Tomb Raider
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…
Tomb Raider is an adventure developed by Core Design, released 24 October 1996 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo 64 and PlayStation. The main story takes about 18.7 hrs to finish.
What Tomb Raider is
Tomb Raider is an adventure game developed by Core Design and released in 1996. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, Nintendo 64, PlayStation, Sega Saturn, DOS, PC (Microsoft Windows) and Windows Mobile. It runs on Core Design.
The premise, in the publisher's words
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.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, sandbox and survival. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Tomb Raider series
Tomb Raider is the first of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Tomb Raider II in 1997. Its critic score of 85 is 13 points above the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Tomb Raider Trilogy at 92.
How it was received
Tomb Raider holds a critic score of 85 out of 100. That places it above 82% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 1996 averaged 70, so it scored 15 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 83, across 485 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 18.7 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Tomb Raider launched on 24 October 1996, within three weeks of Circle of Blood, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Twisted Metal 2 and Vandal Hearts. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4.
Released around the same time: Circle of Blood, Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain, Twisted Metal 2, Vandal Hearts.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Tomb Raider yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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