Tomb Raider: Underworld - Revision history

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 In due course, Lara learns that her father was actually employed by Natla, but became wary of the artifacts that she was trying to locate. He removed evidence of the location of Megingjörd, Thor's Belt, and kept the artefacts recovered from Thailand in the crypts and cellars of [[Croft Manor]].
-Lara explores the passages underneath her home and discovers the location of the belt, but a [[Lara's doppelgänger|Atlantean Lara Copy]], similar to that seen in the original Tomb Raider and [[Tomb Raider Anniversary]], destroys her home and attacks her companions. Lara then goes to Mexico to [[Xibalba]], the Mayan underworld, where she recovers the belt and also finds out about a mysterious substance closely linked to the Norse ruins and the legend of Thor called Eitr.
+Lara explores the passages underneath her home and discovers the location of the belt, but a [[Lara's doppelgänger|Atlantean Lara Copy]], similar to that seen in the original Tomb Raider and [[Tomb Raider Anniversary]], destroys her home and attacks her companions. Lara then goes to Mexico to [[Xibalba]], the Maya underworld, where she recovers the belt and also finds out about a mysterious substance closely linked to the Norse ruins and the legend of Thor called Eitr.
 Travelling next to Jan Mayen Island, Lara finally recovers Mjolnir, [[Thor's Hammer]]. She goes next to the Andaman Sea in order to question Natla more closely about the location of Helheim, and ends up freeing her, as they agree to meet at a location in the Arctic Sea.
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 * Andaman Sea; [[Amanda Evert]]'s Ship <ref>http://www.bbfc.co.uk/website/Classified.nsf/c2fb077ba3f9b33980256b4f002da32c/e021646b2c11736d802574c5003dabd2?OpenDocument</ref>
 * [[Arctic]] Circle <ref>Eidos Press Release July 15th</ref>
-* The [[Underworld]]s (Helheim, the Nordic Underworld/Avalon/[[Xibalba]], the Mayan Underworld) - playing an important role in almost every level. <ref>play, January 2008</ref> <ref>'''Computerbild Spiele''' (German computer games magazine), issue 2/2008</ref><ref>Gameplay Trailer from August 08</ref>
+* The [[Underworld]]s (Helheim, the Nordic Underworld/Avalon/[[Xibalba]], the Maya Underworld) - playing an important role in almost every level. <ref>play, January 2008</ref> <ref>'''Computerbild Spiele''' (German computer games magazine), issue 2/2008</ref><ref>Gameplay Trailer from August 08</ref>

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	\| Name = Tomb Raider Underworld		\| Name = Tomb Raider Underworld

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 | Subtitle    = Tomb Raider 8
 | Release     = November 2008
-| Platforms   = [[PC]], [[PlayStation 3]], [[Xbox 360]], [[PS2]], [[Wii]], [[Nintendo DS]], [[Mobile]]
+| Platforms   = [[PC]], [[PlayStation 3]], [[Xbox 360]], [[PS2]], [[Wii]], [[Nintendo DS]], [[Mobile]], [[Xbox One]]<ref>Through [[Backwards-compatibility]]</ref>
 | Levels      = 21
 | Secrets     = 185
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 Tomb Raider Underworld has been released on November 18th (North America) or 21st (Europe) 2008 for [[PC]], [[PlayStation 3]], [[Xbox 360]], [[Wii]] and [[Nintendo DS]], with the [[PS2]] version following in January 2009.
+The Xbox 360 version was made [[Backwards-compatibility|compatible]] with the [[Xbox One]] in June 2017.
