On This Page: Overview Walkthrough Finnish Walkthrough (Suomenkielinen läpipelaus) Related Pages: Controls Gameplay & Strategy Cheats PC & Macintosh Savegames Tech Support Links Demos & Patches

After being buried alive in the Temple of Horus at the end of Tomb Raider: The Last Revelation, our heroine is presumed dead. Friends and colleagues gather at Croft Manor to pay their respects and reminisce over Lara's past deeds. In flashback sequences the player gets to relive four of these adventures: The hunt for the Philosopher's Stone in Rome, a deepsea dive off the coast of Russia in search of the Spear of Destiny, a brush with Hellspawn in old Ireland, and a foray into a high-tech office complex to retrieve the Iris artifact. Lara's fate is still unknown, but these four mini-stories, released in the fall of 2000, helped fill the gap between The Last Revelation and TR6, The Angel of Darkness.

Tomb Raider Level Editor (TRLE): This is included on a separate CD sold with the PC and Macintosh version of Chronicles. Console players can download the software but it can only be used to build levels for PC or Mac. My Level Editor section includes more information.

Platforms: Available for PC, Macintosh, PlayStation and Dreamcast.

What's New Since TR4: The game engine is pretty much the same as in Last Revelation. Lara has some new outfits—arctic camo for the Russian sub base levels, even an Extreme Depth Suit for swimming in icy waters—and in the Irish adventure, we get to play as the teenage Lara. Lara also gets a few new moves: She can now tightrope walk, swing around horizontal bars and somersault out of tight spaces. (See the controls page for details.)

Saving Your Game: There are unlimited saves on all platforms; however, players using the PC version may encounter a bug that prevents saving the game at all. Fortunately this is easily fixed. See the bug note at the start of the walkthrough for details. (PC and Macintosh savegame files are available in case you make a bad save, want to skip a level, etc.)

Secrets: There are 36 golden roses in the game. If you find them all, after the credits you'll be able to access "Special Features" from the options menu. This is a collection of storyboards, etc., created during the game design.

Bonus Levels: No official add-ons, but check out the Level Editor pages for sites with player-created levels you can download.

Tomb Raider Chronicles & Windows Vista, XP or 2000: You will probably not encounter any particular issues installing or running Chronicles under Windows Vista, Windows XP or Windows 2000. If you do run into difficulties, you're welcome to start your troubleshooting process with my Downloads and Tech Support Links pages.

Becoming an Expert Raider: If you've never played Tomb Raider before—or even if you have—I encourage you to check out my TR5 Controls and Gameplay Tips & Strategy pages. They include pointers on moving Lara through her environment, conserving health and ammo, using the menu and inventory systems, and much more.

Rome Levels Level 1: Streets of Rome Level 2: Trajan's Markets Level 3: The Colosseum (PC Demo)
	Russian Submarine Levels Level 4: The Base Level 5: The Submarine Level 6: Deepsea Dive Level 7: Sinking Sub
Ireland Levels Level 8: Gallows Tree Level 9: Labyrinth Level 10: Old Mill
	VCI Headquarters Levels Level 11: 13th Floor Level 12: Escape with the Iris Level 13: Red Alert!

Finnish Walkthrough (Suomenkielinen läpipelaus): In addition to my English walkthroughs, tombraiders.net is in the process of adding Finnish language walkthroughs for all the games. We begin with the one for Chronicles, which begins here (täältä). Special thanks to Hanna P. for her skill and dedication as a translator.

Special thanks to Anubis_AF for providing most of screenshots shown on this page,
and to Tomb Raider Saga for the last two screenshots.