Remark: This article describes the Tomb Raider II from 1997. For information about the game following the Tomb Raider Reboot, see Rise of the Tomb Raider.

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The sexy yet deadly Lara is back in the Tomb Raider II Starring Lara Croft, a single-player Sony PlayStation game. Play this Sony PlayStation game as Lara to uncover the mystery of the Dagger of Xian, the one with superior powers of the Dragon. Try the new moves and jump, climb, roll, or shooting all your way in this adventure game. Tomb Raider is a game that needs no introduction but if, for some reason, you are not familiar with the series, then these games are about the adventures of the beautiful, intelligent, and athletic British archaeologist Lara Croft. You might think that this job is mostly digging holes and dusting old bones. Description of Tomb Raider II Windows. Tomb Raider II is a video game published in 1997 on Windows by Eidos, Inc. It's an action game, set in a dinosaurs, platform and puzzle elements themes, and was also released on Mac.

Tomb Raider II
Starring Lara Croft
Release Date	November 1997
Platforms	PC, Mac, PlayStation
Levels	18
Secrets	48
Developer	Core Design
Publisher	Eidos Interactive
Rating	ESRB: Teen
Add-On:
The Golden Mask
Game Chronology:
Tomb Raider	Tomb Raider II	Tomb Raider III

Tomb Raider II is the second game of the Tomb Raider games series. The story begins one year after the events of Tomb Raider Unfinished Business. An expansion came out in 1999 with a separate 5-level adventure attached. This expansion was known as Tomb Raider II Golden Mask.

1Release Dates in Detail
3Story
- 3.1Introduction
4Information (as given out by Eidos)
7In-Game Elements
- 7.1Gear
- 7.6Traps and Obstacles
9Development

Release Dates in Detail

Windows

N/A

PlayStation

United States - 31st October 1997
United Kingdom - 1st November 1997
Germany - November 1997
Japan - 22nd January 1998

iOS

A iOs port was released in 4 December 2014.^[1]^[2]

Android

A Android port was released on 28 October 2015.^[3] It combines Tomb Raider II and The Golden Mask into one download. It also features Achievements that can be earned on Google Play.

Levels

Lara on The Great wall.

China

1 - The Great Wall

The canals in Venice.

Venice

2 - Venice
3 - Bartoli's Hideout
4 - Opera House

The Deck of the M.D.

Rig and Maria Doria Tomb

5 - Offshore Rig
6 - Diving Area
7 - 40 Fathoms
8 - Wreck of the Maria Doria
9 - Living Quarters
10 - The Deck

Catacombs of Talion.

Tibet

11 - Tibetan Foothills
12 - Barkhang Monastery
13 - Catacombs of the Talion
14 - Ice Palace

The Floating Islands.

China

15 - Temple of Xian
16 - Floating Islands
17 - The Dragon's Lair

Home Sweet Home.

England

18 - Home Sweet Home

Story

Main article: Tomb Raider II Story

Introduction

Legend has it that when you drive the Dagger of Xian into your heart, you acquire the power of the dragon. Literally.

In Ancient China, the Emperor was the holder of this power and with his army alongside him, he was a force to be reckoned with. Thus he staked claim to the vast lands that are China.

His final battle however ended in defeat. While people fell into submission all around him, the Warrior Monks of Tibet would not relent and courageously fought against his evil. Knowing the power of the dagger, they succeeded in removing it from the Dragon Emperor's heart - reducing him and his army to carnage. The dagger was returned to its resting place within The Great Wall and locked up for all time...

Now three parties hold the dagger close to their heart. And all for entirely different reasons.

Lara, forever the adventurer, is one of these. In her travels, she will encounter the other two... ^[4]

Tomb Raider 2 Game Soundtrack

A note from the script writer

... Vicky Arnold, Core Design's script writer for Tomb Raider 2 ... writes, 'The Emperor is the dragon; the idea being that the dagger will give this power to whoever has enough belief to drive it into their heart - and that his warriors who fight alongside him will have added powers too. Hence the Fiama Nera cult's interest in the dagger. The guy with the disturbing green eyes is one of the Emperor's generals and when the dragon is killed, he and the other soldiers return to their normal human strength. You might be able to see when the general falls to his knees, that his eyes turn back to normal and his fangs and reptilian skin disappear.'^[5]

In-Game

Lara Croft is dropped off at the Great Wall of China by a helicopter. She sets of to find the gate to the Temple of Xian, the resting place of the fabled Dagger of Xian. At the gate she is attacked by Claudio, one of the men working for Marco Bartoli, an Italian gangster also looking for the dagger. She learns that she has to look elsewhere first and an address on Claudio's laptop guides her to Via Caravelli in Venice, to the hideout of Bartoli. Arriving in Venice, Lara begins searching for Bartoli, hoping she will find the key that opens the chamber of the Dagger of Xian on him. Lara follows Bartoli's men into his hideout and reaches an opera house where she overhears a conversation. She manages to travel on board his airplane, but is soon knocked unconscious. Lara awakes weaponless and locked in, in a room on an offshore rig. She managed to flee from the room and reclaim her weapons from the plane. Making her way through the rig Lara encounters a monk, Brother Chan fighting with Bartoli's men. From him she learns that in order to find the key unlocking the Temple of Xian, which is hidden in a Tibetan monastery, she needs to find an artefact called the Seraph. This artefact was transported aboard the Maria Doria, a ship that sank at the location the rig is located at now. A race for the seraph, leading through the wreckage of the sunken ocean cruiser begins and Lara manages to get it before Bartoli's men do. She then steals the airplane to get to the Barkhang monastery. Lara needs to pull from the plane before it crashes after encountering fuel problems, and thus has to travel on foot and by snowmobile through the Foothills of Tibet to reach the monastery. Arriving there she will find that Bartoli's men were ahead of her and are attacking the monastery.

Information (as given out by Eidos)

Synopsis

Lara Croft returns in Tomb Raider II to discover the secret of the Dagger of Xian. The ancient Chinese believed that whoever recovered this mythical dagger would gain power beyond b