 ==Levels==

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 | Levels      = 21
 | Secrets     = 185
-* Treasures: 179
+* [[Treasures]]: 179
-* Relics: 6
+* [[Relics (Tomb Raider Underworld)|Relics]]: 6
 | Gametime    =
 | Rating      = PEGI 16+

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 * Relics: 6
 | Gametime    =
-| Rating      =
+| Rating      = PEGI 16+
 | Developer   = [[Crystal Dynamics]]
 | Publisher   = [[Eidos Interactive]]
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 Featuring a foreword by the creative director, [[Eric Lindstrom]] titled 'Where is Lara Going Next' whets your appetite for the future that is Tomb Raider and Lara Croft. The book also includes the Evolution of Lara Croft, showing a render of Lara from every game in the past and present, concept art of Lara and the outfits of the game, renders of the latter, concepts of friends and foes, renders of the latter, a coupon for $5 off the official strategy guide, and a preview of 'The Complete Art of Tomb Raider' which is set to release in Spring 2009 that features every significant piece of Tomb Raider art collected and presented in over hundreds of beautiful pages. You get to see the first sketches of Lara Croft, unreleased concept art, storyboards, and promotional art while gaining fascinating insights into the design and visualizations of the games.
 ==See also==

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 ==Gear==
 * [[Multi-Purpose Grapple]]
 * [[Camera|Field Camera]]
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 * [[Sticky Grenade]]
 * [[Thor's Hammer]]
 ==Outfits==

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-==References==
+{{ref}}
+{{Gametable}}
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 | Chrono      = 1
 | Previous    = Tomb Raider Anniversary
-| Next        =
+| Next        = Tomb Raider (2013)
 | Addon       = [[Beneath the Ashes]], [[Lara's Shadow]]
 | Parent      =
 }}
-'''Tomb Raider Underworld''' continues the story of [[Tomb Raider Legend]]. Tomb Raider Underworld sees Lara descending to the depths of a  Norse-themed underworld.
+'''Tomb Raider Underworld''' continues the story of [[Tomb Raider Legend]]. Tomb Raider Underworld sees Lara descending to the depths of a Norse-themed underworld.
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 ==Development Process==
-In November 2007, Eidos was reported to have filed for a trademark on the phrase, Tomb Raider Underworld. Eidos soon after reserved the Tomb Raider Underworld domain name. In December 2007, Eidos filed for a second trademark for Tomb Raider Underworld, reserving the right to provide "computer games that may be accessed network-wide by network users." In the January 2008 issue of the magazine Play, details from the "first-ever demo" of the game were revealed. SCi, which owns Eidos, officially announced Tomb Raider: Underworld on January 10, 2008, and confirmed that all platform versions of the game will be released simultaneously in November 2008.
+In November 2007, Eidos was reported to have filed for a trademark on the phrase, Tomb Raider Underworld. Eidos soon after reserved the Tomb Raider Underworld domain name. In December 2007, Eidos filed for a second trademark for Tomb Raider Underworld, reserving the right to provide "computer games that may be accessed network-wide by network users." In the January 2008 issue of the magazine Play, details from the "first-ever demo" of the game were revealed. [[SCi]], which owns Eidos, officially announced Tomb Raider: Underworld on January 10, 2008, and confirmed that all platform versions of the game will be released simultaneously in November 2008.
 Play's assertions that this is the "first true next gen Lara" and "one big physics smorgasbord" which "looks altogether photo-real" led to speculation that Tomb Raider: Underworld might be using a new game engine for its next-generation graphics rather than the system used by Tomb Raider: Legend, Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Deus Ex 3. Later, the Senior Producer and External Designer separately confirmed that Underworld uses an all-new engine that was built especially for it.
-Keeley Hawes will provide the voice of Lara in this installment, as she did in Anniversary and Legend.
+[[Keeley Hawes]] provides the voice of Lara in this installment, as she did in Anniversary and Legend.
-Lara's costume has been redesigned and she no longer wears her trademark blue sleeveless top and khaki shorts, but instead, a dark brown halter top and black shorts. Additionally, her hair is no longer braided, but worn in a ponytail. According to Play, Lara "moves as good as she looks [and] no longer moves like a video game character" thanks to being fully motion captured. Olympic gymnast and NCAA Women's Gymnastics champion Heidi Moneymaker was the model used for motion capturing.
