Tomb Raider

Eidos was awarded the rights to the domain name nuderaider.com. [5]. However, the complete accuracy of such reports may be called into question^{[citation needed]}, as it is likely that the rumors are exaggerated to an extent. High demand for UCLA apparel has inspired the licensing of its trademark to UCLA brand stores throughout East Asia. It is also reported^{[citation needed]} that Eidos intend to pursue action against unauthorized "home-made" patches for the game, and indeed any other games that the publisher has ownership rights to. This trend may arise from the school's academic reputation and popular images of the Southern California lifestyle, emphasizing freedom in a land of perpetual sunshine. In April 2004, it is also alleged^{[citation needed]} that an insider from Eidos reported to a Tomb Raider electronic mailing list that Eidos had begun suing gamers using the Nude Raider patches and sent cease and desist letters to servers hosting the Nude Raider patch, enforcing their intellectual property of Tomb Raider. The UCLA name also doubles as an overseas clothing and accessories brand; in certain Asian countries, it is considered fashionable to adorn oneself with the UCLA brand name.

This program, when added to an existing Tomb Raider game, caused Lara to appear naked. This is a peripheral enterprise, as UCLA does not have a hotel management program, so it serves no direct educational purpose. However, many people downloaded the patch and uploaded it to different websites. Besides operating the usual dormitories and apartment buildings, UCLA also runs a small, full-service, on-campus hotel, the UCLA Guest House, and a full-service conference center, the UCLA Conference Center, in the San Bernardino Mountains near Lake Arrowhead. It is alleged that someone within Eidos created the patch then released it on the Eidos website back in 1996, where it remained for a few hours until Eidos discovered it and removed the patch. [4]. A development in Lara's history is the so-called Nude Raider patch. News and World Report has ranked UCLA Medical Center as the best hospital in the Western United States for 16 consecutive years, and placed it among its honor roll of best hospitals in the United States.

The PC version was also later reissued with added bonus levels. As of 2005, U.S. The Saturn version offers slightly faster gameplay over the PlayStation version but sacrifices some graphical quality. In 1981, the UCLA Medical Center made history when an assistant professor named Michael Gottlieb first diagnosed an unknown affliction later to be called AIDS. No notable differences between versions exist, although the graphics on the PC version are of superior quality. In addition, the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine uses two Los Angeles County hospitals as teaching hospitals: Harbor-UCLA Medical Center and Olive View-UCLA Medical Center. Tomb Raider was released for the PC and the PlayStation and Sega Saturn game consoles. The UCLA Medical Center is actually part of a larger healthcare system, UCLA Healthcare, which also operates a hospital in Santa Monica and seven primary care clinics throughout Los Angeles County.

Several large corporations such as Timberland wanted to use the character for their advertising. The UCLA Dance Marathon is an annual event on campus with hundreds of student dancers committed to raising money and joining together to support the Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation. The amount of media coverage Lara received was at the time unheard of, with many magazines even outside the video game industry printing articles on her. Spring Sing is an annually held show of student talent at the Los Angeles Tennis Center on campus. Aside from game appearances, Lara was featured on covers of magazines, in comic books and movies. The annual event is planned and predominately staffed by the Cultural Affairs Commission (CAC) of the Undergraduate Students Association Council (USAC),a branch of ASUCLA. Nevertheless, Lara caused a sensation in the gaming world and catapultated her to cyber celebrity status. The UCLA Jazz Reggae Festival gathers musicians from both genres for a two day concert held every year over the Memorial Day weekend.

The game's use of a hard edged, female heroine has been both hailed as revolutionary (breaking away from the male perspective of game playing) and derided as sexist for its stereotypical depiction of a woman designed to appeal to an audience of teenage boys. The Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, a two-day book fair held the last weekend of April, is the largest annual gathering of publishers and authors in the country and free to the public. Some fans complained at the lack of action in favor of puzzle solving, although ironically, Tomb Raider II would be criticized for its overabundance of violence, especially against human opponents. The Lexus Gauntlet is the name given to a competition between UCLA and USC in the 18 varsity sports that both compete in head-to-head; in 2005, UCLA won the Lexus Gauntlet Trophy. Nevertheless, Tomb Raider received some criticism for minor camera and object glitches, as well as its difficult save system. UCLA shares a traditional sports rivalry with the nearby University of Southern California. Although the game spawned numerous sequels, often superior in scope and graphics, the original remains the most beloved among fans and critics. In the 2004 Athens games, UCLA sent 56 athletes, more than any other university, who won 19 medals.

