Games That Changed Our Lives: Tomb Raider

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Games That Changed Our Lives: Tomb Raider

Added: 06.08.2015 15:18 | 15 views | 0 comments

Steven at GameSpew writes: "Imagine a world without Lara Croft. The ridge-climbing, relic-seeking, ass-kicking English aristocrat with the curves of a genetically enhanced Page 3 model first somersaulted onto our screens in 1996, courtesy of Core Design. The platform genre, previously the domain of primary-coloured cartoon characters with a kleptomania for rings and coins, would never be the same again. Lara may have been glamorous but she was also gritty and grimy. She had looks worthy of a yacht in Monte Carlo but, to a gamers delight, was evidently happier rolling around mothballed tombs fighting wolves and mutants than posing at cocktail parties. Packed with paradoxes, Lara was a tough girl from the world of privilege, an empowered female with a physique that seemed custom designed to feed male fantasies."