

She later arrives at the hidden city of Vilcabamba where the adventure begins.Īfter navigating puzzles and encountering a variety of dinosaurs and other animals in the area Lara reaches a temple. Lara is easily enticed and accepts the offer, having searched for it in the past but never finding it.

Natla reveals that she has located one of the three pieces of the Atlantean Scion in Peru and that she would like Lara to retrieve it for her.

Lara’s long-time rival Larson Conway brings in Jacqueline Natla, a popular entrepreneur with valuable information and connections regarding the Atlantean Scion. The player is then introduced to Lara Croft some fifty-one years later in Calcutta, India. A winged creature escapes from the hidden chamber after the blast. The area is a test bed for nuclear activity during the 40’s, and during one such test the explosion unearths a crystalline formation buried below the soil. The opening scene portrays a deserted town in Los Alamos, New Mexico. Alongside a disc release for the Xbox 360, the game was also downloadable to owners of Tomb Raider: Legend. Tomb Raider: Anniversary was developed by Crystal Dynamics alongside Buzz Monkey Software for the PC, PS2, PSP, Wii, and Xbox 360 versions of the re-release. Caves and puzzles have been removed, reworked, and recreated to take advantage of the new engine. Each of the four levels has been adjusted and modified to improve the overall level design. Tomb Raider: Anniversary is based off of the Tomb Raider: Legend engine and is a heavily updated version of the original Tomb Raider.
