History VideoGame / TombRaider2013

* ShowDontTell: Probably no-one cared about this rule when [[spoiler:Alex's affection for Lara was explicitly stated. All we know about his feelings toward Lara comes from a single note found around 3[=/=]4 of whole game]]. ''Nothing'' besides that note was indicating anything to that point, making the whole deal very artificial, [[spoiler:[[FridgeBrilliance which may of course have been the point as the note and Lara's comment on it speculate that Lara didn't even notice his interest.]] Well... she didn't and thus, [[PaintingTheMedium neither did the player]]]].

''Tomb Raider'' is a 2013 video game. Published by Creator/SquareEnix and developed by Creator/CrystalDynamics, it was released for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 3}}, UsefulNotes/{{Xbox 360}}, and PC. An [[UpdatedRerelease updated version]], titled ''Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition'', was released for the UsefulNotes/{{PlayStation 4}} and UsefulNotes/{{Xbox One}} in 2014. On April 27th 2016, the game was ported over to UsefulNotes/MacOS and [[UsefulNotes/{{Unix}} Linux]] by Creator/FeralInteractive. The game is the second {{continuity reboot}} of the ''Franchise/TombRaider'' series. ''Tomb Raider'' also serves as an {{origins episode}} for the franchise, showing how Lara Croft became the badass {{adventurer archaeologist}} we know and love.

* VagueHitPoints: There's no HP gauge, just a red haze around the screen when Lara is injured. The best indication that she's near death is an enemy declaring that she's critically injured, though this is only applicable when fighting enemies that talk.

* GameplayAndStorySegregation / RuleOfFun: The game has a bit of dissonance between the player's in-game actions and the narrative. This is particularly evident with the hundreds of mooks Lara effortlessly guns down throughout the game, while the story implies she's barely hanging on both physically and emotionally. This is particularly egregious during the scene [[spoiler:shortly before Grim's death]], where the player easily blasts their way through a number of mooks and then in the cutscene afterwards Lara comments that she "barely survived" the encounter. [[WordOfGod The writer of the game addressed this issue in an interview]], with the defining quote coming down to the fact that "every kill cannot be like the first kill", basically admitting and lamenting the problem, saying no game has the magic bullet that can solve the issue of having an affable relatable character also massacre hundreds of dudes without blinking an eye, and it's really just something relies on some generous WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief due to the very nature of action games.

* MookHorrorShow: Lara gradually becomes this over the course of the game, starting with picking up a machine gun, much to the dismay of the mooks. After she defeats her first big shield-carrying enemy someone yelps "She's still alive?! Run!", and ensuing action scenes are scattered with bad guys expressing fear and disbelief that one girl is such a threat. Then, of course, she gets a grenade launcher...
** Lara + GrenadeLauncher = OhCrap! Lara obtains said grenade launcher from one of the CoDragons who reverts from EvilGloating to sheer panic when he realises she's about to blow him to kingdom come. Lara herself even ''yells at them'' that she's coming to kill them all.

* TheNotLoveInterest[=/=]HeterosexualLifePartners: Sam to Lara. Sam being a DamselInDistress is Lara's primary motivation for the majority of the game, they clearly mean a lot to each other to the point of being the most important person in their lives, and Sam stands by Lara in total support no matter what her decision.

** After she is captured by the Solarii, she wakes up where her wrists are bound and hanging overhead.

* TwoferTokenMinority: Lara's best friend Sam Nishimura, Japanese and female. Reyes is a Triple Token Minority; black, Latino and female.

The 2018 ''Film/{{Tomb Raider|2018}}'' movie is a LiveActionAdaptation of this game, with some elements taken from [[VideoGame/RiseOfTheTombRaider the second game]]. An arcade adaptation of the game (with gameplay based on ''Rabbids Hollywood'', of all games) was released ahead of the movie as promotion.

* CameraScrew:
** The camera will shake violently during some platform set pieces, and cannot be moved during some others, which can make determining safe paths very difficult (''especially'' during the [[ThatOneLevel rapids sequence]]).

** Also of note: when Lara examines an animal she's hunted, she'll plunge a couple arrows into the carcass. Doing so will [[CameraAbuse cause red blots to appear on the camera lens every time it happens...]] even if it's just a [[LudicrousGibs small bird]].

* BilingualBonus: The dialogues of Russian characters are pure {{Squick}} for anyone who speaks Russian.
-->'''Vladimir''': You're pretty, aren't you? *touches her face* You remind me of my sister.

* DrivenToSuicide: It's ambiguous, but [[spoiler:Himiko]] herself. The more ground Lara makes the worse the storms affect every vehicle coming to rescue her, but later on in the game [[spoiler:The weather conveniently gets Lara out of more than a couple of jams. Indeed, once Himiko realises Lara is the only person who can stop Mathias she does pretty much all she can to help her without a big neon sign marked '''KILL ME!'''. Which says something about the hell her existence has been, considering she prefers to die rather than take this opportunity to have a new body.]]

