Pixels to paper - 10 videogame novels reviewed

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Lara Croft Tomb Raider: The Lost Cult

What is it?
Another globe-hopping adventure for Lara Croft, taking in the CIA, a murdered colleague and a mysterious Peruvian cult.

Who wrote it?
E. E. Knight, a teacher of genre fiction writing at Harper College in Illinois.

Fanboy factor?
It takes only a few pages for Lara to become "uncomfortably hot" in her techno jumpsuit and just a couple more before she's peeling it off and shaking her hair out. This guy knows his audience.

Is it any good?
Despite Knight's compulsive usage of needlessly exotic words like 'imprecations', 'sybaritic' and 'spoof board' - presumably to hammer home Lara's sophisticated upbringing - his writing is engaging enough to divert the attention of any reader.

Further reading
Other Lara-touting books includeThe Man of Bronze, or the first Tomb Raider novel,The Amulet of Power.

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Ben Richardson is a former Staff Writer for Official PlayStation 2 magazine and a former Content Editor of GamesRadar+. In the years since Ben left GR, he has worked as a columnist, communications officer, charity coach, and podcast host – but we still look back to his news stories from time to time, they are a window into a different era of video games.