Lara Croft Rocks!(Then Rolls Into a Pit of Spikes...)

Indiana Jones, eat your heart out! Lara's back to "robbing" tombs, and this time she'll have test her strength and endurance to the limit and keep a good head on her shoulders without breaking a sweat! On this third installment to the hit series she'll come across voodoo,(oh yeah, and plenty of it), lethal monkeys(he,he,he) and even the mysterious area51 while still looking pretty. Now that takes talent!

While this game may seem extremly difficult to begginers(since the controls on a computer are a little complex), you'll eventually get the hang of it, after a few practice runs at Ms.Croft's stately mansion. Here, Lara will give you step by step intructions on how to manuever her and get her through anything that may come her way in her adventure. There's even a puzzle in the house, and if you figure it out, some of the room's in Lara's house will unlock and become open for you to explore..
Oh, I almost forgot, playing in her house, you'll most likely come across Lara's old-fogey butler. He may just get a little annoying, so, if I were you, I'd lock him in the freezer downstairs in the kitchen! Butler Be-gone!Unless of coarse, you discover a better way to get rid of him, since, he can't be killed....

And as Lara says when you push the button by her front gate, "Now its time for our third adventure!"

Now, you'll find Miss Croft in the middle of a dense jungle on top of a sort of ledge that she'll have to slide off of and immediately into danger. That my friends, is one of the best aspects of the game. You'll have to use quick thinking and problem solving throughout the entire game, not just towards the end of each level. Okay, so maybe you'll get a little frustrated if you die a couple times(and believe me-it WILL happen), but fortunatly for you and me, you can "save" games and if you die, you load up the game you saved a moment before-and Voila! She's alive! Pretty nifty, huh? Or, when your endangered, simply use one of your medi-packs, and Lara's precious health will restore eiether 50% or fully, depending on what size is used.

Game Story:
While at the jungle(which lasts about four levels), your only duty is to retrieve The Infada Stone, an ancient artifact with mystical powers. Unfortunately, you've got to retrieve it by force from this crazy pyscho-path you meet in a movie sequence in the second jungle level. Unwilling to believe in voodoo magic after a brief encounter with the maniac, Lara slowly continues into a larger temple. After a while, you'll find your insane buddy once again, and have a showdown like there's no manana. Kill bad man, get pretty rock. See what I'm saying? Then you'll find a friendly(or so he seems now) sort-of doctor guy who wants you to find the other pretty "rocks" placed in Nevada(later, area51), London, and the South Pacific. Then, the movie ends and you are asked to pick a level in which to play. Simple, right? That's what you think.......

Now let's talk weapons. I thought you'd never ask..... Now, when you first start out, all you have are your two pistols, which luckily never run out of ammo(silent sigh of relief goes here.) You'll later pick up things like Uzis, a rocket launcher(Yes!!you get to blow things up!) and even a grenade gun. What's that, you want to kill me? Ka Pow! DIE!!!!!

Now, if you were really feeling mean,(or just angry because Lara wont jump that high) then you could always practice killing Lara herself,(and believe me it isn't all that hard to do), by a variety of methods. For example, you could throw her in a lake of hungary, man-eating pirahnas or cause her to fall into a pit of razor sharp spikes. My all time favorite is leting the Tyrannosaurus swallow her in one gulp while whisking her around like a rag doll.(While not the girliest thing to say, I have to admit it's funny!)

Now let's talk about all that technical junk(which I know very little about by the way, being one of those girls who'd rather watch the ridiculous Man Show then hear about cars.) The graphics are wonderful and the playing areas are simply breath taking compared to some of the other games I've played.(Not to mention any names, but Tomb Raider 1, the predessesor, which was not as fun as this one.)And the sound effects are great, too, not like the corny Halloween ones you buy on cassette tape. I totally recommend this game to anyone, even all those clueless folks out there. It has everything you could possibly want in Super Mario and more. Plus, all the violence you need without over doing gore.