Tomb Raider

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Tomb Raider
Shadow of the tomb raider logo.jpg
Most recent part logo (2018)
developer Core Design (until 2003)
Crystal Dynamics (until 2015)
Eidos Montreal
Publisher Eidos Interactive (until 2009)
Square Enix
Designer Toby Gard
First title Tomb Raider (1996)
Last title Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018)
Platform (s) various
Genre (s) Action adventure
Diana Dorow as Real Lara Croft at the Games Convention 2005

Under the title Tomb Raider [ ˈtuːmˌɹeɪdə ] ( English f .: grave robber ) a series of video games from the genre of action adventures has been created since 1996 around the virtual protagonist Lara Croft . Its creator, designer Toby Gard from the British development studio Core Design , conceived it as a kind of female Indiana Jones . The main character, also popular outside the game series, and the mixture of action and adventure (skill, fighting, weapons and solving puzzles) made Tomb Raider to one of the most famous game franchises, with several film adaptations and literary accompanying works.

The Tomb Raider series is one of the best-selling game series in the world. According to the developer (as of 2009), around seven million copies of the first game in the series were sold, and the games in the series sold 35 million times in total.

Development history

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Developer Toby Gard at E3 2005

It celebrated its premiere on the Sega Saturn with a five-week right of first refusal. Shortly afterwards the first part was also released for PlayStation and DOS . There are now parts for Windows , macOS (all except Legend ), Dreamcast , PlayStation 2 , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , PlayStation Portable , Nintendo DS , Wii , Xbox , Xbox 360 , Xbox One , Google Stadia and (independent) versions for Nintendos Game Boy and GameCube , Nokia's N-Gage and for PDAs with Microsoft Pocket PC -2002 operating system.

The games are published by Eidos Interactive and were developed by Core Design until 2003 . After unsatisfactory reviews of the sixth part, The Angel of Darkness , Eidos commissioned Crystal Dynamics to develop the other Tomb Raider games. Tomb Raider Legend , the seventh part, was released in April 2006 and should build on the older, more successful parts.

chronology

The following video games have been released since then or have already been announced with a date. The list of platforms in brackets is not intended to be exhaustive. For example, Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light was also released for Android , BlackBerry PlayBook , OnLive , Google Chrome OS and Apple iOS . Since part five, Tomb Raider: The Chronicle , the number has not been officially mentioned in the title. For the titles Angel of Darkness , Legend and Anniversary , the form known from the film adaptations "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - Subtitle " was officially used.

Two top-down multiplayer shooter titles exist as spin-offs from the main series. They are distinguishable from the main series by the different naming:

There are also three titles for handheld consoles and some mobile games:

  • 2000: Tomb Raider ( Game Boy Color )
  • 2001: Tomb Raider: Curse of the Sword (Game Boy Color)
  • 2002: Tomb Raider: The Prophecy ( Game Boy Advance )
  • 2003: Tomb Raider: The Osiris Code ( Java- enabled cell phones)
  • 2004: Tomb Raider: The Search for Cinnabar (Java Enabled Cell Phones)
  • 2004: Tomb Raider: The Elixir of Life (Java-enabled cell phones)
  • 2013: Lara Croft: Reflections ( iOS )
  • 2015: Lara Croft: Relic Run (iOS, Android , Windows Phone 8 / 8.1 )
  • 2015: Lara Croft: GO (iOS, Android, Windows Phone 8 / 8.1, Windows, Mac, Linux)
Shadow of the Tomb Raider Rise of the Tomb Raider Lara Croft und der Tempel des Osiris Tomb Raider (2013) Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Tomb Raider: Underworld Tomb Raider: Anniversary Tomb Raider: Legend Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness Tomb Raider: Die Chronik Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation Tomb Raider III – Adventures of Lara Croft Tomb Raider II – Starring Lara Croft Tomb Raider (1996)

The game engines of the Tomb Raider main series can be viewed together with both spin-offs, as they use a common game engine. The change of developer studios is an obvious turning point. Within the games developed by Core Design, the game engine of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness falls out of line, especially since it is the only one that was developed for Sony's PlayStation 2. Crystal Dynamics uses its own game engine, either called the Crystal Engine or cdcEngine (short for Crystal Dynamics Crystal Engine). For Tomb Raider: Underworld , it was programmed from the ground up. Since Tomb Raider (computer game 2013), Crystal Dynamics has called its engine "Foundation Engine".

