Tomb Raider was the shiznit during the early PlayStation era. This is fact. The series kinda fell off after Tomb Raider 2. This is also fact. Although Laura has made some decent attempts recently in her bid to reclaim her glory days atop the pile of video game heroines, none of them have quite captured the magic we felt during her first tomb raiding excursions.

Crystal Dynamics and Square Enix are taking things down a slightly different rubble-and-trap strewn path this time around, however. Laura Croft and the Guardian of Light is different in several notable ways: a) it’s a downloadable title, b) it features co-op gameplay, and c) it eschews the traditional 3rd person behind-the-back camera for a top-down, isometric view.

And we now have an official premier trailer to share with you all, showing us Laura and her new Mayan buddy, Totec, jumping, flipping and shooting their way through all-new levels. What do you think?

Laura Croft and the Guardian of Light hits PSN, Xbox Live Arcade and Steam in Summer 2010.