Tomb Raider

playstation · December 6, 2010

Developer:

Crystal Dynamics

Publisher:

Square-Enix / Eidos

Genre:

Action-Adventure

Platform: Xbox

360 / PS3 / PC

Release date: World: 05 March 2013

Play mode: Single-player/Multi-player

Media Size: Unknown

Game language: English, German, French, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Traditional

Chinese, Russian, Polish

Suggested system requirements:

Core i5 2.66 GHz, 1 GB RAM (4 GB RAM - Vista/7), graphic

card 1 GB (GeForce GTX 480 or better), Windows XP/Vista/7/8

Price:

Console: 2499 | PC: 999 | PC Steam: $44.99

LARA CROFT

Age: 21

Nationality: British

Interests: Archery, Rock climbing& hiking, reading & research.

Occupation: Recently graduated Archaeologist.

Also worked several part-time jobs as a student to help pay her way through

university, including bar work.

Background Info: A bit of a workaholic, Lara is an unassuming and rather bookish young woman, making her way through life in search of meaning and direction

after the disappearance of her parents while on an expedition. She is a product of a privileged childhood, and was initially sheltered from many of the harsh

realities of life. Growing up, Lara spent time travelling with her parents on

archaeological expeditions. She developed a worldly outlook and a passion for ancient mysteries. The search for Yamatai marks her first job after graduating from university.

Although it is her first time as a full crewmember, it is not her first time on

the Endurance. She spent time in her early adolescence on the ship when her

father used to hire Roth for expeditions, and took several smaller trips more

recently as an intern when she could get time away from her studies. Her best

friend Samantha and the crew of the Endurance are the closest thing to family

that Lara has.

She possesses a powerful sense of moral (if not physical) courage. Lara is

clever, resourceful and determined. When push comes to shove, Lara’s loyalty to

her friends outweighs her fear for her own safety.

SAMANTHA NISHIMURA

Age: 22

Nationality: Portuguese, Japanese citizenship. English and Japanese speaking

Occupation: Documentary Producer/Translator, but receives regular money from her rich family.

Interests: High living, clubbing, spending money,travel and adventure

Background Info: Samantha’s mother is a Portuguese model who was working in LA when she met Sam’s

father, a media mogul from Japan.

Growing up she moved a lot, not just down the street, but between continents. As a result

Samantha was often the outsider in school, and gained attention by being a bit

of a wild child.

Samantha is a budding documentary filmmaker and like Lara has a passion for uncoveringthe untold stories of the world. Despite

her rebellious streak, Samantha has extremely expensive taste in clothes. Sam

really can’t understand why Lara refuses to touch her fortune, and sometimes ribs her about it, but she doesn’t let

it get in the way of their friendship.

Samantha and Lara share a feeling of being out of place in the world and feed on each

other’s thirst for adventure.

CONRAD ROTH

Age: 52

Nationality: British (Sheffield/Southern Yorkshire)

Occupation: Captain of The Endurance, Freelance salvage and treasure hunter, ex military.

Interests: Rock climbing, hiking and wreck diving.

Background Info: After serving two

combat tours with the RMC (Royal Marine Commandos) Roth left the military and

put his specialized skills to use as wreck-diver and freelance treasure-hunter.

Roth traveled the world, earning a reputation for toughness, competence, and a

willingness to bend inconvenient laws restricting traffic in historical

artifacts. Those qualities attracted the attention of wealthy private

collectors including Lara’s parents. For several years, Roth accompanied

Richard Croft on over a dozen treasure-hunting expeditions, acting as a guide

and, when necessary, bodyguard.

Roth has modeled his style of leadership on that of his hero, the explorer Ernest Shackleton. The welfare and

safety of his crew is paramount to Roth and he prides himself on instinctively

knowing who is going to make a good crewmember. He is also a hands-on leader

who knows how to boost the morale of his shipmates, have fun and remain both

optimistic and realistic.

