Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft is a platform and third-person shooter game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. It is the third installment in the Tomb Raider series and the…
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft is an adventure developed by Core Design, released 20 November 1998 on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation and Mac. The main story takes about 33 hrs to finish.
What Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft is
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft is an adventure game developed by Core Design and released in 1998. It was published by Aspyr Media. It is available on PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, PlayStation, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The intrepid archaeologist Lara Croft ventures to India, searching for a legendary stone that once belonged to the tribe of Infada. Shortly after recovering the precious stone, she encounters a Dr. Willard, the head of an organization known as RX Tech. Willard is interested in an ancient Polynesian city built by people of a now defunct civilization, which worshipped a mysterious meteorite that hit the Earth millions of years ago. Willard tells Lara that the Infada Stone is in fact one of the four artifacts the ancient Polynesians fashioned from the material contained in the meteorite's core. Willard suggests Lara should look for the other three, scattered and hidden in various regions of…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Tomb Raider series
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft is the fourth of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. It arrived 9 months after Tomb Raider: Gold. The next entry was Tomb Raider II: Gold in 1999.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 33 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 48 hrs, roughly 1.5 times the length of the critical path.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 1.8 GHz Processor, 512 MB RAM and 3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
Tomb Raider III: Adventures of Lara Croft launched on 20 November 1998, within three weeks of Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus and Thief: The Dark Project.
Released around the same time: Half-Life, Crash Bandicoot 3: Warped, Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, Thief: The Dark Project.
Official trailer
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