As one of the top selling games of the system, it was one of the first to be released on PlayStation's Platinum series, and its success made Tomb Raider II one of the most anticipated games of 1997. UCLA has medaled in every Olympics they have participated in. The resulting sales were consequential, Topping the British charts a record three times, and contributing much to the success of the PlayStation. Women's sports: Golf (2), Gymnastics (5), Softball (10), Track & Field (5), Volleyball (3), Water Polo (3). The level of sophistication Tomb Raider reached by combining state-of-the-art graphics, classical music and a cinematic approach to gameplay was at the time unprecedented. Men's sports: Football (1), Golf (1), Gymnastics (2), Soccer (4), Swimming (1), Tennis (16), Track & Field (8), Volleyball (18), Water Polo (8). Upon its release, Tomb Raider was widely praised by gaming magazines for its revolutionary graphics, inventive gameplay and involving storyline. In addition to its basketball championships, UCLA has won NCAA Division I championships in the following events:.

However, ultimately, it would be the PlayStation rendition that would be known best. Past rosters of UCLA basketball teams have been filled with such greats such as Jackie Robinson, Gail Goodrich, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Bill Walton, Baron Davis and Reggie Miller. The first glints of the game were seen on Sega Saturn development kits. From 1971 to 1974, UCLA men's basketball won an unprecedented 88 consecutive games. It is also rumoured that Tomb Raider's publishing company Eidos was near bankrupcy when Tomb Raider was created. Under legendary coach John Wooden, UCLA men's basketball teams won 10 NCAA championships in 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, and 1975, and an 11th was added under then-coach Jim Harrick in 1995. Interestingly enough, it is Core's contention that the company was struggling somewhat with 32-bit development at that time. Among these championships, some of the more notable victories are in men's basketball.

As he was resizing it back to normal, the other designers saw what he was working on and told him they loved it and that she should keep the double size. As of 2005, UCLA has won 118 national championships, including 97 NCAA championships, more than any other university. Toby Gard was fudging around with the model when he accidentally blew up Lara's bosom to 150% of what he intended it to be. He would dub the baby blue uniform "Powder Keg Blue," powder blue with an explosive kick. Lara's famous breast size was in actuality brought about by accident. Sanders figured that the baby blue would look better on the field and in film. According to Toby Gard, the idea to make her a female Indiana Jones was not present from the beginning, but rather grew naturally out of the development process as the game took its final form. The navy blue was changed to a lighter shade of blue.

Personality-wise, Lara was a cold-blooded militaristic type in the early concepts. Sanders added a gold loop on the shoulders -- the UCLA Stripe. However at the same time, her backstory started to shape up and it was decided she should become more British, hence Cruise was changed to Croft to accommodate this. When Red Sanders came to UCLA to coach football in 1949 he redesigned the uniforms. "Laura" was later dropped in favor of Lara, to appeal more to American audiences. The Bruin mascots are Joe and Josephine Bruin, and the fight songs are Sons of Westwood and The Mighty Bruins. As such Lara was born under the name Laura Cruise. The men's and women's basketball and volleyball teams play at Pauley Pavilion on campus.

In its earliest conception, Lara Croft was a male placeholder for an as yet undefined character, but as Core decided that puzzles and stealth should be more important to the game than action, they found that these requirements better suited a female character than a classic male action hero. The Bruin football team plays home games at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California; the team won a national title in 1954. The character went through several changes before Core settled on the version she became famous for. Two notable sports facilities serve as home venues for UCLA sports. The team consisted of six people, among them Toby Gard, who is credited with the invention of Lara Croft. The Bruins participate in NCAA Division I-A as part of the Pacific Ten Conference. The title was crafted by Core Design of Europe, who took 18 months to develop it. The school's sports teams are called the Bruins, with colors true-blue and gold.