Dr. JAMES ‘Jim’ WHITMAN

Age: 43-45

Nationality: American

Occupation: Lead archaeologist, author and TV presenter/documentarian

Interests: Glitzy showbiz parties, book launches, dining in the best restaurants, and expensive travel.

Background Info: Dr. Whitman studied at

Harvard and is both an expert in Archaeology and Anthropology. He also took his

PHD at Cambridge University in the UK and taught at many schools around the world. However, over the last few years

Whitman has moved into TV series and documentary making and became quite a

popular presenter with a successful range of tie-in books. This has made him

both a golden-boy and a black-sheep to the archaeological community.

The former for increasing exposure and interest in archaeology and the latter for ‘selling

his soul to TV’. Dr. Whitman has had a bit of a run of bad fortune and only

recently emerged from a messy divorce.

His TV series is also in danger of not being renewed unless he finds some new and exciting angle; a problem that he’s

not keen to share with the rest of the crew. He privately hopes that the trip

will give him material for a new TV series and, along with Sam’s footage, the

commissioning editors will come crawling to him.

JONAH MAIAVA

Age: 33

Nationality: New Zealand/American

Occupation: Cook and general ships dogsbody.

Interests: Fishing, the outside, inventing new recipes

Background Info: Jonah was born in New Zealand, but raised in Hawaii by his maternal grandmother. As a

young man, he traveled back to his home country to serve in the army. His

strength and almost preternatural ability to detect danger made him a popular

member of his unit. And his ability to prepare and cook almost anything didn’t

hurt either.

After sustaining injuries in the line

of duty, Jonah was honorably discharged and went to work as a chef in his

sister’s café in Ngapuhi. While in New Zealand, Roth encountered Jonah

dockside carrying four crates of seafood at once. Impressed by his strength

(and later his cooking), Roth offered him a place on the Endurance.

JOSLIN REYES

Age: 42

Height: 5’8”

Nationality: American

Occupation: Ex-cop turned mechanic

Interests: Tinkering about with engines

Background Info: Joslin ‘Jos’ Reyes

grew up in one of the roughest neighborhoods of Queens, New York.

She’s straight talking and no nonsense, but has warm side she doesn’t share

easily. She is also fiercely loyal and someone you really wouldn’t want to get

on the wrong side of. After being accused for the murder of a local gang

leader, Reyes was suspended from the NYPD. Due to a natural affinity with

engines, she re-trained and found work as a mechanic.

Reyes and Roth have known each other for 10 years, and on occasion she works on his ship as chief mechanic. Reyes

has a 6-year-old daughter, Alisha. Alisha often lives with Reyes’ sister when

she’s off working with ‘Uncle Roth’. Reyes hates being away from her, but Roth

pays better than any garage she’s ever worked for. Getting back home to her

daughter is always Reyes’ main motivation. One day she’d like to make enough

money to open her own garage and spend more time with her daughter. Because of

Alisha, Reyes won’t sacrifice herself for anyone, but will still put herself in

danger for people when her cop training kicks in.

ALEX WEISS

Age: 24

Nationality: American

Occupation: Ship’s technician.Also a very skilled hacker and electronics geek.

Interests: Hacking, specifically defacing websites for kudos or hacking online gambling

sites for fun and profit. Reading up about all the new tech stuff,

Bit-torrenting everything and gaming. He is also an avid conspiracy theorist.

Background Info: Has made a living

largely through legally dodgy and flawed avenues, but only doing things he

considers ‘victimless crimes’ although his definition of this is pretty wide.

Alex is the Endurance’s technician, handyman, and all-around “radio-shack

genius.” Despite his impressive technical and scientific background, Alex is

the most “out-there” member of the crew. Alex’s MacGyver-like talent for

jury-rigging technical devices and being somewhat of a ‘machine whisperer’ is

very useful to the survivors. He’s a bit of genius and could probably be

enormously successful in the technology field if he actually applied himself

properly.

