01) Angkor Wat ................................................... WK01
02) Race for the Iris ............................................ WK02
03) The Tomb of Seth ............................................. WK03
04) Burial Chambers .............................................. WK04
05) Valley of the Kings .......................................... WK05
06) KV5 .......................................................... WK06
07) Temple of Karnak ............................................. WK07
08) The Great Hypostyle Hall ..................................... WK08
09) Sacred Lake .................................................. WK09
10) Temple of Karnak, Pt. II ..................................... WK10
11) The Great Hypostyle Hall, Pt. II ............................. WK11
12) Sacred Lake, Pt. II .......................................... WK12
13) Tomb of Semerkhet ............................................ WK13
14) Guardian of Semerkhet ........................................ WK14
15) Desert Railroad .............................................. WK15
16) Alexandria ................................................... WK16
17) Coastal Ruins ................................................ WK17
18) Catacombs .................................................... WK18
19) Temple of Poseidon ........................................... WK19
20) The Lost Library ............................................. WK20
21) Hall of Demetrius ............................................ WK21
22) Pharos, Temple of Isis ....................................... WK22
23) Cleopatra's Palaces .......................................... WK23
24) City of the Dead ............................................. WK24
25) Chambers of Talun ............................................ WK25
26) Citadel Gate ................................................. WK26
27) Trenches ..................................................... WK27
28) City of the Dead Pt. II / Chambers of Talun Pt. II ........... WK28
29) Trenches Pt. II .............................................. WK29
30) Street Bazaar ................................................ WK30
31) Citadel Gate, Pt. II ......................................... WK31
32) Citadel ...................................................... WK32
33) The Sphinx Complex ........................................... WK33
34) Underneath the Sphinx ........................................ WK34
35) Menkaure's Pyramid ........................................... WK35
36) Inside Menkaure's Pyramid .................................... WK36
37) The Mastabas ................................................. WK37
38) The Great Pyramid ............................................ WK38
39) Khufu's Queens Pyramids ...................................... WK39
40) Inside the Great Pyramid ..................................... WK40
41) Temple of Horus .............................................. WK41
Analog function does work for this game, but since this is an "old-school"
Tomb Raider game, it's full of precise movements and jumps which may really
annoy someone used to analog sticks. Sorry, but if you play that way, things
will be rather annoying.
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NORMAL LARA CROFT CONTROLS
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This section displays the game's controls. Only the functional buttons will be
listed here.
L1 BUTTON
- Hold down (w/ D-pad) to swivel camera.
L2 BUTTON
- Crouch
- (w/ D-Pad) Crawl
- (w/ R2) Zoom in with binoculars or laser sight
L3 BUTTON
- Jump (Analog Mode Only)
R1 BUTTON
- Hold down (w/ L/R on D-Pad) to sidestep
Hold down (w/ L/R on D-Pad) to take single step forward/back
R2 BUTTON
- Hold down and move with movement buttons (left analog/D-Pad) to move Lara
while standing in place.
- (w/ L2) Zoom in with binoculars or laser sight
O BUTTON
- Roll and look opposite direction (can be used
SQUARE BUTTON
- Jump straight up
- (w/ L3 or D-Pad) Jump in a direction
- (w/ D-Pad Down) Backflip
- (w/ O button) Roll upon completing jump
X BUTTON
- Grab ledge (when applicable)
- Pick up object (when applicable)
START BUTTON
- Un/pause game
- Un/show Resume, Quit, Game Settings, Statistics Menu
SELECT BUTTON
- Bring up item menu / Save game / Load game
- (w/ R1) Throw flare
ANALOG BUTTON
- Toggle analog mode on/off (Dualshock Controller Only)
TRIANGLE BUTTON
- Take out currently-equipped gun / holster currently-equipped gun
LEFT ANALOG STICK
- Run / Walk / Take single step forward or back / sidestep
RIGHT ANALOG STICK
- Move camera to look around (ANALOG mode only)
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VEHICLE CONTROLS
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NOTE: Analog sticks can only be used if the mode is turned on. Digital controls
(D-Pad) can only be used if the Analog mode is turned off.
LEFT ANALOG X BUTTON
- Turn left or right - Accelerate
- Pull back
SQUARE BUTTON
D-PAD - Decelerate
- Turn left or right
- Pull Back O BUTTON
- Exit vehicle (when inert)
R2 BUTTON
- Nitro speed boost R1 BUTTON
- Downshift (in Jeep) - Upshift (in Jeep)
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II. TACTICS [TCTC]
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RUNNING AROUND
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Use the Directional Pad or the left analog stick (if in Analog Mode) to direct
Lara around the ruins. If you're using the D-Pad, simply press up to have her
start sprinting; if in Analog mode, move the stick at a hard angle to make her
run. Move the stick at a acute angle to have her walk. Press R2 while running
to make a stamina bar appear -- Lara will run doubletime until it depletes.
To do running dives, sprint and press Square.
SIDESTEPPING
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Sidestepping has many uses as you spelunk around the game. Use the D-Pad's L
and R buttons in conjunction with R1 to take a step forward or backward. Use
the Up and Down buttons in conjunction with R1 to take a single step forward
or backward. When walking this slowly, Lara cannot fall of ledges like she
could if she were running, so remember: safety first!
ROLLING
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Rolling is essential for when you're fleeing and need to get some shots off at
attackers chasing you. By pressing the O button, you can roll in place and
face the direction behind you; or, you can press O as a jump finishes to roll.
Both will be immensely useful.
JUMPING
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What's a tomb raider without some ups? Jumping will be, no contest, the most
important feat to get down. Use the Square button (or L3) to jump straight up.
Use the D-Pad in conjunction with the Square button to jump in certain
directions, and use the X button to grab ledges when jumping (if applicable).
If you grab a ledge, you can press the L and R buttons on the D-pad to scoot
one way or another.
Learning how to do running jumps will also help you, and in fact, you cannot
complete the game without learning how to vault long distances. Lara will take
about one-and-a-half steps from the time you press the jump button (while you
are sprinting), so try to get as close to the ledge as possible when you jump
off it.
SWIMMING
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Lara will encounter deep and shallow water in her adventures. In shallow water
you can do all the normal functions as you can on land, but with slowed steps;
when you're in deep water, press the L and R buttons (D-pad) to swim in those
directions. Sidestep functions also work in the water, to a degree. Press
Square to jump out of the water, and press X while doing so to grab any ledges
that can be caught.
LOCKING-ON
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There are two functions in this field: manual and automatic. Manual lock-on
means tap the L1 when an enemy's close to Lara to get it in her gun-sights.
Tap L1 repeatedly to cycle through other enemies, if they're near. Automatic
lock-on, of course, requires no L1-tapping to make Lara recognize the enemy.
You can still tap L1 to change targets, though.
SHOOTING
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Press Triangle to draw your weapon (or holster it, if it's already out).
In automatic mode, Lara will shoot at the nearest enemy; in manual, you will
have to tap L1 to make her recognize the enemy.
CLIMBING THINGS
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To climb walls, you can press Up + X to make her jump up and catch the ledge
just out of reach. Hold down X to make her hold on; release to make her fall.
You can sidle left and right with the D-pad while holding X down -- this is
a key strategy to learn when the path is out of reach.
Eventually, you will come across poles that can be climbed. You can hold X
by a pole to climb it, or run/jump onto one (hold X then, too). Hold down X
to keep her clinging to the pole, and use the D-pad to make her shift left or
right, or climb up or down. Lara will backflip off when you push the jump
button, so make sure her back is to where you want to jump.
Ropes will come into play, too, and function the same way as poles do. R2 will
make her rock back and forth on the rope, but unlike the pole, she will jump
off towards her front, so make sure she's positioned right. Since building
momentum on ropes is key most of the time, know that the lower she's sitting,
the more she'll obtain.
Lara can encounter monkey bars (raised ladder put horizontally...remember from
the playground...?) as well. Jump and press X to grab on, and press Up on the
D-pad to advance across them. You can use the L/R buttons to spin around in
this state. Release X to make Lara fall. [In the walkthrough, this is referred
to as a notched ceiling, just so we're clear.]
PUZZLE-SOLVING
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*Press switch . . . . Use X button in front of switch
*Push/pull object . . Press X button in front of object, use U/D on D-pad to
push or pull, respectively.
Unlike previous TR games, the 'beginner' levels are now mandatory and used to
get newcomers their bearings. Young Lara will be accompanied by Werner von
Croy, renowned archaeologist and self-important guru, for the next couple of
levels, mind you.
After breaking into the priceless tomb, locate the first secret [1/70] in the
form of a gold skull. There will be seven others to find also, and should you
wonder the current tally, check the 'Statistics' tab on the in-game menu. Let
Werner lead Lara along until he activates a spike trap, entering the second
room. The tutorial deals with jumping the small gap, and another gold skull
[2/70] is in the waist-high water.
Ahead, let Werner kill the small boar and enter the outdoor area with small
waterfalls and pools. Get another gold skull [3/70] in the low area, under
the eaves of a 'fall, before continuing with Werner's lecture on running jump
n' grabs. Two longjumps later, mimic Werner as he finds a parallel ledge out
of normal sight and shimmies to the higher entrance.
