Tomb Raider Legend
Tomb Raider Legend is a video game of action/ventures developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos in 2006. The play was marketed on GameCube, PlayStation 2, Windows, Xbox, Xbox 360, Gameboy Advance, Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable.
It is about the seventh episode of the series Tomb Raider .
Gameplay
- As in the first opus of the series, heroin Lara Croft can recover statuettes (gold, money and bronze), which will enable him to unbolt not only new behaviors and improvements for its guns but also of the codes of cheating and the no-claims bonus such as the models of design of the objects and the decorations.
- a new manor is available, as in the first three Tomb Raider. It is directly inspired by that of film and almost entirely was thus re-examined in more modern.
- a pair of binocular equipped with a MAD, which indicates the functions to him that the environment can have.
- Its total of equipment was re-examined with the fall: it can from now on carry a maximum of two weapons (guns included), four grenades and three cases of survival.
- Of kinematics during which the player must carry out certain specific orders, with an aim of avoiding traps in particular.
- the player with the possibility of remaking the levels with the mode against-the-watch , which enables him to resolve new no-claims bonus.
- Lara will be able to drive vehicles like: motor bikes of the Ducati Mark, a lifting truck…
- a character surprised can be gained in no-claims bonus.
Synopsis
The adventurous young person British Lara Croft is with the research of the fragments of the sword of the King Arthur, legendary the Excalibur. For that it will have to go in Bolivia, with the Nepal, the Kazakhstan, the Japan. In its youth, Lara loses his/her friend, Amanda, during a forwarding with the Peru. Ten years later, it finds it whereas it was supposed to be died. An unrestrained race between the two ex-friends with the research of the powerful artefact follows then…
Characters
Combined
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Anaya is 29 years a African young woman. Friend of Faculty of Lara, it is engineer and works in the disadvantaged regions of South America. It is a person direct, ground with ground and impassioned by its work. Behind a nonchalance and a relaxation sympathetic nerves is dissimulated a well of learning, a dynamic young woman with the spirit of initiative. Of course, Lara impresses it, but it does not put it therefore on a pedestal: it knows that, like everyone, Lara has tops and bottoms. Anaya was with Lara and Amanda the day of the disaster with Paraiso, but was not gone down with them in the site. For this fatal day, Anaya has only traced its road, which does not prevent it from sometimes recrossing his/her old friend.
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Zip is the technical adviser of Lara. It deals with all the technical and logistic part of its tours. Since the van or the computer room of the manor of Croft, it is in constant communication with Lara via a ultra-sophisticated helmet. Equipped with a solid direction of humor, it one is bitten of data processing however débrouillard and ground-with-ground. After a youth full with excess, a few years in prison somewhat calmed its heats and left him a deep aversion for the system. Former hacker, it chose to work with Lara for the challenge and the shiver. He is of a honesty to any test. At its sides, it can make what it likes without being likely to find itself behind the bars. Expert out of gadgets high tech, Zip does not remain about it less one chief of great reputation which has work in some of the best kitchens of Northern Europe.
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Alister is the assistant of Lara. Genuine well of learning, its knowledge in History enables him to quickly provide to Lara all information which it needs for its missions on the ground. If it joined the team of beautiful adventurous, it is to test the cogency of its (many) theories, to discover secrecies that nobody others could have found and especially, for finally making benefit somebody from his immense and eccentric knowledge. Alister is nervous and likely and is caught very with the serious one.
Adversaries
- Amanda Evert is a friend of childhood of Lara. Graduate in Anthropology, it specializes in the Métaphysique and the study of the occult arts. Regarded as expert in Theology and Mysticism, she was often opposed, in a friendly way, in Lara, which she found a little too Cartesian. She supports that certain religions of the world have a common origin, and she is in the search of this element. One day that it, Lara and its team-members go in an archeological site of the Peru, they awake a strange animal which kills the students the ones after the others. At the end, it hardly remained more than Amanda and Lara. Whereas the animal ruait itself on Lara, it succeeds in saving it by tearing off pendentive encrusted in the wall, which causes to make disappear the animal. The two young women tried to escape, but Amanda remained wedged because of a stone crushing her shoe. Lara has had to leave there, the place filling of water and being from now on separated by a heavy barrier. Some time later, Lara sees it in Bolivia, at the sides of Rutland, and it then decides to leave to excavate what it regarded as the burial of Amanda. She discovers that Amanda is indeed alive. Whereas they are found with the Kazakhstan, Amanda explains to Lara how it was run away: she used the pendentive one to tame the animal, which helped to leave the site in ruin. However, it is particularly disappointed by Lara owing to the fact that it did not seek to find it earlier, and it is to be avenged that it releases the animal on Lara. Well later, at the time of their return in Bolivia, it proves that Amanda can amalgamate with the animal, in order to create a creature much more powerful, that only Lara equipped with Excalibur can succeed in overcoming.
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James Rutland is young a 30 year old American. It has much charm and it knows it pertinently. It is accustomed so that people who listen to his calm voice and suave are hung with its lips. This is why it does not need to raise the voice. Since decades, the name of Rutland, family of the American aristocracy, is associated with the circles of the policy and the leaders. Thus James William Rutland Jr grew in a bubble of richness and privileges. After having integrated West Point and having obtained its diploma with the sweat of its face, it tests a certain personal satisfaction. The school inculcated to him the direction of the discipline and the order, which it likes particularly, even in its life of the every day. Of course, from a physical point of view, West Point enabled him to develop its performances, which gave birth to at his place a true worship from the body, requiring much drive of him.
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Shogo Takamoto is a Yakuza Kumicho (chief of clan) amateur of old weapons. Figure impossible to circumvent of the Japanese Maffia, Takamoto also cut a solid reputation in the traffic of antiquities, misleading the collectors by mixing authentic counterfeits and parts skilfully. Although its trickeries are known of all, he manages to remain on the market thanks to his extraordinary sense of smell to locate the exceptional part which will make to damner the purchasers. Then, it makes them gleam the object until them covetousness destroys any capacity of judgment. However, a meeting with Lara Croft about false relics humiliated it so much that it was constrained to withdraw traffic of antiquities. The yakusas still wonder why it did not kill it, the idea that it be unable to make it appearing inconceivable to them.
Visited places
A city INCA in ruin. We learn some more on death of the mother of Lara. She becomes acquainted with a mysterious character who claims to know Amanda…- Tiwanaku
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Paraíso (Peru)
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Return to Paraíso
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Tokyo
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Go with Takamoto
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With the Continuation of Rutland
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Project Carbonek
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the Tomb of Arthur?
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the Key Ghalali
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the Mirror
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the Manor Croft (the United Kingdom)
Reactions
Tomb Raider Legend received positive appreciations by the specialized press, which greeted the revival of the series.-
Extracts from the test of Tomb Raider Legend on Gamekult:
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Press review:
To note
For the promotion of this shutter, it is the English signal-model (of Moroccan origin) Karima Adebibe which was retained to incarnate Lara Croft in front of the press. The character is doubled by the Britannique Keeley Hawes (which replaces Jonell Elliot). The actress is in particular known for her participation in the televised series MI-5 .The continuation of Tomb Raider Legend is planned for 2008, the character of Larson (appearing in TR1 and TRA) would belong to casting. More infos are available on imdb.
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