Alex knows this about himself and thus tends to do the very bear minimum amount

of work needed to do the job and always “just squeaks by” as a result. Alex is

a bit of a joker, and although he’s quite witty, he can be pretty crass. He

also has a charming side and is more sensitive than he likes to let on. Alex

has a fascination with conspiracy theories, alien abduction stories, and urban

legends of all sorts.

ANGUS GRIMALDI

Age: 60’s

Height: 5’8”

Nationality: Scottish

Occupation: Helmsman and first aid officer.

Interests: Football, cats, Irn-Bru.

Background Info: Grim grew up in ‘The Gorbals’ of Glasgow, Scotland,

one of the toughest places in the UK. As a child he always felt a

kinship with water and often built makeshift boats out of junk and taught

himself to sail on the nearby river Clyde.

There’s nothing about sailing and water that Grim doesn’t know, and he has

sailed all the oceans of the world, which included stints working for the

Merchant Navy where he met Roth.

Roth and Grim found a kinship and stuck together after their service. They traveled the world and took any job

that paid well, all of them dangerous and most of them legal. Grim and Roth

saved each other’s skin on numerous occasions. When Roth purchased the

Endurance, Roth wouldn’t trust anyone else but Grim at her helm.

English Voice Actress- CAMILLA LUDDINGTON - the voice and

performance actress of Lara Croft.

German Voice Actress - NORA TSCHIRNER

French Voice Actress- ALICE DAVID

Polish Voice Actress - KAROLINA GORCZYCA

Arab Voice Actress - NADINE NJEIM

Japanese Voice Actress - YUKO KAIDA

Italian Voice Actress - BENEDETTA PONTICELLI

Spanish Voice Actress - GUIOMAR ALBURQUERQUE DURAN

Russian Voice Actress - POLINA SHERBAKOVA

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ENHANCED FEATURES ON PC

Full integration with Steamworks to offer cloud
storage for saves, multiplayer matchmaking, achievements, as well as automatic updates and new content.
Support for Steam Big Picture Mode.
Configurable mouse and keyboard support.
Gamepad support.

High-end Graphics

Very high resolution textures with up to 16x the amount of data
Detail Tessellation to enhance the detail on many surfaces in the game
Higher quality shadows
High quality bokeh depth of field with near-blur
Tessellation algorithms used to smooth out geometry
Improved cloth, SSAO, quality wetness effects, and post-filter effects.
LOD quality is adjustable for better quality on
higher-end machines.
TRESSFX

Low-end Graphics

Crystal Dynamics cares about TR fans being able to

run on older systems, unlike many other games, TR still run on Windows XP

support.

A lot of scalability options to suit a range of

machines.

Xbox 360 Tomb Raider™

Limited Edition Wireless Controller

Experience Lara Croft’s first adventure with the

Xbox 360 Tomb Raider Limited Edition Wireless Controller. Designed in

collaboration with Square Enix, it’s inspired by Lara’s iconic climbing axe and

bandages from her intense origin story. The controller features a customizable.

D-pad that switches from a plus to a disc for better

control, and has a wireless range up to 30 feet for more freedom while you

explore and play. Also, get a download code for an Xbox exclusive playable Tomb

Raider multiplayer character, the devious Scavenger Archer.

Custom Tomb Raider artwork designed in collaboration

with Square Enix

Xbox LIVE download code for Xbox exclusive Tomb

Raider character**

Transforming D-pad that switches from plus to

disc

Limited edition wireless controller with 30-foot

range

Complete the Tomb Raider experience with the full

game

Available in March

Pre-order now

Standard Edition

Console:

XBOX

360 | PS3

PC:

RETAIL

| STEAM

Survival/Collector's Edition

Console:

XBOX

360 | PS3

PC:

RETAIL

| STEAM

Joe Cool for his immense contribution to this Launch Center.

TO BE UPLOADED ON LAUNCH DAY- MARCH 5th 2013

Tomb Raider Box Art- Click On Your Box

playstation · December 6, 2010

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