Elsewhere in the video, Lara Croft fights a boss that looks more at home in a FromSoftware game than it does in the rebooted Tomb Raider games. We also get a look at some more open-world-ish elements that feature Lara Croft riding a horse along a cliffside while running away from a giant or ogre of sorts. One particularly scary-looking scene features Lara Croft in what appears to be a mansion of sorts (perhaps the Croft mansion scene throughout the rebooted franchise), burning tall and lanky monstrous enemies with a flame thrower before stabbing them to death with a pickaxe. “It was through Ascension that the team honed in on telling an origin story through the lens of survival.” Having the Tomb Raider games ranked will allow newcomers to the franchise to understand which installments need to be played and which ones can actually be skipped.“Check out footage from Tomb Raider: Ascension, which took Tomb Raider deep into survival horror territory during the exploratory phases of what would eventually become the 2013 reboot,” Square Enix writes in the footage’s description. These games span various platforms, from technological marvels to handheld devices, but all keep the spirit of what makes Tomb Raider so special as a franchise and what makes Lara Croft such an iconic character.
That means scouring more than just ten entries to find the best Tomb Raider game. Updated on September 15th, 2021 by Kevin Pantoja: With a gaming franchise as popular and extensive as this one, it's good to dive as deep as possible.
As technology has advanced greatly over the past quarter-century, so too has the various iterations of the games, as well as the evolution of the Lara Croft character itself. Of course, the Tomb Raider gaming franchise has undergone a marked evolution since debuting in 1996. RELATED: Tomb Raider & 9 Other Movies Turning 20 In 2021 First introduced in 1996 by Core Design and Eidos Interactive, the character has appeared in 17 main Tomb Raider games, several spinoff games, and three feature films to date. Over the past 25 years, Lara Croft has become one of the most popular fictional characters in video games and cinematic lore.