Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft (1998)
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft is a 1998 shooter video game made by Core Design and Eidos Interactive.
Tomb Raider III scatters Lara Croft across five continents chasing meteor fragments from an Antarctic crash site, moving from Indian temples to a Nevada military complex to the sewers of London. The level design grows more elaborate and unforgiving with each entry: new hazards include moving wall blades, zip lines, monkey bars, and vehicles. Core Design gave players partial control over the order of some regions, making this the most branching classic-era entry. The atmosphere shifts register between locations, swinging from jungle rot to cold-war paranoia to urban grime.
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What is Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft about?
Tomb Raider III scatters Lara Croft across five continents chasing meteor fragments from an Antarctic crash site, moving from Indian temples to a Nevada military complex to the sewers of London. The level design grows more elaborate and unforgiving with each entry: new hazards include moving wall blades, zip lines, monkey bars, and vehicles. Core Design gave players partial control over the order of some regions, making this the most branching classic-era entry. The atmosphere shifts register between locations, swinging from jungle rot to cold-war paranoia to urban grime.
When was Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft released?
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft was released on 20 November 1998.
Who made Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft?
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft was made by Core Design, Eidos Interactive and Aspyr Media.
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Tomb Raider: The Legend of Lara Croft is the natural next step for anyone who grew up with this era of Lara, capturing her composed personality and globe-spanning premise in an animated series. For the original silver-screen translation of this specific Lara, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider does the character closest justice.
The Lara Croft universe across every medium
Tomb Raider III took Lara to five continents in a single game, leaning hard into the globe-trotting premise. That same character anchors the Angelina Jolie films, the 2018 reboot, and the Netflix series, each of which handles the globetrotting in its own way.