+Lara's costume has been redesigned and she no longer wears her trademark blue sleeveless top and khaki shorts, but instead a dark brown halter top and black shorts. Additionally, her hair is no longer braided, but worn in a ponytail. According to Play, Lara "moves as good as she looks [and] no longer moves like a video game character" thanks to being fully motion captured. Olympic gymnast and NCAA Women's Gymnastics champion [[Heidi Moneymaker]] was the model used for motion capturing.
-A teaser trailer was released on 19 July 2008, displaying a chronologically backwards video of Croft Manor being destroyed. The trailer starts zoomed in on her signature weapons: her twin pistols, which are covered in ash and lying on Zip's computer desk. As the camera reverses out, it displays parts of the main hall covered in debris and ash. The camera continues to reverse out, flying through the main window of the hall, with the pieces of glass flying back into place, finally reversing far enough to show Lara facing the house with her back to the camera. As the camera stops, time starts again, with rain and rolling thunder surrounding Lara and the mansion. Lara turns towards the camera with a cold look on her face and she presses the trigger - blowing up Croft Manor. Lara walks off the side of the camera, and the final shot shows Croft Mansion burning.
+A teaser trailer was released on 19 July 2008, displaying a chronologically backwards video of [[Croft Manor]] being destroyed. The trailer starts zoomed in on her signature weapons: her twin pistols, which are covered in ash and lying on Zip's computer desk. As the camera reverses out, it displays parts of the main hall covered in debris and ash. The camera continues to reverse out, flying through the main window of the hall, with the pieces of glass flying back into place, finally reversing far enough to show Lara facing the house with her back to the camera. As the camera stops, time starts again, with rain and rolling thunder surrounding Lara and the mansion. Lara turns towards the camera with a cold look on her face and she presses the trigger - blowing up Croft Manor. Lara walks off the side of the camera, and the final shot shows Croft Mansion burning.
-A gameplay trailer was released on 15 August 2008. It features Lara in various locations - Mexico, Thailand and what appears to be her own manor as it burns down. In the trailer, Zip shoots at Lara with a gun, Lara then draws her pistols and shouts "Drop it Zip or I'll drop you". At the climax of the trailer, Lara walks into a laboratory-like room as the screen turns to black, and then Natla's voice is heard saying "I'm very pleased to see you again, Lara", before the final release date screen shows.
+A gameplay trailer was released on 15 August 2008. It features Lara in various locations - [[Mexico]], [[Thailand]] and what appears to be her own manor as it burns down. In the trailer, Zip shoots at Lara with a gun, Lara then draws her pistols and shouts "Drop it Zip or I'll drop you". At the climax of the trailer, Lara walks into a laboratory-like room as the screen turns to black, and then Natla's voice is heard saying "I'm very pleased to see you again, Lara", before the final release date screen shows.
 ==Gameplay==
-Differences from previous iterations in the series are that Lara's environment will be an "interactive world that reacts and remembers". Such as footprints left in the mud, or mud transferred to Lara's knee from kneeling on the ground will be washed away by rain, the bodies of the foes she encounters will remain where she killed them, and any destruction to the environment she causes will be permanent. According to creative director Eric Lindstrom, this is "to not only reward the player for the effect they're having on the world, but to give them navigational aids." The game uses an animation blending system that allows Lara to interact dynamically with her environment, such as pushing foliage aside with one or two hands, depending on if she is carrying a weapon. It also features a "hybrid lighting model that combines dynamic lights with carefully created light maps" and a weather system that changes the environment, for example, "If Lara’s negotiating a wet ledge she’s more apt to slip or lose grip," which makes "the environment ... her adversary" for a large part of the game.
