Tomb Raider: Underworld, also known as Tomb Raider 8, is the eighth game in the Tomb Raider series, released in November 2008. It is the third game in the series to be developed by Crystal Dynamics. Underworld resumes the adventure from whereTomb Raider: Legend left off and addresses elements of the plot left unexplained in Legend and Tomb Raider: Anniversary.[10] As of 27th February 2009, the game has sold 2.6 million copies worldwide.
Story
The story begins with Lara Croft in the lower corridor of Croft Manor where Lara has to escape from a fire. Upon entering the main hall, she is surprised to see the mansion in flames. As she reaches the main door, Zip shoots at her as Winston tries to restrain him. The game flashes back a week into the past, showing Lara in the Mediterranean Sea. Lara is searching for a way to Avalon, the mythical resting place ofKing Arthur, and the place where Amanda claimed Lara's mother is. Lara finds a temple of "Proto-Norse" origin, leading her to believe that Avalon and the Norse underworld of Niflheim are one and the same. She also finds a gauntlet that belonged to the Norse god Thor. Lara is attacked by mercenaries working for Amanda, who take the gauntlet to Amanda's boat. After pursuing them to their ship, Lara encounters her old nemesis, the demonic former ruler of Atlantis, Jacqueline Natla, whom Amanda has in captivity. They began discussing Lara's find and Natla states that Avalon is the same as Helheim, rather than Niflheim as Lara had supposed, and that Lara will need Thor's hammer, Mjölnir to enter. The ship begins sinking due to an explosion caused by one of the mercenaries in a firefight with Lara. Lara shoots at a fleeing Amanda who throws the gauntlet into the sea. Lara quickly jumps to catch it, letting Amanda escape (Amanda lets Lara have the gauntlet as Natla told her it would only work for Lara).
Lara travels to coastal Thailand, as Natla had suggested, where she discovers that her father had already been there and took Thor's second gauntlet back to a hidden study beneath Croft Manor. After retrieving the gauntlet from a temple guarded by ravenous naga, as well as finding a map showing the location of Thor's belt and hammer, Lara is surprised to find the manor going up in flames. An injured Zip, assisted by Winston, shoots at her as he thought Lara had shot him after taking Amanda's "Wraith Stone" from the vault. Lara and Winston convince Zip it was not her and Lara tells them to get out of the mansion while she goes to view the security video in the computer room. Before she does, however, she is confronted by a doppelgänger resembling herself, apparently created by Natla. The doppelganger shoots and kills Alister, who was trying to escape the flames, then flees. Lara carries Alister's body out of the house, and resolves to continue searching for Mjölnir, which she believes will give her the power to kill Natla. In Mexico, Lara retrieves Thor's belt, which powers the gauntlets needed to wield his hammer. After retrieving the belt, she heads to Jan Mayen Island and finds Mjölnir in Valhalla. She also finds a message from Odin, Thor's father, saying that he will need to perform a ritual before Thor can open the way to Helheim.
With the gauntlets, belt and hammer, Lara confronts Natla on Amanda's second ship. Lara reluctantly agrees to work with Natla, who claims to know Odin's ritual. Lara travels to the Arctic Sea and, with Natla's help, opens the entrance to Helheim. She soon encounters her mother, Amelia, who has been turned into a thrall, a deceased individual whose corpse is reanimated by the substance eitr. As the mindless thrall approaches, Lara forces her back into the eitr. Lara kneels in sorrow as Natla appears to reveal that she was using Lara and Amanda to gain access to Avalon, via Thor's hammer. Natla also reveals that she killed Lara's father, Richard, when he refused to cooperate in this task years ago. The doppelgänger appears and restrains Lara just as she was about to attack Natla with Mjölnir. As Lara is about to be killed, Amanda appears and uses her Wraith Stone to destroy the doppelganger. She also holds off the approaching thralls, allowing Lara to pursue Natla.
Lara finds Natla activating a massive, ancient device at the heart of a titanic cavern filled with eitr. Natla explains that Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, refers to the network of tectonic divisions spread across the world beneath the oceans giving rise to the legendary interpretation of the creature encircling the world. Natla explains that this device sits right atop where the supercontinent, Pangea, had split apart millions of years ago, and once activated, is designed to bring about Ragnarök, or what Natla refers to as the Seventh Age, by triggering apocalyptic levels of volcanic activity throughout the world.
Lara destroys the device with Mjölnir then hurls the hammer at Natla, who is distracted by trying to repair the machine. Natla is struck down and plunges into the eitr. Lara heads back to Amanda, but they discover that the exit is blocked. Lara spots the portal that originally brought her mother to Helheim, realizing that her mother may not have known how the device had worked thus remaining trapped. Lara and Amanda work together and escape.
They are teleported back to Nepal, where Lara's mother accidentally teleported herself to Helheim. Amanda attempts to stir up a fight with Lara, who chastises her. Amanda contemplates her choices, before finally limping away. Alone, Lara mournfully bids goodbye to her mother, and the game ends as she walks away from the portal.
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