She's back! Action heroine Lara Croft returns in Tomb Raider 3,an impressive action adventure game from Eidos.
This time around the action takes place in India, at least to start with, as Lara searches for a legendary artefact. She doesn't know that this artefact is probably a powerful alien device. But you will, because you'll have read the introduction. There's plenty of the usual Indiana Jones-esque action, following Lara through locations urban and jungle, and no shortage of enemies to battle either. So it's fortunate that this time round Lara has a shotgun in addition to her two trademark pistols. As usual you control Lara from behind, although the viewpoint will change from time to time depending on the action (cue several sad players trying to back her into a corner to get a close up of her pixellated protrusions). The control system works as well as it did in the previous games, and only becomes slightly irritating when you have to navigate a particularly tricky obstacle.