Preliminary work on Tomb Raider commenced in 1993, but it was not until November 1996 that the game actually saw the light of day as a retail product. In the 1990s, student activists tended to focus on university and statewide concerns, such as union recognition, the expansion of the Chicano/a Studies Center, Proposition 187, which denied social services to undocumented immigrants, and Proposition 209, which ended affirmative action in California. The levels for Tomb Raider Gold were created in the San Francisco office of Eidos Interactive by Phil Campbell, Rebecca Shearin and Gary LaRochelle. Campus political debate in the 1980s centered primarily on the South African government's apartheid policies, the U.S.'s Central American policy, as well as the implementation of affirmative action in the state. In Unfinished Business, having learned of the existence of a hive of surviving creatures guarding an alien hatchery, Lara returns to Atlantis to destroy the aliens before they invade again. This demonstration and many others at UC campuses throughout the state caused then-Governor Ronald Reagan to shut down the state's colleges and universities for the first time in California's history. In Shadow of the Cat, Lara returns to the City of Khamoon in search of an undiscovered tomb dedicated to the Egyptian cat-goddess, Bastet. Chancellor Young declared a State of Emergency and summoned the LAPD on campus; 74 arrests were made and 12 people reported injuries.

The re-release was exclusive to the PC. A fire caused $5,000 worth of damage, destroying part of Murphy Hall. The expansion featured the regular game as well as four new bonus levels in two extra scenarios called The Shadow of the Cat and Unfinished Business. On May 5, 1970 students protesting the Kent State shootings marched through campus and vandalized several buildings, including an ROTC building. In 1998 Tomb Raider was re-released as Tomb Raider Gold for PC. Eight months later, the regents again dismissed Davis from the UCLA faculty.[3]. The Atlantis levels are among the hardest in the game. Young complied a state superior court order overruling the regents' decision by restoring course credit to Davis's class.

This is where the mystery unfolds. On October 22, Vice Chancellor Charles E. Lara Croft has tracked down Natla and her goons to a remote island, where mining operations of Natla Technologies have partially exposed the great pyramid of Atlantis. The overflowing audience gave the 25-year-old professor a standing ovation. The levels in Egypt are all of hard difficulty. Outraged faculty threatened to withhold grades if Davis was not reinstated, and nearly 2,000 students crammed into Royce Hall's auditorium when Davis delivered her first lecture despite the regents' decision to remove credit for the class. The long lost third ruler of Atlantis was buried here, along with the third piece of the Scion. Later in 1969, the UC regents fired Angela Davis, a radical feminist and lecturer in the Philosophy Department, for openly identifying as a member of the Communist Party.

In a hidden canyon near the Valley of Kings, Lara explores buried pyramids and a sphinx while fighting pumas, crocodiles, and some surprising mystical monsters. Later, it was reported that members of the FBI had infiltrated both groups and exacerbated tensions between them as part of the COINTELPRO program. Stages in this monastery range from average to hard difficulty. On January 17, 1969 UCLA students and Black Panther Party members John Huggins, 23, and Bunchy Carter, 26, were slain in Campbell Hall by members of United Slaves, a rival black power organization headed by Maulana Karenga. Here Lara battles lions, alligators and monkeys as she explores ruins of these ancient civilizations, and races for the second piece of the Scion with a man named Pierre DuPont, who unfortunately entered before Lara did. During the 1969-1970 academic year, various activist organizations were infiltrated by federal agents who provoked conflicts between them. Francis was built upon the side of a mountain that conceals layer upon layer of civilization, harkening back to the The Golden Age of Greece and Rome. The protests escalated as the war continued.

