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December 3, 2008
Tomb Raider Challenge with Google Earth
In a promotion for the latest Lara Croft game "Tomb Raider Underworld", Atari is running a contest called the Tomb Raider Challenge 
(GE Plugin and Adobe plugins required) with the opportunity over the next few days for a lucky someone to win a Sony PS3. The fun part is that it uses the Google Earth Plugin to play the game. Basically, you visit the site and are presented each day with a clue. You then have to hunt on the Earth to find the location provided by the clue. If you guess right, after you zoom in close enough, you will see an orange Tomb Raider icon. When you see that, you've found the answer! Click on it and you will be congratulated on deciphering the clue, and can submit your name and E-mail to see if you were first. There is also a bigger "Major Challenge" where you can win a trip around the world, a big screen TV, and a lot of other goodies.
NOTE: At least on my computer it takes quite a while for this web site to load up (over a minute). Once it does load, you have to close the video of "Lara Croft" ("X" button in the lower right) to see the underlying Google Earth plugin and today's challenge.
There's an extensive forum thread all about this challenge at the Tomb Raider Forums. Some people are posting hints on each day's clues. There was also discussion in the thread that apparently the contest is only for folks in New Zealand or Australia. But, I haven't verified that yet.
Posted by FrankTaylor at December 3, 2008 8:32 AM
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Comments
Posted by: Ron at December 3, 2008 6:27 PM
Nice.
Posted by: Smith at December 4, 2008 2:13 AM
Great idea, and great campaign.
Posted by: fan at December 5, 2008 12:25 AM
I have pressed the download button again and again, and it downloads, but then when i try to get into it, it says it cannot be found. so i cant even get into placing the daggers.
Help, i am dying to enter this competition!!!!!!
Posted by: Genevieve at December 16, 2008 6:25 PM
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Wow, this is awesome. The placing of the daggers is really nice. Cool stuff.