Gameplay focus is on survival, with exploration when traversing the island and visiting various optional tombs. Tomb Raider was released on 5 March 2013 for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. It is the tenth main game in the Tomb Raider franchise and a reboot of the series, acting as the first instalment in the Survivor trilogy that reconstructs the origins of Lara Croft. The toxic gas vents, the eerie ambient music, and the screeching Yaaxil that ambush you as you climb up the tree are more than enough to set your pulse racing.Tomb Raider is a 2013 action-adventure video game developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix's European branch.
The masterful sound design – the rustling bushes, the cawing crows, Lara’s panicked breathing – heightens the tension while you wait for three hungry wolves to lunge at your jugular.Īnd the second is the Tree of Life challenge tomb from Shadow of the Tomb Raider. The first was the wolf attack from Tomb Raider (2013). There were two hair-raising encounters that almost made the list. Talk about a trippy way to wrestle with your inner demons. Finally, Lara comes face to face with a shadowy version of herself who blames her for the death and destruction of everyone and everything around her. This is followed by an intense shootout, a tour of the aftermath of the Cozumel tsunami, and a frantic search for Jonah, who has been buried alive in the Croft Manor cemetery. Lara’s nightmare continues underwater, where she must push past dozens, possibly hundreds, of corpses, to reach the surface and she is almost drowned by her treacherous stepmother Ana. There’s even a jump scare or two for good measure. The walls begin to move, sounds become disorienting echoes, and Lara begins to have visions of her dead father as the witch goads her on. The Vale is home to flowers with hallucinogenic pollen and Lara quickly succumbs to the pollen’s effects. One of the eeriest places seen in recent Tomb Raider history is the Wicked Vale, which featured prominently in the DLC story Baba Yaga: Temple of the Witch. In fact, you can see one of the less fortunate patients still trapped inside their cage centuries later.
This treatment was less than successful and some of these “poor wretches” would end up dying in the process. The afflicted would be locked up in hanging cages as the priests attempted to “drive out the demons”. These explain how the priests of Kitezh would use this subterranean gas-filled chamber to perform exorcisms on those suffering from mental illness. The chamber itself is rather unwelcoming but the real fear factor lies in the murals and documents found within the chamber.
The Chamber of Exorcism, one of the low-key terrifying levels of Rise of the Tomb Raider. The chamber can be reached via a geothermal cavern deep under the Lost City, one rocked by tremors and dotted with vents spewing noxious, flammable gases. Perhaps one of the more obscure entries on this list, the Chamber of Exorcism is a challenge tomb guarded by a large bear living among the ruins of Kitezh. Lara would later find some of this poor family’s personal belongings on Shipwreck Beach.
He goes on to say that the three women were killed while he was tossed into the pit and left to rot in there, though he takes solace in the thought of joining his loved ones in Heaven very soon. If you linger near the cages, one of the prisoners will recount how he and his wife and two daughters had been shipwrecked on the island one night.
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Tomb Raider‘s bloody homage to the horror movie The Descent.Īnd if the dismembered limbs and cannibalism aren’t enough to chill you to your core, just wait till you hear what the prisoners have to say about their experiences on the island. Staying hidden is nerve-wracking enough but being spotted and assaulted by a Solarii cult member makes this part of the game all the more harrowing, especially for female gamers. But in my opinion, the first really horrifying section of Tomb Raider (2013) was the Mountain Temple, where a bound and unarmed Lara needs to evade her captors or risk being shot on sight. Here are my picks for the 10 most terrifying levels from Tomb Raider (2013), Rise of the Tomb Raider, and Shadow of the Tomb Raider, listed in the approximate order of their appearance! 1) Mountain TempleĮscaping the scavenger’s den and fending off ravenous wolves was tough enough. Spooky Season is upon us once more! And to celebrate it, I’d like to talk about the most terrifying levels and places from the Tomb Raider Survivor Trilogy.** From heart-stopping jump scares to supernatural demons, from rancid pools of blood to claustrophobic underwater passageways, the Tomb Raider games have always found creative ways to scare the living daylights out of us and this trilogy was no exception.
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