Damn, that's a lotta different consoles this game was released for!

Let me first say I was not one to really like Lara Croft. I thought she ripped off Indiana Jones, her artifacts were too science fiction and not based well enough on mythology, and she looked liked an anorexic alien with her huge wide eyes, huge boobs, and waist the size of a little girl. I never thought her or her games were all that... Then Legend came out and the series looked way better than ever.

"I am from the planet Polygonia. Take me to your leader, Earthling!" - Lara Croft

"Looking back? ... Wow... I do NOT regret getting all that plastic surgery! Had a breast reduction too. Good thing, double Ds and hordes or treasure really threw my back out after every adventure."
- Lara Croft

This story of this series actually gets into quite a bit of Lara's life. At the start of the game we see Lara as a child with her mom on a plane that goes down in the himilayan mountains. Next we see her exploring some tomb in Bolivia (Unlike Indiana Jones and most actual archeologists, she never unearths tombs she just goes where they stand proud as though to say "Here I am! Explore me!" ) Here she finds out that a college friend of hers she believed to be dead might actually be alive. Next you play a level that's like a flashback to show what happened and yeah, if I was Lara I'd believe her friend (Whom she's a bit too friendly with, I'm thinking it was her lesbian lover or something) was dead too. Well she goes back to the tomb her friend/lover/aquaintence died in and found no body. It is here she realizes her friend could be after the same relics that she is, yet doesn't seem to realize Amanda is probably spiteful at Lara for leaving her to drown and get crushed under a ton of boulders. What are the relics they are after? Pieces of Excalibur, the sword used by King Arther which in this a blade of black rock with glowing green carvings on it... It's supposed to be magical but I dunno, looks very alien to me... So that whole sci-fi version of myth thing the series done is still here.

"Is he going off about aliens again? Ugh, Mad Wolf is such an idiot... There's no such things as aliens and to speak of which is absurd! What I'm holding is a sword forged from rocks and shoots magical energy... Nothing crazy about that at all!"
- Lara Croft

The game is pretty cool as you scale mountains, dive off cliffs into deep clear water, and shoot out enemies while riding Lara's motorcycle. The levels are a lot less complex than they used to be, but seem more enjoyable (To me at least) with the improved combat and shooting (The previous games Lara just stood in place and shot in a general direction... Not much aiming at all). The game ends with a pretty epic battle of Lara using Excalibur against a demon/wraith/thing that her former lesbian lover Amanda (who is now clad in leathers and has her ass tattooed) thinks is her pet. Fighting the demon/wraith/thing, I can't help but hear...

"Use the force, Lara"
- Obi-Wan Kenobi
"Yes, green it is. Good is green. Bad is red. Dark Side it is... Yeeeessssss..."
- Yoda

Tomb Raider: Legend, as interesting as the story is, as gorgeous as they remade Lara Croft, gets 3 out of 5 legendary relics. This is because I beat the game in under 8 hours of total gameplay and left me wanting more. And although Tomb Raider: Underworld is a direct sequel, it's a completely different game! So it doesn't count as getting more of THIS specific game. Plus I hate the developers turning mythologies into total alien-like science fiction... Still, 3 out 5 isn't bad, just not excellent.