Atari New Zealand, exclusive distributor for Eidos Interactive in New Zealand, is proud to announce that the much anticipated Tomb Raider Challenge is live and is quickly capturing the attention of the gaming community.

To celebrate the launch of Tomb Raider: Underworld across New Zealand on Friday 5th December, the Tomb Raider Challenge will showcase the environmental puzzle solving aspects of the game via an innovative digital artefact hunt.

Pioneering Google’s ground breaking technology, Google Earth, the Tomb Raider Challenge invites residents of Australia and New Zealand to decipher clues and fly around the earth to find digital artefacts.

Eidos Interactive today confirmed that the new official Tomb Raider: Underworld website has just gone live.

Created entirely from in-game footage, the interactive site showcases some of the locations found in Tomb Raider: Underworld and takes players on a journey to the depths of the Kraken Room in the Mediterranean, on the muddy bike trails in Chiapas, Mexico and deep into the hostile jungles of Thailand.

Every section of the site is playable and provides visitors with a set of diverse mini challenges based around some of the events that take place within the Tomb Raider: Underworld game. Those completing the challenges on the site will be rewarded with a series of exclusive unlockable items.

Eidos Interactive have announced that the demo for Tomb Raider: Underworld is now available for the Xbox 360 through the Xbox LIVE Marketplace. The demo is a chance to become a part of the epic adventure that awaits players when Tomb Raider: Underworld launches in late November.

The demo will have players travelling to the western coast of Thailand - the second destination in Tomb Raider: Underworld - to experience a taste of the adventure that is to come. Gamers can master steep coastal cliffs, navigate perilous and crumbling ruins, evade vicious wild animals and use state-of-the-art gear such as the grapple or the new Field Assistance System to create and uncover paths that will take players deep into the challenging wilds of Thailand.

Tomb Raider: Underworld will release on the Xbox 360, PS3, Nintendo Wii, PlayStation 2, Nintendo DS, and PC Games for Windows platforms. The Tomb Raider: Underworld demo is offered in English, French, German, Italian and Spanish and will also be available for the PC on October 31st. A series of additional exclusive downloadable chapters will also be made available on Xbox LIVE starting later this year.

Eidos Interactive today announced an agreement with Microsoft to release two brand new downloadable chapters in the continuing Tomb Raider adventures of Lara Croft.

Containing up to six hours of new gameplay and content for Tomb Raider: Underworld, the chapters will be available exclusively on Xbox Live. A demo for Tomb Raider: Underworld will also be available on Xbox Live in October.

Offering entirely new content specifically designed to extend the Tomb Raider: Underworld experience, Tomb Raider: Underworld – Beneath the Ashes and Tomb Raider: Underworld – Lara’s Shadow will deliver two very different single player gameplay experiences. Tomb Raider: Underworld – Beneath the Ashes takes place after the Underworld story has finished and will feature an incredible new environment to explore, additional secrets to unlock and different enemies to fight. Tomb Raider: Underworld - Lara’s Shadow will introduce players to a new kind of playable character and create a unique Tomb Raider[ experience.

Eidos has launched the first Tomb Raider: Underworld teaser trailer in the UK. Bursting with action, this trailer will give you a first look at what is set to come when the game is officially released in November later this year.

Tomb Raider: Underworld sees Lara undertake her riskiest mission yet, descending to the depths of the underworlds. For generations, stories have been told of the fearsome weapon of the Norse god, Thor. Legend has it that he who wields the hammer has the power to smash mountains into valleys and the strength to destroy even the gods. For more than a thousand years it has existed only as a myth…until now.

In an ancient ruin on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea, Lara Croft uncovers proof of the Norse underworld and the mythical hammer. As Lara attempts to unravel the secrets behind these myths, her perilous journey leads to a forgotten power that, if unleashed, could lay waste to all civilization.

 

Eidos have today released new screenshots and a fact sheet for Tomb Raider: Underworld, the latest in a long line of games chronicling the exploits of Lara Croft.

Tomb Raider: Underworld represents a new advancement in exploration-based gameplay. As fearless adventurer Lara Croft explore exotic locations around the world, each designed with an incredible attention to detail resulting in breathtaking high-definition visual fidelity that creates a truly believable world and delivers a new level of challenge and choice.

For generations, stories have been told of the fearsome weapon of Thor, the Norse god of thunder. Legend holds that Thor’s hammer had the power to smash mountains into valleys and to destroy even the gods. For more than a thousand years it has existed only as a myth…until now.