Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact (2000) - MobyGames (2024)

Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact (2000) - MobyGames (1)

Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact (2000) - MobyGames (2)

aka: Tomb Raider III: Le dernier artefact, Tomb Raider III: The Lost Artefact, Tomb Raider: The Lost Artifact – As Mais Novas Aventuras de Lara Croft

Moby ID: 1430

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Released
2000 on Windows
Credits
64 people
Publishers
  • Eidos Interactive Limited
  • Acer Third Wave Software (Beijing) Co., Ltd
  • Acer TWP Corp
Developers
  • Core Design Ltd.
Moby Score

6.7

#16,953 of 25.6K
Critics
71% (7)
Players
(22)
Review Ranking
  • #6,251 on Windows
Collected By
41 players
Genre
Action
Perspective
Behind view
Gameplay
Platform
Puzzle elements
Interface
Direct control
Setting
Europe
ESRB Rating
Teen
Business Model
Commercial
Media Type
CD-ROM
Input Devices Supported/Optional
Keyboard, Mouse
Number of Offline Players
1 Player
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Conversion (official)

  • Tomb Raider I•II•III: Remastered (2024)

Included in

  • Tomb Raider Trilogy (2001)
  • Tomb Raider: Ultimate Edition (2009)

Description official description

The Lost Artifact can be described as a "mini-sequel" to Tomb Raider III; comparable in function to earlier Gold releases of the first two games, it was, unlike those, released separately. Lara learns of the existence of a fifth meteorite piece called the Hand of Rathmore, located in a Scottish castle formerly owned by the evil late Dr. Willard. Lara must progress through it in a 3D platforming fashion in which precise jumps, crawls and climbs are required of the nimble character. Out to stop her are kilted clansmen and monsters, some prehistoric and some mutated. The game has six levels, each with hidden secrets to uncover, and take players eventually onto the coast of France.

Spellings

  • 古墓丽影:失落的神器 - Simplified Chinese spelling
  • 古墓奇兵:失落的神器 - Chinese spelling (Taiwan)

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  • Eidos Premier Collection releases
  • Gameplay feature: Drowning
  • Protagonist: Female
  • Protagonist: Treasure hunter
  • Setting: City - Paris
  • Setting: Country - France
  • Setting: Scottish
  • Tomb Raider series

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Credits (Windows version)

64 People (44 developers, 20 thanks) · View all

Project Leader (EIDOS INTERACTIVE)
  • Philip Campbell
Senior Designer
  • Philip Campbell
Artists
  • Gary LaRochelle
  • Rebecca Shearin
Producer
  • Mike Schmitt
Product Manager
  • Toby Feldman (UK)
  • Renee Pletka (US)
Quality Assurance
  • Eruch Adams
  • Daniel Franklin
  • Ralph Ortiz
  • Shawn Taylor
  • Franklin Vasquez
Marketing Support
  • Bryan Davies
  • Jennifer Fitzsimmons
  • Brian Kemp
  • Antonia Phillips
  • Greg Rizzer
Special Thanks
  • Robert K. Dyer
  • Nicholas Earl
  • David Cox
  • Robert K. Barrett
  • Kevin Weston
  • James Poole
  • Michael R. Kelly
  • Jo Kathryn Reavis
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Reviews

Critics

Average score: 71% (based on 7 ratings)

Players

Average score: 3.2 out of 5 (based on 22 ratings with 2 reviews)


The Good
I found the game to be very challenging and in some parts very difficult.You are dropped off, by helicopter, near a Scottish Castle. Lara's quest, of course,is to retrieve the lost artifact. The scenery is striking and although Lara is all business there is a slightly whimsical part to the game. This castle is built on a cliff mostly surrounded by water and if your lucky, you might catch a glimpse of the Loch Ness monster. The game has six levels and this time Lara's enemies are Highlanders, quilts and all. She must of course do the usual climbing, diving and shooting to achieve her goal.I enjoyed the game thoroughly and plan to play it again. I was able to retrieve some objects located around the castle. A few of the jumps are extremely difficult but retrieving all the objects does not effect the outcome of the game.

The Bad
I found a few of the objects, ammo etc., impossible to reach.

The Bottom Line
Buy it and play it. If you like a challange or just for the fun. This game is one youwill probably want to play more than once.

Windows · by Barbara DiNatale (8) · 2000

More of the same

The Good
What I liked the most was the level design (two or three levels are large) and the new art here and there, the fun the game has, the intrigue... But the most interesting feature of this add on is that it has special secrets. These secerts aren't just hidden places with pick ups (unlike the other TR games), some of them are large areas with new enemies, weapons, quests and unseen tombs or treasures. That makes a new incentive to care about secrets, although they are vey hard to find.

The Bad
Besides the new levels and art and the special hidden areas, this add on is more of the same. The weapons are the same, the enemies are the same (some of them with new clothes and palettes, but their weak AI hasn't changed), the difficulty is the same (sometimes the game is annoying and way too hard, just like TR 3), the reunion with the final boss is disappointing and adds nothing new. Also, the game has no new cutscenes to back up the story, which, by the way, borrows too much from TR3, is lamely forced and makes little sense (they resurrect a character from the original without any good justification).

Anyway, this expansion pack feels recycled, cheap and with little interesting to offer the player.

The Bottom Line
Play it if you liked the other Tomb Raider games, specially if you liked Tomb Raider III.

Windows · by Czar Husk Qi (27) · 2008

Discussion

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Why are the controls so bad? chirinea (47536) Mar 21, 2014

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Game added by MAT.

Additional contributors: Barbara DiNatale, Sciere, Plok, gbcat, GenesisBR.

Game added May 13, 2000. Last modified February 14, 2024.

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