. I truly have to thank the devs of Crystal
Dynamics (some of whom are surely sole-fans themselves) for this game.
Lara gets waylaid by mercs at one point- I wonder if that lead thug snuck in a few kisses on Lara's feet while she was out cold?
With Lara’s fleshy, lovely soles (as well as her cute
behind) teasingly bouncing before you, it’s really no wonder why one can’t get
tired of playing and staring at the screen in this game for hours. I’m sure
foot lovers are dreaming of giving this adventuress long massages on those
toned legs and giving her soles and toes proper service with kisses aplenty,
after a few sessions of TRU. What a vision!
Lara wears her wetsuit at least twice in the game- during the first couple of chapters and the last one. Incentive to finish the whole game then.
Sadly, the upcoming Reboot Tomb Raider isn’t sure to show a
de-booted Lara, even if the devs seem ready to subject her to tons of harm. Me,
I still think that the mature, sexy and professional Lara from Underworld is
Miss Croft at her finest and sexiest- certainly the best for any foot-loving
gamer!
Not even a ship fulll of heavily-armed mercenaries can withstand Lara's blazing guns and deadly feet!
Anyway, as I’ve said, gamers can always revisit TRU’s
barefoot Lara either on console or on PC (the Xbox360 version though has tons
of cool exclusive extras) to relive her best barefoot romps. Or, just watch the
vids here on this post or at my Youtube Channel! I’ve posted videos of TRU’s
first couple of levels, for posterity and anytime enjoyment. Sadly, it may take
a bit of time to post the rest of the game’s levels with Lara in her wetsuit since
they’re the last ones in the game, but I’ll try to do so eventually.
No baddie can stand up to this barefoot badass.
For now, enjoy the vids and fantasize about the lovely, lickable toes and
delectable soles of Tomb Raider Underworld’s Lara Croft- perhaps our most
beloved barefoot babe in gaming!
Yeah, the title's a bit of a mouthful, but this is indeed what it is- a list of my favorite barefoot videogame babe outfits. Now, as awesome as Character Customization in games like Soulcalibur IV, Tekken 6 and Virtua Fighter 5 allow us to strip away digital hotties' footwear to reveal perfect virtual bare feet, it's just truly a wonderful thing when a hot videogame babe is dressed in a costume that has her barefoot by default. I can just speculate that the character designers are surely foot fans themselves for dreaming up these sexy shoeless ensembles. The best barefoot outfits don't necessarily have to be scandalously skimpy, but aside from showing off the babe's hot looks and figure, it should give exceptional focus to our favorite body part. So check out this list, which by the way only includes default outfits- so no unlockable, alternate, add-on or customized outfits. Enjoy!
10. Juri Han Taekwondominatrix Costume (Super Streetfighter IV) Juri could easily have been a pretty boring design (well, at least kinda bland like KOF's Chae Lim), but fortunately Capcom's devs made her into a borderline psychotic superbitch who loves dominating her enemies with her feet- awesome. To match her supervillain persona, they gave her a provocative outfit consisting of her odd but fetching 'cow-horn' hairstyle, spider-themed top, spiked bracelets, sexy form-fitting bodysuit, teasingly-cut pantaloons and instep guards. The barely-there footwear nicely keeps the best parts of her feet exposed and bare- the front of the feet and toes, the heels and most of her soles. The whole ensemble is sexy, combat-ready and gives this vixen a unique silhouette, and nice focus to her flexible, kissable feet. Of course the best touch of the outfit? Purple-painted toenails.
9. Mai Shiranui Barefoot Instep Guard Outfit (Fatal Fury Series) The bouncy ninja girl has been around for countless installments of Fatal Fury and King of Fighters, and while her outfit generally follows the same style- skimpy red costume that shows off quite a lot of flawless skin- foot fans in particular should love the costumes she wore in Fatal Fury 3 and in the Real Bout Fatal Fury series. For footwear, instead of the usual conventional ninja tabi (toed-socks), Mai wore a new pair of less-restrictive and decidedly a lot sexier instep guards that basically had her barefoot, with the fronts and heels of her feet exposed and most of her soles touching the ground beneath. Mai would go bare for the whole of the Real Bout series (Real Bout Fatal Fury, Real Bout FF Special and Real Bout FF Special 2) and for the 3D Fatal Fury fighter on PSX, Wild Ambition. Since then, we haven't seen her toes since, even in the latest SNK fighter, KOFXIII, her latest appearance. We love ninja toes though, so we're hoping and praying that someday Mai bares her sexiest assets to us again.
