


2018’s Shadow of the Tomb Raider aims to complete this newer trilogy, showing what can happen when an unrestrained treasure-hunting obsession begets real catastrophe, tragedy on a colossal scale that demands difficult choices be made. The 2013 Tomb Raider reboot surprised a lot of gamers with its mature, character-driven origin story catalyst, which led to the excellent Rise of the Tomb Raider, a sequel that saw a more considered Lara coming into her own, forging a fresh gritty path. An in-game quote that reverberates throughout the entirety of Shadow of the Tomb Raider, this sentence also describes Lara Croft’s 20-plus-year journey from low-polygon video game sex symbol to the fully realized female adventurer badass that we see before us today.
