Talk:Tomb Raider II

Indiana Jones References in Trivia

References to Indiana Jones are numerous throughout Tomb Raider II, most notably by the use of locations from Raiders of the Lost Ark (Himalayas) and The Last Crusade (Venice). Also, the music featured in the scene showing Marco Bartoli putting the dagger in his heart is directly taken from the sacrifice scene from The Temple of Doom, played reversed and with some effects added.

So, merely including a setting is enough to make a reference? Is Kundun in refence Indy? It has a Himalayan setting. Likewise, there really isn't too much in common between the two scenes mentioned. They don't naturally suggest each other, no matter which way you play the tape. There is certainly no evidence I know of that the makers were thinking of The Temple of Doom scene when creating the Dagger scene.

There are obvious similarities between the franchises, yes, but I posit that the influence is more general. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Skulking (talk • contribs) 18:29, 8 April 2007 (UTC).

Edit war

This is a message to user 86.128.44.24: stop reverting this page back to your pointless edits. They are not necessary in any way. Get an account, use the talkpage or leave. Otherwise you will be reported for vandalism. --Steerpike 20:44, 27 August 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Steerpike. Wikipedia is not a video game guide. Zephyr2k 16:16, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I've reported this user for vandalism. This guy has been consistently ignoring our call to discuss the subject on the talkpage. He's going to have to stop one time or another. Sigh. --Steerpike 16:43, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

I don't think it's vandalism. Though, he should read Wikipedia:What_Wikipedia_is_not. Zephyr2k 17:28, 28 August 2006 (UTC)

Dagger of Xian

Okay, I looked everywhere for a reference to "The Dagger of Xian" as an official subtitle for this game and found nothing. Is there anyplace where this is officially used? Because if it is just a fan title or a working title, it should not be used at the beginning of this article. Rhindle The Red 12:49, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Okay. --Steerpike 15:52, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

Well, anyone got anything? I don't want to change it again if it can be supported somehow. Rhindle The Red 13:23, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

I didn't double-check it. Probably just an unofficial title given to the story. I'll take your word on it ;) --Steerpike 17:33, 13 December 2006 (UTC)

Fresh Idea

I have a proposal. I posted some time ago an article that just doesn't fitted with Wikipedia's standards. This is my article: User:Locketudor/Tomb Raider music. I want to split it, remake it and distribued it to all Tomb Raider games. --Tulok 15:33, 22 January 2007 (UTC)

Secret door

In Tomb Raider II, there is a maze outside the mansion and at the centre of the maze there was a grey button you could press. When you pressed it, a screen came up showing a secret doorway opening under the stairs. There is no mention of it within this article however. Can somebody include it somewhere and say what was inside the door? SKC

It is mentioned in the section Lara's Mansion: "The house is also home to many secrets, most famously the hedge maze concealing a timed switch to open the basement of the mansion.". - Shrensh 15:25, 24 February 2007 (UTC)

Opera House

I think the idea of "Opera House" level was taken from reality (see the La Fenice Opera house fire) —Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.230.69.102 (talk) 16:16, 19 November 2007 (UTC)

You are right. There are lot of references in the games that leads us that most of the places from TR games are half real. Once upon a time there was a chronology on laracroft.tv about similar places used in TR levels. Timeline Main 4 - this is he link that doesn't works for the moment. Tuloc (talk) 12:18, 3 April 2008 (UTC)

There are also offshore rigs in the Adriatic Sea, south of Venice (not certain whether they are oil rigs though) and the Maria Doria is possibly a reference to the SS Andrea Doria, an Italian cruise liner that sank in 1956. Ricadus (talk) 23:19, 27 July 2010 (UTC)

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Assessment as of 2008-09-20

Rated C class. It's a good start, and there are cited development and reception sections. Please expand the sections and continue the good work.--Kung Fu Man (talk) 16:00, 20 September 2008 (UTC)

Is the...

Tomb Raider Golden Mask image needed in this article? Would it be better if it was in a info box, or if it was just removed? Simon^KSK 00:30, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

A new info box just for the Golden Mask seems a bit overkill personally... ~~ [ジャム]^[t - c] 09:10, 28 January 2009 (UTC)

Sales

The 8 million sales figure that is already on wiki with reference to an old archived article of ownt.com based on a lost GameState article must be different from the truth. Kotaku cite Square as their source, as well as the sum of TR2's releases on VGChartz (TR2 on PS), show a smaller number, closer to 6.5m. Maybe we should double-check our sources and edit the article with the right number and reference this time? Punkalyptic (talk) 00:02, 22 February 2012 (UTC)

We'll keep the ownt.com source for now. Even editors updates the sales figures for game articles (including this one), however, VG Chartz is not a reliable source and we're not going to include it here. Hounder4 (Talk) 16:18, 23 April 2012 (UTC)

Even though I debate a couple of the sites that made it to that 'unreliable sources' list (but that's another discussion), still Kotaku IS among the reliable sources and its article is considerably more recent AND Square is an official source, so based on what criteria is the GameState source a more trusted one? Punkalyptic (talk) 16:54, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

Square Enix source cited by Kotaku is surely reliable alright, though the figures in bar chart estimates are rough, like if it was sold between 6-8 million copies sold, so I'm a bit confused with this and GameState (8 million?). You may want to open a discussion at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Video games for that if you want. Hounder4 (Talk) 17:22, 24 April 2012 (UTC)

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Sources

• PC Gamer - The fan remake of Tomb Raider 2 in Unreal 4 has a demo

--ProtoDrake (talk) 18:58, 1 April 2018 (UTC)

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• https://web.archive.org/web/19980204085828/http://www.next-generation.com:80/news/121397g.chtml

Is there a reason the Steam release isn't mentioned?

Steam isn't mentioned anywhere in the article, is there a reason for this?-NJ (talk) 18:27, 25 December 2020 (UTC)

"TR2date" ref

@MikeAllen There's nothing wrong with the reference per se, but it's not being used in the article body, which is causing a bright red "cite error"; you can see the message at the end of the References section. It was removed in this diff. I am happy with you either reinstating the reference in the article body or commenting the definition back out (or indeed removing it completely) – whichever you think best for the article. Wham2001 (talk) 19:53, 10 April 2023 (UTC)

My apologies, it seem like to me you were removing it because it was dead. The editor forgot to remove the actual citation (it's using list defined refs). I removed it since the third party reliable source Game Informer replaced the ref. Mike Allen 02:03, 11 April 2023 (UTC)

No worries – I think you have everything sewn up now! Thanks, Wham2001 (talk) 10:56, 11 April 2023 (UTC)