8. Ibuki Ninja Dogi (Streetfighter III, Super Streetfighter IV) As flashy as Juri and Mai are, the super-cute Ibuki is understated and elusive in her baggy, monotone ninja costume. Ibuki's outfit nevertheless is quite sexy- teasing as much as it conceals and covers. What flesh she shows off gives hints of her undeniable beauty- long bangs of silky hair, bright, lively eyes, her toned shoulders and arms, a teasing, huggable bit of hip, and of course, those perfect, deadly bare toes, heels and soles, peeking from between tightly-wrapped ninja bandages. Not much adornment like Juri's nail polish or makeup, but Ibuki's refreshing good looks and bare feet au naturelle just shine through regardless. Any foot fan will surely chase this agile pixie and her mischievous, teasing feet wherever she goes.
7. Nina Williams Original P1 Outfit Back in the young days of the 3D fighting genre, one of the first barefoot babes in gaming was the lethal Nina Williams, a sexy assassin who could break bones as well as hearts. Admittedly the first generation PSX graphics couldn't render Nina as hot as she is seen nowadays as in Tekken 6, but foot fans surely fell in love with this femme fatale since she was the game's first ever barefoot babe. Nina's original P1 outfit was a sleeveless, skin-tight purple-and-blue costume with capri-length pants and an ankle brace- Nina's feet were bare and despite the low poly count sported the nice detail of red-painted toenails... sexy! Too bad that since then, while Nina has retained having a purple costume by tradition, going barefoot was lost along the way. Good thing Tekken 6 allows us to have a shoeless Nina once again, but hopefully someday we'll see Nina barefoot by default in a future Tekken game.
6. Elika's Ahura Outfit (Prince of Persia) From the very first teaser trailer of 2008's Prince of Persia reboot game, we knew it would be a foot fan favorite, thanks to the sole-first intro of new sidekick and hot barefoot babe Elika. This dusky-skinned beauty was a princess but she was as far from a parlor-sitting pansy as could be. She ran, climbed, leaped and fought alongside the new Hero step-by-step, all throughout barefoot dressed in her fetching white-and-blue capri-style pants outfit. The Prince was damn lucky to have Elika along the whole quest, too bad they didn't work out. Perhaps it would have ended differently if he gave her more foot massages and less snarky quips.
5. Tati Raku Outfit (Rise of the kasai) One very much under-appreciated gem of the PS2 age was the Mark of Kri, a barbarian-age stealth action game with almost Disney-style character designs and animations. It was the sequel, Rise of the Kasai, that gave us the luscious and lethal Tati, easily one of the hottest assassin babes in gaming. A snot-nosed kid in the previous game, ROTK saw her blossom into a darkly beautiful young woman, possessed of creepy powers thanks to her being marked by the fiendish tattoos of evil. Dark sorcery aside though, Tati was an athletic, agile beauty, acrobatic and stealthy, dressed in skimpy wear consisting of a sexy tribal top, loin-cloth and some fetchingly furry shin guards. Of course, her strong and graceful feet were bare, all the better to pad silently towards unsuspecting targets. Tati had several unlockable costumes, including an even skimpier 'Evil' outfit, but her default costume is still the hottest by far. It's really a shame that this game didn't hit big in terms of sales, which sadly left the hot Tati in obscurity. In another world, the Mark of Kri series would have had a PS3 or Xbox360 chapter, which surely would give us a far sexier incarnation of this lethal hottie. In any case, Tati is worth the effort to get a PS2 (or a PS3 with backwards-compatibility) and a copy of ROTK. She's that freakin' hot.
4. Lara Croft Black Dress (Tomb Raider Legend) The lovely Lara Croft has tons of outfits (being a wealthy heiress helps a lot in that regard), and more than one of them are barefoot ensembles. These include her various wetsuits, a couple of casual numbers she wears around Croft Manor... and this saucy one- The Black Dress in the TRL Tokyo chapter. Though it started off as a party gown complete with high heels for a night of wining and dining, Lara immediately switched to combat mode once the heavily-armed hitmen stormed in. The guns and holsters went on, the shoes came off. From there on, Lara was a barefoot angel of death, scampering all over the place, padding silently and softly but hitting hard against the Yakuza enemy. It's awesome to note that Lara was expecting an attack- so she brought everything she needed for a deadly mission: mini-backpack, guns, holsters... and that's it! Apparently, shoes weren't a necessity at all for assaulting a crimelord's hideout. If this isn't a total sign that Lara is a foot fan's dream heroine, nothing is. It's this awesome and sexy touch that makes the Tokyo stage of Tomb Raider Legend one of the most memorable and beloved for foot fans.
