LARA CROFT ON
YOUR TELEVISION SCREEN
Copyright 2006 www.tombraiderchronicles.com
[ October 23rd 2006 ]
British
aristocrat Lara
Croft has never been more interactive than
with the upcoming release of Tomb
Raider: The Action Adventure from Bright plc.
Our fearless heroine, however, has a long history
of tube adventures, dating back to 2002 and an
exclusive partnership between Eidos
and BSkyB.
In 2002,
Sky Gamestar announced an ongoing partnership
with Eidos to produce a series of interactive
adventures for subscribers of its television service.
Tomb
Raider Apocalypse was born. A special
commercial was produced by Animal Magic and
aired on British TV, and viewers clicked in their
thousands to experience first-hand the world according
to Lara Croft.
According
to figures obtained from Sky Gamestar, Tomb Raider
Apocalypse was played around 800,000 times shortly
after launch in December 2002, and Sky Gamestar
claims they succeeded in delivering the gaming
experience to a predominantly female mainstream
audience; a demographic notoriously hard to reach
for the traditional video games industry.
2005
saw the release of Tomb
Raider: The Reckoning, a new interactive adventure
through Bell ExpressVu in Canada. The game offered
players a quest for the mysterious and powerful
'numinous stones', and Lara Croft once again traversed
the globe in an exciting skin-of-the-teeth exploration
through tombs riddled with ancient traps and evil.
In 2006,
Bright Entertainment announced an Interactive
DVD game called Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Action
Adventure. The iDVD enables the player to control
Lara with the simple up, down, left, right and
enter command buttons of a standard DVD remote
control and is aimed squarely at the Xmas non-gamer
mainstream market.
Based
on Lara's Angel
of Darkness adventure, the new release sees
Lara framed for a crime she did not commit and
players will help her struggle to clear her name
and solve an exciting mystery of betrayal and
vengeance.
To celebrate
four years of interactive entertainment with Lara
Croft, Tomb Raider Chronicles - the internet's
number one destination for media and intelligence
on the Tomb Raider franchise, has rolled out six
new micro-sites packed with exclusive media, screenshots
and information on all Lara Croft's interactive
adventures.
Follow
the fetching orange hyperlink below to immerse
yourself in the interactive world of telly-Lara
Croft
Interactive
Lara Croft
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