Tomb Raider A - The Techno Egyptians by Psiko Release Date:    March 2007 Size:                 341.7 Mb File Type:          TR4 No of Levels       21 Platform            PC and MAC

Report by George Maciver

Story

The Techno Egyptian Empire has thrived at the Centre of the earth, inside the innermost part of the planet, which is hollow. The Techno Egyptians have never stopped evolving and have developed their superior technology and religion unbeknown to anyone up here at the surface.

Down at the core of the earth there is a powerful Nuclear Sun called The Kernel, which stokes the energy for their Empire. This Kernel is a Yellow Sun, kept alive by the energy of four elements which is collected by energy pylons from the earth's forests, deserts and the two ice caps. But The Kernel is nearing exhaustion. After a long and bloody war for possession of the Kernal of Rhatach, the nuclear Kernel of the Four Elements, the Techno Egyptians built a Great Portal to the surface of the earth and quietly had a look around.

Rumours began to spread about this civilisation at the earth's core. Dante's Inferno talked about the portal and the Empire, however his interpretation was misleading in that he envisaged it to be a hell for sinners. The Techno Egyptians fuelled these rumours and founded secret societies with which they began to control us.

In the year 2002, while Lara was in Jerusalem searching for an ancient artefact called the Imperial Symbol of New RHA, she met a Father of Atlantis who revealed to her Masonic prophecies of an advanced race coming from the earth's core to conquer and subdue all before them. Lara learns that this race is desperate, for their Kernal is losing power and that they need to gather the energy of the four elements from the surface or perish. Harvesting the earths elements will save their peoples but there is one problem - the surface of the earth will become barren and uninhabitable. When this race returns through the portal to the centre of the earth, there will be no life left on the surface.

Lara knows she has to find this legendary Imperial Symbol of New RHA The Mighty to prevent the extermination of the human race.

Tomb Raider A - The Techno Egyptians

Breathtaking in scope and mind blowing in scale, this adventure will immerse you in a world you just will not want to leave. The sheer magnitude of what Psiko has pulled off here is staggering. When it's 2 am and way past your bed time and the next morning you can't wait until after work so you can lose yourself once more in the game, you know you're playing something very special indeed.

As well as the usual Tomb Raider goodies, like excellent platforming, exploring and puzzle solving, this game has an unbelievably strong storyline which pulls you right into the game and puts the future of the human race in your hands. And if saving the human race doesn't do it for you, not to worry, you still won't be able to leave until you finally put that massive machine (which fills an entire level) into motion to see what it does!

The second and third parts of the game involve an incredible amount of moving back and forth between levels so you will either have to have an incredibly good memory, a comprehensive set of notes detailing doors not yet opened or a good walkthrough handy.

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