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General information
Data / game Tomb Raider (1996) Tomb Raider II - Starring Lara Croft Tomb Raider III - Adventures of Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation Tomb Raider: The Chronicle Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness Tomb Raider: Legend Tomb Raider: Anniversary Tomb Raider: Underworld Tomb Raider (2013) Rise of the Tomb Raider Shadow of the Tomb Raider
Main composer Nathan McCree Nathan McCree Nathan McCree Peter Connelly Peter Connelly Peter Connelly Troels B. Folmann Troels B. Folmann Colin O'Malley Jason Graves Bobby Tahouri Brian D'Oliveira
Other composers Martin Iveson n / A Martin Iveson, Peter Connelly and Matthew Kemp n / A n / A Martin Iveson, Peter Wraight (orchestration) and David Snell (conductor) n / A n / A Troels B. Folmann (supervisor) na,
Aleksandar Dimitrijevic (Trailer)		 n / A n / A
Duration of the main topic 3:15 2:46 2:18 2:17 n / A 3:08 2:20 3:37 3:33 0:51 4:24 3:36
Total duration ~ 17 minutes ~ 19 minutes ~ 35 minutes ~ 18 minutes ~ 16 minutes ~ 51 minutes ~ 180 minutes ~ 56 minutes ~ 110 minutes ~ 75 minutes ~ 65 minutes ~ 61 minutes

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What is striking is the above-average quota of female players. With the release of a free level editor for Tomb Raider - The Chronicle, there is a large community of level building Tomb Raider fans.

Tomb Raider has been parodied with softcore adult films. In 2001, Angelica Costello starred in Tomb Raper , in 2002 Erin Brown in Mummy Raider and in 2003 Lauren Hays in Womb Raider . There is also, for example, the comic "Nude Raider XXX - The Further Adventures of Lana Craft", the name of which is based on an unofficial patch by Core and Eidos for the first Tomb Raider game.

In the American amusement park Kings Island there was the ride Tomb Raider: The Ride from 2002 to 2011 , which was thematically based on the first film adaptation Lara Croft: Tomb Raider from 2001. After 2007, the references to the Tomb Raider franchise were removed and the ride continued to operate under the name The Crypt until 2011 .

Film adaptations

With the movies Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) and the sequel Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003), in which actress Angelina Jolie played the role of Lara Croft, Tomb Raider had its breakthrough on the big screen.

A third film was produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and GK Films . Initially, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby were hired to write the script. In June 2013 it was announced that the scriptwriter Marti Noxon , known from Buffy the Vampire Slayer, is working. In September 2014, however, Noxon wrote that their collaboration had ended due to other projects. In February 2015, Evan Daugherty was announced for the script and Warner Bros. for the film's release instead . Roar Uthaug was hired as a director . At the end of April 2016 it was announced that Alicia Vikander will succeed Angelina Jolie as Lara Croft in the reboot of the "Tomb Raider" franchise. On March 15, 2018, the third film Tomb Raider was released as a reboot.

Roman translations

Overview

After the script for the first movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider , the novel of the same name was published, along with the official companion book and the technical manual, each with background information.

Based on the script for the second movie Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life , the associated novel was only released in English.

In the Panini publishing previous three novels have been published. The first, The Amulet of Power , is the bridge between the events of Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation and Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness . The Tomb Raider - Die Chronik , which appeared between these video games, only deals with individual adventures without any closer chronological connection. The second novel, The Forgotten Cult , then takes place after the events of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness . The third novel describes the adventure that followed the second novel.

On October 20, 2014, the novel The Ten Thousand Immortals was published in English , which tells Lara Crofts the following adventure based on the events of the video game Tomb Raider (2013).

Also in English only, the novel Lara Croft and the Blade of Gwynnever was published in September 2016, which tells a story independent of the video games in the main series.

