The Aspyr editor reveals. This September 19, 2025, an “urgent” patch was published in the different versions of Tomb Raider IV-VI remastered And aims to eliminate “unauthorized content generated by artificial intelligence”. A corrective that occurs a few days after Françoise Cadol’s complaint, the iconic French voice of the Lara Croft heroine.
From the first minutes of the game, the players had seen that certain elements of the tutorial were not published, brought by an update that occurs just after the launch of the game. However, heroin had its usual voice in French. In fact, these were redoubled by an AI based on the voice of Françoise Cadol, without being informed.
And the problem was also the same in the English version and in other languages available.
A “unauthorized” use of AI
After several days of controversy, Aspyr therefore explained his decision in the note of the solution, without announcing wanting to redouble the sequences with a human voice.
A palpable shame in the world of dubbing, which has been fighting for two years against the arrival of clauses that allow video game editors, but also studies, train AI in the voices of comedians.
The “Touche not for me” collective “continues to oppose these new rules, while the editors in question do not seem to want to go back. Apex legends It is no longer available with French voices.
In the case of tomb RaiderIf Françoise Cadol lent his voice to the first games of the franchise, the restarted launched in 2013 rejuvenated the heroin on the screen and the voices behind. Actress Alice David worked at tomb Raider AND Rise of the assailant tombWhile Lara Croft has the intonations of Anna Sigalevitch in the last opus of the trilogy, Shadow of the Tomb Raider.
We do not know if Crystal Dynamics, currently in a new episode financed by Amazon, will return to the sources of a saga that will also come alive in the main video in 2028. But with the characteristics of Sophie Turner this time as a heroine of the series.
Source: BFM TV