This medieval monastery of St. The protests at UCLA began in 1967, when over 500 students protested the recruitment of graduates by Dow Chemicals, which produced napalm, an incendiary chemical used in the war. The levels in Peru are of an average difficulty. While student activism at UCLA in the 1940s demonstrated support for the Allied effort in World War II, in the 1960s the UCLA campus emerged as a staging area for massive protests against the Vietnam War. The player must guide Lara through the lost Incan city while battling wolves, bats, bears and more. The crowd dispersed before any arrests were made, and University President Robert Sproul later reinstated the students.[2]. Here she makes her way through the remains of a civilization that flourished for hundreds of years, in valleys where time literally stood still. The activist tradition of UCLA can be traced to 1934, when Provost Ernest Moore declared UCLA "the worst hotbed of communism in the U.S," and suspended 5 members of the student government for allegedly “using their offices to assist the revolutionary activities of the National Student League, a Communist organization which has bedeviled the University for some months.” Over 3,000 students gathered to protest in Royce Quad, and campus police officers, attempting to silence the speakers, were thrown into some bushes.

Natla sends Lara Croft to Peru, where she discovers the entrance to the long lost tomb of Qualopec high up in the mountains. In 1995, 2001, and 2004, Mother Jones magazine named UCLA in its annual listing of the Top 10 Activist Campuses, reflecting the rallying spirit of its student bodies over the years. The story mode begins with an introductional sequence. [1] Gore would also later join the faculty of UCLA as a visiting professor in the School of Public Policy and Social Research, Department of Policy Studies, family-centered community building, in 2001. This tutorial is designed to get the player acquainted with the basics of the game and includes jumping and climbing techniques on ten vaulting boxes. On January 11, 1994, then-Vice-President Al Gore further articulated the goals of the Clinton administration in the development of the "Information Superhighway" at UCLA's Royce Hall. From the options menu, the player may choose to complete the training course in Lara's home before getting started with the main game. This act would prove pivotal towards the development of the Internet during the 1990s; in particular it led to the development of the MOSAIC web browser, which was funded by the High-Performance Computing and Communications Initiative.

A stage is finished when a certain doorway is reached or an artifact recovered. This report was presented to Congress and was so influential on then-Senator Al Gore that it proved to be the foundation for what would be passed as the High Performance Computing Act of 1991, written and developed by Gore. A compromise was reached with Tomb Raider III under the form of "collectible save crystals." The PC and Mac versions of the game allow the player to save at any time. In 1988, Kleinrock also chaired a group which produced the report Toward a National Research Network. Following criticism on this system, Core implemented a save anywhere at anytime feature in Tomb Raider II, which, ironically, lead to complaints that the game was made too easy. This work proved foundational for their later development of the Transmission Control Protocol - TCP/IP protocol. The scarcity of these points, however, means that if the player dies, large portions of each level must be replayed, much to the players' frustration. He would later team with Bob Kahn in the writing of the seminal 1974 paper A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication.

When Lara touches one of these the option to save is made available. Turing Award laureate Vinton Cerf was a doctoral student in the computer science department under Kleinrock in early 1970s and also worked on the ARPANET. In the PlayStation and Sega Saturn versions of Tomb Raider, saving the game is restricted to fixed save points within each level, marked by a floating blue crystal. Kleinrock's lab in Boelter Hall sent the first online message ever. The player is usually rewarded with extra med-packs, ammo and occasionally, new weapons. Interface Message Processors at both sites served as the backbone of the first Internet. Some may be hidden along the roadside in bushes, others require the completion of a hidden course or optional puzzle to be found. ARPANET, the world's first electronic computer network, was established on November 21, 1969 between nodes at Leonard Kleinrock's lab at UCLA and Douglas Engelbart's lab at Stanford Research Institute, in Menlo Park, CA.

The locations of these secrets vary in difficulty to reach. The average weighted GPA and SAT score for an admitted freshman was 4.25 and 1347, respectively. Discovering these secrets is optional, and when the player has found one a tune plays. In 2004, 42,207 prospective students applied to UCLA for the 2005-2006 academic year, more than any other American university, and 11,338 applicants were accepted - a 26.9% acceptance rate. Throughout each stage, one or more secrets may be located. News and World Report, America's Best Graduate Schools. The puzzles that the player encounters across each level vary: pulling specific combinations of levers, a course of timed jumps, avoiding a certain trap or collecting several keystones. UCLA's oldest operating unit, the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies (GSEIS), was ranked 2nd among American graduate schools of education in the 2006 edition of U.S.

