For the activity of raiding tombs, see grave robbing.
Tomb Raider is a video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was originally released in 1996 for PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. Tomb Raider follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British female archaeologist in search of ancient treasures à la Indiana Jones. The game was critically acclaimed and widely influential. It spawned a number of sequels and a franchise of related media.
Storyline
After Lara Croft returns from a hunting trip in the
Himalayas, she is contacted by
Jacqueline Natla, a conniving businesswoman who convinces Lara to recover a mysterious artifact from the tomb of
Qualopec in
Peru. Wasting no time, Lara sets out on her quest to find one of the three pieces of the ancient
Atlantean Scion, a talisman of incredible power. However after discovering the fragment, things get ugly when Lara finds herself face to face with one of Natla's hired goons. Using her cunning wits and athletic strength, Lara escapes. As she delves into the reasons why Natla would double-cross her, she uncovers a mystery that reaches back before the dawn of recorded time to the treachery that destroyed the
Atlantean civilization and the disasters that struck the world when it fell.
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