X-Nico

8 unusual facts about ''Tomb Raider''


Asghan: The Dragon Slayer

Asghan: The Dragon Slayer is characterized largely by Tomb Raider-esque physical puzzles (running, jumping, crawling) as well as typical fantasy elements such as spellcasting and exorcism.

Land Rover Defender

Possibly the best known Special Edition was the Tomb Raider of 2000, built to commemorate Land Rover's role in the first film of that franchise.

Lucy Clarkson

She is best known as being the fourth official Lara Croft model from the Tomb Raider series of video games, a role she took on in May 2000, at the age of 17, and held for two and a half years until 2002 when Jill de Jong took over.

Naked Records

After being acquired by Eidos, Naked worked on a theme tune for Tomb Raider produced by Dave Stewart and Boby Bluebell.

Peter Stothard

Stothard appears as a character briefly in the first scene of a one-level Tomb Raider expansion videogame made by Core Design in association with The Times.

Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness

The music for Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness was composed by Peter Connelly and Martin Iveson.

This would be the last time she provided the voice, with Keeley Hawes taking over for Tomb Raider: Legend.

Yasmin K.

In 2003, Yasmin K. and Alex C. released the song "Angel of Darkness, as a promotion single for Eidos Interactive for the video game Tomb Raider: The Angel of Darkness.


Chuck Rock

The character of Chuck Rock himself was an iconic early character for Core Design before the introduction of Lara Croft in the 1996 game Tomb Raider, and the character of Chuck Rock himself and his family even featured in some UK comic books of the 1990s.

Nadine Njeim

Njeim also managed to land the voice-acting role of the Arabic-language voice of Lara Croft in the 2013 video game Tomb Raider.

Paul Nakauchi

He lent his voice to the video games Call of Duty: World at War, Syphon Filter: The Omega Strain, Tomb Raider: Legend and Lost Planet 2 and played Sgt. Shigeno in the motion picture The Great Raid.

Til Schweiger

Schweiger has also appeared in a wide range of American films, including Already Dead, King Arthur, In Enemy Hands, Magicians, Tomb Raider: The Cradle of Life, Driven, SLC Punk!, Investigating Sex, Joe and Max, The Replacement Killers and New Year's Eve.


see also

Duke Nukem: Time to Kill

Aside from Tomb Raider, the game references The Evil Dead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Back to the Future series and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.