Find out in this section, everything related to the first game, Tomb Raider (1996). Lara Croft travel around the world in search of the Atlantean artifact, the Scion.
Developer/Editor: CORE Design / Eidos
Platforms: Saturn / PS1 / PC / Mobiles
Release Date: October 25th, 1996
Game type: Action, adventure
Official Website: www.tombraider.com
An atlantean disc lands on Earth, where is our beloved Natla, she was banished thousands of years ago by the Atlantean boss (Tihocan and Qualopec) due to experiments that led to many deaths in Atlantis.
Once returned to Earth after a large company that he founded herself, Lara calls for contractors and retrieve a piece of Scion, without further explanation, Lara goes to Peru to recover, once recovered and face Larson, the conversation ago Think Lara and decides to investigate, so it will Natla Technologies and find out that these fragments of Scion, were scattered in different places on Earth, these fragments, if they united could lead to the emergence of a new breed atlante within a huge pyramid, the first fragment found in Peru, the second Tihocan’s tomb and the last in Egypt.
Lara must recover the three pieces of Scion before Natla and his henchmen, with such bad luck that upon leaving the cave and are waiting deprive him all the fragments, should be tracking and recovering before Natla revive the race of new Atlantean.
Key Features
- It was one of the first games that used a 3D environment.
- Lara was the first female protagonist.
- Resolution of puzzles in environments with large tombs, caves, etc.
- The only enemies are animals, except the main villains.
- Lara can not climb or climbing stairs, either handles the vehicles and their hair is gathered in a bun, because all this to the limited technology of those times.
- Traps as skewers, knives or rocks giant round rushed towards us.
- The audio of the game isn’t on Spanish, only English.
- Croft Manor as a training level, we can see packaging boxes that shows that she just moved into the mansion.
- Lara can’t change of outfit throughout the adventure.
- Few weapons.
Artefact: The Scion
The Scion is the main artefact Lara searches for in Tomb Raider. The artefact was created by the three leaders of Atlantis. They were Qualopec, Tihocan and Natla. After the disasters that resulted from Natla abusing the powers of the Scion, it was split into three equal pieces. Two pieces were entrusted to Qualopec and Tihocan, whom never wanted to use it again.
The third was cast away into Egypt and resided in a Sanctuary built underneath a statue of a sphinx, near the City of Khamoon.
Lara found the first two pieces in the Tomb of Qualopec in Peru, and the Tomb of Tihocan underneath a monastery in the Mediterranean. She also recovered the third piece from the Sanctuary of the Scion in Egypt.
The Scion was destroyed by gunfire from Lara in Atlantis, but pieces of it remain in Lara’s treasure vault.
The powers of the Scion can mutate creatures into much more agile and ferocious beasts. It can increase muscle mass and capability.
The Scion also powered the Great Pyramid that lay at the centre of Atlantis. The powers of the Scion allowed Natla to create a small army of mutated beasts from cocoons that lay within vast hatcheries in the Great Pyramid.
Armas del juego original
In the game, Lara will be able to carry 4 different weapons that you can see below: double pistols, Magnum, shotgun and Uzis.
Outfits
In Tomb Raider (1996) there are just one type of outfit in the whole adventure, but there is another for the gymn, you can see both in full body and close up (front and back).
The Croft Manor
This is the original look of the manor in Tomb Raider (1996), Lara has just moved in and still has the boxes with her belongings in the main hall, there is even a small easter egg to the Ark of the Covenant from the Indiana Jones movie.
Covers
Bellow you can see and download the original Tomb Raider box art for PC, Play Station 1 and Sega Saturn. In addition, the Gold version: Unfinished Business.