Beyond, the "soft fall" is learned: do a small jump backwards off the ledge,
then catch the ledge, releasing it to reach the ground safely. Werner says it
but doesn't demonstrate this time. Another skull is in the main pool [4/70]
and also a watery tunnel that leads to a large medipack. Comply with the tour
guide's demands and surface near the raised bridge, activating the lever so
he can get across. On the pool room's other side, climb the ladder to another
ladder, then descend in normal or drop-n'-catch fashion.
The next lesson is in clinging to the ceiling and crossing vines and meshed
metal -- jump upward, hold X-button, and continue across, releasing when it's
safe to drop. Back outside, let Werner eviscerate some boars and look for a
fifth golden skull [5/70] in a SW corner. Werner leads the way through to a
room with more suspicious spike holes -- avoid them and get the skull laying
in part of the safe floor [6/70].
At a large circular door blocking the way, von Croy invites Lara to spelunk
in one of the tiny floor 'vents'. The seventh [7/70] gold skull is found in
a dead-end passage there, and in the larger room, a backpack next to the door
lever. Back at Werner's location, he'll demonstrate how to sprint, which is
then put to good use (in conjunction with rolling) in the area where wall
holes shoot damaging darts.
Finally, this leads to a room where the path splits. Pick up the final skull
[8/70] if you want to try the Path of the Heretical, which requires having
found all of the level's skulls; the Route of the Virtuous is chosen if eight
haven't been collected so far. The path chosen will be reflected in the next
level as well, with the Virtuous path again being easier.
Upon reaching the passage's end, there will be a pool with a rope hanging
over it, accessible by a hole hanging above normal height. Align Lara with the
rope, and hold action in midair to grab; she'll have to catch it, gain
momentum, and jump off to reach the lever's alcove. Note the only difference
between the two paths in this level is that the Path of the Heretical's pool
is bone-dry, and Lara is damaged if she falls -- save before attempting.
When all's said and done, drop down to Werner and put this level in the books!
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02) RACE TO THE IRIS [WK02]
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| | | | _| G | _| | | |¯ ¯| O | |IRIS|
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HERETICAL | |___ | C: Bridge/Spikes D: Pool Room (To E) |
|START| | E: Water Channel F: Rope Bridge |
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|___| | I: Boars/M. Statue J: Boar Pit |
| K: Spike Pits L: Shortcut |
| M: Huge Gap N: Ceiling Climbing |
| O: Platform Puzzle |
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Depending on the route you took in the previous section of Angkor Wat, you
will now face the ending run. If you found all the secrets, the race will be
much harder and difficult -- Werner will be a speed demon and you will really
have to work to win. If you found little to no secrets, the map is much less
complex and contains less rooms for Lara to hang around in.
Now that you're so close to the prize, Werner will seem to be overcome by the
grip of greed and "throw down the gauntlet" to you -- whoever's first to the
Iris claims it as his or her own. On the count of three, the race between the
educated professor and the exemplary student begins! Make sure to make use of
the sprint button if you want to win, but either outcome makes no difference
in outcome.
And because there is no incentive to win (besides personal reasons), I'll
just do an overview of each path.
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The harder of the two, this route is also the more dangerous. The perils are
often spiketraps positioned off-camera or underneath sharp inclines, such as
part "C" of the map where Lara may end up jumping over a slanted ledge and
right into the pit. It's this instance where Lara must wait to slide, then
jump to the next slide, then jump again! Very precipitous and scary!
In addition, Werner will close off parts of the path so that Lara, assuming
she's trailing, has to take more time to get back on track. The first showing
is when he closes the path to the "D" room, which has an underwater tunnel
that connects to "E", and shortly after when he breaks a rope bridge so Lara
has to swim. In the "I" area, he will enter a small gate near the rim of the
boars' pit, forcing Lara to descend into said pit and find the ivy-covered
wall on one side.
The easiest place to catch up is actually on the "C" path, since Werner is
underwater and that's inherently slow action. In the "F" room, if Lara is
ahead, she can pull a button in a wall alcove and make Werner have to go the
"high round" that lines the room. Naturally she'd have to as well, but it's
the longer way regardless.
At "J" -- the Boar Pit -- the exit is in the mouth of a statue on the side
opposite one starts. That mouth leads to a corridor near the Iris' den.
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ROUTE OF THE VIRTUOUS
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This route is much more straightforward, less complex in design, and easier
to win in. There is a shortcut in the "K" area with spike pits. After the 1st
gap, drop down into the second and locate a ground-level passage that links
into the next place.
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03) THE TOMB OF SETH [WK03]
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| | _ | | C: Eye of Horus Door |
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P | J | | | _| | E: Uzi |
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H | | |_____| | H: Connected Passage |
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| / | L: M Reset Mechanism |
| \ | M: Light-up Tileroom |
|_/) )-Shotgun | N: Timeless Sands |
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|START| | P: Connected Passage |
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THE EYE OF HORUS
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Now in present-day Egypt, Lara has grown up and now carries guns -- obviously
the dangers will have adjusted as well. The area where she starts has two
packs of FLARES around, and near the first lit torch, a SHOTGUN. Follow with
the torch-bearer until a LARGE MEDIPACK comes in sight...by a scorpion. From
now on, always take a peek in those tiny pits since there may be more of 'em
to neutralize. Further down the path, a mangy dog will attack the party --
also easy pickins.
Down near the crossroads, another LARGE MEDIPACK is on a mound. To get the
area's first secret [9/70], move to the eastern part of the cavern walkway
(the one not taken by the guide) and look for a block that can be climbed on.
From there, angle the camera to find a niche with a SMALL MEDIPACK! This one
is missable, mind you, so get it now; then, trail the guide.
Following small incline, the guide waits in a room with a locked gate. Enter
the side passage and drop into the sandy room at the bottom -- an alcove
reveals the level's 2nd [10/70] treasure, some SHOTGUN SHELLS. Watch out for
scorpions that appear and grab the SMALL MEDIPACK on the way back up to the
guide. Reach into the hole left of the locked door to fill up the lower secret
room, then get the SMALL MEDIPACK and EYE PIECE before running back to the
torch-carrier.
The next cavern has a rope suspended from a ceiling, which is used to get to
the next secret, which is finding the alcove there [11/70]. However, there's
a huge spiked roller that goes through the passage at regular intervals and
it's instant game over if it eviscerates Lara! When it's clear, trek north
a bit to where a SMALL MEDIPACK is by some climbable pillars. When it
passes again, jump east off the highest pillar's point to grab the ledge in
the (roughly) center of the room. The top of this area is safe, so get the
FLARE sitting above. The east side is symmetrical to the first, so use it
to jump to the red doorway. Three mangy dogs will be within, and beyond, a
slide that deposits Lara near an UZI! Get it to return to the passage near
the first secret room and backtrack, this time taking the west way at the
rope area.
This leads to a sword trap (guide deactivates it if he reaches area first)
and the second EYE PIECE. This is the first chance Lara has to combine items
to make new ones, with the two pieces creating the EYE OF HORUS -- this goes
in the northern slot in the rope room. Kill the mangy dogs that emerge and
take a walk to...
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...the Sphinx Room! Ignore your desire to explore it right now and follow
the guide into a room full of unlit oil. Beyond, at the passage fork, enter
the darker one with a SMALL MEDIPACK in a hole and come to another unlit
oil room. Follow the only other passage upwards until Lara encounters a rope
pulley above the ceiling tiles. Once admitted, the guard will light the oil
and force Lara to do a puzzle! It makes sense to get a SHOTGUN in the passage
before this room, which is near the reset mechanism -- get it later and the
puzzle will have to be recompleted!
In order to do this correctly, walk to [2], back up to the tile's corner,
then jump to [3]. Walk to the tile's edge (not the back edge) and jump to
[4], then do the same procedure to [5] since it's the same distance. If you're
doing this correctly, the tiles you jump from catch on fire. When you land
on [6], the bar will raise and you can collect THE TIMELESS SANDS hourglass
from the niche. This leads back to the sphinx room.
NOTE: The "P" passage on the map now connects to the sphinx room also, but
can be mostly ignored unless one wants to quickly backtrack to rooms
prior to the sphinx'.
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Move toward the southern passage of the sphinx room and the guide will start
toward there, too. To get the next secret [12/70], move to said room's SW
corner to find a locked gate and a long ladder upwards. This leads to a lever
that unlocks the gate, giving SHOTGUN SHELLS and WIDESHOT AMMO as the bonus!
However, before descending, there's another secret to obtain up there that
requires tricky jumping (so save first). Take out a flare and jump to the
nearest part of the sphinx' headdress. From there, there's barely enough
leeway to jump to the headdress above the sphinx' face; and, from there, jump
to the north side. There will be another well-lit alcove with a LARGE MEDIPACK
and SHOTGUN SHELLS to reap. The final secret [13/70] has been obtained here!
