Tomb Raider: The Prophecy
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy is the first game for the Gameboy Advance. Lara is now in a quasi-3D overhead environment, as opposed to the 2D-platformer view of the previous handheld versions. This view proves…
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy is an adventure developed by Ubi Soft Studios SRL, released 12 November 2002 on Game Boy Advance.
What Tomb Raider: The Prophecy is
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy is an adventure game developed by Ubi Soft Studios SRL and released in 2002. It was published by Ubi Soft Entertainment. It is available on Game Boy Advance only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Lara Croft discovers a manuscript which speaks of a mysterious occult magic which will bring desolation on earth in the near future. This prophecy also talks of three legendary stones which are linked with the mentioned devastation. Fascinated, Lara travels around the globe in search of these fabled stones. Along the way she'll meet enemies both human and otherwise and will also have to deal with dark magic of sorts.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric 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: The Prophecy is the 15th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. It arrived a year after Tomb Raider: The Trilogy. The next entry was Tomb Raider II: Collector's Edition in 2002. 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.
How it was received
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy 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 2002 averaged 68, so it scored 8 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Tomb Raider: The Prophecy launched on 12 November 2002, within three weeks of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metroid Fusion. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Metroid Prime, Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell, Metroid Fusion.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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