Features

• Enemies exhibit pack behavior with improved enemy AI.
• New landscape system (incorporating triangles) for smoother surfaces and architectural structures such as domes, arches, vaulted ceilings. Organic structures and rocky floors are possible with the new system.
• Improved texture palettes for greater detail.
• Improved water effects (rippling, transparent water) and new reflection effects.
• Faster game engine.
• Semi-transparencies on any surface for dramatic lighting effects like shafts of light.
• New Moves including crawl, monkey swing and speed dash to get Lara out of sticky situations.

Story

On a voyage of exploration in centuries past, British
sailors discovered a meteor buried deep in the earth.
Unwittingly, they looted four artifacts placed with the
meteor. One of these sailors kept a journal as they
headed back to England. He was the only one to make it
home alive.

Present Day, Antarctica

A research company begins to excavate something
buried deep in the ice. Readings taken from the rock
indicate traces of a previously unknown material. The
material appears to have the potential to multiply and alter
hock genes - the genes which determine the make-up of
living organisms. These alterations are capable of
evolving a greater diversity of life. Within the rock are the
next most important findings in genetics and evolution
since Darwin.

On their dig, the researchers discover the body of a
European, perfectly preserved in the ice. Scratched on his
tombstone is the name of the boat he sailed on. Following
this information, they locate a shipmate's journal and set
about searching for the artifacts lost by the sailors.

Meanwhile, Lara is in India searching for one of these
artifacts. Unaware of its true history, she only knows that in
local beliefs it was supposed to hold great powers and
has been revered by tribes there throughout the years.

And so the adventure begins?

Tomb Raider III unfolds in a much more non-linear fashion
than Lara's previous adventures. Lara will once again
span the globe from the arctic pole to the islands of the
South Pacific. But this time gamers will be able to choose
their own destiny by selecting the order in which they play
each of the 4 main levels. The levels are also more open,
with multiple routes to the same end–so choose wisely. Or
replay each level, or you might miss part of the adventure.