In 1996, Lara Croft changed the landscape of action gaming. Not often did we get to play with hot babes in video games. Only hulking space mercs blowing up everything in sight, hopefully removing some alien threat or evil spawn from the depths of Hell. Now we have a cool Brit babe wielding a pair of pistols and running around in short shorts. Face it, no one will ever remember who was saving the planet in Doom or Unreal, but we'll never forget that hot chick in Tomb Raider - Lara Croft.