The companion novel for the game Shadow of the Tomb Raider was published in English by Titan Books in 2018.

The amulet of power

The action begins immediately after the end of Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation . Lara Croft is buried in the Temple of Horus and badly damaged is rescued by the archaeologist Kevin Mason. After the same again saved her from silent assassins in the hospital in Cairo and they both managed to escape in a ship, Lara learns from him that a group of fanatics wrongly assume that they have found the lost amulet of Mareish in the temple. This artifact is supposed to make those who believe in his power the invincible successor of Muhammad Ahmad , the Mahdi . During a murderous chase on the Nile, Croft reveal three companions who belong to a group who want to destroy the amulet to protect humanity. Separated from Mason and pursued by the Mahdists, Croft travels with them to Sudan, where they suspect the amulet.

In Sudan, Croft realizes that some of the murderers who have hitherto been targeted on them were not actually Mahdists, but a radical part of their group of companions who try to kill all those who are only looking for the amulet: the tongue-less "silent ones". After Khartoum trip leads first by camel, can kill during which Croft more Mahdisten in whose captivity she was advised then by bus in which they can turn another Silent Ones. Once there, and after a murder attempt at the hotel, Croft reunites with Mason. While searching for clues, interrupted by fighting, for the amulet that Muhammad Ahmad's opponent at the time, General Charles George Gordon , is said to have hidden, Lara Croft finally comes across a completely different place: the Seychelles island of Praslin , the Gordon for the garden safe from the Mahdi Eden wants to have held.

In order to attract less attention, Croft flies alone to Nairobi , Kenya , in order to later get to the Seychelles from there. With her old friend Malcolm Oliver, she is initially exposed to beatings, poisoning, sabotage, other armed attacks and attempted murder.

Arrived at the destination, Lara Croft searches - again alone - in a church for the amulet. She is surprised by Kevin Mason, who turns out to be Khaled Ahmed Mohammed el-Shakir and who killed the real Kevin Mason at the beginning of the adventure in order to assume his identity. Now he wants to become the new Mahdi with the help of the amulet. Lara pretends that he has won. But she had previously - suspecting the ruse - deposited a false amulet at this point. This is the only way to ensure that Mahdists and the silent ones will no longer chase them, but Khaled. Croft was also able to explore the hiding place of the real amulet. She succeeds in resisting the temptation of the amulet and destroying it for good.

Back in Paris, after all her adventures - including the one from Tomb Raider IV: The Last Revelation - and bitter with the death of many friends , Croft wants to start over. When, after months of secluded life, she learns that von Croy, Lara's former mentor, is in town, she gains courage and decides to meet him. The story leads to the events of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness .

The forgotten cult

In the prologue, Lara Croft fulfills an order for the CIA , which is only confirmed by the follow-up novel The Man Made of Bronze Safe (page 116) - to steal stolen Iraqi artifacts from the estate of the wealthy stalker and arms dealer Lancaster Urdmann in Mauritius . In return, the charges brought against them over the events of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness will be removed from law enforcement files.

In Scotland, colleague Werner von Croys and archeology professor Dr. Stephen Frys turns to an ancient Méne cult on the run from unknown attackers because of research results, even before he can meet Lara Croft. Because of his attempted telephone contact, she too becomes a target. Meanwhile, in London, Lara asks the fiancé of a former school friend for help. Alison Jane Harfleur, nicknamed Ajay, was unhappily obsessed with leading a life of adventurous treasure hunts like Lara. Now she is said to have fallen into a mysterious cult. In front of Lara's London office, Lara and Ajay's fiancé Nils Bjorkstrom, called Borg because of his prosthetic arms from a climbing accident , are expected by men. They want to handcuff Lara and kidnap her in a taxi. With Borg's help, Lara can surprise and eliminate the men. The next day, when she continues to research Ajay and her environment, she finally comes across connections to von Croys and Fry's research. Since Borg had mentioned the name Tejo Kunai at Ajay's disappearance and since Urdmann had already mentioned the same name in passing in the prologue, Lara Croft goes back to Mauritius, disguised as Madame Tussauds - wax figure of herself , invades his property and sets him up Speech. She learns that the Mene, through Kunai, who was interested, is a connection between Ajay's disappearance and Fry's explosive research.

