"Tomb Raider: Legend Tomb Raider: Legend is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Eidos Interactive. It is the seventh entry in the ""Tomb Raider"" series and the first in a franchise reboot that reimagined the origins and character of series protagonist Lara Croft. The game released in 2006 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 2, Xbox, Xbox 360, PlayStation Portable, GameCube, Game Boy Advance (GBA), Nintendo DS (DS), and mobile phones. A PlayStation 3 port was released in 2011. ""Legend"" details Lara Croft's quest for the mythical sword Excalibur, racing across the world against her former friend"
"Lara Croft Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise ""Tomb Raider"". She is presented as a highly intelligent, athletic, and beautiful English archaeologist who ventures into ancient tombs and hazardous ruins around the world. Created by a team at British developer Core Design that included Toby Gard, the character first appeared in the video game ""Tomb Raider"" in 1996. Core Design handled initial development of the character and the series. Inspired by Neneh Cherry and comic book character Tank Girl, Gard designed Lara Croft to counter stereotypical female characters. The company modified"
"the character was a ""breath of fresh air"". However, Roby felt that though Lara Croft's proportions have become more realistic, the character's personality was diluted by the developer's actions to appeal to a male audience. LesbianGamers.com's Tracy Whitelaw called the character a dichotomy, stating that though Croft is viewed as ""idealized"" with an ""unattainable body"", the character was a great stride for the propagation of female characters as video game protagonists. Lara Croft Lara Croft is a fictional character and the main protagonist of the video game franchise ""Tomb Raider"". She is presented as a highly intelligent, athletic, and beautiful"
"2008 respectively. ""Tomb Raider: Legend"" is a single-player action-adventure game in which the player controls the protagonist, Lara Croft, from a third-person perspective, through eight levels set across seven locations around the world. As Lara, the player can jump, climb and shimmy along ledges and vertical poles or ladders, crawl through small spaces, swing on ropes and horizontal poles, interact with objects and switches, use a grappling line to swing across gaps and pull objects towards her, and swim and dive underwater for a limited time. Different button combinations can create more moves such as a roll and swan dive."
"Toby Gard Toby Gard (born 1972 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English computer game character designer and consultant, notably being part of the team that created fictional female British archaeologist Lara Croft. Lara Croft was awarded a ""Guinness World Record"" recognizing her as the ""most successful human video game heroine."" Originally employed at Core Design, he was part of the team who designed the original ""Tomb Raider"" video game in 1995 along with the character Lara Croft. His work on the game included building and animating most of the game's characters (including Lara), animating the in-game cutscenes, storyboarding the FMVs,"
"considerable freedom to re-interpret the character; they did not consult the video game designers, but were given a guide listing acceptable and unacceptable practices. Development for a third movie was announced in 2009. Producer Graham King planned to release the film in 2013. This eventual reboot of the film franchise, titled ""Tomb Raider"", was released on 16 March 2018. Core Design, a subsidiary of Eidos, created Lara Croft as the lead protagonist of its video game ""Tomb Raider"", which began development in 1993. Lead graphic artist Toby Gard went through about five designs before arriving at the character's final appearance."
