Tomb Raider

| Main Game

Genres:

Shooter

Platform

Puzzle

Adventure

Themes:

Action

Survival

Sandbox

Perspective:

Third person

Game modes:

Single player

Released on:

24/10/1996

Platforms:

PlayStation 3

PC (Microsoft Windows)

DOS

Sega Saturn

PlayStation

PlayStation Portable

Language Support

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Involved Companies:

Square Enix

Publisher

Eidos Interactive

Publisher

Sony Computer Entertainment

Publisher

Core Design

Developer

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.

History

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.