I'd forgotten that one! It was awesome in execution, how Lara was transformed gradually into gold. Amazing.

Oh yeah, one more memorable thing for me: Lara's mansion is the best tutorial/training level. EVER. I like that they expanded it from TR1 to TR3 (never played Last Revelation and the rest), featuring more secrets to explore.

The mansion is really nicely done in the new ones, underworld especially
It was awesome but also a bit jarring because it seems to be clearly magical whereas everything else seems to be atlantean technology. Awesome anyway, I mean can you imagine how much you could sell her for on ebay?

That was actually... really adeptly done in Anniversary. I confess to running onto Midas' severed hand several times in a row just to see the poor girl get turned slowly into gold...
I mean, I know you have to be a bit of a sadist just to even play Tomb Raider games, but... yeah, I scared myself a little when I realized what I'd been doing. :)

Lara Croft is attractive (so is Samus Aran).

Tomb Raider...Played it for 5 minutes, broke the disk in half, gave it my uncle, told him it was shit, got back in bed, changed the gauze on my leg (I was ran over and dragged 100 yards by a truck. Thankfully I blacked out.), screamed in pain from the salt water hitting my half foot of missing skin, wrapped gauze back on, and demanded he put back in Dragon Warrior 7 (Which I was playing before he put that thing in.). I was 8. And she wasn't even hot,

Tomb Raider II was launched when i was 6 or 7 years old.
my dad loved the character (and i bet he still does...) and bought every single game.
i only played tomb raider 3 for a few minutes and tomb raider legends on the PSP. i think one of the reasons why i quit so early was the f*cked up controlls.

If you think she's attractive, along with Aran, you're seriously screwed up and you haven't seen actual girls in real life. Get help.
Personally, I think the game was good and the series wasn't bad (the new devs are actually doing something useful with the IP and I commend them for that) but I didn't play it because she was hot. Honest!

The first Tomb Raider was amazing, after that they kinda went...meh
I loved the Cistern level. It starts out as your reguaelr high ledged platform level but when you flick the switch it floods and voilia!: Instant swimming based action
I still remember that to this day and that has to be a good 15 years ago

I didn't play enough to have a really good memory of that game.
I think i tried it a bit at over at a friend's computer or maybe a demo.
As I recall I had some fun with the acrobatics but quickly got bored because the enviroments wasn't all that distinctive and fun to explore.
TBH I think I would have been more interested in the game if they just called the main charater Indiana Jones.

I really enjoyed the first one. In fact, it's still one of my top-ten favs of all time.
The second one showed obvious catering to the fanbase with Lara increasiungly sexualized, and the gameplay incresingly action movie'd, which became the trend right up until the atrocious Last Relevation, Chronicles, and Angel of Darkness. Tomb Raider Legend was *such* a breath of fresh air, because it did in FACT what Tomb Raider HINTED at..offered a beautiful world to explore with amazing controls and a fast engine.

Err... like how EVERY Tomb Raider game in the series has come out on console, sometimes multiple consoles? How exactly did underword fail in comparison to Legend or Anniversary? Personally I think it felt better, slower paced and deliberate and Lara moved a lot more like a person who had intertia which I thought improved it. Then again I'm a bit weird, I like GTA4 for the same reasons that most people seem to hate it
Definitely (as long as its addressed to square enix/eidos), I really want to play angel of darkness and I'd just as soon only pay $6 to do it.

Ok, if you were considaring Tomb Raider in a post-Jolie world you COMPLETELY missed the point. That's like judging Lord of the Rings or Watchmen based on the movies. The two have NOTHING in common.
Sadly, I fear that people who experienced a given piece of art BEFORE it was exploited will always have a different appreciation for it than those who experience the piece of art AFTER it's exploited.

I was really excited for AOD because it sounded like it was going to be a part tomb raider and part broken sword style adventure. Even though it sounds like they rather stuffed it up, I still want to try it
And I suspect that anyone who looks on angelina jolie as a positive option may have something wrong with their brain. Seriously, am I the only one who finds her completely repulsive?