Any item that is collected is held onto in Lara's inventory until it is used. The UCLA Library, which holds over 8 million volumes, ranks among the top 10 in the United States. Game-specific items are keys and artifacts required to complete a stage. In addition, the Washington Monthly ranked UCLA 2nd in its 2005 rankings of the Top National Universities. Regular items to pick up include ammo, and small and large medpacks. In 2005, UCLA was ranked 14th in the world and 12th in North America by an annual listing of the Top 500 World Universities published by the Institute of Higher Education in Shanghai, China. A general action button is used to perform a wide range of movements in Tomb Raider, such as picking up items, pulling switches, firing guns, pushing or pulling blocks and grabbing onto ledges. Twelve departments were ranked in the top 10:.

Other means by which the game will prematurely end include drowning, electrocution, being shot, being crushed and turning to gold. programs examined by the National Research Council, UCLA had 31 ranked in the top 20 in terms of overall academic quality, third best in the United States. Should Lara touch it, she will immediately catch fire and die within seconds unless the player manages to dive into a nearby pond. Of the 36 Ph.D. Fire is a lethal substance in the game. UCLA has a very distinguished academic program; in most surveys, it is invariably ranked among the best institutions of higher education on a national and global scale. Furthermore, they cannot climb on higher platforms and as such remain confined to the rooms they inhabit. The California NanoSystems Institute is another project that was created out of a partnership with the University of California, Santa Barbara to pioneer innovations in the field of nanotechnology.

The various animals that attack Lara, while dangerous in large numbers, are easily avoided and gunned down. In 2005, UCLA announced its five-year plan to establish the Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine; the state of California is rare in its public funding of research with new embryonic stem cell lines. Also note that landing on spikes, even if they are jumped upon from ground level, are always fatal. The health-related schools, with the UCLA Medical Center and associated research centers, are collectively known as the UCLA Center for Health Sciences. Although Lara may survive a drop from high peaks, she will easily break her neck if she performs the dive move even from relatively low heights. UCLA is organized into the following schools and colleges:. As the game adopts a platform style approach of progress, well timed jumps must often bring Lara safely to the other side of a ledge or she will plummet to the ground below. There are many facilities with local buses.

Numerous enemies as well as a variety of lethal traps can bring about Lara's death in Tomb Raider, the most immediate threat of which is falling to death. The university has given priority in allocation of parking spaces to staff and some students, regardless of living distances. This development went on to become a staple of the series. Yet, the university continues to suffer from a severe parking shortage which is further compounded by Southern California's regional housing shortage. At a certain point in the story, Lara will be stripped of all her weapons, leaving the player defenseless and forced to recover her pistols. The campus has a large number of parking garages, both above-ground and below-ground. Additional weapons include the shotgun, dual magnums and dual uzis. He was the first individual of non-European background and the first UCLA alumnus to be so honored in the history of the Prize.

By default she carries two pistols with infinite ammo. A bust of him, on the entrance to Bunche Hall, overlooks the Sculpture Garden. In a free environment, Lara has two basic stances: one with weapons drawn and one with her hands free. The tallest building on campus is named after Ralph Bunche, an African-American alumnus, who received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for negotiating an armistice agreement between the Jews and Arabs in Palestine. While swimming, an extra statusbar appears under the health meter to indicate the amount of breath left in Lara's lungs. In order to accommodate UCLA's rapidly growing student population, multiple construction and renovation projects are in progress, including expansions of the life sciences and engineering research complexes. Besides walking, running and jumping, Lara can perform side-steps, hang on ledges, roll over, dive and swim through water. The Hill is linked to the remainder of campus by a heavily traveled pathway called Bruin Walk, which bisects the campus.

