CoolROM.com's game information and ROM (ISO) download page for Tomb Raider Chronicles (Sony Playstation). CoolROM.com's game information and ROM (ISO) download page for Tomb Raider Chronicles (Sony Playstation). NOTE: Play this ISO on your PC by using a compatible emulator. Read our tutorial!
Initial Release: November 2000
Metacritic Score: 57-63 (details)
ESRB/PEGI Rating: Teen/12
Platforms: Windows, PlayStation, Sega Dreamcast. Later: Macintosh, PlayStation 3 and PSP (via PlayStation Network).*
Spoiler-free Synopsis: After being buried alive in the Temple of Horus at the end of The Last Revelation, our heroine is presumed dead. Friends and colleagues gather at Croft Manor to pay their respects and reminisce over Lara's past deeds. In flashback sequences the player gets to relive four of these adventures: The hunt for the Philosopher's Stone in Rome, a deep-sea dive off the coast of Russia in search of the Spear of Destiny, a brush with Hellspawn in old Ireland, and a foray into a high-tech office complex to retrieve the Iris artifact. Lara's fate is still unknown, but these four mini-stories helped fill the gap between The Last Revelation and The Angel of Darkness.
Tomb Raider Level Editor (TRLE): This is included on a separate CD sold with the PC and Macintosh version of Chronicles. Console players can download the software but it can only be used to build levels for PC or Mac. My Level Editor page includes more information and download links.
What's New Since TR4: The game engine is pretty much the same as in Last Revelation. Lara has some new outfits—arctic camo for the Russian sub base levels, even an Extreme Depth Suit for swimming in icy waters—and in the Irish adventure, we get to play as the teenage Lara. Lara also gets a few new moves: She can now tightrope walk, swing around horizontal bars and somersault out of tight spaces. (See the controls page for details.)
Saving Your Game: There are unlimited saves on all platforms; however, players using the PC version may encounter a bug that prevents saving the game at all. Fortunately this is easily fixed. See the bug note at the start of the walkthrough for details. (PC and Macintosh savegame files are available in case you make a bad save, want to skip a level, etc.)
Secrets: There are 36 golden roses in the game. If you find them all, after the credits you'll be able to access 'Special Features' from the options menu. This is a collection of storyboards, etc., created during the game design.
Bonus Levels: No official add-ons, but check out the Level Editor page for links to sites with player-created levels you can download.
Classic Tomb Raider Games on New Systems:Chronicles was designed for Windows 98/Me but can be patched to run in newer versions of Windows. There are also a number of fan-made mods to enhance your gaming experience. Budidaya labu siam pdf writer. See the TR5 Downloads page for details. For help running the Macintosh version on newer systems, visit MacRaider.
*An updated version for PC that requires no patching is available for download from Steam. The PlayStation Store has versions for PS3 and PSP. Unfortunately the PSP/PS3 version of Chronicles is not available in all regions.
Becoming an Expert Raider
If you've never played a Tomb Raider game before—or even if you have—I encourage you to check out my TR5 Controls and Gameplay Tips & Strategy pages. They include pointers on moving Lara through her environment, conserving health and ammo, using the menu and inventory systems, and much more.
All the cinematics are included in this HD cutscenes video from GoldfishGam3r. See here for cutscene dialogue transcripts.
TR5 NLNM/NLNMAS Challenge
So you've mastered the game and now you're looking for a bigger challenge? Consider attempting a NLNM (No Loads, No Meds) or NLNMAS (No Loads, No Meds, All Secrets) run. That is, play through the game without saving, without using a health pack, and, of course, without dying. If that sounds like your cup of tea, check out this new subsection for information, rules, leaderboards, and links to a growing community:
Tomb Raider: Chronicles Walkthrough/Strategy Guide
Rome
Level 1: Streets of Rome
Level 2: Trajan's Markets
Level 3: The Colosseum
Russian Submarine
Level 4: The Base
Level 5: The Submarine
Level 6: Deepsea Dive
Level 7: Sinking Sub
Ireland
Level 8: Gallows Tree
Level 9: Labyrinth
Level 10: Old Mill
VCI Headquarters
Level 11: 13th Floor
Level 12: Escape with the Iris
Level 13: Red Alert!
Some screenshots courtesy of Anubis_AF, Tomb Raider Saga and Katie's Tomb Raider Site.
It's the end of Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, and tragically, Lara is presumed dead. Men cry tears of despair and Eidos goes out of business. Only kidding. We all know that Lara reappeared several years later, alive and well in the hideously bugged Tomb Raider: The Angel Of Darkness. But before the new era of Lara began, we got this, a collection of four adventures which the buxom one embarked on in the years prior to being erroneously declared deceased.
The first sees Lara in Rome and features some classic Tomb Raider jumping and climbing gameplay, enhanced by her new ability to swing from bars like a chimp and traverse tightropes.
The second adventure travels back to when Lara was sweet 16, and takes place on an Irish island packed with demons and ghosts. With only a catapult to hold them off with, the emphasis here is far more on solving puzzles, although these do tend to be pretty rudimentary.
Next is a reasonably action-packed Russian U-Boat base reconnaissance mission, and proceedings are finished off with a leather-catsuited Lara infiltrating a tower block aided by an annoying computer hacker.
It's all pretty standard Tomb Raider fare really, but although the gameplay is little more than an inferior rehash of what has come before, at five quid, it's still a steal.