Tomb Raider

Tomb Raider is a 1996 video game originally published by Eidos Interactive and developed by Core Design. The game features the video game character Lara Croft, a buxom female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures, à la Indiana Jones. There have been several sequels.

Story

Tomb Raider

Adventurer Lara Croft has been hired to recover the pieces of an ancient artifact known as the Scion.

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Lara has just returned from a hunting trip in the Himalayas. She's contacted Jacqueline Natla, a conniving business woman who convinces Lara to recover a mysterious artifact from the tomb of Qualopec in Peru.

Related Topics:
Himalayas - Jacqueline Natla - Qualopec - Peru

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Wasting no time, Lara sets out on her quest to find one of the three pieces of the ancient Atlantean Scion, a talisman of incredible power. After discovering the fragment things get ugly, Lara finds herself face to face with one of Natla's hired goons. Using her cunning wits and athletic strength, Lara escapes!

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As she delves into the reasons why Natla would double cross her, she uncovers a mystery that reaches back before the dawn of recorded time to the treachery that destroyed the Atlantean civilization and the disasters that struck the world when it fell.

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Lara will visit:

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• Vilcabamba: A civilization that flourished for hundreds of years in the Peruvian rainforests of South America. Guide Lara through the lost Incan city while battling wolves, bats, bears, raptors, and more.
• Labryinth: The Golden Age of Greece, and later Rome. Here Lara battles lions, alligators, crazy monkeys and more as she explores ruins of this ancient civilization.
• Egyptian: Where the vast power of Egypt rose with the pyramids. Explore buried pyramids and a hidden sphinx while fighting pumas, crocodiles, and some surprising mystical monsters.
• Atlantean: The pyramid of Atlantis where the mystery unfolds.
• We can also visit Lara's home as a training level in the game.

Tomb Raider II

Join Lara as she searches for The Dagger of Xian: an artifact hidden in an ancient Emperor's palace within the Great Wall of China. Legend has it that whoever drives the Dagger of Xian into their heart, acquires the power of the Dragon.

Related Topics:
Xian - Great Wall - China - Dragon

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Three parties covet this dagger -- but for entirely different reasons. Lara Croft, forever the adventurer, is one of these. On her travels she will encounter the other two ...

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Lara will visit:

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• The Great Wall of China where Lara will fight tigers, birds and spiders to find the doors of the Emeperor's palace..
• Venice where Lara will swim through the city canals and visit some houses and an opera.
• Offshore Rig from which we'll need to find a way out.
• Wreck of the Maria Doria. Here the game will take us under water to a ship wreck.
• Tibetan Foothills with its cold climate.
• Temple of Xian where the mystical dagger is.
• Lara's home. This time it's not just a simple training - it's also a level.

Tomb Raider III

Millions of years ago, a meteor survived the plunge through the Earth's atmosphere, impacting the then warm climate of Antarctica. The first people to discover this land were a tribe of Polynesians. Despite the now freezing conditions, there was an abnormal abundance of life and the tribe settled, worshipping the meteorite crater for the powers it appeared to hold. Generations later though, catastrophic events forced them to flee in terror.

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Today, the same area is being excavated by the research company; RX Tech, who are picking up unusual readings from the meteorite's impact zone. It is in this zone that they uncover the body of a sailor from Charles Darwin's voyage on The Beagle. It seems a few of his sailors had explored the interior of the crater.

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Following a story from one of the sailor's journal, RX Tech have started to take a particular interest in, not only the crater area, but other parts of the globe where the sailors traveled to...and died in. One of these places is India - where Lara is currently searching for the legendary Infada artifact. Unaware of its true history, she only knows that in local beliefs it was supposed to hold great powers and has been revered by tribes there throughout the years... Soon she will discover a whole lot more...

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Lara will visit:

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• India. This part of the game takes us into a jungle and then into a mistical temple ruins. We will also ride along river Ganges and go into the caves of Kaliya.
• South Pacific Islands. Among beautiful scenery Lara will fight some tribal warriors, find a crashed plane, swim through a river on a kayak and go into the Temple of Puna.
• Nevada where Lara will try to get into the secret Area 51.
• London. Lara will jump on some roofs, go down the subway and later visit the British Natural History Museum
• Antarctica. Through the mines into the Lost City of Tinnos and then to the meteorite cavern where the story ends.
• We can also visit Lara's home as an additional training level.

Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation

According to Egyptian legend, Horus, son of the light, outwitted the evil God Set and imprisoned him in a secret tomb...

