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Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow

Lara's Shadow is an exclusive chapter of Tomb Raider Underworld for Xbox 360. Lara's Shadow allows the player to control Lara's deadly facsimile, the Lara's Doppelgänger in a mission to put an end to the Croft…

70 10 March 2009

Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow is an adventure developed by Crystal Dynamics, released 10 March 2009 on Xbox 360.

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What Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow is

Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow is an adventure game developed by Crystal Dynamics and released in 2009. It is available on Xbox 360 only.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Lara's Shadow is an exclusive chapter of Tomb Raider Underworld for Xbox 360. Lara's Shadow allows the player to control Lara's deadly facsimile, the Lara's Doppelgänger in a mission to put an end to the Croft lineage once and for all.
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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: Underworld - Lara's Shadow is the 46th of 140 entries we hold in the Tomb Raider series. The next entry was Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light in 2010. Its critic score of 70 is 2 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: Underworld - Lara's Shadow holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 33% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2009 averaged 67, so it scored 3 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow launched on 10 March 2009, within three weeks of Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2 and Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Resident Evil 5, Grand Theft Auto IV: The Lost and Damned, Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars.

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When did Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow come out?
Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara's Shadow was released on 10 March 2009 for Xbox 360.

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