Backtrack to the ladder or descend by sliding (backwards) down the north slope
of the headdress, catching the ledges for a softer fall.
Skidaddle back to the tour guide in the southern passage and he'll flee the
dungeon, stranding Lara! Kill the scorpion trio around the corner and find
the new dead-end room. Collect the SHOTGUN SHELLS and SMALL MEDIPACK from the
plinth before climbing to the Horus statue on the far side. Place The Timeless
Sands inside its clutches, which triggers the mechanism that drains the sand
from around the upper sphinx. Kill or ignore the room's scorpion and backtrack
upstairs.
Exit the room by climbing into the sphinx' mouth and following the vent...
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04) BURIAL CHAMBERS [WK04]
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W --+-- E _| |_ | C: Breakable Jars D: Scythe Trap |
| | _ | | E: Amulet of Horus F: Mummy Room |
S |2|_| | | G: Cavern H: Connected Stair |
|_ A _| | I: Ladder J: Wooden Bridge |
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| 1 START| | O: Hand of Sirius P: Scarab Talisman |
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As soon as the level begins, SAVE! This is because there is a secret within
the sliding portion: when the slope lights up a bit reddish, the ceiling'll
expand and Lara can jump to a ledge with the level's first secret [14/70], a
LARGE MEDIPACK. Back on the slippery slope, land near a door lever that will
give access to another slope nearby. Slide down, obtain the HAND OF ORION in
the middle and jump through the _left_ passage that falls away, which will
lead to the 2nd secret [15/70], SHOTGUN SHELLS. Down the passage, another
spike trap will activate -- always keep an eye out for those star-shaped
clusters that have spikes inside. I'll coin the phrase 'asterism spike trap'
right now!
'Round the bend, some vases will be in the wall recesses -- these can be
broken and should be, since one has a SMALL MEDIPACK within. Evade the next
spike trap and jump into the hole beyond, which drops Lara in an alcove where
the Hand of Orion can be stuck in the wall depression. Before doing so, drop
down to the floor level and find a SMALL MEDIPACK in a corner.
With the Hand in the slot, this lowers all spikes on the walkways but starts
the scythe trap. To reach the exit, I recommend jumping straight, sidejumping
left, then repeating this once more to reach the safety of the passage. One
can go the L-shaped path but it's longer; also, if you want the SHOTGUN SHELLS
there, it's actually easier to get coming from the exit alcove! But, whatever.
Up the next area, a burial chamber is located. The SE corner has SHOTGUN
SHELLS and the NW has a SMALL MEDIPACK. Ignore the center sarcophagus for the
time being and enter the other passage, which is the "Mummy Room" on the map.
Get the SMALL MEDIPACK and then drop down the NW corner, which has a passage
that leads under the room to a secret [16/70], SHOTGUN SHELLS and a SMALL
MEDIPACK. Return to the Seth's sarcophagus from before and move to its foot,
where Lara will automatically steal the AMULET OF HORUS. Some...blood seems
to spill out of the coffin, too -- spooky!
Actually, the blood has another effect: reviving the mummies in the room we
just got the secret in. The corners are now flooded with red liquid, but it
is safe to go in (but the previous secret is locked now). Push the center
statue west off its base and onto the floor button of similar shape -- this
opens a door behind the east mummy's sarcophagus. Get there by luring it out
with the pistols -- don't waste any other ammo -- and entering when it's not
looking. This corridor leads to a large cave.
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Enter the cavern proper to see some fancy dogs emerge from two sides -- they
can be laid to rest with pistols rather easily. Pop a flare and locate the
natural stairway on one side, which leads up to a wooden bridge and a ladder
in a well-lit dead end. Before this though, there is a secret [17/70] to get!
Once up the stairway, hug the southern wall and eventually there will be a
tiny pit that opens up, leading to a LARGE MEDIPACK. It's easier to see by
torchlight, naturally.
After, take the route that leads up the ladder, dropping Lara off by two
breakable jars with SHOTGUN SHELLS and a SMALL MEDIPACK inside. Two mummies
are nearby but won't activate until the GOLDEN SERPENT is stolen from its
shiny pedestal. At this point, a higher northern alcove opens so get inside
'fore the mummies make friends. Slide down the slope and __SPRINT__ to the
opposite corner, before the sand fills up and Lara becomes one with the
spiked ceiling! Said corner has a climb-out point. Follow the path to a LARGE
MEDIPACK perched near a floor hole, which will drop Lara down near Point 'H'
on the map. Just make sure to land on the pedestal halfway down to avoid any
unnecessary mishaps!
With the ladder part complete, now it's time to tackle the bridge (yes, you
can avoid the lowest cavern path in the west for now). This leads to a couple
fancy dogs sitting on the stairs, and beyond...
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THE OCTAGONAL ROOM
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The room here is shaped like an octagon, and already we can see there's lots
of spikes fully exposed here. An alcove within view has a LARGE MEDIPACK in
it, and can be obtained with a bit of trickery: jump from the starting niche
to the platform nearest it, despite how bad the camera is, and then a running
jump up to it. By the way, this is a secret [18/70] and the last of the level
so don't skip it!
As for the rest of the room, do a bit of platforming and get to the block
with a wall recepticle -- it can't be used yet, but the ladder there leads up
to a lever that will lower a ground-level gate on the northern side, whose
ladder leads to a lever that rotates the entire flippin' room! The exit for
the room closes here, so take an alcove back into the main octagonal room.
With most of the room out of reach now, drop through the floor opening to
obtain the HAND OF SIRIUS. The passage leads back into the octagonal room,
whose path leads up and under some spikes (crawl) before a flat-footed jump
can land in another alcove. Save before jumping 'cause if Lara misses, she
slides right into a razor-sharp spikebed! The passage's long ladder leads to
a pull chain which switches the room's angle again, also awakening the mummy
duo in the room.
The octagonal room's been though a lot but now it's back to its original
shape. Use the Hand of Sirius on the wall indentation, which drops a rope
from the ceiling. Save and swing to the alcove with the SCARAB TALISMAN which
has no spike trap guarding like before. Move behind the pedestal and 86 the
doggy duo who scamper along, then one more at the end of the next room.
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FINISHING THE CAVE
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The passage leads back to the natural cavern in a one-way drop-down point.
This time, take the ground-level western passage ("R" on map) until a sand-
-floored room leads to a dead end. Put the Golden Serpent and Scarab Talisman
artifacts in the wall depressions to make the place fill with sand. The mummy
comes to life, so lead it around in circles until the NW corner is accessible
to jump out. This leads outside where some scenes end the level.
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05) VALLEY OF THE KINGS [WK05]
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For the first time, there are a bunch of human enemies to defeat. Save at
the start and you'll find that most are hiding behind broken columns and
other desert detritus -- pick them off one by one, using the shotgun if you
are low on health. They're not that tough, and there are seven (7) in all to
defeat. The 'trusty companion' will hide in one of the jeeps afterward.
The slain enemies drop a bunch of things -- SMALL MEDIPACK [2], UZI AMMO [3],
LARGE MEDIPACK and IGNITION KEY -- so collect it all. The first secret on
this level [19/70] is in the SE corner of the ambush site, in a dark alcove:
it's two packs of SHOTGUN SHELLS and a SHOTGUN. The second secret [20/70] is
less obvious to obtain. In the NW corner is a dark alcove. Climb onto the
ledge that leads there and face east. Do a flat-footed jump to the semi-
-slanted red-colored ledge, which then leads onto the roof of the level's
starting point. The bounty is two packs of SHOTGUN SHELLS, a SMALL MEDIPACK,
and UZI AMMO. Get down by sliding on one of the olive-colored slopes.
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After collecting the Ignition Key from a corpse, it can be used on the jeep
to initiate a car chase. Past the steep hill at the start, Lara can explore
on foot (the enemy car waits around, oddly 'nough) but the jeep is necessary
to end the level, so don't leave it too far behind. The enemy car will drop
grenades directly behind its path of movement, so stay left/right of them
to avoid any contact.
A little ways down the path, at a hill's crest, two enemies will fire their
uzis upon the vehicle -- run them over! Through the cavernous tunnel, there
will be a natural bridge overarching a spike pit, although the latter is
hidden and Lara may drive into it. Kill the uziman on the bridge first and
delay the pursuit enough to get the last secret [21/70] here. At the spike
pit, do a backwards catch-n'-grab near the dirt ramp to see the inside wall
is notched and climbable. Using this, descend and sidle to the thin opening
under the ramp, which contains a SMALL MEDIPACK and GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO.
[NOTE: If you can't climb in through the opening to get the secret, this is
a common problem. Let go of the ledge and quickly regrab it, then try: Lara
should get a better foothold...or something. Either way, it definitely works!]
Climb back on the road and pursue the van again. There'll be more one more
enemy before the van zig-zags over a higher-up canyon road, but past there,
it's just a li'l ways to the level's finish. See, that wasn't so hard!
