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Tomb Raider

  • Video Game
  • 1996
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8.0/10
3.4K
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Tomb Raider (1996)
Jungle AdventureActionAdventureFantasy

Lara Croft, archaeologist and daughter to a rich aristocratic English family ventures across the world in search of three mysterious artifacts known as Scions. During her journey, she stumbl... Read allLara Croft, archaeologist and daughter to a rich aristocratic English family ventures across the world in search of three mysterious artifacts known as Scions. During her journey, she stumbles across the lost continent of Atlantis.Lara Croft, archaeologist and daughter to a rich aristocratic English family ventures across the world in search of three mysterious artifacts known as Scions. During her journey, she stumbles across the lost continent of Atlantis.

  • Writers
    • Vicky Arnold
    • Toby Gard
  • Stars
    • Shelley Blond
    • Nathan McCree
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  • IMDb RATING
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    • Writers
      • Vicky Arnold
      • Toby Gard
    • Stars
      • Shelley Blond
      • Nathan McCree
    • 16User reviews
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    • Awards
      • 1 win total

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    Shelley Blond
    • Lara Croft
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    Nathan McCree
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      • Vicky Arnold
      • Toby Gard
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    8Hikage-sama

    One of the most original games ever.

    One of sony`s best games ever. The character Lara Croft, music & atmosphere in this game is fantastic. The enemies are cool to kill. Diving, climbing, running & shooting, it`s fun in this game. Tomb Raider is so good that Hollywood decided to do a 80m dollars movie out of it, with sugar babe Angelina Jolie. COOOOL.
    7gelziabar

    Available on cell phones these days

    Tomb Raider was a sort of a technological revolution in 1996 because it used a fully 3D environment and polygons when compared to most other games which used sprites. It also made many advances when it came to interactivity because a large portion of the environment was actually fully navigable. If one does not expect the blasting, weapons and gore from the traditional 3D-shooters of that time, Tomb raider would have delivered a very unique and enjoyable gaming experience. The environments were not really varied until the sequel to this title but it was still fun. Its also quite fun to play this game on your Nokia while your old computer at the time, had a hard time coping up with the polygons.
    10Croc320475

    Absolutely amazing.

    I always love that classic Tomb Raider game. I remember playing it on Sony PlayStation 1 when I was a kid. I also played it on Sony PlayStation 2 as a PS1 game when I was a teenager. In January 2016, I finally beat the same game on Sony PS Vita.

    Tomb Raider is one of my favourite Tomb Raider games in the series of all time. It's absolutely amazing. The graphics and gameplay are both incredible and the music is amazing as well.

    I knew it came out in 1996. It was developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive which is now known as Square Enix Europe.

    It is probably one of the best video games of all time. It will never get old. It will always be a timeless classic.
    10vivifan

    The First game in the series and is still one of the best!

    There are many gaming franchises out there that have affected people's lives and One of my favorite game series of all time is none other then Tomb raider. I remember back in the day my father had purchased the game and had loved it. He came home from work and would play it to death. As a kid I didn't see the appeal and I wasn't a fan of it's controls etc. But later in my life around my teen years I decided to give the game another shot. My father had bought me a walkthrough guide for TRs 1-5. I had played laras home which is a fun training level just to get used to the controls. I then played through the entire game and I was hooked. Fun puzzles, platforming, action and exploration. The games music is beautiful, the atsompshre is great, the graphics were great, sound effects solid and it had a solid storyline. The levels themselves are big, the games content is great for it's time. I simply love this game and After finishing it I wanted to play every tomb raider afterwards. I have finished all of the games and this is in my top 5 TR's for sure. The only flaws are due to the games age which are the controls and visuals. But other then that It's a masterpiece in my eyes.
    stekelmoll

    An Enduring Classic

    The first game in the Tomb Raider series is undoubtedly the best. Although designed to run under DOS and SVGA graphics the design of the levels retains a beauty and originality rare among games. (True devotees using a PC can download a progam called GLIDOS, which allows high resolution graphics in the game, and patches to allow the game to run under XP) The soundtrack, including the trademark theme, is also wonderfully atmospheric. Lara Croft was the first third person perspective videogame character to make a mark in the gaming world. Control of the character is relatively straight forward, and the game itself quite exploration rather than action orientated. In hindsight, the puzzle standards of pulling levers or pushing moveable blocks, have become a bit tired to today's players but there's still plenty here to challenge the intellect, and more than enough action at times to quicken the pulse. Lara's first adventure sees her explore the Andes, the Classical World, Egypt and finally Atlantis. Perhaps the plot is a bit derivative from Indiana Jones (after all Indy did Atlantis in videogames three years before Lara)but hey I'd rather Lara than some old smart alec with a whip anyday...

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    • Trivia
      Lara Croft's name was picked from a phone book for sounding "UK friendly".
    • Quotes

      Skater Boy: You're firin' at me? You're firin' to me, huh? Ain't nobody else here, you must be firin' at me!

    • Alternate versions
      In 1998, shortly after the release of Tomb Raider II, Tomb Raider was re-released for DOS and released for the first time for Macintosh. This release, titled Tomb Raider Gold in North America, and Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business elsewhere, featured the regular game as well as four new bonus levels in two extra chapters. The levels for Tomb Raider Gold were created in the San Francisco office of Eidos by Phil Campbell, Rebecca Shearin, and Gary LaRochelle. The first chapter of the game takes place in Egypt, and occurs several months after the events of Tomb Raider. The story sees Lara returning to the City of Khamoon to investigate a mysterious statue of the Egyptian goddess Bast. This leads to her discovery of an entirely new temple dedicated to the cat deity, which includes a giant gold statue several stories high. The second chapter takes place before those of the first chapter - quite literally straight after the events of Tomb Raider. This chapter starts with Lara sliding down the same slope as in Tomb Raider's final level, and finishes with her destroying the last remnants of the Atlantean Race.
    • Connections
      Edited into Tomb Raider: Unfinished Business (1998)

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      • November 8, 1996 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United Kingdom
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    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Tomb Raider. Featuring Lara Croft
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