
Tomb Raider: Anniversary, released in 2007, also offers a neat upgrade of the original's ideas and source material. The combination of considered exploration, expert-level design, and classic combat encounters – who could forget shooting a T-Rex in the face in the iconic Lost Valley level – ensures the first Tomb Raider will remain an enduring gaming icon for the ages.

While the game’s sex appeal undoubtedly led to the game’s colossal sales success, OG Tomb Raider is also a really freakin’ good video game. And now you can get it for freea very good price indeed. In Lara Croft, the medium had finally found an icon who could stand shoulder to shoulder with a certain Nintendo plumber and speed-loving Sega hedgehog. It also ties up the story of the first two games and appears, at least for now, to be the end of the so-called Survival Trilogy. While most developers were struggling to get to grips with the original PlayStation and Sega Saturn, Core Design casually dropped an all-time classic action-adventure out of seemingly nowhere.Īlongside WipEout, Tomb Raider cemented PlayStation as the coolest video game brand that had ever been. Jump and climb through dense forests, treacherous mountains and WWII bunkers to discover how an ordinary young woman became Lara Croft, Tomb Raider. Formats: PC, PS1, Sega Saturn, Android, iOS, N-Gageīy modern standards, the platforming is as stiff as old-school Lara’s acting, but there’s no denying the original Tomb Raider is one of the most influential video games of all time.
