Product Description

• First ever video game based on the urban phenomenon of parkour (the art of movement)
• Participants, known as Free Runners or Traceurs, view the environment and its obstacles as a series of challenges to overcome
• The concrete jungle becomes your urban playground as you run, vault, jump or climb over obstacles in a fluid and flowing manner
• To be crowned King of Parkour, you must master over 50 moves, tricks and stunts
• Retrace Lara Croft`s original adventure - a globe-trotting pursuit of the legendary Scion artifact.
• The graphics, technology and physics bring the adventure up to today`s technology standards.
• The game delivers an intense combat, and an enhanced and clarified original story.
  
  
  

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1146 in Computer & Video Games
• Brand: Eidos
• Released on: 2007-10-26
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Platform: Sony PSP

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It may have sold 30 million copies worldwide, but before the release of Tomb Raider: Legend last year it looked like Lara Croft was ending her video game career in disgrace. Thankfully the new game was exactly the reboot that the series needed, instantly reminding everyone why they loved it (and Lara) so much in the first place. So to mark the tenth anniversary of the first game (actually 2007 is the eleventh anniversary, but who’s counting?) Eidos are releasing this special remake of the first game in the series, using an enhanced version of the graphics engine from Tomb Raider: Legend.

Although the game does feature the same basic settings and levels as the original, this isn’t just the same game with better graphics. Most of the levels are larger, with many new paths and areas to explore. They’re also much more interactive, with Lara using many of the same moves and gadgets she demonstrated in Tomb Raider: Legend, including a grappling hook and a greater variety of weapons. The story has been expanded too, but it does keep the same basic structure with more animal enemies than the later games, including the infamous encounter with a tyrannosaurs rex. Instead of just running straight at you mindlessly, the enemies have also been given much better artificial intelligence than previously.

The new graphics are still the most obvious change but the new fluid movement of Lara is a world away from the awkward grid based system used in the old games. Indeed this should be the first video game remake to actually prove itself as something more than just a cheap cash-in.
HARRISON DENT

Manufacturer's Description:
In 1996, the original Tomb Raider was launched. The 3D game design, controls and graphics were truly ground breaking for their time. Furthermore, gamers were also presented with a unique, female human playable character with whom they could become emotionally attached, Lara Croft. The original Tomb Raider sold over seven million copies and is still heralded as an absolute classic and one of the best action adventure games ever. Tomb Raider defined the PlayStation and changed the way that people played games.

In tribute to this and to celebrate and commemorate the continuing development of the Tomb Raider franchise and its central character, Crystal Dynamics are developing a new Tomb Raider adventure for Lara. Inspired by the original Tomb Raider video game; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary faithfully preserves the elements which made the original Tomb Raider game such a classic.

Using an enhanced ‘Tomb Raider: Legend’ game engine, the graphics, technology and physics bring Lara’s adventure and pursuit of a mystical artefact known only as the Scion right up to today’s technology standards and will offer gamers a completely new gameplay experience.

STORY OVERVIEW:
Tomb Raider follows the adventures of Lara Croft after she is hired by a powerful syndicate to retrieve a mythical object called the Scion. After discovering that she has been used as a pawn in some larger scheme, Lara takes matters into her own hands deciding that she must uncover the mystery behind this ancient artefact.

Customer Reviews

A credit to the PSP
The PS2 game, following the resurrection of Lara that was Legend, beautifully updated the Tomb Raider series and created an excellent platforming and puzzling game. The PSP version is a direct port and as such adds nothing new, but if you haven't owned the other versions then this is an absorbing and fantastic platforming experience.

If you think of it as an exact copy of the original Tomb Raider on PS1, but with better graphics, hugely extended levels and far better gameplay. This is one of the best platformers on PS2, and it transports itself to be easily one of the best on PSP. It has fantastic graphics, typically excellent puzzles and great platforming gameplay that we've come to expect from this series.

I have only good things to say about this fantastic port and game in its own right and its similarity to the larger console versions is a real credit to the power of the PSP.

Absoulutely Fantastic
Tomb Raider anniversary is well put together and is very entertaining. I bought my psp 3000 a couple of months ago and I new the tomb raider series are good as I watched my brother playing on them when I was younger. This tomb raider game is pure skill. The graphics on this game are amazingly good for a hand held console.
I often find some of the levels are hard so it is definitely challenging as well as entertaining.
I would recommend this game for 10- any age.

awesome game:
Tomb Raider Anniversary is awesome. I didn't expect that it would be that good on the PSP but i was very wrong. The graphics are some of the best yet seen on the PSP, the gameplay and controls are easy to use after the first "tutorial" level, and the lifespan is long too. (It took me around 12 hours to complete the game, and an additional 2 hours to complete the Croft Mansion, and after i did all that, i went though the game again to explore all the secrets and areas that i had missed out.) In my opinion, the enviroments explored in the game are the best part; Jungles looks realistic and are covered in foilage, Desert monuments are covered in detail, and the rest of the game is packed with attention to detail.

My only negative comments about the game, is that occasionally, the camera can mess up, and some levels you do are very difficult to complete, but! These are very infrequent

Overall 10/10 from me, very satisfied.