+Differences from previous iterations in the series are that Lara's environment are an "interactive world that reacts and remembers". Such as footprints left in the mud, or mud transferred to Lara's knee from kneeling on the ground will be washed away by rain, the bodies of the foes she encounters will remain where she killed them, and any destruction to the environment she causes will be permanent. According to creative director [[Eric Lindstrom]], this is "to not only reward the player for the effect they're having on the world, but to give them navigational aids." The game uses an animation blending system that allows Lara to interact dynamically with her environment, such as pushing foliage aside with one or two hands, depending on if she is carrying a weapon. It also features a "hybrid lighting model that combines dynamic lights with carefully created light maps" and a weather system that changes the environment, for example, "If Lara’s negotiating a wet ledge she’s more apt to slip or lose grip," which makes "the environment ... her adversary" for a large part of the game.
-Previously seen separate aspects of gameplay have been combined together for a new experience. Lindstrom explained that "in the past, there was climbing, and there was shooting, and there was puzzle solving. And they often didn't overlap. We've now integrated all of those elements." This installment also features a new melee combat system, requiring Lara in some instances to use "direct combat and evasive manoeuvres to distance herself from her attacker". Notably, Lara's bike, among other things, will be a key component in solving the puzzles she will encounter in her adventure. Pick-ups will have multiple uses as weapons and tools in interaction with the environment, and Lindstrom stated that Lara "can also split up her guns and fire at two different targets simultaneously," or hold an item with one hand and fire a gun with the other. The grappling hook can now be stretched taut and used to push objects off ledges unlike in previous iterations, illustrating what project lead Rob Pavey said, that "Lara will be able to do anything that you'd expect her to be able to do," which he called "the big theme this year." Lindstrom describes this as "a philosophy called 'What Could Lara Do?'—WCLD. It's short-hand for having the player be able to use their own intuition about what someone with her abilities should be able to do in an environment such as this, and consistency across the different mechanics and abilities. If she can throw a grenade, then if she can pick up this pole, why can't she throw it?" Crystal Dynamics also aims to make the game non-linear, unlike Tomb Raider: Legend, and eliminate the need for hint icons that indicate the ability to interact with objects.
+Previously seen separate aspects of gameplay have been combined together for a new experience. Lindstrom explained that "in the past, there was climbing, and there was shooting, and there was puzzle solving. And they often didn't overlap. We've now integrated all of those elements." This installment also features a new [[melee combat]] system, requiring Lara in some instances to use "direct combat and evasive manoeuvres to distance herself from her attacker". Notably, Lara's bike, among other things, will be a key component in solving the puzzles she will encounter in her adventure. Pick-ups will have multiple uses as weapons and tools in interaction with the environment, and Lindstrom stated that Lara "can also split up her guns and fire at two different targets simultaneously," or hold an item with one hand and fire a gun with the other. The grappling hook can now be stretched taut and used to push objects off ledges unlike in previous iterations, illustrating what project lead Rob Pavey said, that "Lara will be able to do anything that you'd expect her to be able to do," which he called "the big theme this year." Lindstrom describes this as "a philosophy called 'What Could Lara Do?'—WCLD. It's short-hand for having the player be able to use their own intuition about what someone with her abilities should be able to do in an environment such as this, and consistency across the different mechanics and abilities. If she can throw a grenade, then if she can pick up this pole, why can't she throw it?" Crystal Dynamics also aims to make the game non-linear, unlike Tomb Raider: Legend, and eliminate the need for hint icons that indicate the ability to interact with objects.
 The interactive cutscenes from previous titles have been replaced with "adrenaline moments". Instead of specific button presses, time slows down and gives the player a chance to get out of harm's way while retaining complete control of Lara.
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 {{mainarticle|Tomb Raider Underworld Story}}
-Underworld continues where [[Tomb Raider Legend]] left off. Lara searches various locations around the world, initially to find the Celtic paradise of Avalon, but soon finds a deeper thread of monomyth theory running through the ruins she explores, starting with a ruin covered in proto-Norse ruins underneath the [[Mediterranean Sea]].
