Tomb Raider: Legend
Legend is essentially a reboot of the Tomb Raider franchise and makes very few references to any prior games and the storyline is standalone. There are, however, a few "Easter Eggs" referencing the previous games as well as the two feature films

When Lara Croft was just nine years old, the executive jet carrying her and her mother crashed into the Himalayas, leaving them as the only survivors. After taking shelter in the ruins of an ancient temple, Lara discovers an ornate stone dais holding a sword. Unwittingly activating the ancient artefact, Lara watches in horror as her mother vanishes in front of her eyes.

Years later, Lara travels to the ancient civilization of Tiwanaku in Bolivia, following a tip from university peer Anaya Imanu. Lara attempts to find an ornate stone dais similar to the one in Nepal. She soon runs into James Rutland and his mercenaries on the edge of Lake Titicaca, where the dais is situated. Old memories are brought back to haunt Lara as Rutland implies that her deceased friend Amanda Evert is still alive.

Lara meets up with Anaya outside the tomb in Paraíso, where a tragedy befell Lara and her friends many years ago, leaving her as the only survivor. She returns to the tomb and a flashback reveals the events leading up to Amanda's "death". While as a student on an archaeological excavation, a mysterious demon was released and killed most of the team. In their dash to escape, the cave filled with water and Amanda was left behind.

In the present, Lara discovers that her old friend had apparently escaped and learns the legend of Tiwanaku's Queen. She rose to power after meeting a shaman with a magical staff and was shortly brought to paradise by a woman in a lake after an epic final battle, the culmination of a struggle for power. Lara realises that the tomb of the Queen of Tiwanaku is linked to Bolivia, the incident in Nepal when she was a child and possibly even Arthurian Legend.

To her surprise she realizes that the artifact she is hunting has already been discovered, and is in the 'care' of Yakuza boss Shogo Takamoto, who had it stolen from Waseda University.

Lara's journey takes her to Japan, where her media mogul friend Nishimura assists Lara in finding Takamoto. Nishimura advises her to be careful and gives her the elevator pass to the roof. After exiting Nishimura's office, Lara meets Takamoto and demands the stolen sword fragment from him. He refuses and retreats to his penthouse, leaving Lara to deal with his men. Traversing the rooftops of Tokyo, Lara eventually tracks Takamoto down to the roof of his penthouse, where she witnesses for herself the terrifying power of the sword fragment. Nonetheless, she manages to overcome Takamoto and retrieve this second artifact.

After being rescued by Nishimura, Lara proceeds to Ghana to chase Rutland. He too possesses a sword fragment and he tells her about something called the Ghalali Key, believing it to be in Lara's possession. Lara has no idea what he is talking about and this frustrates him. Rutland then attacks her using his sword fagment.

After beating Rutland and acquiring the piece, Lara chases Amanda. Zip and Allister inform her that Amanda attacked her manor whilst she was in Ghana. Lara traces her to an abandoned Soviet lab in Kazakhstan where experiments on a sword fragment led to its closing down fifty years ago. Lara catches up with Amanda, who is clearly still angry about being left behind in Paraíso. Amanda now controls, to Lara's horror, the demon which killed their friends in Paraíso. Lara fights it off and recovers the sword fragment from the Soviet machinery.

Following a map on the back of a shield also recovered from the Soviet lab, Lara's adventure surprisingly brings her home to England. She discovers the real King Arthur's tomb in Cornwall hidden under a tacky and now-derelict King Arthur tourist attraction, along with the fourth and final sword fragment. Lara realizes that Arthur and his knights brought the fragments of Excalibur to locations across the world influencing the destinies of various civilizations, and that the entire court of Camelot actually existed. After battling a sea serpent-like creature hundreds of feet underground, Lara returns home to figure out how to put the sword back together. Lara realizes that the previously unknown Ghalali Key was in fact a pendant given to her mother by her father. It is also the one that her mother had with her when their plane crashed into the Himalayas.

Lara is thus forced to return to her past once again, as she tracks down the wreckage of the plane she was on and recovers the Ghalali key before the plane falls off the cliff. She then returns to the temple where her mother lost her life, reassembling the sword, Excalibur, and using its awesome power to escape.

Lara returns to the stone dais in Bolivia, where Amanda, Rutland and their mercenaries are waiting for her. Lara cuts through Rutland's men and later defeats Rutland himself. Amanda rushes over to him, and he passes away in her arms. Furious, Amanda releases the demon once again, this time merging with it. With the help of the Excalibur, Lara defeats the creature once and for all.

At last, Lara understands what happened with her mother, as she looks into the mirror of light and sees her. Lara realizes that the mirror spans time and what she is seeing is her mother just moments before she was gone by removing the artefact. Her mother tells Lara (not recognizing her) to leave her daughter alone and that she "meant no harm". Amanda wakes up and shouts at Lara to pull out the sword or it will explode. As Lara's mother hears this, she pulls out the sword, the same as she did all those years ago and the dais explodes.

Furious, Lara shoots around Amanda to get answers, and Amanda gives in and says that her mother is in Avalon and not dead, where Amanda had wanted to go. Amanda then decides that since Lara will not believe her, she is wasting her breath. Lara knocks Amanda out, saying "From this moment, your every breath is a gift from me." Lara then makes arrangements for Zip and Allister to make her finds known worldwide and continues searching for Avalon.