Lara Croft Voted Most Iconic Gaming Character Ever
thegamer.comTomb Raider's beloved protagonist, Lara Croft, has been voted the most iconic gaming character of all time by the BAFTA Gaming Awards, beating out characters like Mario, Sonic, and Hitman's Agent 47.
From Master Chief and Cloud Strife to Mario and Crash Bandicoot, gaming is absolutely full of iconic characters that are just as important to the industry as the titles that they come from. There are so many different beloved gaming icons, in fact, that it can be hard to pick just one that stands above the rest.
Although it might seem like a herculean task to figure out who the most iconic character in gaming is, that's exactly what the BAFTA Games Awards have done ahead of its 20th show next month. Earlier this year, the BAFTA Games Awards opened a poll asking gamers to vote on who they thought was the most well-known character in gaming.
Today, the results from the poll (which saw over 4,000 votes) were shared on the official BAFTA website, revealing that audiences think that Lara Croft is the all-time most iconic character in gaming. The results don't reveal what percentage of votes Lara Croft got, but it's still a massive achievement that shows how important she is to gaming, even if she's had a bit of a rougher time of it in recent years.
"Taking the number one spot is the generation-spanning heroine Lara Croft, star of the Tomb Raider franchise. Lara Croft first appeared in Tomb Raider for the Sega Saturn in 1996, nearly three decades ago, and has since been remastered and evolved several times for television, film, video games and even her own live immersive experience in London, England."
The second-place winner, Mario, might not be a surprise to anyone, but the bronze medallist of the Most Iconic Gaming Character award might come as a bit of a shock - Hitman's Agent 47. That's right, IO Interactive's bald-headed assassin somehow managed to beat Sonic, Kratos, Cloud Strife, and a host of other characters that instantly come to my mind and eventually
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