+Underworld continues where [[Tomb Raider Legend]] left off. Lara searches various locations around the world, initially to find the Celtic paradise of Avalon, but soon finds a deeper thread of monomyth theory running through the ruins she explores, starting with a ruin covered in proto-Norse runes underneath the [[Mediterranean Sea]].
 She soon meets [[Jacqueline Natla]], the Atlantean God-Queen who was the antagonist in both the original Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider Anniversary. She is the prisoner of [[Amanda Evert]], the main antagonist of Tomb Raider Legend. Natla tells Lara that Avalon is in fact Helheim, the Norse underworld, and that this is where her mother went to after the events in Nepal when Lara was a young girl. She directs her next to a coastal temple in Thailand.
-In due course, Lara learns that her father was actually employed by Natla, but became wary of the artifacts that she was trying to locate. He removed evidence of the location of Megingjörd, Thor's Belt,and kept the artefacts recovered from Thailand in the crypts and cellars of [[Croft Manor]].
+In due course, Lara learns that her father was actually employed by Natla, but became wary of the artifacts that she was trying to locate. He removed evidence of the location of Megingjörd, Thor's Belt, and kept the artefacts recovered from Thailand in the crypts and cellars of [[Croft Manor]].
-Lara explores the passages underneath her home and discovers the location of the belt, but a [[Atlantean Lara Copy|Lara's doppelgänger]], similar to that seen in the original Tomb Raider and [[Tomb Raider Anniversary]], destroys her home and attacks her companions. Lara then goes to Mexico to [[Xibalba]], the Mayan underworld, where she recovers the belt and also finds out about a mysterious substance closely linked to the Norse ruins and the legend of Thor called Eitr.
+Lara explores the passages underneath her home and discovers the location of the belt, but a [[Lara's doppelgänger|Atlantean Lara Copy]], similar to that seen in the original Tomb Raider and [[Tomb Raider Anniversary]], destroys her home and attacks her companions. Lara then goes to Mexico to [[Xibalba]], the Mayan underworld, where she recovers the belt and also finds out about a mysterious substance closely linked to the Norse ruins and the legend of Thor called Eitr.
 Travelling next to Jan Mayen Island, Lara finally recovers Mjolnir, [[Thor's Hammer]]. She goes next to the Andaman Sea in order to question Natla more closely about the location of Helheim, and ends up freeing her, as they agree to meet at a location in the Arctic Sea.
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 ===Alternate/Extended Ending===
-A video which surfaced online in January 2009, allegedly extracted from the Playstation 2 game files, revealed an alternative extended ending to Tomb Raider Underworld.
+A video which surfaced online in January 2009, allegedly extracted from the Playstation 2 game files, revealed an alternative extended ending to Tomb Raider Underworld. In it, Amanda Evert attempts to attack Lara with a boulder after they have left the Nepalese temple. Lara turns and shoots Amanda in the leg, before walking away, leaving her helpless and immobile.
 ==Locations==
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 ==Downloadable Content for the Xbox 360==
-There are two levels associated with Tomb Raider Underworld available for the [[Xbox 360]]: [[Beneath the Ashes]] and [[Lara's Shadow]]. (These levels were probably rejected in their original versions and as a result omitted from the main game. <ref>http://wikiraider.com/index.php/The_%E2%80%9CEric_Lindstr%C3%B6m%E2%80%9D_posts</ref>) The levels were released in a special redemption code at GameStop.
+There are two levels associated with Tomb Raider Underworld available for the [[Xbox 360]]: [[Beneath the Ashes]] and [[Lara's Shadow]]. (These levels were probably rejected in their original versions and as a result omitted from the main game. <ref>http://wikiraider.com/index.php/The_%E2%80%9CEric_Lindstr%C3%B6m%E2%80%9D_posts</ref>)
 * [[Beneath the Ashes]]