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06) KV5 [WK06]
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_|C|_|B| |EXIT | F | | C: Spike Pit |
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| |____| |_____ ____| |¯| | F: Sand Dune Region |
|D ____ E3 | | | | G: Scaffolding Uziman |
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At the start, disembark and collect the two packs of WIDESHOT AMMO and a LARGE
MEDIPACK sitting on the ground. Drive closer to the vehicle to see it's not
really empty, and it starts back up, throwing a grenade for good measure. Let
it progress through the first outdoor area -- full of statues but nothing
else -- until the adjacent area has a uziman on scaffolding. Like all flimsy
scaffolding, it can break if pushed -- crash through it! Lara can either go
around or exit the vehicle to kill the goofball. The first secret [22/70] is
in this area, near the south exit. Look for a small crawlspace in the rock
with a LARGE MEDIPACK visible inside.
Nearby, there's a T-shaped intersection with a gate between buildings. One
gunman is on scaffolding, so blaze through the foundation and knock him down
to size. One of the fenced-in walkways contains SHOTGUN SHELLS, and down the
other end, a gunman shows up on a climbing block. Kill him and drop down to
ground level again for a secret [23/70] hiding in plain sight: SMALL MEDIPACK
and a LARGE MEDIPACK.
Get back up on the walkway's middle section and stand on the climbing block
the gunman was on. From there, it's barely enough clearance to jump "around"
the corner onto the highest part of the walkway roof. A LARGE MEDIPACK is in
an alcove there, and after swinging across the road via the rope, locate the
gate switch high up on the wall: jump-n'-grab it to deactivate.
Past the gate, on either side, are statues with tiny alcoves in between. Lara
can get UZI CLIPS and a LARGE MEDIPACK inside (one on each side of road). The
road itself leads up an incline where spikeballs roll downward, alternating
sides -- just go around to avoid lame damage. A secret [24/70] is actually
hidden in this ramp's ceiling. Make it through to the top and disembark, and
look at the ceiling near the top. Face east and jump upwards, pulling into an
alcove with GRENADE GUN NORMAL AMMO.
Further on, avoid the small spike pits and come to an L-shaped hole with a
notched (black line) inner wall on one side. Climb down it and near the
bottom, a small aperture that can be climbed into shows its WIDESHOT AMMO and
CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO. That's the level's last secret [25/70]! And, like the
similar one in the previous level, to get inside, grab the rim, let go, and
quickly re-grab -- otherwise, Lara can't pull herself up into the niche!
Back in the vehicle, follow the road down the slope and reunite with the van
who's probably stopped to wait for the player. He'll enter an expansive area
with sand dunes. Be careful of sand pits over the crests, and there'll be one
scaffolding uziman that can be avoided for the most part. The van leads to a
tunnel which marks the level's exit.
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07) TEMPLE OF KARNAK [WK07]
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| | B | ¯¯¯| | is in fact revisited a
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| EXIT __ | completely drawn in --
|_ _|¯¯____ _ F| |__|E| they only match parts
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|_____| | A: Obelisk Plaza B: Canopic Jar 1 Area |
| C: Underwater Tunnels D: Dry Pool Room |
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Once the vehicle is trashed, get out and travel west, using the chunky debris
to vault over the wall. Down below, near the obelisk, kill some scorpions
(these ones can poison Lara!) and take the SMALL MEDIPACK at the monument's
plinth. To the south are some broken archways and such, now defunct and in a
ruined state. Use debris to climb up a ways and see items scattered across
their peaks: SMALL MEDIPAK, UZI AMMO, and WIDESHOT AMMO in an alcove. In the
SE corner of this area is a small pit with a crawlspace, leading to the first
secret of the area [26/70]! Most of the items are within breakables, which
ends up being SHOTGUN SHELLS, LARGE MEDIPACK, UZI AMMO, WIDESHOT AMMO, and
FLARES. Return to the obelisk plaza again.
Before continuing, there is some WIDESHOT AMMO above the doorway to the west.
There is a tiny pillar base and a sloped pillar near there, with the latter
actually able to support Lara (while part makes her slide). Use the smaller
portion to land far up the pillar to avoid sliding, then slowly step back
and flatfoot jump to the shells. Sounds hard but it's easy since you can get
a visual on the prize from higher points in the plaza.
Continue east through the first room and enter the hallway beyond -- Lara's
attention automatically turns towards the ceiling. One of the blocks nearby
can give access up to the ceiling walkways, so scurry up and claim SHOTGUN
SHELLS and UZI AMMO on the far side. The two reddish 'doors' actually house
niche mechanisms to unlock the gates up there. Trigger both and claim the
SMALL MEDIPACK, SHOTGUN, and CANOPIC JAR 1. A scene shows a room yet unseen,
so let's go check it out!
Before doing that, however, take a dive in the pool west of this area. Some
FLARES are at the bottom of the first shaft, then locate the adjacent tunnel
that leads to a greyish-blue door. Press action button when near enough and
Lara opens it (requires no key, etc.). Swim the channel beyond until a small
surface point is found -- this is a secret [27/70] of UZI AMMO and CROSSBOW
NORMAL AMMO. Continue swimming north and at the bend, look west for a
triangular crack in the wall. This is ANOTHER secret in very close proximity
[28/70], WIDESHOT AMMO, CROSSBOW POISON AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK, and UZI AMMO.
The rest of the way is locked, so backtrack out of the pool entirely.
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Return to the obelisk plaza and go north this time, bounding over the rubble
to the other side of the wall. Explore under the eaves of the building to
find FLARES near a black scorpion, then jump over part of a sand dune outside
to reach the rest of the building's interior, which is basically waterless
pools with a SMALL MEDIPACK inside one. On the east side of the room, look
for a high-up crawlspace that leads to the 4th secret [29/70], this time two
packs of UZI AMMO and FLARES.
Back in the main room, notice that both pools have ringed ceilings that let
Lara grab hold and monkey climb to the other end. Once on the other side,
find the gray wall button in the middle -- this unlocks the door opposite
the place. Trigger the niche mechanism that the door kept hidden, which'll
drop an ornate bowl in the center of the room, leaving a hole that lets Lara
get down to the underground canals area.
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Soft-drop into the lower room, get the LARGE MEDIPACK and take either exit
to the canalside walkways. There is a current going down the middle, but if
Lara swims on either far side of the nearest canal, she won't be swept back
to start. Use this tactic to get the two packs of SHOTGUN SHELLS hidden under
the western walkway. That's all that can be done here for now.
Back at the ceremonial horn/bowl sculpture, look behind one of the throned
statues to find an indentation for 'Canopic Jar 1'. This unlocks the gray
door in the room sandwiched between "B" and "A" on the map. To get back up
there, use the high-up crawlspace in the east end of the initial room here,
which also contains FLARES on the way back to the sunlit earth. Simply enter
the door marked 'EXIT' on the map to end this level...for now.
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08) THE GREAT HYPOSTYLE HALL [WK08]
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Something that's 'hypostyle' has its structure supported by columnal rows,
so now we know what's going to appear throughout the level. From the start,
continue out into the sunlit area. FLARES and a SMALL MEDIPACK are in the
southern shade, and SHOTGUN SHELLS are on some of the building's debris.
Watch out for black scorpions while doing this, then head north.
Here, there are items strewn throughout the 2F arches, so climb up in your
preferred fashion and start raiding the items: FLARES, SHOTGUN SHELLS, UZI
AMMO, WIDESHOT AMMO. A SMALL MEDIPACK and UZI AMMO can be found on the long
ledge that lines the corridor going north out of the "B" room.
Said corridor leads to a huge gap and cutscene where armed pursuers are now
on Lara's trail. Across the pit, ignore the crawlspace in the NW corner of
the room (it leads to a locked door). The final room has UZI AMMO and a SMALL
MEDIPACK on the floor. Find the slide north to finish this level...for now!!!
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09) SACRED LAKE [WK09]
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|_ F |___| | E | |¯ ¯| | C: 2-Pole Room |
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|_| |______ | | F: Obelisk Oasis |
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Exit the building Lara's slid into to find a huge moat surrounding a yet-
-impenetrable building. There are bats and crocodiles flying around here, so
take 'em out (make sure to check the waterside too). There's a SMALL MEDIPACK
near where Lara first encountered a croc, so pocket that, too. Ignore the
crawlspace in the south for now and locate the northern passage on the other
side of the moat.
This room has a few holes, and one easier drop-down point to some water with
a pole sticking out. Slide-and-jump to the first pole and get level with the
second, on a small platform higher up. Position Lara's BACK to the pole as
she will backflip to it, not some other acrobatic stunt. Once again backflip
to a wall outcrop, which gives access to a crawlspace. This leads into the
building surrounded by a moat! Pull the chain there to raise the gate on the
west (outer) side of the building.
Backtrack to the pole room and get to a lower position where Lara can slide
into the water. There's a SMALL MEDIPACK and FLARES in the pool there, which
now connects to the moat's flooring. Get back on land, kill the crocs and
bats who've come out to play, and swim to the building's interior again. A
SMALL MEDIPACK and SHOTGUN SHELLS are on some of the alcove; after, take a
plunge and look to the east for a lever hidden under a ledge, which removes
a trapdoor nearby. Swim down into one of the holes and find a grayish door
which can be opened by pressing Action in front, just like in the Temple of
Karnak.
