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Tomb Raider: Legend

The Nintendo DS version of Tomb Raider: Legend differs significantly from its console counterparts. While it retains the original plot and cutscenes, the platforming and environmental puzzles have been adapted…

45 10 November 2006

Tomb Raider: Legend is an adventure developed by Human Soft, released 10 November 2006 on Nintendo DS.

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What Tomb Raider: Legend is

Tomb Raider: Legend is an adventure game developed by Human Soft and released in 2006. It was published by Eidos Interactive. It is available on Nintendo DS only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

The plot is the same as the console versions. In a search for the relic Lara Croft travels through Japan, Bolivia, England, Kazakhstan, Ghana and the Himalayas.
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How it plays

It is played from a side view 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: Legend is the 30th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Tomb Raider: The Action Adventure in 2006. Its critic score of 45 is 27 points below the series average of 72. The highest-rated entry is The Tomb Raider Trilogy at 92.

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How it was received

Tomb Raider: Legend holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 6% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 20 points below the year average.

What it launched against

Tomb Raider: Legend launched on 10 November 2006, within three weeks of Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II and The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Gears of War, Medieval II: Total War, Guitar Hero II, The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess.

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When did Tomb Raider: Legend come out?
Tomb Raider: Legend was released on 10 November 2006 for Nintendo DS.

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