It doesn't need to be included, but why can't they include it if they want to? It's ok to constantly threaten our video game characters with painful gory and violent deaths, but not rape? Certainly rape isn't worse or is hardly worse than having your head ripped off or being impaled multiple times.
the kind of over the top violence that you're describing that occurs in video games isn't something that happens every day to lots of people, though. Sure, lots of people die in violent conflicts everyday, but nobody gets murdered by demons or eviscerated by alien monsters or anything.
also, why would you want to portray the attempted rape of your video game action hero? what purpose does it serve in the wider context of tomb raider and the story of lara croft? how does being trapped and fighting for her life on an island with a bunch of potential rapists translate into her becoming a globe trotting treasure hunter later in life?
sure, they can put it in their game, but i'm perfectly content and well within my own rights to mock them every step of the way for it.
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snowy
first name katana, last name swordsworth. also middle name katana