Save before attempting this next part, 'cause it's difficult due to camera
angles and thin openings. Proceed along until a fork is encountered: pick
the lower, thinner opening to find a surfacing pool by a LARGE MEDIPACK. Get
some air and swim back to the fork, going the higher road now: it leads to a
mirror room. The reflection hints that there's a hidden surfacing point but
the pixelation in the ceiling is a telltale sign, too. The scummy surface
does a good job of hiding it but it shouldn't be too hard to stumble into.
Alright, surface in the ceiling and obtain CANOPIC JAR 2 from the dead end,
then the two packs of UZI AMMO there also. Stealing it opens a gate in the
moat building's floor, so it's time to retrace our steps again (swimming
back is easier on the out!).
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| We skipped the crawlspace back near the level's entrance since there's |
| little reason to go there, although if you want, there are a few items to |
| get at the obelisk and in the tunnel: FLARES, SHOTGUN SHELLS, SMALL |
| MEDIPACK. Some are underwater, and watch out for black scorpions! |
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Once in said building, take the hole nearest the northern wall to be swept
back to...
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10) TEMPLE OF KARNAK, PT. II [WK10]
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|_____| | A: Obelisk Plaza B: Canopic Jar 1 Area |
| C: Underwater Tunnels D: Dry Pool Room |
| E: To Lower Canals F: Canals Proper |
| G: Connected Tunnel H: To Great Hypo Hall |
| I: Hypostyle Key J: Sun Goddess |
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The level starts with Lara surfacing in a channel and climbing a bit until
she drops down into the underwater canal system. From here, return to the
bull horn sculpture and put Canopic Jar 2 in back of the other throned
statue. After some hocus pocus magic water appears, the entire canal system
now acts as if it's boot-depth, meaning Lara can literally walk on water!
Approach the throne statue across the pond and get UZI AMMO before pulling
up in the passage to the south.
This overlooks a huge pond. Do a softdrop down to the waterlevel and murder
the three crocs swimming around the obelisk. Get the two SHOTGUN SHELLS packs
on the beach and pond, then swim into the crawlspace under the obelisk and
surface by a wall button -- it lowers the cage around the pedestal! Obtain
both the HYPOSTYLE KEY and SUN GODDESS artifacts. Return to the canals and
get back to bull-horn sculpture, where the exit crawlspace is in the east.
Back upstairs in the dry pool room, two henchmen will have now appeared, plus
two more outside the building. Another is the room which connects to The
Great Hypostyle Hall, which is where we're goin' right now!
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11) THE GREAT HYPOSTYLE HALL, PT. II [WK11]
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|___ __ _| | |_| | | B: 2-Story Room |
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| F | |_ _ _| |_____| | D: Crawlspace |
|_ ___ H__| |_____| | E: 2-Ninja Room |
_||___||__ | F: Colorful Room |
|G | | G: Black Switch |
|__________| | H: Boulder Hole |
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Climb up to the outdoor area where a new brute (I call it a ninja henchman)
has appeared: he's got more health and can deflect bullets by twirling his
sword-fork-thingy. He'll keep that stance until Lara puts distance between
him and her, at which time just shoot his pursuing form until he dies. He
leaves UZI AMMO. Inside the 2-story room, one appears in the main room and
two near the gap Lara has to cross.
Locate the crawlspace from before and at the end, use the Hypostyle Key from
the previous level to unlock. Two more ninja henchmen are inside, one of whom
drops his UZI, and in the adjacent colorful room, another one. Get the
SHOTGUN SHELLS sitting on a block. In the third large adjacent room, a final
assassin is near some FLARES.
In the southernmost large room (the one with flares), a lit-up block gives
enough height so Lara can jump-and-grab a ledge in the center, right under
a notched ceiling. Use this to traverse to the west side of the third room,
to a black switch affixed to the wall. This raises a black ceiling tile that
is connected to the notched ceiling in the middle (colorful) room. Once Lara
makes it across there, the music tone changes to hectic -- turn around and
kill the ninja henchman swinging across the ceiling after her. Get UZI AMMO
on the ledge there, and do a bit of climbing to get to the level's 3F, which
is walking on TOP of the notched ceiling.
Towards the center, look for a boulder perched on top of a column. This can
be shot off, which will break a hole in the floor below. Drop down and get
the would-be killer's WIDESHOT AMMO before lowering Lara into the boulder-made
hole.
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The pit made by the falling rock has one proper entrance and a small crawl-
-space with UZI AMMO inside. Take the former and the first passage to the
west will have a giant crystal flanked by weird contraptions on three sides.
Ignore this for now and locate the dead-end part of the corridor nearby...but
is it really a dead-end? Inspect the ceiling to see part of a ladder is within
jumping reach.
Upstairs is three spinnable cranks which will rotate the weird contraptions
hanging from them below. Assuming North is "12:00", do the following:
NORTHERN CRANK: One spin clockwise
WESTERN CRANK : Two spins clockwise
SOUTHERN CRANK: One spin counterclockwise
With this done, return downstairs to the crystal/prism room and look for a
chain to pull. If all contraptions are in order, electricity will destroy
the prism and leave a SUN DISK behind. Stealing this priceless antique will
trigger a trapdoor in the west floor, which leads to...
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12) SACRED LAKE, PT. II [WK12]
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| H _ |___ ________|D | | A: Building Moat |
|_|____| _| | ____ |¯| | | B: Crawlspace |
| G _ F |___| | E | |¯ ¯| | C: 2-Pole Room |
|_ | | _ | | DA | C | | D: Connected Passage |
_| / |_ _| |_B |____| |_____| | E: Underwater Tunnel (To Canopic Jar 2) |
|1 | _| | |______ | | F: Obelisk Oasis |
¯¯¯___| _| ______| | | G: Pole Room |
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The passageway leads Lara to the obelisk oasis in the south part of the map.
Combine the Sun Goddess and Sun Disk to make the SUN TALISMAN and place it
in the li'l object at the foot of the two obelisks -- this opens all locked
doors in this area! The north door has a SMALL MEDIPACK in a crawlspace, the
east is the way Lara came in, and the south door leads to a pole. Backflip
to the FLARES, then slide down the pole to the water. SHOTGUN SHELLS, UZI
AMMO, WIDESHOT AMMO, and a SMALL MEDIPACK are in the small tunnels there.
There's also a gray door that leads to the first secret in awhile [30/70], a
surfacing room with WIDESHOT AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK, and CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE
AMMO! Back in the pole room, save and exit to the oasis again.
The only entrance left is then the west, which is full of rubble and broken
pillars. An alcove here contains a SMALL MEDIPACK, UZI AMMO, and SHOTGUN
SHELLS, but to continue, jump onto the largest pillar which gives access to
the notched ceiling. Swing south (ignore bat that attacks) and at the end,
release and catch the lower lip of the crawlspace, which opens up to two
more crawlspaces: one with UZI AMMO and the other gives access to the room's
3F, where Lara can jump on arch-tops and such.
Kill any bats that appear and run-and-grab to the western holes, getting to
the obscured part of the lower room. Drop down to ground level, kill any
remaining b(r)ats, get the FLARES and UZI from the pedestals, and walk out
into the fresh air. Approach the far door to put this long series of dungeons
to rest, finally.
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13) TOMB OF SEMERKHET [WK13]
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¯ | |___ | D ___| | A | Scarab Room |
| A _ | |_|I |_| | B | Scarabs / Mechanism Room |
|_____|_| |_ |1 _______ | | C | Connected Passage |
| | | |__ C __| | | D | Senet Gameboard Room |
|START| |___________| | E | 3-Flame Room |
¯|_|¯ | F | 6-Flame Room |
|¯¯¯| ______ | G | 'The Rules of Senet' |
| Q | |_EXIT_| | H | Post-Senet Path (Won) |
_|¯ ___| |_ __| | I | Post-Senet Path (Lost) |
|5 P ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| | |__ | J | 2-Rope Room |
¯| ___|¯¯¯¯¯| | | | | K | Cartouche Piece 1 |
_|6|_ | K | | ¯¯| | | L | Cartouche Piece 2 |
| R | |_ _| | ___|¯¯¯|_ _|7|_ | M | Ba Cartouche Door |
|_____| | |_| | | _ L _| | S | | N | Ra Cartouche Course |
|_ |O|_| |_|___| ¯¯¯¯¯ | O | Ra Cartouche Door |
|¯¯¯¯¯| | |__ | P | Fire Elemental/3 Rope Room |
| 3 | | J | | Q | Ice Elemental's Location |
|¯ ¯¯¯ ____|__| | R | Pole Room |
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In the initial room, break the vases to obtain UZI AMMO and a LARGE MEDIPACK.
Down the nearby slide, a scarab swarm will fill the floor and can damage Lara
without any fear of repercussion -- grab onto the notched ceiling to avoid
any mishaps, which leads to a slope near a pole. There are two floors below
(B1, B2) accessible via this pole.