Related Topics:
Horus - Set

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Five thousand years later, Lara Croft discovers the lost tomb and unwittingly unleashes the evil God Set, fulfilling the ancient prophecy of his return to plunge mankind into darkness! In a race against time, Lara must use all of her wit and skill to reimprison Set and save the world from Armageddon. Pursued at every turn by her arch-rival, the unscrupulous archaeologist Werner Von Croy, Lara embarks on a journey of discovery across Egypt, where she must overcome the most ingenious puzzles and infernal traps ever devised, and face terrifying evil from beyond the grave...

Related Topics:
Set - Armageddon - Werner Von Croy

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Lara will visit:

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• Cambodia. Young Lara will be trained by her mentor Werner Von Croy how to pass obstacles of the Angkor Wat Temple.
• Egypt. The rest of the game takes place in here. Though it's just one country Lara will visit many places inter alia Tomb of Set, Valley of the Kings, Temple of Karnak, The Great Hypostyle Hall, Tomb of Semerkhet, Alexandria, Temple of Poseidon, The Lost Library, Pharos, Temple of Isis, Cleopatra's Palaces, Sphinx Comlex, Menkaure's Pyramid, The Mastabas, The Great Pyramid, Temple of Horus. She will also ride a train.

Tomb Raider Chronicles

The story begins just a few days after The Last Revelation.Lara's body has never been found, but people assume she's dead. After the burial ceremony of Lara, three characters: Jean Yves, Winston and priest Dunstan in their own way think back about Lara. The game consists of four new adventures and bring Lara back in time to Rome, a small Irish island, a high-tech building and a Russian sub. Each adventure requires its specific game characteristics. In Ireland Lara has to find her way without any weapons, whereas the Russian sub can be compared to an episode of the X-files. Rome is said to be the classical Tomb Raider action, and in the high tech building the keyword is stealth.

Related Topics:
Rome - Ireland

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Lara will visit:

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• Rome where she will fight lions and gladiators to get a magical stone.
• Russia here Lara will get into a military base and then into a submarine.
• Ireland young Lara will face ghosts and other spooky creatures.
• VCIndustries building Lara will fight her way to the artefact called "Iris" which had been taken from the Angkor Wat Temple by Werner Von Croy in The Last Revelation.

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

Accused of the murder of her former mentor, Werner Von Croy, Lara becomes a fugitive on the run. Pursued by the police, she follows clues left behind by Von Croy and unravels the mysteries surrounding a series of grisly murders called the Monstrom killings (Von Croy is only one of them). The trail of murders and strange occurences in the Paris underworld, brings Lara into conflict with a sinister dark Alchemist, named Eckhart and a sinister alliance of powerful dark sorcerers (or alchemists) called the Cabal. At the center of these mysteries are the Obscura Paintings - five 14th century pieces of religious art that Eckhart is desperate to reposses. The paintings are said to conceal pieces of a powerful artefact which is said to have the power to revive the Sleeper; the last of the ancient Nephilem race (offspring of humans and angels, originating in Turkey). The Lara must now find the remaining paintings and stop Eckhart.

Related Topics:
Paris - Underworld - Alchemist - Obscura Paintings

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Lara will visit:

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• Paris is the city where the first part of the game will take place. In here Lara will run from the police, meet Margot Carvier (Von Croy's friend), go to a club (Lara will not find much fun there though) and finally visit Louvre and a secret tomb beneth it.
• Prague or just a small place in Prague. Here Lara will need to get into Mathias Vasiley's apartment (he is the vitim of a Monstrum Killing, and is mentioned in Von Croy's notes).
• The Bio Research Facility. This is the most "green" level in the game because of the number of plants growing in the lab. from here we go into the Sanitarium. The first level in Tomb Raider series where we don't play Lara but Kurtis Trent. It's a spooky place with psycho guys running around. On the way to Eckhardt's Lab we will find The Vault of Trophies - an underwater cave with gigantic statues.

Tomb Raider: Legend

Lara will find herself globe-trotting as usual, rivalled every step of the way by corrupt forces led by a nemesis from her past, as she searches for a valuable English artefact.

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Lara will visit:

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• Ghana
• Russia
• Bolivia
• Peru
• Malaysia
• Kuala Lumpur
• Tokyo

Tomb Raider: Legend will be the first Tomb Raider game to be handled by different developers. This time, the job has been given to Crystal Dynamics (whose credits include the Legacy of Kain series) after the bad reviews The Angel of Darkness received. Core Design, the developer of the first six Tomb Raider games, was subsequently sacked by Eidos. Lara's original creator, Toby Gard, is also working on Tomb Raider: Legend. Toby left Core after the first game due to creative differences between himself and Core executives in regard to Lara's over-sexualised image.

Related Topics:
Crystal Dynamics - Legacy of Kain

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