3. Kaede Smith's White Dress (Killer 7) What does a professional assassin wear into battle with maniacal, demonic suicide bombers? Well, just a blood-spattered white sundress, of course! Well, that's all that's needed by Kaede Smith AKA 'Barefoot', the hot female member of the bad-ass Killer 7. Kaede was truly a foot fan's wet dream come alive on the TV screen- a slim shoeless beauty, in looks more damsel than anything else, but in actuality a lethal sniper armed with a hand cannon with a humongous scope. Her naked footsteps echoed through the strangely abandoned halls and streets of the Killer 7 world, melding with the evil laughter of the enemy Heaven Smiles. If any of the enemy was lucky enough to crawl close enough to Kaede, she'd stomp their faces in with her sexy bare soles to put them out of their misery... what a way to go! What I would give for a PS3 version of Killer 7, with a high quality CG Kaede running about, perfect feet enchanting us with every step. Suda 51, make this so!
2. Poison Ivy Jail Uniform (Batman: Arkham Asylum) The veggie vixen Poison Ivy AKA Pamela Isely isn't known for lavish wardrobes- her best outfits in the comics are simply leaves covering her private parts and little else- the best artists render her barefoot so her soles touch the earth like the roots of her plants. Fortunately this is the way she is portrayed in Arkham Asylum, the only addition to her leafy lingerie being a skimpy shirt top- the one article of clothing marking her as an inmate of Arkham Asylum. Oh, and of course red toenail polish. It's minimalist, it's damn hot, and well, actually, only Ivy can really pull this off but hey, just look at her and tell me that's not awesome.
1. Lara Croft Wetsuit (Tomb Raider Underworld) Throughout her long career and many missions, Lara has had multiple wetsuits. Of all of these sexy, invariably barefoot outfits, the black-and-yellow wetsuit from Tomb Raider Underworld, with it's bikini cut bottom wonderfully showing off Lara's perfect butt, legs and bare feet more than any of the previous rubber suits, is surely the best in the whole series. Man, isn't it awesome that Lara just doesn't feel the need for bulky air tanks? Or flippers? Even better, you also get to see Lara traipsing around in this hot suit almost immediately after first booting up TRU. Throughout a leisurely Mediterranean dive, to a romp through a Kraken's lair (where Lara's soles nicely gets a bit dirty as she runs around) and beyond, Lara's running around barefoot and we're loving every hot angle of it thanks to TRU's nicely compliant camera. Lastly, it's in this wetsuit that Lara spends another barefooted assault on a heavily-armed enemy stronghold. Obviously, most of those mercenary thugs were too dazzled by the sight of Lara's hot feet and legs to effectively counterattack. While many even skimpier bikinis are also available in TRU (Xbox360 only) via DLC, the default wetsuit is truly the one barefoot outfit that once again solidifies the incomparable Lara Croft as the foot fan's true game goddess.
So that's it! Here's to more barefoot babes to come in the next waves of games to come in the near and far future. Just how hot will our CG sirens be with graphics, animations and gaming advancing every month, every year? Anatomically-correct feet, super-realistic cloth... the future of barefoot babes in games looks bright indeed!
Once again, awesome Deviantart veteran Nico Bass delivers another wonderful rendition of a barefoot Lara Croft for fans to enjoy. This time the artwork portrays the sexy adventuress barefoot in her sexy diving suit from Tomb Raider 2, exploring a ruined, sunken ocean liner. Man, you can easily imagine her picking her way through the place, her strong, sexy soles padding lightly over the wet floor. I'm sure every footfan would give a lot to be able to give this heroine warm kisses and massages over her perfect soles, heels and toes after the adventure is done.
Nico regularly posts Lara art, several of them showing off her hot bare feet in loving detail. Enjoy the latest Croft masterpiece in full here.
Just a quickie- here's a pretty awesome barefoot and bikini-clad Lara Croft art from wondrous and prolific CG artist Nico Bass on Deviantart. As usual, his rendition of Lara is better than official Croft illustrations, and much, much more tuned to our tastes. Man, her feet are so detailed you can almost see her toe prints! Man, can you imagine kissing and massaging those amazing soles and toes? Nico Bass, I salute you!
You can find a hi-res version of this lovely piece of virtual babe art (and tons more barefoot Lara) here.
Lara's sexy soles as never seen before, by artist NicoBass.
The beautiful and bombastic Lara Croft is surely one of the hottest babes in videogames, and certainly one sizzling barefoot babe. Now, this isn't one of my usual video posts, as it is about CG artworks- beautiful masterpieces created by Deviantart member NicoBass, who has taken great effort to recreate some of the iconic heroine's coolest poses throughout her long gaming career.
The great thing for us though is that many of these artworks portray the lovely Lady Croft barefoot, with some of the most beautifully-rendered silky-smooth soles and delectable toes you'll see online, in titillating high resolution. The above-posted artwork is just a tasty sample of the amazing gallery showcasing this incomparable barefoot babe of gaming. Check out NicoBass' gallery here and hold onto your jaws, lest they hit the floor. Enjoy!
