Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary (2007) (VG)

Director:

Toby Gard

Writers:

Toby Gard (writer)
Matt Ragghianti (writer)

Release Date:

5 June 2007 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Fantasy

Tagline:

Sometimes To Understand Your Present, You Have To Go Back To Your Past.

Plot:

A remake of the original game released in 1996, Lara Croft world known adventurer has been hired by a mysterious woman named Natla to find a lost and very powerful artifact known as the Scion. |

Plot Keywords:

Lara Croft | Remake | Atlantis | Greece | Raptor

Cast

Keeley Hawes	...	Lara Croft (voice)
Grey DeLisle	...	Jacqueline Natla (voice)
Dave Wittenberg	...	Larson Conway (voice)
Jim Ward	...	Pierre DuPont (voice)
Philip Tanzini	...	Jerome 'The Kid' Johnson (voice) (as Phil Tanzini)
Dave Fennoy	...	Kin 'Kold' Kade (voice)
Alastair Duncan	...	Qualopec (voice)
Steve Blum	...	Tihocan (voice) (as Steven Jay Blum)
Alan Shearman	...	Winston Smith (voice)
Edward Hardwicke	...	Richard Croft (voice)
David Berón	...	Guide (voice) (as Dave Beron)
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Ana Jiménez	...	Lara Croft (voice: Spanish version)

Country:

USA | UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Certification:

UK:12 | USA:T

Company:

Crystal Dynamics

Trivia:

The game contains a minimum of 15 hours of game play, significantly longer than Tomb Raider: Legend (2006) (VG).

Quotes:

[Lara finds out that the track has been blocked by a large crate. Larson walks out, holding up a fuse]
Larson Conway: Sorry, Darlin', this is the end of the line.
Lara Croft: [sighs] Just hand it over, Larson. This has nothing to do with you.
Larson Conway: What's it got to do with you? The Scion belongs to Natla. Face it, Lara; you've got no business here.
Lara Croft: I don't have time for this; get out of the way, or you die.
Larson Conway: [snorts] What are you going to do? Shoot me? Come on, I just work here. I know how bad you want this, but I can't let you pass. We both know you are not gonna kill me for it.
[...]

Movie Connections:

References Tomb Raider: Legend (2006) (VG)

After all these years...finally a decent tombraider

For me the tombraider series ended on number four (The Last Revelation) which was for me the best TR since the original. TR Chronicals was so bug-ridden it wasn't worth playing. When Angel of Darkness came out, there was something missing that the first four in the series had. Legend was so dull that in my mind, it never existed. So, after all these years they've finally got the recipe back. The way they've done it is by revamping the original using the 'Legend' engine.

For all you tombraider fans that have been missing the tombraider feeling that the Core Design originals had, it can be re-lived with this game 'Anniversary'. I'm sure fans of the original will love it.

9/10 because it has 'savepoints' which even Core Design gave up on (for a reason) because it spoils the flow of the game.

Don't know where the franchise is going. Crystal Dynamic have failed in the past and the only way they've made a successful game is to remake the original. This doesn't work with movies but has with this game. Hopefully they will continue to remake numbers 2-4 as well to work with XP/Vista, otherwise I'll be making my own with the level editor.