In Peru , meanwhile, a group of modern followers of the Méne cult is looking for relics to revive old structures of rule. They also include Ajay, who is supposed to take care of the rescue. Out of jealousy of Lara Croft, she wants to triumph over her. Apparently the attack on Croft in London came from them too, because on the one hand they wanted to eliminate Croft as a threat, but on the other hand wanted to force them to help with their talents as a grave robber.

Lara Croft was sent a letter from Peru to the son of the late Dr. Frys, Alex Frys, contacted. Eerie things are going on at one of his father's former excavation sites. Together with Borg, she then travels to Alex Frys by plane and canoe. There Lara recognizes Ajay in the distance from a telescope viewing platform camouflaged in the jungle; but the Mene send a troop of fighters to the apparently discovered platform Frys, but they are repulsed. Croft then sets out with Borg to the Méne archaeological site. There they discover an underground complex in which they worship their gods of the deep. In a gigantic shaft are the sacred tablets of ancient Mene, which Ajay had already tried unsuccessfully to recover. Lara succeeds in finding a mechanism to detach the panels from the wall. They attach the boards to a strong winch and climb up the shaft. There they are surprised by Mene, who has just arrived. Lara and Borg have to surrender to superior force and are handcuffed. Alex Frys turns out to be the leader of the Méne - just like Ajay as a cult member, who no longer wants to know about her engagement to Borg. Meanwhile, he can free himself from his handcuffs unnoticed and also release Lara's shackles. In the following fight he is pushed into the shaft by Ajay. Lara jumps after him and can let them both come up unharmed with the help of her parachute. From there they can escape through a narrow tunnel. When they can finally rest in a hotel, Lara's romantic feelings for Borg, which had already developed over some time of the adventure, discharge and they kiss.

Meanwhile, Alex Frys ponders his rise to become the leader of the cult. His father and his colleague, Tejo Kunai, had researched the Mene cult. While Stephen Frys saw the Mene's instruments of power as too dangerous to pursue further, Kunai went the opposite way. He realized how the ancient Mene used the tablets to communicate with their gods of the deep, how they led the rest of mankind strictly, and that there was an artifact by which they could impose their thoughts on other people. Kunai discovered the artifact (a crystal) and was able to murder its unsuspecting owner in the presence of Alex Fry. Kunai thus became the leader of the modern Méne cult, recruited more followers and finally wanted to find the old tablets. Only Croy and Stephen Frys knew where these are. Von Croy had been murdered during the events of Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness , so Kunai sent Alex Frys to find out the location of the tablets from his father and then to kill him as well. Alex Frys did not carry out the order, instead killing Kunai and using the mind-controlling crystal to take control of the cult.

Now Frys is on his way to the Capricorn Group with the recovered plaques , where Lara and Borg can follow him. The next day, a sacrificial ritual takes place on the beach of an atoll, in which willing people descend into the depths of the water and are swallowed. To Croft's astonishment, Frys and his remaining Mene cult suddenly disappear over a ramp in the floor. With diving equipment, Croft and Borg follow the trail of the victims down into the depths. Under water there is a system of organic diving bells in which mushrooms provide oxygen. Far in the depths you can finally see a gigantic crystal dome, the shape of which reminds Lara of the cave system in Peru. Shortly before the dome, however, they are attacked by strange underwater creatures, into which the victims have presumably transformed, and Borg is pulled into a sea ditch and disappears. Once inside, Lara sees that the Méne cultists have already completed their work and have summoned one of their deep gods. This calls for further sacrifices in order to be able to call further deep gods. Suddenly Borg - apparently he had survived - is ushered in by two men. This forces Lara to open fire. With gun salvos she can drive away the deep god and chaos breaks out. Mene transformed into underwater creatures emerge from the water, Ajay shoots Lara and Frys finally tries to get Lara under his control with the Mene crystal. But he fails because of Croft's willpower. In the turmoil, the fragile structure of the underwater dome is damaged and it collapses. Ajay eventually dies of complications from decompression sickness .

