Everyone's favourite female archaeologist will be making a return this summer in Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light, a new isometric cooperative adventure that developers, Crystal Dynamics, have promised will deliver instant, intense action and bite-sized puzzles.

Your Local Guardian: Game news: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

Due to hit Xbox Live and PSN, the download=only title was designed with two player co-op in mind, but the game can still be experienced as a solo adventure.

Your Local Guardian: Game news: Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light

As far as the plot goes the game follows Lara as she goes in search of the Mirror of Smoke, an ancient artifact located in a ruin known as the Temple of Light. When she finally reaches the mirror, she is ambushed by a mercenary army who takes the mirror and release an evil entity. Also awakened by the incident, Totec, The Guardian of Light, joins Lara as her unlikely ally to save the world from never-ending darkness.