Unlike previous games in the series Tomb Raider, in the arcade Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light Lara can play with a partner, and the camera is placed over his head. Over 2000 years ago the forces of good and evil fought for artifact Mirror Smoke, has enormous power, which allows change day and night, or forever to load the entire world into darkness. Meanwhile, the fearless leader of the Army of Light, Totek, possessed great power artifact and imprisoned evil spirit Ksanksolta. Totek buried himself with a mirror in the Temple of Light, to protect the artifact from the forces of evil.

But after 2000 years of Lara Croft went to the mountains of Central America in search of a long-lost Temple. Hired by stealing an artifact Ksanksoltu allowed to return to this world, for that have paid with their lives. Totek, accusing Lara happened, decides to cooperate with it to return the mirror. If the artifact does not return to the forces of Light, Ksanksolt uses power mirrors and plunge the world into eternal darkness ...