In the epilogue Lara meets with a journalist, but has to break off the conversation because she has already received the call about her next adventure. As can be read on page 94 of the follow-up novel, the story leads directly into the events of The Man of Bronze .

The bronze man

Lara Croft is called to Warsaw by Reuben Baptiste . A car bomb attack was attempted on him because of a diplomatic suitcase. The seedy clinic, to which he can save himself laboriously and injured, he has agreed at short notice as a meeting point. Makeshift but resourceful, Croft can fight off an immediate attack there. Sixteen gunmen apparently followed Reuben. Croft drives with him to get to the bottom of the matter and to continue to provide Reuben with medical care, in the remote monastery of a covenant that Reuben had commissioned: the mysterious Bronze Order. There they open the diplomatic suitcase and take out a bronze figure of Osiris in addition to documents . Lara just notices that it is bugged when an explosive device also housed in it is detonated remotely. Reuben is killed by the explosion. Apparently the suitcase was cracked in the tumult of the car bombing and the statuette was replaced.

The administrator of the order, Father Emil, is then ready to explain more to Croft because he wants her help and shares a secret that is thousands of years old. In a high-tech hall of the monastery sits a metal man, a brozen android . As in the legend about the Egyptian deity Osiris, it was chopped into pieces by an unknown attacker - according to mythology according to the god Set - in 8000 BC and these were scattered all over the world. The individual pieces proved to be indestructible and had the property of reappearing again and again. They gave individuals power over human history. When the Oracle of Delphi met the Persian high priest Zarathustra , they put the skull and eye together and an even more powerful artifact was created. This is how the Bronze Order was created to reunite the pieces. Whether the metal man is of supernatural origin or the product of a far superior technology is unknown. The more of his pieces are united, the stronger and more intelligent he becomes. From the technology room of the monastery, he works over the Internet with police authorities and secret services to pursue one constant goal: fighting crime. Now he's just missing one leg.

When asked by Croft, the android casually knows the answer: Lancaster Urdmann, known from the previous novel, orchestrated the car bomb attack. The real statuette from Reuben's suitcase, on the other hand, is a guide to the unique pieces of the metal man, in which Urdmann is also interested. A race for thigh, lower leg and foot begins, which together result in the missing leg.

The search for the thigh leads Lara Croft to Siberia , where she and her friend Ilya Kazakov fly by helicopter to the location of the Tunguska event . There are booby-trapped tents that Croft can safely detonate. On the trail of Urdmann, Croft and Kazakov encounter a saber-toothed tiger and a mammoth - products of the power of the bronze piece . In a nearby tunnel you will find wall paintings that testify to eerie events, the fresh corpse of a grotesquely mutated animal and one of Urdmann's mercenaries who can still move in death. Finally, in a gigantic underground hall, they meet Urdmann, who is already on his thigh and escapes to the surface via an escape tunnel, while Lara has to deal with a shadow creature from prehistoric times - one of the millennia-old shamans of the bronze piece. She can finally defeat him with sunlight and also - unfortunately without the thigh - escape to the surface.

Lara's search leads her to Lake Sargasso , where the lower leg is said to be. From the ship of Rear Admiral a. D. Horatio and his warrior, who has retired from the Royal Navy or Royal Marine, can pick up a radio signal from a yacht - Urdmanns? Mutated eels cavort in the water and the currents of the Bermuda Triangle have rounded up crashed ships from different eras. Croft knows the artifact on a Carthaginian galley, and so a small group sets out to jump from ship to ship of the rounded up flotilla. Horribly decomposed corpses awaken to new unlife, but the breakthrough to the treasure galley succeeds. There Croft finds the bronze piece hidden in a tricky way. While she has to fight the Carthaginian priest, who is still guarding the piece, under water, Urdmann has seized Horatios. After a spectacular fight, he forces Lara to give him the lower leg. Humiliated, she vows revenge. Urdmann disappears.