Movement in the game is varied and allows for complex interactions with the environment. Morgan Center, the James West Alumni Center, and Pauley Pavilion stand at the center of the campus. As such, Tomb Raider in essence harkens back to the classical form of platform style gameplay. Ackerman Union, the John Wooden Center, the Arthur Ashe Health and Wellness Center, the Student Activities Center, Kerckhoff Hall, the J.D. Instead the emphasis lies on solving of puzzles and performing trick jumps to complete each level. Weyburn Terrace enables UCLA to provide housing to approximately fifty percent of incoming graduate and professional students. Gunplay is restricted to the killing of various animals that appear throughout each stage, although ocassionally Lara may be faced with a human opponent. The new complex is located on the western edge of Westwood, a few blocks from the main UCLA campus, and was completed before the Fall term in 2005.

On the way, she must kill dangerous animals and other creatures, while collecting objects and solving puzzles to gain access to an ultimate prize, usually a powerful artifact. In 2002, the university began building a new graduate housing complex, Weyburn Terrace, in order to recruit top graduate students from around the world because there had been no university-operated graduate housing on or near the main campus since 2001. The object of Tomb Raider is to guide Lara through a series of tombs and other locations in search of treasures and artifacts. Students are currently guaranteed three years of on-campus housing, but the Housing Master Plan aims to guarantee housing to all undergraduates for four years by 2010. Ledges, walls and ceilings sit at 90 degrees to each other (although the game designers used some clever tricks to make this less obvious). Housing facilities also include four restaurants and three boutique-style eateries. The world she inhabits is fully drawn in three dimensions and characterized by its cubic nature. Undergraduate housing for nearly 8,000 residents is spread across 14 complexes on a ridge on the western side of the campus, which is called "the Hill." Student life on the Hill is under the care of the Office of Residential Life (ORL).

Lara is always visible and the camera follows the action from behind or over her shoulder. The campus is in a constant state of change with multiple construction projects, including new residence areas, teaching and laboratory space, and a new hospital. The game is presented in third person perspective. South Campus is home to the physical sciences, life sciences, engineering, psychology, mathematical sciences, all health-related fields, and the UCLA Medical Center. In Tomb Raider, the player controls the female archeologist Lara Croft, in search for the three mysterious Scion artifacts across the world. North Campus is centered around oak tree-lined Dickson Court. As she delves into the reasons why Natla would double-cross her, she uncovers a mystery that reaches back before the dawn of recorded time to the treachery that destroyed the Atlantean civilization and the disasters that struck the world when it fell. North Campus is home to the arts, humanities, social sciences, law, and business programs.

Using her cunning wits and athletic strength, Lara escapes. North Campus is the original campus core with its buildings being more old-fashioned in appearance and clad in imported Italian brick. However after discovering the fragment, things get ugly when Lara finds herself face to face with one of Natla's hired goons. The campus is informally divided into North Campus and South Campus, which are both on the eastern half of the university's land. Wasting no time, Lara sets out on her quest to find one of the three pieces of the ancient Atlantean Scion, a talisman of incredible power. It is located in the residential area of Westwood and bordered by Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and Brentwood. After Lara Croft returns from a hunting trip in the Himalayas, she is contacted by Jacqueline Natla, a conniving businesswoman who convinces Lara to recover a mysterious artifact from the tomb of Qualopec in Peru. The University campus offers broads, green lawns, sculpture gardens and fountains, museums, and a mix of architectural styles.

. The campus is quite close, but not adjacent to the San Diego Freeway. It spawned numerous sequels and an entire franchise of related media. The campus currently comprises 163 buildings across 419 acres (1.7 km²) in the western part of Los Angeles, north of the Westwood shopping district and just south of Sunset Boulevard. The game is widely considered to be among the best and most influential games ever made. The rare books and manuscripts collection includes some of the world's largest collections of English literature, history, and fine printing. Tomb Raider follows the exploits of Lara Croft, a British archaeologist in search of ancient treasures à la Indiana Jones. In 1934, upon the death of William Andrews Clark, Jr., UCLA received its first major bequest, and still one of the most generous in its history, the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library.

