Celebrate Ten Years Of Lara Croft With GAME's Exclusive Collector's Edition
18th May 2007 - GAME Stores Group Ltd, Europe's leading video games retailer, has secured the exclusive rights to sell the forthcoming Tomb Raider: Anniversary Collector's Edition!
Inspired by the original Tomb Raider video game; Lara Croft Tomb Raider: Anniversary celebrates and commemorates ten years of Tomb Raider and Lara Croft. Faithfully preserving the elements which made the original Tomb Raider game such a classic, Tomb Raider: Anniversary uses enhanced graphics, technology and physics to bring Lara's adventures up to today's technology standards and will offer gamers a completely new gameplay experience.
The original Tomb Raider was released in 1996 and sold over seven million copies. The game also saw Lara Croft become a major icon of the video games industry and be recognised as the "Most Successful Human Videogame Heroine" in 2006 by the Guinness Book of Records.
Anna Macario, Marketing Director for GAME said "The Tomb Raider video game series is an absolute classic and one which every gamer should own at least one title. To be able to offer this exclusive Collector's Edition means we can reward our customers with something they can't buy elsewhere and also offer them the chance to add a powerful piece of Tomb Raider memorabilia to their collection."
Tomb Raider follows the adventures of Lara Croft after she is hired by a powerful syndicate to retrieve a mythical object called the Scion. After discovering that she has been used as a pawn in some larger scheme, Lara takes matters into her own hands deciding that she must uncover the mystery behind this ancient artefact.
The three-disc GAME Exclusive Collector's Edition features a number of bonus materials including:
The Tomb Raider Story: A Ten Year Retrospective Documentary Tomb Raider: Anniversary and Tomb Raider: Legend Exclusive Soundtrack mix Gallery of Tomb Raider artwork and collection of trailers from the past and present.GAME strongly advises it's customers to pre-order this exclusive title in-store or online at www.game.co.uk to ensure that they are the first in the queue to receive this legendary game.
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For further details please contact the PR Department on 01256 784442 or pr@game.co.uk
Notes to Editors
* *Tomb Raider: Anniversary Collector's Edition is available to buy for PC and PS2 exclusively at GAME from 1st June, priced £24.99 and £29.99 respectively.
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