B1 has some breakable jars containing a SMALL MEDIPACK and a torch (not in
inventory, just held) that can be lit by pressing Action near a torch. This
can scare scarab off a bit. Jump down to B2 and press all mechanisms, one
of which contains a SMALL MEDIKIT; the others make a door on B1 open. Lara
can't activate switches with the torch, so drop it first and scramble back
up and exit to the west.
There are three red doors here, but the southern one is the only that can
be opened normally. Soft-drop down the hole to end up in the 'Senet Room',
which was an ancient board game the Egyptians played. Lara will have to her
hand at it, with the outcome depending on which way she goes.
Before that though, jump NW along the ledges (from the drop-in area) to see
a black ladder carved on one side of the 2F. This leads to the level's first
secret [31/70], WIDESHOT AMMO and a SMALL MEDIPACK. Drop back down to floor
level and mosey east, using the wide ladder/corridor to find a room with lots
of fire.
Drop down and kill the two fancy dogs and look for three blocks with firejets
streaming out: the middle one never stops but the others alternate. Wait for
the easternmost to stop blowing and trigger its mechanism, which shuts off
the middle block's jet. Trigger the middle block's mechanism to make an odd
block to the east lower. The remaining fire jet's niche contains a SMALL
MEDIPACK, if y'want it.
Behind the block that was dropped is a pool and a six-flame mechanism thing,
which is like this diagram below. There's a specific order to do it in, so
save first 'case Lara lights up like a firework.
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| [1] has SHOTGUN SHELLS and no flame, [6] has a SMALL MEDIPACK
| [1] [6] | and an alternating flame. Trigger [3]'s mechanism to turn off
| [2] [5] | [5]'s flame, whose available mechanism turns off [4]'s fiery
N [3] [4] | jet. [4]'s mechanism raises a cage out in the fancy dogs'
POOL | room a moment before, as well as making [2]'s flame alternate
_______________| arrivals. With [2] able to be accessed, use its mechanism to
make the door west of the pit open. Before leaving, reach
into [6]'s hole again to turn off its flame and make another cage rise in
the previous room. Success!
Use the ceiling's monkey bars to climb over the deep shaft (or backtracking
by the pool), come into the area where two cages now let Lara have access to
the upper parts. Climb onto a cage and jump to the ledge in the middle -- it
too has a flaming niche which snuffs out flames in a B1 room.
Before jumping down, there's a S-E-C-R-E-T [32/70] to get! The east side of
that platform has a ladder etched in it. To get there, sideflip onto the
slanted portion and grab the ladder, then shimmy around the corner until an
alcove with WIDESHOT AMMO and a LARGE MEDIPACK comes into sight.
On the ground floor, use the lower ramp to obtain the now-fireless THE RULES
OF SENET tablet, as well as opening a trapdoor above a ladder in the Senet
room. Return to said room's west side, climb up the ladder, and backflip to
the ledge where Senet can be played.
NOTE: If you win Senet, you miss out on five (5) secrets! That's incentive
enough to try to lose, so save beforehand!
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The player can examine the rules by looking at...err, 'THE RULES OF SENET'
plaque obtained a short while ago. The tenets are simple: the first person
to move all of his/her pieces to the goal space wins.
GOAL Lara uses colored pieces, Semerkhet's spectre uses the
A-|_| golden pawns. When each player spins and gets a number
|_| (all black = 6), a pawn is chosen and moved that much
|_| in the direction. A free turn is obtained for landing
|_| on an ankh tile or rolling a 6. The cool thing is that
A-|_| landing on an opponent's tile sends their piece back to
|_| its starting position, although this is true vice versa
|_| as well. Also, if a piece makes it to the final ankh
|_| and disappears, a free turn is also awarded! Oh, and
|¯|A|¯| an exact roll is needed to get on the
.-- |¯|¯|¯|¯|¯| --. 'goal' ankh!
Lara's-|-- |¯|¯|¯|¯|¯| --|-Semerkhet's
3 Pawns '-- |¯|¯|¯|¯|¯| --' Three Pawns
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Defeating Semerkhet makes scaffolding rise on the senet board, which Lara can
do running jumps across from the balcony where she initially fell in. That
opposite balcony has two stairways that lead downward. At the bottom, an ankh
door opens and spits out two fancy dogs -- kill 'em! Downstairs are two more
dogs, and keep an eye out for jars that house UZI AMMO AND SHOTGUN SHELLS.
This leads to a small corridor where scarabs pour in; however, this time our
girl can simply run to the opposite pole and backflip off at the top. The
vases there have a LARGE MEDIPACK adjacent to a room with reflecting mirrors.
Ignore the dog 'statues' for now and head up the ramp at the opposite end,
which leads to a pole. Let two bats flitter down before making the ascent.
Backflip into one of the alcoves and find the one with a gray door that
lifts when Lara approaches. The beams of light need to be blocked by the
movable senet pieces, which have matching tiles underneath. Do the red one
first, then move the other pawns down the center to their spots. You'll know
the two similar ones are in the right place because a small scene below shows
a light beam missing. When all are perfectly positioned, the sarcophagus
downstairs slides back and the two dog statues 'awaken'.
Slide back down the pole, dispatch the dogs, and use the crawlspace under
the burial mound to reach a drop-down point. The gray exit on the wall you
see is the exit used if senet was lost; otherwise, just approach the casket
to finish the level!
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If Semerkhet's ghost wins, certain sections of the floor cave in like li'l
trapdoors. First things first: save. Second things second: make sure to jump
down the NWmost trapdoor! This gets easier access to the next secret [33/70]
which Lara can jump to off the third ramp to grab a ledge. Use the pole to
get down to breakable vases: SMALL MEDIPACK and WIDESHOT AMMO! Now climb back
up to the ledge next to the ramps and save. This is because if Lara doesn't
catch the next pole (or goes down backwards somehow), she'll end up as a big
stain at the bottom of the shaft. Once she grabs the pole, get the SMALL
MEDIPACK and UZI AMMO before descending, then kill a bat, man. =)
The room here has Lara placed a high corner, with two ropes hanging down and
a bunch of walkway clutter. Jump to the ledge west of the pole and follow the
passage to the "K" room with two fancy dogs inside. In a dead-end passage,
drag the golden pedestal east and flip the lever, which smashes it with the
two hammers, leaving a CARTOUCHE PIECE 1. Pocket it and return downstairs to
the main chamber.
The easiest way to cross the rope course is to jump to the first, then to
the ledge near a closed red door. Following, jump to a slanted portion and
catch the ledge at the drop, losing no (or minimal) damage in the process.
But guess what -- that closed red door actually houses a secret [34/70], a
SMALL MEDIPACK and CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO.
It's a huge hassle swinging like Tarzan, yo. Either way, climb up the ladder
to the other pole -- it contains SHOTGUN SHELLS and CROSSBOW POISON AMMO,
which is the pole shaft used if the player jumps down a different trapdoor
in the senet room -- but instead of taking it up right now, drop down the west
side to the odd-shaped mid-level platform and look for a crawlspace. Kill the
bat outside first, though. The crawlspace leads to a room with another senet
piece -- y'know the drill: push it as far as it will go and let it get smashed
by hammers. It drops CARTOUCHE PIECE 2, which can be combined with the first
to make...the BA CARTOUCHE! A door opens below.
Drop down and kill the two fancy dogs, break some vases for SMALL MEDIPACK
and SHOTGUN SHELLS, and backtrack to the room with two ropes. Get Secret #34
here if not already and get down to the ground floor. The Ba Cartouche can be
set in one of the golden wall indentations, which also unleashes two fancy
hounds to give funerals to.
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Okay, so we're halfway done. The passage beyond has another pawn but the
path it can take has flames in it -- a no-no for Lara! Locate the black
wall switch on the southern wall, save, and get ready for a timed portion!
Do a running jump, flip the switch, and deactivate the floor fires in the
senet piece's path. On the ground floor, quickly sprint to the other side
and take a pole up to the piece. From there pull (the entire way) the piece
towards the hammers, the push it the rest of the way for the last tile. The
odd music that plays here will stop after awhile, signalling that there's
about 20-25 seconds of time left. The hammers' might reveals a RA CARTOUCHE,
in full, that can now be used. Put this in the other golden indentation in
the 2-rope room's ground floor.
PAST THE RA CARTOUCHE DOOR
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Up the stairsets, a fiery monster (fire elemental) will appear and fly around
the room, throwing heat projectiles at Lara. These do normal damage for the
most part but she may catch on fire. Unless you want to run to the nearest
water pool (which is in the Ra Cartouche course), the quickest way to negate
it is to find the ice elemental switch and have 'em cancel each other out.
This creature is found in the west part of the first room, up a ramp and
down another. It's inside a cage and pulling the lever sets it free; it'll
then kill its foe, yadda yadda yadda, threat neutralized. Two SMALL MEDIPACKs
can be found in the Ice Elemental room, also.
