#Tomb raider pc game 1996 full#
#Tomb raider pc game 1996 windows#

The objective at every level is to reach its end by avoiding traps and enemies, solving puzzles with keys and other objects, and pushing levers to open doors to progress.

If you click up, you’ll have access to all the keys and other objects needed to solve puzzles and if you click down, it’ll take you to the main menu, where you can save, load, or quit the game through the passport and other options.

If you click ESC, you’ll have access to the inventory, where you’ll find a compass and all the weapons, ammo, and med-packs you’ll pick up. There’s basically no HUD on screen apart from a life bar on the top-left corner.

#Tomb raider pc game 1996 full#

The game starts inside the mountain where we have full control of Lara and access to her unlimited ammo pistols. If the intro cutscene shows us, Lara, as an experienced adventurer, this cutscene shows us Lara as the action hero she is. Lara immediately draws his pistols, kills the pack, and goes inside. Lara climbs the entrance to open it, but then the guide is attacked by a pack of wolves that emerged from within. When starting a new game, you’re treated to another cutscene where Lara and a guide are transversing the Peruvian mountains until they reach an entrance on the mountain wall. Eidos, however, forced the team to adopt a more westernized identity for the character and change her name to Lara Croft.īut enough history and let’s look at the covers:Īfter finishing the tutorial, you go back to the main menu, and to start a new game, you need to select the passport for it. Tomb Raider was originally designed to choose between a male and a female lead, but the team decided to focus instead on the female lead, partially based on Gard’s own sister and originally called Laura Cruz.

#Tomb raider pc game 1996 windows#

It was later released in 2002 for Windows Mobile, in 2003 for the N-Cage, in 2009 for the Playstation 3 and the PSP, and in 2012 for the PS Vita and Windows through the Steam store.Īfter several years of creating games for the Amiga and later Sega consoles (including the Rick Dangerous and the Chuck Rock series), UK developer Core Design was ready to create new games for the 32-bit console generation and one of its new talents, Toby Gard, proposed an Indiana Jones-type action 3D game and was given a 6-people development team and a £440,000 budget for it. Tomb Raider is an action/adventure game developed by Core Design and originally published by Eidos Interactive in 1996 for DOS, Sony Playstation, and the Sega Saturn. I’m talking about the original Tomb Raider. Today, we’ll look at an iconic and influential title that has been on my backlog for several years. Hello everyone and welcome back to Retro Freak Reviews.