Lara Raids Record Books

Lara Croft has raided her way into the Guinness World Record 2010 Gamers' Edition, picking up an impressive 6 awards on the way. The famous platforming heroine is still going strong after 14 years and since has starred in two films, an animated series, as well as being portrayed by a ‘real-life Lara’ – currently UK gymnast and model Alison Carroll.

Lara has been played by a total of 10 different models over the years, whether as a real-life counterpart, in the movies, or lent their face and bodies to the franchise. Actress Angelina Jolie and television personality Nell McAndrew probably the most famous of the bunch, although Minnie Driver has also lent her voice too.

The latest game in the series, Tomb Raider: Underworld features a character model of Lara consisting of 32,816 rendered polygons during gameplay and this bagged her Most Detailed Video Game Character. In addition she also received Most Successful Video Game Heroine and Most Recognizable Female Character in a Video Game.

The Tomb Raider franchise picked up Highest Grossing Computer Game Spin Off, Most Successful Live-Action Transfer and Most Official Real Life Stand-Ins in a Video Game.

Gaz Deaves, Guinness Gaming Editor justifies her inclusion, "Lara Croft epitomizes all that's great about video gaming and we're delighted to acknowledge her success by awarding her with six  official record entries including making her the most-famous and most-successful female video game character in the world."


If you fancy reading more about Lara, or any other gaming records for that matter then why not dust off those book tokens you got for Christmas and purchase The Guinness Book of World Records 2010 Gamer’s Edition, which is available to buy in all good book stores now.

The book is choc-full of gaming facts, figures and trivia, as well as showcasing a poll of 13,000 who voted for their Greatest Video Game Series of All Time.

Craig Bryan, NoobFeed