Now it's time to get another secret [35/70]! Climb back to the Fire Elemental
Room's opening and do a running jump to the first rope. Continue to jump n'
swing to the alcove opposite the starting point, for GRENADE GUN NORMAL AMMO,
UZI AMMO, and REVOLVER AMMO, which is the first sighting of the latter, I
believe! Don't drop down, though or the rope-ing has to be redone. Jump back
to the third in the chain and start swinging east, jumping to the next set
of platforms.
Kill any bats and jump to the pole high up on the weird mishmash totem pole.
Climb a bit until the next level of platforms -- backflip east to the one
near a hanging wall switch. Kill two more bats and grab the switch, which'll
raise a new ledge at the same height as that floor, although Lara will have
to climb back up and kill a few more vampbats. Jump to that square ledge and
find a torch in the wall mechanism. Unlike before, this is a must-have.
Toss it down to ground level, 'cause that's where we're heading. Return to
the ground floor of the 3-rope (fire elemental) room and light the torch on
the flaming pedestal. Once done, there are two unlit torches on either side
of the pole room's entrance -- light 'em to hear a click. This opens up a
trapdoor in the middle of the walkway! It leads to a secret [36/70] down a
bunch of corridors, past a circular scythe trap (save before attempting to
bypass) and in a dead-end room. It's WIDESHOT AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK, FLARES,
and GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO. The room quickly fills with scarabs though, so
get what y'came for and get outta Dodge!
EXITING THE LEVEL
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Back in the 3-rope room, it's time to return to the pole from before...yes,
this means backtracking and doing the course again. Lame, I know! Like before
Lara must backflip to the ledge (near the black wall switch) and leap to the
platform by the torch's niche. This time, Jump to the rest of the walkways
lining the west side of the room; beyond, Lara can climb into the passage's
ceiling. Look for a black wall switch above the entrance hole, which raises
scaffolding so Lara can get to the level's exit after a bit of tunnel-
-travellin'. However, the level's final secret [37/70] is hidden in the
ceiling therein: it's an UZI, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, and a LARGE MEDIPACK!
Now, finish this level in style!
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14) GUARDIAN OF SEMERKHET [WK14]
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|_ _| | | A: Circular Blade Traps |
EXIT _| |_| | | | B: Nile River Model Room |
|¯|_ |¯| |_______|¯|H|¯ | C: Timed Swordblade Traps |
| |J|_|¯ ¯| | | | D: Golden Vraeus |
| |___ |______________| | | E: Guardian Key |
| |___| I G | | F: Connected Passage |
|_____ |¯¯¯| |¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯ | G: Locked Door (Bait Guardian) |
|__ __| |_ 1 | | | H: Guardian's 1st Appearance |
| 3 |_____ |__| | | I: Eye Mural Room |
¯¯¯| D | | | | J: Ladder to 2F |
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N _| |_| E |_ appears to have been nothing, thankfully.
| |_____ B F _| Look for a floor hole near the uncentered
| |_ _| statue and slide down to a passage with a
W ----+---- E _____|A| few circular scythe traps. Beyond's a room
| | _| with a model of the Nile River; westward,
| |START| a crawlspace leads to a room ("C") with a
S |_ _|_ timed spike trap!
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...although you can't see the spikes, they're hidden under the walkway. If
Lara isn't careful, they simply pull a one-eighty and chop her up with the
cleaver-like blades. Keep pulling the wheel-like mechanism to temporarily
open a door further down the path. Lara will have to make a break for it, and
must keep moving to take advantage of the blades' delay times. There aren't
any tips besides cut corners (when jumping) and DON'T SPRINT -- it's unneeded
and will probably mess you up. The finish line prize is a GOLDEN VRAEUS idol
from the pedestal. Just make sure to get in the habit of taking it from the
back or at a diagonal angle, since this one's boobytrapped and some blades
will emerge to attack the thief! Leave this room by sliding down to ground
level and avoiding the dirt tiles, which are also boobytrapped with 4-blade
slicers. The passage on the other side eventually leads back up to 2F, and
from there, return to the model Nile room.
An indentation here is custom-fitted for the Golden Vraeus, so stick it in
and watch the laser scene which opens up a model pyramid for a GUARDIAN KEY
inside. It's used immediately on the east keyhole, which unlocks the trapdoor
one foot away.
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THE GUARDIAN
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The trapdoor slides Laura into a lonely corridor far below. The ceiling here
is notched, so Lara can grab hold in the eastern corner by a SMALL MEDIPACK.
Ignore whatever's thumping behind the locked gates... (*teeth chatter*) Latch
onto the ceiling and backtrack west, past the slide-in point to a crawlspace
near a locked door. Let go and grab the ledge to find a room with fiery jets
coming out of blocks...aww, not again! SHOTGUN SHELLS and CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE
AMMO are inside. That's a secret right there [38/70]!
As for the fiery mechanisms, the west one has WIDESHOT AMMO and a second try
makes the east flame alternate blows. That one has UZI AMMO to reap, and a
second try makes the last flame block alternate jets. There's a LARGE MEDIPACK
inside. The final niche flame extinguishes here but it'll just make scarabs
pour in the room, so ignore it!
Back in the hallway, continue north until the source of what's rapping on the
door appears: the Guardian of Semerkhet, a gigantic minotaur! It can't be
killed by conventional weapons so don't waste ammo. It will charge at Lara
and try to gore her with his horns; however, if she can dodge at the last
second and make it hit a wall, it'll get stuck temporarily and she can go
about her business, such as killing the bats that are flying around to annoy
her.
To find a secret [39/70], enter the room the guardian came out of and follow
its twisting passages to a dead-end room. There is a SMALL MEDIPACK and a
torch in one of the wall holes -- keep it! The nearest lit torch is back by
the minotaur's door lever, against the east wall. Light it and return to the
dead end room the torch was found in, lighting the two torches on either side
of the chamber. A secret wall opens and this is the aforementioned secret!
The pedestals are boobytrapped, so take the SHOTGUN SHELLS, LARGE MEDIPACK,
and CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO carefully. Also, a spiked ball comes through the
ceiling in the middle, so don't stray into it!
Return back to the guardian's hallway and make it chase Lara to the western
reaches, which is sorta near where she slid into this area. There is a door
here unlockable by any means, but by baiting the guardian into charging, it
will bumrush the door and knock it down. It might be a good idea to save
beforehand, so Lara can time her jump over the beastie. When it's clear of
the door, sprint through.
BEATING THE GUARDIAN
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This leads to the "Eye Symbol Room." As expected, start baiting the bull into
goring the eye murals. Only two are necessary to begin, but do all three for
good measure (keep in mind the camera angles here are bad!). Of the two doors
that open, enter the one 'right' of the single eye symbol, which leads to a
tiny area with a ladder. Climb up and go to the 2F's south side, where there
is a open ceiling above the curved walkway. Climb up to the level's final
secret [40/70]: SHOTGUN SHELLS, SMALL MEDIPACK, LARGE MEDIPACK. The pedestals
aren't boobytrapped but the ceiling is, so watch it. Also, only one item can
be taken; the others catch on fire!
Finally, look on the north side of the 2F walkway, which leads to items:
SHOTGUN SHELLS, UZI CLIPS, and a SMALL MEDIPACK. Avoid the part of the ceiling
that obviously holds a spikeball trap and maybe it won't appear at all!
Now, to end this 'boss battle', all three eye symbols have to be broken. If
this was done previously on the ground floor, good; if not, do it from there
or bait into attacking Lara while she stands/hangs on one of the pillars.
Either way, when all three (3) are punctured, this opens a door in the west,
parallel to the one that leads to the ladder. In fact, this one leads to a
ladder, too...which ends the level. I guess we didn't beat the guardian after
all...maybe there'll be a Round 2 later? HMMMMM???!?
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15) DESERT RAILROAD [WK15]
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| | 3| | C: Boxcar 1 | D: Boxcar 2 |
| |START| | E: Tied-down Cargo 2 (Tall) | F: Caboose |
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| | The level starts with Lara in a car with two levers: one opens a
| | door nearby and the other is broken. Do a diagonal jump to the
| | next car which happens to have its compartments full of cargo...
| B | breakable cargo. A SMALL MEDIPACK and SHOTGUN SHELLS occupy the
| | first two, but the final crate's a waste of a bullet. However, an
|_____| assassin appears so that bullet doesn't go to waste. Outside, the
| | exit leads to a tied-down cargo car with a green tarp. Two more
| C | assassins on horseb-...err, jeepback appear to meddle in Lara's
|_ _| affairs, too.
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| D 2 | When they're disposed, continue working east and climb onto the
|_____| adjacent car's roof. Two assassins appear, so quickly murder 'em
| | before they jump back inside and foul up the easy pickins. The
| E | first boxcar has two packs of SHOTGUN SHELLS and a SMALL MEDIPACK,
|_ _| plus an assassin hiding around the corner in a blindspot. The next
| | eastern car ("D") hasn't anything of worth right now, so skip it.
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| F | The next car is a tall bunch of cargo tied down with a green tarp.
| | To bypass this nuisance, hang over either edge of the car; shimmy
| 1 | to the other side until Lara can pull up. The adjacent car, which
¯¯¯¯¯ happens to be the last one, has an assassin on the roof. After he
gets blown off the train, hang on the back edge and a door opens; catch the
lower crate lip and pull into the caboose's interior. Secret #1 [41/70] ends
up being REVOLVER AMMO, CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO, and a LARGE MEDIPACK.
