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Tomb Raider

1996 · Windows Mobile · PlayStation 3 · Nintendo 64 · PC (Microsoft Windows) · DOS · Sega Saturn · Shooter · Platform · Puzzle

83IGDB player score
485 ratings

Previously Take

An 83 average from its 485 true believers. Survival is the whole game — scarce resources, bad odds, and every small win feeling huge. No multiplayer, no problem — the campaign carries the whole thing.

About this game

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.

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 facts

Release date

Oct 24, 1996

Developer

Core Design

Publisher

Eidos Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment, Square Enix

Platforms

Windows Mobile, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 64, PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable

Genres

Shooter, Platform, Puzzle, Adventure

Themes

Action, Survival

Game modes

Single player

Franchise

Tomb Raider

Perspective

Third person

Critic score

85 / 100 (1 reviews)

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