Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Legend

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Template:Gameline|Tomb Raider 7 Legendcover.jpg Template:Gameline|Tomb Raider Legend Releasedate April 7th 2006
(Europe)
April 11th 2006
(North America) Platforms PC, PS2, Mac, XBox, XBox 360, PSP Number of Levels 8 Sections Secrets 116 Template:Gameline|Games The Angel of Darkness Tomb Raider 7 Template:Gameline|Walkthrough (in the future)

Tomb Raider Legend is the official title of Tomb Raider 7. It has been releasen on April 7th (Europe) and April 11th (North America).

This time it's Crystal Dynamics who are making the game. After the Tomb Raider 6 fiasco Eidos felt that it was time to make a few changes. The game was taken from Core Design and given to Crystal Dynamics. They took charge to help bring Lara back to her roots. And Toby Gard is also back working with Lara.

Release Date

The game was announced to be released in spring 2006.
The following dates are for the PC, PS2 and XBox version:

  • April 7th in Europe
  • April 11th in North America
  • April 21st in Afrika


These are for the PSP and XBox 360 version:

  • April 21st in Europe
  • April 25th in North America

Demo

  • March 10th PS2 Demo in the German OPM
  • March 31st/April 1st PC Demo (worldwide)

Levels


Story

The Angel of Darkness story arc will not be continued. And Kurtis Trent will not(!) be in it.

We were promised to learn something about the plane crash in the Himalayas, which changed Lara's life forever.

Lara Croft's search for a South American relic changes course dramatically when she meets a dangerous figure from her past, and she finds herself in a race to recover one of history's most famous artefacts, the sword Excalibur.

Features

  • Lara comes to life: the dual-pistol-wielding adventurer's polygon count and animation set has been increased significantly, presenting Lara in the findes fidelity to date
  • Return to the Tombs: Lara's new quest brings her to lost ancient realms that guard Secrets of the Past
  • Fluid movement: the revamped control system provides intuitive and fluid character movement
  • Dynamic animation system puts focus on continuous motion, giving Lara the ability to seamlessly handle any obstacle and interact dynamically with any surface
  • Move and shoot. Lara uses her physical prowess to combine gunplay with unique signature moves
  • Variety of player choice-intelligently use the environment, technical gear and weapons to overcome challenging situations.
  • Physics, Water and Fire systems bring the perilous environments of Lara's world alive, and challenge the player to improvise solutions to obstacles
  • Visit a vast array of cinematic and exotic locations including ancient toms, dangerous jungles, snowy mountain ruins and numerous unexpected surprises in between!

Developing Team

Story

  • Eric Linstrom
  • Doug Church
  • Toby Gard

Locations

Lara will/might visit the following locations:


Plattforms

The game will be released for PC, PS2 and X-Box. An graphically enhanced version for the XBox 360 is scheduled for a little later. Handheld gamers will be happy to learn that there will also be a Version for Sonys PSP (PlayStationPortable). It has been confirmed in E3 2006 that there will be a Nintendo Gamecube, DS and GBA Version. (The last is highly unlikely to be anything like the other Legend Versions.)

Moves

According to the developers Lara can execute up to 5 moves in a row, fluently. She can swing on rope, on bars, she can climb, shimmy, jump, shoot, jump against objects to knock them over, she can do sideflips, backflips, dive under traps and doors, use a magnetic rope with hook.

Look here for a complete list: Tomb Raider Legend Controls

Traps and Obstacles

Lara encounters Spears, Spikes, Blades and many more traps.

... to be continued

Gear

Lara has her twin-pistols again. She can also carry grenades and other weapons. She will be able to pick them up from her enemies. She can only carry a limited amount and will have to choose which one to take along. She will wear a headset, torches, binoculars and a rope.

Characters

Enemies

As oppose to older games in the series, in Legend most enemies Lara encounters will be human enemies in the form of mercenary. The difference between those enemies are the amount of protection they have and the type of weapons they are carrying.

Listed in the order of apperance:

Legend also included few animals in the game as well.

Outfits