Tomb Raider Chronicles

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Tomb Raider Chronicles, Eidos Interactives fifth instalment from their phenomenally successful Lara Croft adventure series, hit the shelves 9am this morning in Sony's Playstation format. CenterSoft, Eidos Interactives UK software distribution arm, also confirmed this morning that the PC Edition of Chronicles, which includes the much hyped Level Editor, will be available from Friday 24th November. Customers are advised to pre-order to secure their copies, and predictions suggest PC flavours will be the most popular format.

Last Updated: Nov 17, 2000

Berate the ills of consumer culture - and, indeed, society as a whole - as you will, but if you like Tomb Raider games, Chronicles is at worst an entertaining diversion. Five Tomb Raider games in as many years? Yep, it's a shambles. Indeed, the cynicism inherent in repackaging the same basic engine and gameplay tenets yet again deserves to be savaged by the genus of bedroom ghost that spills vociferous missives and seed in equal measure. The Tomb Raider series is a cash-cow, each release a - spit - 'product'. Insert your own tirades hereafter, to fade... You don't have to be an intellectual, embrace Taoist doctrine or cauterise your synapses, however, to appreciate a deeper truth: it doesn't matter! The politics of individual worth and creative merit are largely arbitrary points, because we're empowered to vote with our wallets.

Last Updated: Nov 12, 2000

The Last Revelation has powered it's way to the top of the Japanese Top 30 video game chart expiring Jet Set Radio's short term at the top with 12,629 units being sold for Sony's Dreamcast week ending 7th November. Eidos Interactive's fourth Lara Croft adventure also features at number four on the Playstation chart with 23,843 units sold, weeks before the launch of Tomb Raider Chronicles, which sees a slight transition in the current direction of Tomb Raider games. Analysts predict that Chronicles, when finally released, with eclipse all major platform top standing entries within it's first week of sales.

Last Updated: Nov 11, 2000

Tomb Raider Chronicles reveals four newly discovered, and previously untold adventures, taking you on a journey from the ruins of Rome, to the bowels of a German U-boat, to the rooftops of a hi-tech city in a search of four ancient artifacts. In light of Lara's recent disappearance, those closest to her gather together at the Croft Estate on a gray, rainy day for a memorial service in her honor. Afterwards, the friends sit quietly together in the study of the Croft Mansion and provide new insights about Lara's past exploits; exploits that have until now remained a secret.

Last Updated: Nov 11, 2000

The Croft Manor trophy cabinet welcomes it's newest addition in the form of Gamespot UK's Top Ten Best Female Character, awarded to Tomb Raider star Lara Croft, the spellbinding adventurer one step ahead of Van Croy and soon to make her fifth debut as Eidos Interactive archaeologist heroine in Chronicles. Her fearless deductive skills have enthralled a divided generation, and compels a new audience into a torrent of adventure and intrigue, battling the covenants of the globe in search of ancient artifacts.

Last Updated: Nov 1, 2000