-->"It's like finding [[VideoGame/TombRaiderI Atlantis!]]"

** When you find the last GPS cache [[spoiler:and the hidden document inside]], Lara lets out an "A-ha!" similar to when she found artifacts in ''Tomb Raider II''.
*** The game even plays the same sound effect, to drive home the point.

* PlayableEpilogue: While the story doesn't support it, the game lets you back on the island after you've finished the story to allow you to get HundredPercentCompletion.
** Unfortunately, there is no way to get off the island, whether or not you complete 100% of the game.

* LaughingMad: The denizens of [[spoiler:the Pit]] have been stuck on Yamatai so long that this has become what has happened to them.
** ThirdPersonPerson: One of said denizens..

* TheManyDeathsOfYou: So, so many ways to die. It's just short of ''Franchise/DeadSpace'' levels of carnage. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-w-43kTREY&feature=youtu.be Here's a compilation!]]

* ActionSurvivor: In this incarnation, Lara is a just-out-of-school 21-year-old before having to learn to survive on Yamatai island. She still has some survival training from her father's old AdventurerArchaeologist friend Roth, of course. A lot of it is that she ''knows'' what to do but probably hasn't done it before.

If you are looking for the 1996 game of the same title, the one that started it all, go [[VideoGame/TombRaiderI here]].

* AnAxeToGrind: Lara's primary melee weapon is a climbing axe.

* WeaponOfChoice: Now a bow, as opposed to her old dual pistols.[[spoiler:.. until the very end of the game]].

* AmazonChaser: [[spoiler:[[LoveAtFirstSight Alex already had a crush on Lara]] before the game began]], [[TookALevelInBadass but seeing how badass she's become]] turned it UpToEleven.

If you are looking for the 1996 game of the same title, the one that started it all, go [[VideoGame/TombRaider here]].

-->"It's like finding [[VideoGame/TombRaider Atlantis!]]"

** One of the trophies/achievements is called "Unfinished Business", which was the title of the PC-only expansion to the first ''VideoGame/TombRaider''.

* WorstAid: It's generally held that it's safer to keep it in if you have a long bit of shrapnel in you (pulling it out risks rupturing internal organs, or bleeding out). Tell that to Lara at the beginning of the game.
** [[{{JustifiedTrope}} Justified]] in that combat medicine is often differentiated from traditional medicine in that getting a person back into action, even possibly risking long-term damage, is a decision that field medics often have to make. In active fire (or otherwise chronically dangerous) situations, knowing you have to keep moving may be enough motivation to remove the shrapnel rather than risk it causing further damage as you move around.

* TheBackwardsR: Lara reads [[spoiler:her father's journal in the ending]] and one of the pages has a message written this way [[spoiler:which reads, ЭИГХТ ХАВЕ ОРИГИН, ТИМЭ ЭССЕНТИАЛ, ЛОСТ ДЭЭЛ ВИЛЛАГЭ, which, when turned back into proper English, stands for "Eight have origin, time essential, lost deel (sic!) village"]].
** Narrowly avoided, as this is a legitimate alphabetic transcription of the English sentence. One that could be understood (with some trouble, as it's not phonetic) by an anglophone when read aloud by someone who knows Russian but not English.

** At one point the Solarii manage to capture Lara and don't kill her. Presumably they want to sacrifice her, or think [[EvenEvilHasStandards it too cruel to kill a woman while she's defenseless]].

* FeministFantasy: A young woman finds herself crashed on an island home to a violent murderous cult that only accepts men and brutally kills any women who happen upon the island. Said woman is forced to fight her way as a OneWomanArmy to save her friends and herself from them. Can it get more explicitly feminist than that?

** When [[DavidVersusGoliath fighting the]] [[InSeriesNickname Somalian]] when she [[spoiler:returns to The Endurance.]]

* FeministFantasy: A young woman finds herself crashed on an island home to a violent murderous cult that only accepts men and brutally kills any women who happen upon the island. Said woman is forced to fight her way as an [[ArmyOfOne army of one]] to save her friends and herself from them. Can it get more explicitly feminist than that?

* MenAreTheExpendableGender: [[spoiler:Every man but one dies, every woman lives.]] However, the backstory makes it clear that the cult of the island doesn't recruit women into their ranks. The reasons are [[SoulJar nightmare]] [[SealedEvilInACan inducing.]] You'll find that all of the "shrines" set up by the cultists utilize strung up women who are not nearly decomposed enough to imply they're anything but recent victims. However while there are plenty of female corpses, no actual female characters are killed ''on screen''. [[spoiler:Except Himiko]].