Tomb Raider: Legend

Tomb Raider: Legend is the seventh major game in the Tomb Raider series, now for the first time developed by Crystal Dynamics, along with the original character designer of the game's protagonist, Lara Croft…

60 7 April 2006

Adventure Platform Shooter Action

Tomb Raider: Legend is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 7 April 2006 on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, OnLive Game System and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 9.5 hrs to finish.

Verified 15 Oct 2026 Sources: IGDB , Steam , Wikipedia

What Tomb Raider: Legend is

Tomb Raider: Legend is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2006. It is available on PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, OnLive Game System and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Crystal Engine.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lara is searching for a South American relic, but her adventure takes a different course when rogue anthropologist Amanda Evert shows up. Presumed dead along with a team of graduate students after an accident in a tomb in Peru, where Lara was the only one to escape, Amanda is back with a score to settle as they both race, along with the shady James Rutland Jr., to obtain an ancient artifact.

Description from the publisher · source

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: Legend is the 24th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time & Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Prophecy in 2006. Its critic score of 60 is 12 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 60 out of 100. That places it above 15% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points below the year average. Players rate it 67, 7 points higher than critics did — a gap worth knowing about before you buy.

How long it takes, and what that costs

The main story runs about 9.5 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 15 hrs, roughly 1.6 times the length of the critical path.

What it launched against

Tomb Raider: Legend launched on 7 April 2006, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Ōkami, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All and The Godfather. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, Ōkami, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - Justice for All, The Godfather.

Cheats and codes

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