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 Plot

Lara Croft has just returned from a hunting trip in the Himalayas where, having bagged a 12-foot tall yeti, she's itching for a new challenge. While enjoying a little R & R, she's contacted Jacqueline Natla, a conniving business woman 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. After disovering the fragment things get ugly, Lara finds herself face to face with one of Natla's hired goons. Using her cunning wits and athletic strenghth, Lara escapes!
 
Of course you have noticed this is copied directly from the Tomb Raider homepage but hey, what did you expect?
 
 
 

My Opinion

    Well, this is really a cool game!  Worth the 2 megs of the time it takes to download the demo and also the money it costs to buy it!  In this game you walk or run around in ancient tooms and kill the creatures therin.  You have to fight everything from mummies to dinosours to bats to bears to mythical creatures to... well you get the point, you half to fight a whole load o' things!  Even with all of these things to fight the best part IMHO is the spelunking.  You half to leap from ledges and dodge boulders and then some!  It's a great, well-planned game and worth getting.
    Also, all of these are done in completely realistic and smooth movements.  There are thousands of poses and movements for Lara and they all look like they took forever to program.
 
Appeal: Spelunkers, fighters, adventurers, and archeologists!
Pros: GREAT graphics, GREAT movents, GREAT plot, GREAT action, and pretty good sound too!
Cons: Possibly a little skimpy on the action (I finished the game with quite a bit of ammo left), a little on the easy side (there should have been a toughness selection in the beginning), and may get stuck for a couple hours.
Reccomendation: Even if you don't want to buy it (which you should) you HAVE to download it!
 
 

Downloads

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Download 8 Backround Set:
800x600 16 million colours
800x600 256 colours
640x480 256 colours
They are definitely worth the download time and come in a variety of pictures, all very cool and high res. 

More thumbnail screen shots

 
Download Sounds:
 
The Venice Mission
16 bit
8 bit
 
Bump the Brood
16 bit
8 bit
 
You Firing at Me?
16 bit
8 bit
 
Say Cheese
16 bit
8 bit
 
Total Attention
16 bit
8 bit
 
Opening Music
16 bit
8 bit
 
Hints and Cheats
Hints/Strategies:
 
1)  Keep moving.  A moving target is always harder to hit, especially with TR's lousy AI.
2)  Jump right as they are going to hit you.  Just as the wolf is going to touch you, jump so that you are facing it and it's not facing you, this may be easier to do using the roll button too. 
3)  Look around.  If you are ever stuck there is always a ledge or corridor or tunnell that you didn't see.  This is the easiest strategy to keep the game moving at a steady pace.  This tactic is also sooooo much easier when you have it on high res.
4)  Try to fight in open spaces.
5)  Kill what is swimming in the water before you dive in.
6)  Jump everywhere.  Off of slides, platforms, anything.  It is the answer to your troubles.
7)  Look for discoured spots on the floor.  Try walking over them in different patterns.  After that listen as the secret doors open.
8)  It may take away a little tensity from the game but it goes without saying that it's easier to beat if you constantly save, don't worry, you can't get into a situation that is irriversable, the designers made sure of that.
 
 
Cheats:
 
Don't do this: hold shift, take one small step forward, take one small step backwards, let go of shift, turn around 3 full rotations clockwise, and then jump forward.  This cheat, uhh, erases everything on your computer except minesweeper, then every brick except one is a mine.  Yeah, that's it!
Fine, here are some cheats, but only use when needed!

PC Version 

 Level Skip: While in a level, do the following with Lara:  

Press forward slash (/) so that Lara will draw a flare.  Now, holding the walk button, walk 1 step forward, walk 1 step back, turn around 3 full times  (it doesn't matter which direction) and do a forward jump. 
Remember! Perform the whole sequence holding the walk button, except for lighting the flare. 

All Weapons: While in a level, do the same code as above but instead  of doing a forward jump, do a backflip. 

Destroy Lara: While in a level, do one of the codes above but without  lighting a flare first. 

Playstation VersionNew! 

Do the following during play: Slide left, Slide right, Slide left, Walk back, Walk forward, still holding the "walk" button turn 3 times completely around, then jump up, and hit the "roll" button at the same time. 
Now if you do a jump by hitting forward then backwards you skip levels.  
Now if you do a jump by hitting backwards then forwards you get all weapons, multiple flares and medipacs. 

 
Look for hacks on the internet, they are everywhere, but, because I don't believe in them I will not tell you where.
 
Also look for walkthroughs.  You shouldn't need them, it's not like TR is a really hard game, but if you want to get all the secrets... well.
 
 
Links
 
 
3D Gaming Heaven Tomb Raider Page
Very good page, lots o' shtuff and everything your looking for.  Also many links.
 
Official Tomb Raider Page
Many graphics, too many graphics!  Takes an obscene time to load but there is a lot of stuff on it and it is otherwise very usfull.
 
 Tomb Raider Walkthroughs
 Don't go here unless you really want the game completely spoiled!  It's not a hard game but if you are really stuck, just click and get it over with.
 
Happy Puppy Walkthrough
Same comment, so don't click you useless, non-TR beating sack of <smack>... whoah, sorry, Hammer's really getting to me!