"Ashley A. Woods Ashley A. Woods (b October 15, 1985) is a comic book artist from Chicago, Illinois, known for her work on the ""Tomb Raider"", ""Niobe"", and ""Ladycastle"" series. Woods was born and raised in Chicago, Illinois and developed an interest in anime, movies, comics and video games at a young age. Her favorite character was Sailor Moon, along with video games like Final Fantasy, Resident Evil, Pandemonium!, Super Mario World, Sonic the Hedgehog and Mega Man. She decided to pursue an art education when she was 15 and attended the International Academy of Design and Technology, receiving her"
"Tomb Raider (Game Boy Color) Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and released for the Game Boy Color in 2000. A sequel, """", was released in 2001. In ""Tomb Raider"", the player control Lara Croft though 14 levels spread across five areas. In each level, the player must solve puzzles, jump over obstacles, and defeat enemies. Lara can perform up to 25 different moves, including ledge-grabbing, backflips, and cliff-diving. The story of the game follows Lara's attempts to stop a group of treasure hunters from possessing the Nightmare Stone, a key capable of releasing the"
"systems, and reintroducing swimming and non-optional tombs with more platforming elements. The concept for ""Tomb Raider"" originated in 1993 at Core Design, a British game development studio. One of the men most involved in its creation was Toby Gard, who was mostly responsible for creating the character of Lara Croft. Gard originally envisioned her as a man: company co-founder Jeremy Heath-Smith was worried the character would be seen as derivative of Indiana Jones, so Gard changed the character's gender. Her design underwent multiple revisions and redrafts during early development. The game proved an unexpected commercial success, reversing Eidos' then-bleak financial"
"Raiden (Mortal Kombat) Raiden (also known as Lord Raiden, and sometimes spelled Rayden) is a video game character in the ""Mortal Kombat"" fighting game series by Midway Games. Making his official debut as one of the original seven playable characters in 1992's ""Mortal Kombat"", Raiden is one of the central characters of the franchise. Based on the Japanese thunder god, Raijin, and portrayed in the series canon as the thunder god and appointed protector of Earth, Raiden defends the planet from myriad otherworldly threats alongside his handpicked warriors. He commands many supernatural abilities such as teleportation, flight, and control of"
"her father. The film was released on 16 March 2018. Tomb Raider (2013 video game) Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. ""Tomb Raider"" is the tenth title in the ""Tomb Raider"" franchise, and operates as a reboot that reconstructs the origins of Lara Croft. ""Tomb Raider"" was released on 5 March 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 23 January 2014 for OS X, on 27 April 2016 for Linux, and on 7 March 2017 for Shield TV. Crystal Dynamics began development of ""Tomb Raider"" soon after"
"Tomb Raider (2013 video game) Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. ""Tomb Raider"" is the tenth title in the ""Tomb Raider"" franchise, and operates as a reboot that reconstructs the origins of Lara Croft. ""Tomb Raider"" was released on 5 March 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, on 23 January 2014 for OS X, on 27 April 2016 for Linux, and on 7 March 2017 for Shield TV. Crystal Dynamics began development of ""Tomb Raider"" soon after the release of """" in 2008. Rather than a sequel,"
"Crystal Dynamics worked closely to make sure it was both its own game and fitted properly within the franchise. ""Lara Croft: Relic Run"" is an action-adventure endless runner platforming game in which the player controls Lara Croft, main protagonist of the ""Tomb Raider"" franchise. The gameplay is similar to ""Temple Run"": Lara must navigate endlessly looping environments, accumulating a score depending on the distance run. The game uses touch controls, with different movements across the screen prompting an action from Lara. If Lara hits an obstacle, the run ends unless the player uses an Ankh, in which the case the"
"webcomic called ""Otherworld"". From 2012 to 2014 Gard was the game director for """" at Spark Unlimited. In 2014 Gard founded a new studio called Tangentlemen. Toby Gard Toby Gard (born 1972 in Chelmsford, Essex) is an English computer game character designer and consultant, notably being part of the team that created fictional female British archaeologist Lara Croft. Lara Croft was awarded a ""Guinness World Record"" recognizing her as the ""most successful human video game heroine."" Originally employed at Core Design, he was part of the team who designed the original ""Tomb Raider"" video game in 1995 along with the"
"enables her to develop from a vulnerable girl to a survivor. And after experiencing the supernatural powers of the ancient world, she comes to realise her father was right about his theories and her hunger for adventure awakens. Lara Croft primarily appears in the ""Tomb Raider"" video game series published by Square Enix Europe (previously Eidos Interactive). The action-adventure games feature the protagonist travelling the world in search of rare objects and mystical artefacts. Croft first appeared in the 1996 video game ""Tomb Raider"", in which she competes against a rival archaeologist in search of an Atlantean artefact. ""Tomb Raider"