The bronze foot is said to be on the Australian Cape York Peninsula . Together with Ilya and Horatio, both of whom are also seeking revenge against Urdmann, and with her friend Teresa Tennant, Lara finally discovers a ruined temple belonging to Polynesians who must have stolen their feet a long time ago from the Aborigines , but not over the sea could create. Passing giant spiders, a meter-high crocodile and the combination lock of the temple entrance, Lara enters the building alone. Inside, she asks the bronze foot loudly for help in finding it. He then creates a bronze image of Lara, which destroys the Polynesian zombie priests who stayed behind. Lara also destroys her image by hurling it against her foot. In front of the exit of the temple, however, Lara is ambushed and hit by a tranquilizer arrow.

Lara wakes up alone in a four-poster bed, wearing only a thin white shirt, but to her surprise is not tied up. She explores the building, finds her three still numb friends, then in another room a painter who is painting Lara on canvas, lying naked in the four-poster bed. The painter is the counterpart to the bronze man, a silver android. Casanova , Don Juan , Marquis de Sade are said to have been his identities. As an amoral being, he only indulges in pleasure. Because he shows no reluctance to do so, he has always been persecuted by the bronze. Thousands of years ago he was able to dismantle his pursuer into individual pieces and has now put Urdmann in his service for this purpose. He offers Lara everything if she dismantles the bronze with a special bomb: archaeological treasures and the opportunity to kill Urdmann herself. When Lara refuses, the silver man calls his human guards, who first put Lara handcuffs and anklecuffs and then throw them into a dungeon at his behest. An outbreak seems hopeless when Urdmann unexpectedly sneaks into Lara's cell. He overheard the conversation and wants to shoot Lara immediately. Lara's upper arm is scratched by a bullet when suddenly a guard from the silver, who suspected exactly that, shoots Urdmann and drags his body away. Lara can turn off the guard when they want to check on Lara's wound in the cell. In the studio she finds the bronze leg and can free her three friends and flee. She then contacts the bronze man, who immediately travels to her location: Rio de Janeiro . But Lara realizes just in time that her escape route was a ruse, her bronze leg is a fake and contains the bomb she was supposed to use to kill the bronze. In a final fight, she can first steal the wrong leg from the bronze medal, then sneak to the silver one, there finally defeat Urdmann and recover the real leg. Urdmann, who used the power of the silver in battle, is literally vanished into thin air by the bronze man's real leg, who shortly after defeats the silver man himself. The same thing happens with both androids. They are apparently returning to their homeland.

The Ten Thousand Immortals

The plot follows on from the events of Tomb Raider (2013) and occurs before the Dark Horse Comics comic series described below. Lara Croft has lived in a London apartment with her best friend Samantha Nishimura since her return. Due to the horror suffered by Yamatai, they still have severe panic attacks. When she tries to get some fresh air after the recent attack, her mobile phone rings. Samantha was hospitalized. Lara is shocked to find out that Samantha's psyche is damaged and that when she woke up from the coma she did not mention her own name, but rather Himikos . Could the ghostly Queen Yamatais be able to transfer part of her spirit to Samantha in the ritual held there? Is Samantha losing the battle for her soul? Lara Croft goes her own way, but desperately looking for a cure and comes across the myth of the Golden Fleece .

Traces of the whereabouts of the fleece are extremely poor. At Oxford University , Lara gets from her colleague Kennard Montez, who also develops a romantic interest in her, the hint to contact a dealer in Paris. When she finally arrives in Paris, her interest in fleece is evidently taken seriously. Already at the train station Lara is kidnapped in public, suggesting to the bystanders that she has another panic attack and must be brought to safety. She is interrogated in his high-rise office by a powerful man who calls himself Ares, but is unable to reveal much and shortly afterwards she escapes from his fighting force, the Ten Thousand Immortals . Despite being bugged, Lara is able to avoid further pursuit and the next day she meets the dealer Menelaou named by Kennard. It only offers a small part of the fleece: a piece of fur without gold. Lara has to flee one more time when Ares helpers arrive and murder Menelaou.

