Tomb Raider The Last Revelation and Tomb Raider Chronicles were the 4th and 5th game to enter the franchise.
Tomb raider iv
Tomb Raider The Last Revelation is the 4th game to come into the franchise. Selling 5 million copies world wide! When in development the creators lost their flow and they then ended the game with Lara’s death. The team began to read books about ancient civilisations and then began to create levels based on when they read. Jonell Elliot also replaced Judith Gibbins for this role voicing Lara for another 2 games after this.
Tomb Raider IV had new things added into the game such as rope swinging , shimmy around corners. Lara’s model had a change too smoother and refined appearance making her much easier to move. Also her inventory was not in a circle but in a straight line and players could combine things in the inventory to use later on in levels. The Last Revelations story line was Lara in Egypt after Von Croy left down there. She returns to have awaken God Horus and must kill him. However ending of the game shows Von Croy helping Lara to get out to the pyramid falling on her. But Lara didn’t make it and that’s where the developers left the story of Lara Croft.
Tomb raider chronicles
Tomb Raider Chronicles came along not long after IV. As the company was pushed to release Tomb Raider game they had no time to create a new game engine for this game but did use the original Lara’s game engine but added a few things here and there. The team were not happy making another game and Andy Sandham said “ that was the most depressing. We were effectively doing it for the pay check as no other team would take it on.”
New added content to this game was Lara’s ability to walk on tight ropes (as shown above) and swing on horizontal bars. Lara didn’t have the grenade launcher but instead had the desert eagle and MP5 from Tomb Raider 3. Player can also track their statistics by using TMX TimeX. Chronicles story had changed and was it was telling a story by Lara’s friends. Which players would go to different places and do different things in order to know that story they are telling.