"Rhianna Pratchett Rhianna Pratchett (born 30 December 1976) is an English video game writer, and journalist. She has worked on ""Tomb Raider"" (2013) and its follow up, ""Rise of the Tomb Raider"" (2015), ""Heavenly Sword"" (2007), ""Overlord"" (2007), and ""Mirror's Edge"" (2008), among others. Pratchett is the daughter of the fantasy writer Terry Pratchett. In 2012, Pratchett became one of the four founders of Narrativia Limited, the production company which holds exclusive multimedia and merchandising rights to her late father's works. Rhianna Pratchett studied journalism at the London College of Printing and following graduation began writing for ""Minx"" magazine, where"
"the team decided to completely reboot the series, re-establishing the origins of Lara Croft for the second time, following """". ""Tomb Raider"" is set on Yamatai, an island from which Lara, who is untested and not yet the battle-hardened explorer she is in other titles in the series, must save her friends and escape while being hunted down by a malevolent cult. Gameplay elements focus more on survival, although exploration is used within the game when exploring the island and various optional tombs. It is also the first game in the series to have multiplayer and the first game to"
"game ""Tomb Raider"", and the character of Chuck Rock himself and his family even featured in some UK comic books of the 1990s. ""Chuck Rock"" spawned two video game sequels. The setting of the game is a fantasy prehistorical Stone Age-era world that is shared by both neanderthals, woolly mammoth, saber-tooth tigers, dinosaurs, and various assorted wild primeval monsters such as prehistoric mammals, giant insects, man-eating plants, and other exotica; thus, the setting is similar to that of films such as ""One Million Years B.C."", or television shows such as ""The Flintstones"" or ""Dinosaurs"". The eponymous Chuck Rock is an"
"In 2002, Kennedy considered the characteristics of the character, Lara Croft in the ""Tomb Raider"" video game series. She is presented as a beautiful, clever, athletic, and brave English archaeologist-adventurer. Lara Croft has achieved popularity with both males and females as an action heroine, although depending on what perspective is applied she can either represent 'a positive role model for young girls' or a 'combination of eye and thumb candy for the boys'. Dietz's findings are supported by a survey commissioned in 2003 by ""Children Now"". The survey found that gender stereotypes pervade most video games: male characters (52%) were"
"Travis Touchdown Travis Touchdown is a video game antihero and the main protagonist of the video game franchise ""No More Heroes"". 27 years old in the original game, he is both an otaku and a professional assassin, wielding a Beam Katana. He was created by Goichi Suda, and voiced by Kazuya Nakai in Japanese and Robin Atkin Downes in most English-language appearances. He later appeared in the 2010 video game """", and will reappear in the upcoming 2019 video game """". He is named after the protagonist of the film ""Paris, Texas"" directed by Wim Wenders. He lives a lifestyle"
"(in gameplay versus the computer). In 1983, professor Sara Kiesler et al. published a study in ""Psychology Today"" (Vol.17, No.3. Pp. 40–48.) finding that female characters appeared in video games at a frequency of 1 game in 7. Elizabeth Behm-Morawitz suggested that the reduced presence of female characters implies a secondary status for women in video games. When playable female characters do appear in video games, they are more often scantily dressed and oversexualized than men. Lara Croft, the protagonist of ""Tomb Raider"" (1996), is among the best-known strong, fictional women in a variety of media. Since her introduction in"
"sold one million copies within 48 hours of its release, and has sold more than 11 million copies , making it the best-selling ""Tomb Raider"" title to date. An updated version, Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition, was released in North America on 28 January 2014 and in Europe on 31 January 2014 for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One containing all features and DLC. A sequel, ""Rise of the Tomb Raider"", was released in November 2015 and a third and final installment, ""Shadow of the Tomb Raider"", in September 2018. ""Tomb Raider"" is presented in third-person perspective. Players take control of the"
"32-bit entries, and one of the worst ""Tomb Raider"" entries prior to the notoriously poor ""The Angel of Darkness"". In their financial report in February 2001, Eidos included ""Chronicles"" among the successful titles published during the late 2000 period. The game has sold 1.5 million copies worldwide; this made ""Chronicles"" the worst-selling ""Tomb Raider"" game up to that point and the second worst-selling main title in the franchise. Tomb Raider Chronicles Tomb Raider Chronicles is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published in 2000 by Eidos Interactive for PlayStation, Microsoft Windows and Dreamcast. Following """", series protagonist"
"collect parts needed to allow their own craft to survivor and gain faster-than-light travel abilities to get to a new system. The game would have been a hybrid between non-linear and linear storytelling: while the order of star systems the player visited would have been set by the game, how they proceeded within each system would have been more open. They had been also considering switching from Isaac to Ellie as the protagonist for the game. Isaac Clarke is the main protagonist of the ""Dead Space"" series. Originally a ship systems engineer, his life changes for the worse when a"