Again by Kennard, Lara is invited to an underwater excavation site on the Greek island of Anafi . The Greek hero Jason is said to have made the first stop there with his Argonauts after he had fought for the Golden Fleece. On site, however, Lara soon falls into the clutches of another party that has heard of the search for the fleece. The dying of Huntington's disease actor Christian Fife sees it as his last chance. Lara is dragged into a car by two bodyguards and taken to his nearby villa, where he tries to force her to work for him. However, she can escape during the night. Back on the ship at the underwater dig, Lara soon discovers that Kennard lied to her. The ship's logbook shows that it had not been anchored for the excavation for weeks, but only arrived shortly before Lara's arrival.

Little by little, Lara puts together the information that she had researched over and over again throughout the adventure. The gold of the fleece was all along in the study of Kennard's professor at Oxford. After another incident involving persecutors and security personnel at Athens Airport, Lara travels back to England. When Lara visits the professor, the situation escalates. First Christian Fife's armed men penetrate, then the Ten Thousand Immortals , who murder the gold. But the battle is bigger. Kennard Montez is there too. He identifies himself and other fighters disguised as students as members of the group Trinity , which is already referenced in the video game Tomb Raider (2013) and will also play a role in the following series of Dark Horse Comics. Apparently they want to get rid of all clues about the fleece. Trinity fights against the Ten Thousand Immortals and both are after Lara when she can get the gold after wild hand-to-hand combat and firefights. Ares dies too; after all, only Kennard and Lara are still alive. Kennard places Lara on the tower of the building. He explains to her that after the events on Yamatai Lara he wanted to recruit Lara for Trinity, but his request was rejected because of Croft's character. He liked her from the beginning, but now has to do his job and shoots Lara.

A little later Lara wakes up in the same place. Her head is bleeding, all limbs ache, and she has a mild concussion. When a paramedic and the police soon rush to her, she is surprisingly better. After a brief statement to the police, Lara is allowed to leave the scene. Only hours later, before taking a shower, Lara notices that a bullet must have knocked off part of the gold from the fleece during the battle. The little nugget was caught in Lara's torn pocket. Did the healing power of the fleece save Lara from certain death? The very next day Lara visits Samantha in the hospital and brings her the gold nugget as a present. You recover.

Lara Croft and the Blade of Gwynnever

Lara Croft and her colleague Carter Bell, known from the video game Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris and the comic series Lara Croft and the Frozen Omen, go in search of the sword of the legendary Guinevere.

Comic translations

Glénat

In March 1999 the French publisher Glénat published the Tomb Raider comic Dark Aeons ( ISBN 9782723427500 ), written by Alex Alice , but had to be taken off the market because Eidos Interactive had meanwhile sold the rights to Top Cow Productions .

Top Cow Productions

Top Cow Productions published the longest series to date with fifty comics. In Germany, first the Egmont Ehapa Verlag , later mg publishing and finally the Infinity Verlag published translations. Volume 1 of Top Cow was published in December 1999. The series concluded with Volume 50 in January 2005. The editions were usually published monthly, first under the common title starring Lara Croft as the Tomb Raider and from issue 25 under Lara Croft, Tomb Raider in order to be able to tie in with the 2001 film adaptation of Lara Croft: Tomb Raider . The series includes related stories across several comics. The first four titles, for example, tell about Lara Croft's search for the mask of Medusa. Written are volumes 1 to 20 by Dan Jurgens , volumes 21 to 31 by John Ney Rieber , volume 32 by Adam Hughes , volumes 33 to 49 by James Bonny and volume 50 by Dan Slott .

From November 2001 to May 2003 the series Tomb Raider Journeys starring Lara Croft appeared . It comprised twelve comics written by Fiona Avery.

In the 1990s and 2000s, Top Cow also released a few single tracks, such as Sphere of Influence , Takeover and Arabian Nights . Lara Croft also appeared together with other characters from her own comic series in crossovers such as Witchblade or Fathom .