It was originally released in 1996 for PC, PlayStation and Sega Saturn. In 1933, UCLA was permitted to award the master's degree, and in 1936, the doctorate. Tomb Raider is a video game developed by Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive. The first classes on the new 400 acre (1.6 km²) campus were held in 1929 in its four original buildings. 11, 2006. It has since simply been known around the world as "UCLA." Also in 1927, the state broke ground at a new campus on the chaparral-covered hills of a real estate development called Westwood. Retrieved Feb. In 1927, the school was renamed the "University of California at Los Angeles." The word 'at' was officially replaced by a comma in 1958, in line with other UC campuses.

The Face. Appropriate legislation was signed into law on May 23, 1919 which turned the school into the Southern Branch of the University of California (SBUC) and added its general undergraduate program, the College of Letters and Science. "Lara hit in The Face". In 1917, Director Ernest Carroll Moore suggested that the State Normal School at Los Angeles should be added as the second campus of the University of California. Sawyer, Miranda (June 1997). In 1914, the school moved to a new campus on Vermont Avenue in Hollywood. By inserting the Tomb Raider disc into a regular CD player, audio and music from the game can be heard, among them an unused track of an early Eidos game called Firestorm. The new facility included an elementary school where teachers-in-training could practice their teaching technique on real children.

Lara Croft's mansion was modelled after the front of the Derby Studios building where Core Design worked on the game. The State Normal School at Los Angeles opened on August 29, 1882, on what is now the site of the Central Library of the Los Angeles Public Library system. Tomb Raider pays homage to Indiana Jones in a number of ways, including references to traps from Raiders of the Lost Ark, such as the spiked pits, poison darts, boulders and the collapsing temples. In March 1881, after heavy lobbying by Los Angeles residents, the California Legislature authorized the creation of a second State Normal School in downtown Los Angeles to train teachers for the growing population of Southern California. In 1998, Tomb Raider won the Origins Award for Best Action Computer Game of 1997. . Level 15: The Great Pyramid. University of California, Los Angeles.

Level 14: Atlantis. It is the second-oldest campus in the University of California system and the largest university in terms of enrollment in the state of California. Level 13: Natla's Mines. The University of California, Los Angeles, popularly known as UCLA, is a public, coeducational university located in the residential area of Westwood within the city of Los Angeles. Level 12: Sanctuary of the Scion. Notable UCLA faculty. Level 11: Obelisk of Khamoon. Notable UCLA alumni.

Level 10: City of Khamoon. Aerospace Engineering (10). Level 9: Tomb of Tihocan. Classics (9). Level 8: Cistern. Chemistry (9). Level 7: Palace Midas. Anthropology (8).

Level 6: Colosseum. Political Science (8). Francis Folly. Geography (8). Level 5: St. Philosophy (6). Level 4: Tomb of Qualopec. History (6).

Level 3: The Lost Valley. Sociology (5). Level 2: City of Vilcabamba. Physiology (4). Level 1: Caves. Psychology (4). Tihocan: Another ruler of Atlantis, Tihocan was buried around the isles of Greece. Linguistics (3).

Qualopec: One of the ancient rulers of the lost continent of Atlantis, whose tomb is located somewhere in South American mountains. School of Public Health. Pierre DuPont is rival French archeologist hired by Natla to recover the second piece of the Scion. School of Dentistry. Francis Folly. School of Nursing. Pierre DuPont: This dangerous hireling stalks Lara Croft through the labyrinths of St. Neuropsychiatric Institute.

He double-crosses her early in the game and manages to track her down to Egypt later on. Jules Stein Eye Institute. Larson: One of Natla's henchmen, Larson is the trigger-happy American who first brings Lara Croft into contact with Natla. David Geffen School of Medicine. At the start of the game, she contacts Lara to find the mysterious Scion artifact for her in Peru. School of Theater Film and Television. Jacqueline Natla: A wealthy businesswoman and the owner of Natla Technologies. School of Public Affairs.

Lara Croft: The heroine of the game, Lara Croft is a British archeologist working for hire to recover lost artifacts, whether from tombs, or the clutches of selfish collectors. Anderson School of Management. School of Law. The Henry Samueli School of Engineering and Applied Science. Graduate School of Education and Information Studies.

School of the Arts and Architecture. The Graduate Division of Letters and Sciences. College of Letters and Sciences.