"2006. Upon release, the game was praised by journalists as an excellent remake. The Wii version divided opinion, with some critics praising the use of motion controls and other faulting their implementation. While it reached high positions in sales charts, the game sold 1.3 million copies worldwide, becoming the worst-selling entry in the franchise. The next release, 2008's """", was developed alongside ""Anniversary"" for a new engine. ""Tomb Raider: Anniversary"" is a single-player action-adventure game where the player controls the protagonist, Lara Croft, from a third-person perspective, through fourteen levels set across four locations around the world. Lara can jump,"
"copyright of ""Tomb Raider"". Sites depicting nude images of Lara Croft have been sent cease and desist notices and shut down, and Eidos Interactive was awarded the rights to the domain name ""nuderaider.com"". Tomb Raider (1996 video game) Tomb Raider is an action-adventure video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It was released in 1996 for Sega Saturn, PlayStation and MS-DOS. ""Tomb Raider"" was released for N-Gage devices in 2003, and for the PlayStation Network in North America in August 2009, and in Europe in August 2010. ""Tomb Raider"" follows the exploits of Lara Croft, an"
"at it. He also gave criticism to some Western games' visual styles, describing them as broad versus what he describes as a level of sensitivity for nuances that Japanese people have according to Takumi. Sissel is the protagonist of the game, and the titular character as well. He is recently deceased, and as a ghost, attempting to recover his lost memories. He is tasked with protecting a girl named Lynne from being killed by a ghost nicknamed ""Ray"", who teaches him of his powers, which include being able to manipulate objects and travel four minutes before the death of a"
"reviews from critics. After his father died, protagonist Robert Dawn finds documents that reveal that he has forgotten a significant part of his past, prompting him to go on a quest for discovery. The game starts with Dawn washing up at the shore of an unknown mining town. In the course of the game, he has to navigate different environments and avoid enemies as he tries to piece together his forgotten past. Players take control of Robert Dawn from a first-person perspective. Unlike other adventure games, there are no weapons or combat. Instead, players have to rely on stealthily navigating"
"more tombs than the previous installments in the reboot series. Players will now have the option to tailor their gameplay experience as exploration, puzzles and combat have their own difficulty settings. A new Immersion Mode enables players to hear the background conversations of the locals in their native languages; when turned off the conversations are made in the players' chosen voice over language. In the two months since ""Rise of the Tomb Raider"", Lara Croft (Camilla Luddington) and her friend Jonah Maiava (Earl Baylon) have dedicated themselves to stopping the activities of paramilitary organization Trinity. The two track a cell"
"been compared to Lara Croft, as she shows less prominent physical feminine attributes than Lara but more feminine psychological traits, as contrasted with Lara's masculine connotations like aggressiveness and force. Contrarily, Jade, the protagonist of ""Beyond Good & Evil"" (2003), was widely recognized as a strong and confident female character lacking any overt sexualisation. The year 2013 featured women in leading roles in a number of award-winning games such as ""The Last of Us"" (2013), ""Bioshock Infinite"" (2013), the rebooted ""Tomb Raider"" (2013), and """" (2013). A study of these games found that although the leading female characters in these"
"for Xbox One and Xbox 360, and 28 January 2016 for Microsoft Windows. The PlayStation 4 version was released on 11 October 2016, titled the 20 Year Celebration, as it was released 20 years after the original ""Tomb Raider"" game. This version includes all of the previously released DLC. The 2018 ""Tomb Raider"" reboot film adaptation, directed by Roar Uthaug, is in part based on the video game. Alicia Vikander, who portrays Lara Croft, was cast alongside actors Daniel Wu and Walton Goggins. Graham King, producer of the film, stated that the plot would focus on Lara Croft's search for"
"not added to the final cut of the game. Travis Touchdown Travis Touchdown is a video game antihero and the main protagonist of the video game franchise ""No More Heroes"". 27 years old in the original game, he is both an otaku and a professional assassin, wielding a Beam Katana. He was created by Goichi Suda, and voiced by Kazuya Nakai in Japanese and Robin Atkin Downes in most English-language appearances. He later appeared in the 2010 video game """", and will reappear in the upcoming 2019 video game """". He is named after the protagonist of the film ""Paris,"
"least once), and explorers have begun scouring the world in search of ancient ruins and the lost treasures and secrets within. Many return with nothing, and some are simply never seen again. Will, the protagonist of the game, is a survivor of one such ill-fated expedition. He accompanied his father, a famed explorer, on a sea journey to uncover the secrets of the Tower of Babel, but the explorers met with a mysterious disaster. Somehow Will managed to make it back to his hometown, but he does not remember how. When the game begins, Will stumbles into a ""Dark Space"""