Games

Tomb Raider

Core Design

1996•Shooter•ESRB T•About 19 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventureanimalsdetectivevehiclesfastunsavouryimaginarylinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemandingall consuming questfighting evilhuman spirit/resilience/survivalsolving the riddle/not as it seems

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Boxlist takeSweeping and very fast: a polished shooter, heightened rather than true to life. Best if you like pace over patience.

Pace: very fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: very glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: balancedHow we score

IGDB rating

83 / 100

487 ratings

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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.

Summary: IGDB

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.

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureAnimalsDetectiveVehiclesAll consuming questFighting evilHuman spirit/resilience/survivalSolving the riddle/not as it seems

Keywords

HelicopterHuntingExplorationDinosaursBloodyMurderParkourMascot

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Details

Developer: Core Design
Publishers: Square Enix, Eidos Interactive, Sony Computer Entertainment
Released: 24 October 1996
Series: Tomb Raider
Platforms: Windows Mobile, PlayStation 3, Nintendo 64, PC (Microsoft Windows), DOS, Sega Saturn, PlayStation, PlayStation Portable
Modes: Single player
Perspective: Third person
Time to beat: 9h rushed, 19h normally, 24h complete
Age rating: ESRB T
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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