Dark Horse Comics

Tomb Raider (2013) is followed by an 18-volume comic series published by Dark Horse Comics and simply titled Tomb Raider . The series began in February 2014; Volume 18 was published in July 2015. Volumes 1 to 6 are written by Gail Simone . In it, Lara Croft, together with a few supporting characters from the video game Tomb Raider (2013), can prevent the antagonist Father Mathias from being reawakened . Volumes 7 to 12 were written jointly by Gail Simone and Rhianna Pratchett . Lara Croft finds and protects a dropout from the sinister organization Trinity , which was previously introduced on the sidelines in the video game Tomb Raider (2013) and appeared as an adversary in the novel The Ten Thousand Immortals . Finally, Rhianna Pratchett wrote volumes 13-18 alone. With regard to the following video game Rise of the Tomb Raider , they develop Lara Croft and other characters from Tomb Raider (2013) narrative. Six volumes are combined in paperback editions: Season of the Witch (November 2014, ISBN 978-1-61655-491-0 ), Secrets and Lies (May 2015, ISBN 978-1-61655-639-6 ) and Queen of Serpents (announced for November 2015, ISBN 978-1-61655-818-5 ). Panini published a German translation of the first paperback edition entitled Die verfluchte Insel in May 2015 ( ISBN 9783957982278 ).

In October 2015, Dark Horse Comics began a series of five comics entitled Lara Croft and the Frozen Omen . In contrast to the video games in the main series Tomb Raider (2013) and Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015) and the previous comic series, the coherent story is again dedicated to the mature Lara Croft from the spin-off titles Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light and Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris . It draws Randy Green; The author is Corinna Bechko. A German collective edition is published by dani books under the title Lara Croft und die Artefakte des Böse ( ISBN 9783959560221 ).

Since February 2016, Dark Horse has continued its first comic series under the title Tomb Raider II with monthly editions. The plot continues that of the latest video game in the main series, Rise of the Tomb Raider .

In January 2017 the series paused with issue number 12 and in December it was continued under the title: Tomb Raider: Survivors Crusade.

Web links

Commons : Tomb Raider  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

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  3. ↑ e3 2014: Crystal Dynamics unveils Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris . June 9, 2014. Retrieved June 10, 2014.
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  5. ↑ Developers reveal new Lara Croft in Tomb Raider . June 20, 2012. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  6. ↑ Lara's Levelbase - The Tomb Raider Community. Retrieved August 22, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Tomb Raider: MGM and GK Films immediately begin film production . April 1, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  8. ↑ Scriptwriters hired for "Tomb Raider" reboot . May 6, 2011. Retrieved November 19, 2015.
  9. ↑ Marti Noxon writes the script for the third Tomb Raider film . June 17, 2013. Retrieved September 11, 2014.
  10. ↑ Noxon's Twitter message from September 14, 2014 . September 14, 2014. Retrieved September 18, 2014.
  11. ↑ Warner Bros And Scribe Evan Daugherty Join MGM 'Tomb Raider' Reboot . February 25, 2015. Accessed March 22, 2015.
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  15. ↑ Crystal Dynamics and Dark Horse bring Lara Croft back in Comics . January 31, 2013. Retrieved September 9, 2014.
  16. ↑ Dark Horse Lara Croft and the Frozen Omen take the reader back to the classic Tomb Raider . June 29, 2015. Retrieved June 29, 2015.
  17. ↑ Tomb Raider II . October 8, 2015. Retrieved October 8, 2015.
Tomb Raider
Games and other implementations of the Tomb Raider series
Main series

Tomb Raider (1996) • II (1997) • III (1998) • IV (1999) • The Chronicle (2000) • Angel of Darkness (2003) • Legend (2006) • Anniversary (2007) • Underworld (2008) • Tomb Raider (2013) • Rise of the Tomb Raider (2015) • Shadow of the Tomb Raider (2018)

Handheld and cell phone games

Tomb Raider (2000) • Curse of the Sword (2001) • The Prophecy (2002) • The Osiris Code (2003) • The Search for Cinnabar (2004) • The Elixir of Life (2004) • Relic Run (2015) Lara Croft : Go (2015)

Lara Croft series

Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light (2010) • Lara Croft and the Temple of Osiris (2014)

Film adaptations

Lara Croft: Tomb Raider (2001) • The Cradle of Life (2003) • Tomb Raider (2018)