Grenade Launcher
Contents
Games/Films Featured
Tomb Raider II
First Found: The Great Wall
The Golden Mask
First Found: Fool's Gold
Tomb Raider III
First Found: Caves of Kaliya
The Lost Artifact
First Found: Sleeping with the Fishes
The Last Revelation
First Found: Desert Railroad
Legend
First Found: Ghana - Pursuing James Rutland
The Grenade Launcher was first available in Tomb Raider 2. It was a very effective weapon, you could bring down most opponents with one shot. It was also effective against the Dragon or the Stone Warriors (in the PlayStation Version you could destroy them with it, before they came to life)
The grenade launcher is an extremely powerful weapon and is capable of killing most enemies with a single round, however this weapon varies greatly from one game to the next. In Tomb Raider II, the grenades, loaded one by one, travel up to about 25 meters and explode on impact with anything. The (apparently) drum-fed version in TR3 must still be single-loaded, and the grenades bounce around at very close range before detonating after a few seconds, or immediately upon contact with an enemy. As such, rounds can be shot into tight spaces and downhill, damaging enemies not directly in Lara's line of fire. The launcher in TR4 is similar but has three different ammo types. Normal ammo is akin to the rounds from TR3; Super ammo creates an initial explosion plus several secondary explosions and can clear a small room with a single round. Flash ammo is non-lethal and only blinds any nearby human enemies while you escape or kill them with another weapon. It will not harm friendlies. Note that in the Playstation version of The Last Revelation, Lara's body can detonate and take damage from her own grenades, though it will be significantly less damage than any enemies that happen to be near. PC gamers do not have this problem. In Tomb Raider 2 and 3 you only had standard grenades for the grenade launcher:
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Since The Last Revelation you could choose between three types of Ammo. Although it has the same physics as the Tomb Raider 3 one it now does area damage, making it much more useful as it can kill many enemies at the same time.
Normal Ammo, Super Ammo and Flash Ammo.
Grenade Launcher in Tomb Raider Legend
Grenade launcher in Legend has a three rounds clip and fires 40mm frag grenades in rapid succession.
In Legend, the grenade launcher has fallen from being a favor weapon among fans due to the fact that there is almost no ammo available, grenade does not explode soon enough and regular frag grenade does the same job with less hassle.
In addition to the grenades inside the launcher, Lara can also carry 4 spare clips - a maximum of 15 grenade rounds for Lara to carry.
But in the hand of the mercenary, the grenade launcher is a manace to players due to the fact it can dump a large number of frag grenade at a player within a short amount of time.
This particular Grenade Launcher appears to be an RG-6 40mm Grenade Launcher of Russian manufacture.
