Tomb Raider

The beginning of a trilogy that failed to build high on these solid foundations, the reimagined Tomb Raider is perhaps the best refresh of a well-known character we’ve seen, showing Lara Croft at the start of her career, taking away the sexualization, and leaving a delicate girl just as likely to shake and whimper as she is to pepper an enemy with rifle fire. She grows into a mass murderer, but takes her first kill hard, and even when forced to hunt deer for food, she clearly feels every death deeply. It’s an interesting character portrait as much as an acrobatic shooter.

Released: 2013 https://tombraider.square-enix-games.com