Trivia
Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness was named #2 Worst Game of the Year in the “Best of 2003” Awards in Computer Games Magazine (March 2004 issue).
Contributed by
PCGamer77 
(3025) on Jan 13, 2008.
On January 13, 2004 has Angel of Darkness (PS2) won the Gold-Award from the German VUD (Verband der Unterhaltungssoftware Deutschland - Entertainment Software Association Germany) for selling more then 100,000 (but less then 200,000) units in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
Contributed by
Xoleras (67002) on Aug 18, 2005.
Core planned to release 2 more Tomb Raider games based on AOD's engine. However due to it's lukewarm response, Eidos halted the production of the next TR game. In fact, Eidos shocked everyone when they announced that future Tomb Raider games will be developed by Crystal Dynamics, which seemed odd as Lara Croft was seen as a British icon.
Even though AOD received alot of bad press it still managed to sell 1 million copies.
Want to see the intro or even the end-game movie? If you're playing the Windows version, and you've done the Full Install, look on your hard drive!
Look for a folder called DATA and its subfolders. Inside the one named FMV, you'll find MPEG files containing all of the movies .. including one called END.mpeg.
You'll find other viewable graphics in the Data subfolder called FRONTEND ... in TGA and JPEG formats. The one called GALLERY.TGA is very nice .. a photo of Lara that is not used in the game anywhere.
Contributed by
Jeanne (59267) on Jul 11, 2004.
Sometimes synergy works, sometimes it doesn't.
When the second Tomb Raider movie had a weak opening at the box office, Paramount studios was quick to point the finger at Angel of Darkness. In an interview with Reuters, Wayne Lewellen (President in charge of Distribution) said:
"The only thing we can attribute that to is that the gamers were not happy with the latest version of the 'Tomb Raider' video game, which is our core audience"
Angel of Darkness came out one month before the movie. Had it been the other way around, perhaps Eidos could have blamed the game's numerous bugs and glitches on the film.
Contributed by
ClydeFrog (10174) on Apr 09, 2004.
If you do a full install of the game, you can play it without needing to have the game CD in your CD drive. The game's readme file even expicitly mentions this. This is an unusual display of trust (or perhaps it's just resignation) in today's copyright paranoid times.
Contributed by
Alan Chan (3712) on Apr 07, 2004.
Even though the game was developed by a UK company, it suffered numerous delays and release date changes and was eventually released in the UK after the USA.
