A legend comes home

Tomb Raider: Legend takes Lara to England, where everyone has a jolly good time

FORMAT PS2 / PUB EIDOS INTERACTIVE / DEV CRYSTAL DYNAMICS / RELEASED 2006 Dark, dingy, and the weather is tempestuous. Welcome to England. To enter Professor Worth’s King Arthur Museum, Lara Croft tugs on a shoddy replica of the sword in the stone. A grainy recording booms: “Enter, once and future king! Merlin deems you worthy!” This Cornish visitor attraction may appear more Silent Hill than Avalon, but it’s certainly got character. Museums in games are often grand affairs, but not this one; it’s kitsch in the extreme and a far cry from the exotic locales Lara’s been to so far. Worth’s is a derelict tourist trap full of rickety dioramas that take you through a crude retelling of Arthurian legend. Cursed-looking animatronic figures re-enact famous scenes, including Arthur and Merlin wobbling…

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