Tomb Raider cover art
Game profile

Game directory

Tomb Raider

Core Design 1996

81Review score

Genres

Shooter, Platform, Puzzle, Adventure

Platforms

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

Developer

Core Design

Release date

October 24, 1996

Game overview

About the 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.

Storyline

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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Screenshots

7 images

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Gameplay Trailer

PC requirements

System Requirements

Windows

Entry specification

Minimum

OS
Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
Processor
1.8 GHz Processor
Memory
512 MB RAM
Graphics
3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9
DirectX®
9.0
Hard Drive
2 GB HD space

Recommended specifications are not published in this game's Steam listing.

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