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Thousands of years ago a meteor crashed into Antarctica and the shockwaves of its impact are being felt in the modern age. Lara Croft will follow clues leading to a deadly secret, boldly leaping chasms and blasting monsters that no one has leaped or blasted before. This time she faces a mystery that's from way out of this world.

Tomb Raider III (1998) is a adventure, action and female protagonist game developed by Core Design and published by Crystal Dynamics.
Released on November 28th 2012 is available in English only on Windows.

It has received 1,492 reviews of which 1,253 were positive and 239 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.0 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam.

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Adventure Action Female Protagonist Classic Puzzle Third Person Action-Adventure Singleplayer Third-Person Shooter Shooter Platformer Difficult 1990's Atmospheric Old School Exploration Retro

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Windows
  • OS *:Windows XP / Windows Vista / Windows 7
  • Processor:1.8 GHz Processor
  • Memory:512 MB RAM
  • Graphics:3D graphics card compatible with DirectX 9
  • DirectX®:9.0
  • Hard Drive:2 GB HD space

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June 2025
It's the third best Tomb Raider game, but buy the remaster, not this one. This PC port is buggy, and you have to rely on fan mods to fix most of the bugs. The biggest and most annoying bug, in my opinion, is the BGM resetting every time you reload a save. You start Temple of Ruin hearing the jungle soundscape, and when you enter the temple, the BGM changes for the rest of the level. However, if you die and reload a save inside the temple, the temple BGM is gone, and you're stuck hearing the jungle sounds for the rest of the level. Fortunately, the remaster version has this music bug fixed
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March 2025
Nice installment, it has Lara exploring cool places like India and Antarctica. It’s fun but hard, with old graphics and tough controls. The story isn't great, but puzzles are still fun. Here is my walkthrough of the game: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL_0344iVJYNvhUxBfkz0NOO_snV69pNif
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March 2025
Tomb Raider 3 has a plot that is the same as the first Tomb Raider, it lacked originality! BUT... What was different? Lara's voice, weapon sounds and graphics improved by about 10% compared to its predecessors, but the graphics engine is still the same! The only thing I found really ridiculous was putting the monkey in the game to give Lara the freedom to shoot and kill the monkey! Anyway, Tomb Raider 3 Adventures of Lara Croft is an excellent game!
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Feb. 2025
I remember not getting far with this game when I was little. As an adult, I'm loving just working it out and doing my best not to look at any guides. So nice to play a game that does not hold your hand and thoroughly enjoying the challenge.
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Oct. 2024
Let’s get one thing straight, if you though any of the first two games were too frustrating or hard, this isn’t for you. Just like Tomb Raider 2, this one expects you to have played the previous games in the series. But even that won’t save you from death. Tomb Raider 3 makes sure you know your place from the start as it spits in your face while you’re lying on the floor crying. The first level starts with you sliding down on some mud (I guess?). There’s a nice platform on the downhill that you can see an item on. And of course, as any sane person would do, you slide down to it and grab it. As you pick it up, a boulder falls on you and you’re dead. Literally the first item you see, is a trap. And don’t you worry. This keeps up the entire game. One positive thing about this is that for the rest of the game, whenever you see an item that’s just out in the open, you get scared. You start to triple-checking every wall, corner, floor, ceiling and might even start looking behind you in real life to make sure there’s no trap there before you pick it up. As this also just happens to be the longest Tomb Raider game (out of the original 6 by Core Design), you have plenty of time to get used to the game over-screen. But if you can get through that, you will have a really good time with this game. There’s a lot of interesting locations, the movement is better than before and the non-cheap difficulty is really fair. But just like with Tomb Raider 2, it’s not the easiest to get this to run on modern hardware. There are a lot of resources online to help you, but I would still recommend getting the remastered version instead unless you really want the original PC version with 0 changes.
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Tomb Raider III (1998) is currently priced at 6.99€ on Steam.

Tomb Raider III (1998) is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 6.99€ on Steam.

Tomb Raider III (1998) received 1,253 positive votes out of a total of 1,492 achieving a rating of 8.02.
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Tomb Raider III (1998) was developed by Core Design and published by Crystal Dynamics.

Tomb Raider III (1998) is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Tomb Raider III (1998) is not playable on MacOS.

Tomb Raider III (1998) is not playable on Linux.

Tomb Raider III (1998) is a single-player game.

Tomb Raider III (1998) does not currently offer any DLC.

Tomb Raider III (1998) does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

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Tomb Raider III (1998) PEGI 12
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