[STEAM] All Lara Croft iterations, ranked

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Image via Embracer Having outsold the original two Tomb Raider games combined, the 2013 Tomb Raider reboot is the most successful game in the series. Still, does it really mark the highest point in the series? Unlikely. The problem? Lara herself. The ever-confident badass was replaced by a regular twenty-year-old in an origin story that would seemingly show her evolution into the person we know from the old games, but that evolution never came.

Reboot Lara is a completely different person, never one seemingly on the path to what people loved, and not a particularly interesting or entertaining one either. Regardless, you can still have a lot of fun with these games, which, despite being very different from anything else in the series, don't fail to deliver when it comes to entertaining action.

6. Last Revelation and Chronicles Lara Croft

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In these two games, Lara goes from just shooting at bad guys who are shooting at her to sometimes killing defenseless people in a cruel fashion.

Lara had previously struck the perfect balance as the cold hero who'd save the world and turn in a cool profit in the meantime. In these two games, however, the developers tipped the scales towards the less-heroic side a bit too much.

The Last Revelation's Lara was also the first to go through a visual change. Specifically, the narrowing of Lara's shoulders resulted in a model that just felt less athletic than in previous games. Strangely enough, this is a change few ever complained about.

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animated Tomb Raider series had the unenviable task of merging the Lara Croft from the rebooted trilogy and the one we know and love, but it actually did a pretty good job. Whereas the show itself isn't exactly spectacular, Lara is definitely not to blame here. The people behind the show managed to keep the more humane elements implemented by the reboot trilogy, but spiced it up by making the character genuinely fun and funny.

4. Angelina Jolie Lara Croft

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Image by Embracer Though The Angel of Darkness is easily the ****** sheep of the Tomb Raider family, it deserves some love for its portrayal of Lara. This Lara is definitely darker, though not in the almost outright evil way that we see in TLR and Chronicles. This is a more fleshed-out version of the original character who gets thrown into a much darker story. And that part,

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2. Original Trilogy Lara Croft

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Image via Aspyr From a historical standpoint, it's ridiculous to compare OG Lara to any other iteration of the character. You could easily say that gaming was one thing before her arrival, another after she showed up, but Lara's impact went way past the gaming sphere. Lara Croft is the epitome of a video game protagonist, a person who doesn't need to say much to convey what she's about, and someone you'd be glad to follow on any adventure.

If there's an iteration of Lara Croft you can thank for the

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distinction, it's this one.

1. Legend trilogy Lara Croft

One of Tomb Raider Legend's selling points was the return of Lara creator Toby Gard, for the first time since the original game, and it sure did pay off. Legend does a great job of developing the character via an actual arc, and by having a team she interacts with. And I get it, I understand loving the sense of isolation one got from the original games. Still, the original Lara had no internal monologue and mostly only ever talked to their enemies before shooting them. This is the first game where Lara expresses really loving what she does, and that just feels great.

Also, Legend reworked Lara's design in a way that felt modern and still faithful to the original character, and Underworld further improved it, so bonus points for that.

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