Tomb Raider

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Summary

Tomb Raider is a 3D action game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. The game follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures.

The objective of Tomb Raider is to guide Lara through a series of tombs and other locations in search of treasures and artifacts. On the way, she must kill dangerous animals and other creatures, while collecting objects and solving puzzles to gain access to an ultimate prize, usually a powerful artifact.

The game was critically acclaimed and widely influential, it spawned a number of sequels and a franchise of related media.

Storyline

Lara Croft is a Tomb Raider, an archaeologist who explores ancient sites in search of valuable artifacts, who is hired to retrieve an artifact from a tomb in Peru, which turns out to be one of three parts of the Atlantean Scion. Soon betrayed by her employer, Lara Croft travels to Greece, Rome and Egypt to recover the other parts before this powerful device falls into the wrong hands.


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Game Information
Release Date October 25, 1996
Publisher Sony Computer Entertainment, Eidos Interactive, Core Design, Square Enix
Total Rating 83%
Content Rated T (Teen)
Game Modes Single player
Player Perspectives Third person
Genres Shooter, Platform, Puzzle, Adventure
Themes Action, Survival, Sandbox
Platforms PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation, PlayStation 3, DOS, Sega Saturn, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation Vita