Tomb Raider
Oct 24, 1996
- Shooter
- Platform
- Puzzle
- Adventure
Platforms: DOS, Nintendo 64, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation, PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Sega Saturn, Windows Mobile
IGDB community rating 8.1IGDB485 votes
Overview
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.
Story
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.
- Developed by
- Core Design
- Published by
- Square Enix, Eidos Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment
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Facts
- Game modes
- Single player
- Player perspectives
- Third person
- Themes
- Action, Survival
- Franchise
- Tomb Raider
- Series
- Tomb Raider
- Game engine
- Core Design
- Release dates
- Sega Saturn: Oct 24, 1996
- DOS: Nov 14, 1996
- PlayStation: Nov 14, 1996
- Windows Mobile: Jul 2002
- PlayStation 3: Aug 13, 2009
- PlayStation Portable: Aug 13, 2009
- PC (Microsoft Windows): Nov 28, 2012
- Nintendo 64: TBA
