Tomb Raider III (1998) on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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 1,493 reviews of which 1,254 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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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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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!

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.

Feb. 2025

Tomb Raider 3 Review Overall Rating: 8.9/10 Gameplay: 8.5/10 Graphics: 2.5/10 Story: 4/10 Music and Sound: 10/10 Personal enjoyment: 6/10 With Tomb Raider III Lara Croft takes us on yet another thrilling adventure! ...Is what I would say if the game didn't unfairly punish me every 5 seconds. I have to be honest and say that I think this is the weakest of the PS1 era of Tomb Raider, while there's still a lot of of new ideas and attempts at innovation like the previous game, I don't think this was as successful at it as opposed to Tomb Raider II, there's also one major flaw with this game which we'll get into by the end. Tomb Raider III introduces a more non-linear level progression, giving players the freedom to choose the order in which they tackled the game's different regions, and some levels even feature multiple routes to get through them. The gameplay was more challenging, with tougher puzzles, more intricate platforming sections, and smarter enemy AI. There's also new moves and abilities, such as the ability to sprint and crouch, and the ability to climb and hang from monkey bars. The game also featured more diverse environments and the return of vehicles, including new ones such as the quad bike and kayak. Sadly this game doesn't improve as much from the previous game as opposed to Tomb Raider II. Whereas Tomb Raider II was clearly trying to go big and improve itself over the original as much as it could, Tomb Raider III feels like it added a couple new features in just to try to please critics and fans so the formula doesn't get stale. I also have to mention that this game is unfairly difficult, I mentioned this in the previous game as well but I feel like the problem is bigger here. Tomb Raider III's puzzles feel cumbersome, long, and annoying, there's so many traps and threats that it made me rage quit the original and even the REMASTER on my replay on multiple occasions. It almost makes it feel like you have to use a guide in order to beat this game, and that's never a good thing when it comes to game design, I should never have to resort to looking up guides for games, but with Tomb Raider III it feels like you HAVE to use a guide if you wanna beat it and don't wanna suffer for hours on end. Considering how negative I was with my review, you might be wondering why I'm giving it a "Recommended" instead of a "Not Recommended" and that's largely just because while I think that the game is flawed in many aspects, hardcore fans of the franchise will probably like it, and I'm sure that a lot of people who enjoyed the previous two games will have a lot of fun with this game as well, sadly it wasn't for me, but if you liked the previous two games then you might like this one too, just sadly I can't recommend it as much as the previous two entries.

June 2024

I would compare playing Tomb Raider 3 to being repeatedly smacked in the balls. Great if you're into that sort of thing (I'm not judging!) but for the vast majority - it's fucking painful. Also, Lara Croft is a straight up homicidal maniac. Literally smiles at a guy, shoots him in the face and nick's his chopper. Jeez.

June 2024

hardest tomb raider. jumping and traps have really high level of difficulty. sometimes i loaded game 10 times in a row at same place despite that before i finished the game 2 times. also in this game were added two really difficult labyrinths in Aldwych and Lost city of Tinnos levels. Size of the maps are much bigger than in TR2. This game is only for really tough players.

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Core Design

Publisher

Crystal Dynamics

Release 28 Nov 2012

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