TOMB RAIDER LEGEND XBOX

TOMB RAIDER LEGEND XBOX

Tomb Raider: Legend is an action-adventure video game, the seventh entry in celebration of the ten year anniversary of the Tomb Raider franchise. Published by Eidos Interactive, it is the first game in the series not to be developed by Core Design, but by Crystal Dynamics. It serves as a reboot of the series, and disregards Core Design's original continuity.

The Microsoft Windows and Xbox versions, ported by Nixxes Software which also worked on the GameCube version, were released in Europe on 7 April 2006 and in North America on 11 April 2006, along with the PlayStation 2 and Xbox 360 versions. The North American PlayStation Portable version, developed by Buzz Monkey Software, was released on 20 June 2006, the Nintendo GameCube, Game Boy Advance and Nintendo DS versions were released during November 2006. Human Soft was responsible for the Nintendo DS and Game Boy Advance versions.The Windows version was released in 2006 and it was also made available for download to GameTap subscribers on 31 May 2007. A version for the PlayStation 3 is included in The Tomb Raider Trilogy collection released in March 2011 and has been remastered in HD.A commercial success, the game sold over 4.5 million copies

A plane carrying nine-year-old Lara Croft and her mother Amelia crashes in a fierce storm while flying over the Himalayas in Nepal, leaving the Crofts as the only survivors. While taking shelter in an abandoned Buddhist monastery, Lara discovers a stone dais with an ancient sword set in it, which activates a dimensional portal when she touches it. Amelia intervenes and removes the sword, triggering an explosion that consumes her. Devastated, Lara sketches the dais in her journal so she can study it.

Years later, Lara, now a veteran explorer, travels to Tiwanaku, Bolivia, in search of a similar dais. To her surprise, a group of mercenaries have already located it. Their leader, American playboy James Rutland, questions Lara as to what she knows about a mysterious fragment recovered from the site and mentions that "Amanda" led him to it. As Lara tries to process his words, Rutland escapes and orders his men to kill her, but Lara is able to eliminate them.

Lara returns to a condemned dig site in Peru, where she recalls an incident that occurred several years earlier: while excavating a remote burial ground, Lara's team accidentally awakened a malevolent fire spirit, resulting in the deaths of everyone except for Lara and her partner Amanda Evert. Amanda managed to seal the entity in a jewel, but was subsequently left for dead in a cave-in. Entering the tomb once more, Lara uncovers the remains of Tiwanaku's last queen, as well as a replica blade similar to the one Rutland described. She theorizes that the weapon in question is actually Excalibur – part of the King Arthur legends – and that Amanda, having escaped death, is working with Rutland to find and reforge the sword's fragments.

Having deduced that the second is in the hands of Yakuza boss Shogo Takamoto, Lara sets up a meeting with him in Tokyo. After a small rendezvous with an old friend named Toru Nishimura, a wealthy media tycoon and former investigative journalist who has encountered similar risks to Lara, Takamoto and his henchmen gatecrash a party the latter hosts. Negotiations between him and Lara quickly falter and Takamoto retreats to his penthouse, where he tries to kill Lara with the fragment's power. After defeating him and claiming her prize, she then heads to Ghana, where Rutland's soldiers are searching for the Ghalali Key, a device needed to reforge Excalibur. Rutland corners Lara in the heart of the temple, but Lara easily beats him and takes his fragment. Meanwhile, Amanda raids Croft Manor looking for information on the next fragment. She learns that it is somewhere in Kazakhstan and heads there, with Lara in pursuit.

Following her trail, Lara enters a Soviet-era lab, where she learns how the Russians tried and failed to weaponize the fragment. Amanda reveals herself and explains that she survived by harnessing the power of the fire spirit, which she summons to kill Lara. Using the lab's experimental equipment, Lara forces it to self-destruct and escapes with the fragment, as well as a shield belonging to Sir Lancelot.

Following a map on the back of the shield, Lara's search brings her home to Cornwall, England. She discovers the real King Arthur's tomb hidden under a fake one in an old museum, with the final fragment stashed under his body. After besting both a sea serpent guarding the tomb and mercenaries sent by Amanda, Lara returns to her home to figure out how to reforge Excalibur. She realizes that the Ghalali Key is in fact a pendant belonging to her mother, who had it with her when the plane crashed. Lara searches the wreck and finds the Key. She then proceeds to the temple where her mother vanished and uses the Ghalali Key to restore Excalibur. She attempts to reactivate the dais, but it crumbles.

Recognizing that the dais in Bolivia is the only one left, Lara confronts Amanda and Rutland. Wielding the blade, she easily kills the latter and what remains of his forces. A furious Amanda takes direct control of the fire entity and attacks Lara. In a pitched battle, Lara separates them and destroys the entity. She then activates the dais and is confronted with a vision of her mother in Nepal. Realizing that she is looking directly into the past, Lara tries to warn her, but Amanda panics and tells her to remove the sword, causing the explosion that apparently kills Amelia.

Having learned the bitter truth that Amanda is ultimately responsible for her mother's disappearance, Lara threatens to kill her. Amanda explains that Amelia Croft is very much alive, having been transported to Avalon, the final resting place of King Arthur. Lara responds by knocking her unconscious and setting out to rescue her mother, triggering the events of Tomb Raider: Underworld.

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