One of the most popular solitaire games, Tomb Raider, does this by putting the player in control of a comely adventuress who must both act out a role in a story involving a search for treasure and engage in more straightforward video-game fighting.

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While the final act must still play out in a Russian courtroom, the story opens in the nearly two-century-old Bolshoi Theatre.

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