Tomb Raider

Survivor was a relatively hard reboot for the series, taking Lara back to the very start of her career and seeing her become the Tomb Raider. It also ditched ...

It has been confirmed in the most low-key manner that the new game will unite the existing reboot trilogy’s story (known as the Survivor story) to the events of Anniversary, Legend, and Underworld. Survivor was a relatively hard reboot for the series, taking Lara back to the very start of her career and seeing her become the Tomb Raider. It also ditched globe trotting for fixed, individual settings to be explored in depth and softened Lara’s edges, all while throwing in an entirely new cast. Even though we will have to wait the longest time ever for a new Tomb Raider game (ignoring all human history before the first Tomb Raider game, as we should), a lot has happened in that time. Underworld is part of the least cohesive era of Tomb Raider and is overshadowed by both Anniversary and Legend, but its importance to the overall texture of Lara Croft cannot be forgotten. They both ended their respective eras, and on one hand Lara is older in Underworld, so following that would make more sense, but Shadow is the most recent, so following on directly is also an option. It has been four years since Shadow of the Tomb Raider, making this the second-longest we have gone without a Tomb Raider game since the series began in 1996. Underworld is perhaps the most overlooked of all the Tomb Raider games.