Short and sweet background to the upcoming Tomb Raider Underworld. No sign of the ominous QTEs yet :)

After much some searching I found the pictures of Lara Croft in the 2 unlockable bikini outfits from Tomb Raider – Legend.

You could ask, well why don’t you unlock them yourself by actually playing the game? Well, errm, good question. Anyway, here’s the lowdown on unlocking the bikini outfits:

• Cream bikini - Complete the game and all time trials
• Black bikini – Complete the game, all time trails and collect all artifacts

So far I’ve nearly collected all the artifacts, but completed none of the time trials (and these are quite hard). So I’ve still got some way to go. However, when you’ve finally got Lara all dressed up in her bikini outfit you find that she can’t go outside! You can only use the outfits within the confines of Croft Manor. Boo. Very disappointing.

Black bikini:

Cream bikini:

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Read Tikipod’s review of Tomb Raider – Legend here.

Update 11th Aug: You can now replace Lara’s white bikini with a black lingerie (sort of see-through) version by using this patch (235k) which is available from fileplanet here. This patch is only for the PC version (obviously), and also includes a 100% complete save game with every outfit unlocked for your viewing pleasure.

Update 2nd Jan 09: The Sun newspaper has a slideshow (23 pics) of the latest real life Lara Croft – Alison Carroll in a bikini and in her Tomb Raider outfit.

Update 28th Sep 09: There’s an awesome Lara Croft bikini mod, for all your Lara bikini modding needs!

Check out all the Tomb Raider stuff on offer.

BEWARE – SMALL SPOILERS – skip the italicised text if you don’t want to know!

Age rating: 12+

What is it?

Adventure, action, but not really enough puzzles.

Is it fun?

Yes, for the most part.

Is it worth the money? £29.99 (from Play.com)

Yes, but the game is a little short (…I am seeing a theme recurring here)

Why?

Now Tomb Raider Legend has been released, the first Tomb Raider game in a long time. I heard Angel of Darkness (the most recent TR title before this) was utter pants, and was even blamed for the poor box office showing of the second film (which was a tad harsh, I wasn’t keen on either of the films) – I never played it though, having mostly given up on the franchise after playing TR3 (too much mucking about with flares for my liking).

I was really keen to see the new game regain the franchise’s former glory, and have just played through the PS2 version. How does it fare then? Continue Reading

Eidos have announced that the latest instalment of the Tomb Raider franchise will be available from the 7th April 2006 (USA – 11th April).

This is a fairly crucial release for Eidos as the previous Tomb Raider games have been pretty poor in quality and lacking in gameplay innovation having stuck to the tried and tested formula of the original. Whilst this style of gameplay and character control worked in 1995 it quickly became boring and frustrating in the subsequent incarnations and reached its nadir in the quite frankly awful Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness. Continue Reading