Back on the caboose's roof, hang off the north side of the car until Lara can
find another crate to grab, pulling into the other part of the boxcar. There
is a bunch of crap here: 2x SHOTGUN SHELLS, a CROWBAR, and a SHOTGUN. A lever
long since broken here can be activated with the crowbar! Doing this makes an
assassin appear out of nowhere from a blindspot, though.
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BACKTRACKING
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Past the tall tarp ("E") car, another assassin is patrolling a boxcar's roof,
and another shows his ugly face in the "D" car's eastern exit. When both are
toast (plus the 1-2 that also assist), the "D" car can be robbed of its secret
[42/70] treasure! Inside, there's a small dead-end with a funny-looking crate
face. The crowbar pops it back to reveal a door, with GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO,
GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO, and...a GRENADE GUN itself! Finally, a new weapon!
Continue the backtracking session, to the B/C cars, a.k.a. flatbed trailers.
A jeep deposits two more assassins here, plus another in the "A" car. Finally
reach the initial car with the broken lever. Use the crowbar on one of the
crate sides to uncover the last secret [43/70], a SMALL MEDIPACK. Whee? Use
the crowbar's lever to uncouple the rest of the train cars, then make it to
the engineer's car and finish the level.
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16) ALEXANDRIA [WK16]
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_|F| D | | C |_| | | A: Train Station |
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_| B |E1|_| | D: Jean-Yves' Study | S --+-- N
|__________ |__|_| | E: Library Building | |
| |¯| | F: Motorcycle | E
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| A|_| | SECRETS: 1 [44/70]
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This is a rather short level with Lara starting at a train station. At the
dark alley due east of there, a SMALL MEDIPACK shines...but there are also a
few black scorpions blending in. Out of the station, a blue-clothed thug will
run past Lara and into a warehouse ("C"). That makes at least two inside, and
maybe one outside if Lara didn't pursue the thug fast enough. Back in the
town square, enter the tall building with a black door near the fountain --
this is Jean-Yves' museum/den. After the scene, pick up the items lying in
the library: LASERSIGHT, CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO, and 2x SHOTGUN SHELLS. Walk
out onto our friend's balcony and look north at the warehouse ambush roof:
two more uzimen try to get potshots, with one dropping UZI AMMO.
Before descending back down to the street, notice that the other north house,
east of the warehouse, has a wall lever on one side. To reach it, jump from
where the two "snipers" were and grab the roof, then shimmy around the corner
for a drop-n'-catch. Inside that black-doored building is a single henchman,
and now a door on the west side will opened (due to the switch). The level's
only secret [44/70] is a LARGE MEDIPACK and CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO.
That's all there is to do for now; we'll have to leave the motorcycle around
back of Jean-Yves' house for later. To exit this level, there is an alley
west of the ambush warehouse with a single foe and SMALL MEDIPACK. Follow it
to...
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17) COASTAL RUINS [WK17]
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W ----+---- E | A: Egyptian Adventure Exhibit | B: Water Pool |
| | C: Gate Key (Behind Bars) | D: Crossbow |
| | E: Shooting Gallery / Token | F: Snakecharmer |
S | G: Coastal Ruins Proper | H: Get-to-Hill Pt. |
| I: Hilltop Building | J: To Catacombs |
| K: To Catacombs (Lower Entr.) |____________________|
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Like Temple of Karnak/Hypostyle Hall/Sacred Lake before it, these next few
levels are connected and can be revisited at leisure (usually). This can also
be a confusing thing, so don't stray back unless you've forgotten something
crucial to completion!
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EGYPTIAN ADVENTURE
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In the dark part of the entrance stairway, look for a SMALL MEDIPACK below.
Enter the main street of town and notice to the south, a small passage that
leads to a dead end. This is where the Egyptian Adventure exhibit Jean-Yves
may have told Lara about (if she revisited him)...but it's closed for now.
However, Lara can shoot the boards away if she so desires.
Let's get a new weapon first, shall we? SE of the starting point, after a bit
of hallway-surfing, is another "locked" boarded-up door which leads to "D" on
the map. There is another mirror here that catches Lara's attention -- it's
booby-trapped with spikes and they only show up in the mirror. With that info
on-hand, avoid the traps and claim the CROSSBOW, which also only appears in
the mirror.
Once the item is safely in your hands, move toward the "E" room in the west.
Save, combine the LaserSight from the Alexandria level with the Crossbow now
obtained (first-person sniping with L1) and slide down. A ledge will raise
and prevent Lara from plummeting into the spikes, and she'll have to complete
a shooting gallery course to avoid that fate. There is a "bug" on this level
where if Lara snipes the top-middle target with an explosive arrow (or grenade
round I suppose), it blows all the targets up for an easy finish. Drop down
below and collect the TOKEN for the trouble, then use the crawlspace to exit
out.
With the Token in Lara's pretty pocket, it's time to do some more trickery
to get that key in the cage before. The room right next to the Crossbow/Mirror
puzzle contains a mechanized snakecharmer. Save, give it the token, and a big
rope will stretch to the ceiling. Climb up and backflip off, then use the
crowbar on a a hook to obtain...the WALL HOOK, which can be combined with a
BROKEN HANDLE sitting nearby to form a HOOK AND POLE device. Finally, use
the Hook and Pole at point "C" on the map to obtain the GATE KEY. Well, Lara
will still have to pick it up but y'get the idea.
That ends the exhibit portion; return to the street.
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THE COASTAL RUINS
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East of there are two arched doorways with one leading downstairs to a water
pool. Get to the crawlspace therein which leads to a tall ladder, which leads
outside of town: the coastal ruins area. This place will be revisited often
as all the next levels of the Alexandria area connect to here in some way.
There are a few items to obtain before we do anything else:
• In the north part of this hilly region (without going back into town) is a
current that extends east from the town walls. If Lara is there, she'll see
some blue seaweed there, as well as having a tough time to get through due
to the crappy angles. Either way, some GRENADE GUN NORMAL ROUNDS are to a
bit lower & south of there, in an underwater alcove.
• Also near that area, except west more and on dry land (the white pillars),
there is a high-up alcove that Lara can do a running jump to. If she falls
it's basically right in front of the jetstream below, which is a nuisance,
so save before attempting. The items are CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO!
If you don't know how to get back on the hill after falling in the water, I
have marked it on the map ("H") -- it's simply pulling up on a flat surface.
Anyway, the small building farther up the hill is the main target to go to,
now. There will be a skeleton walking the area (triggered from obtaining one
of the ammo drops) that needs to be reburied before this, though. Normal
weapons only knock them down; to destroy them, they need to be exploded or
have their heads shot off with the lasersight (they won't attack after that).
Jump to the ledge with a pulley/boulder underneath it, and look for a higher
ledge on the east side with WIDESHOT AMMO and a SMALL MEDIPACK. A door up on
that same level is locked, but the Gate Key from the Egyptian Adventure area
will unlock it.
NOTE: This level will requires minor backtracking, so this is a forewarning!
The first room inside has nothing, and the second has a brown movable pillar
with a floor that depresses when Lara steps on it, i.e. the pillar can't be
moved in full. This will need to be rectified! First press the 'face' button
on the wall -- it raises a block in the room below -- and backtrack to...
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THE COASTAL RUINS
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In that small hilltop building, remember the pulley that holds a boulder over
a pit? Jump down to the pit, trigger the boulder trap (jump under and flip
out of the way) and use the crawlspace to find a crowbar-able door beyond.
This actually leads back to the Catacombs, just in a lower manner.
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THE CATACOMBS (LOWER)
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Alright, so Lara is now in the lower Catabombs entrance. This leads to a
single room with a movable pillar, and the brown block that was raised into
the floor before. Move the pillar onto it, which steadies the unstable room
above -- that's all. Backtrack to the upper portion of this dungeon again.
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THE CATACOMBS (ABOVE)
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With the brown pillar able to be moved, push it into the room right before,
onto the tile with a face marking. Doing so unleashes an ice elemental that
will go aggro on Lara (although it can't catch her on fire like the other
pesky type!) so lead it through the west door that just opened. Ignore the
pole shaft in the middle and take the north passage to where a weird cross-
-shaped statue is sitting by some pots. The ice elemental will disappear into
this if Lara waits around a bit.
When the pest is gone, return to the pole shaft and slide down. At the end of
the passage is a lever that works an false elevator -- the walls themselves
actually slide up! This reveals two ropes hanging from the ceiling. Swing to
the second rope and jump to the crawlspace to the west, which contains the
first secret [45/70], a SHOTGUN, FLARES, and LARGE MEDIPACK. [NOTE: If you
swung to the west alcove instead of the south, you'll find it just drops down
to the passage below -- restart and do the secret!]
TRIDENTS 1 & 2
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Anyway, the soft-drop from the secret alcove to the passage below, which runs
parallel east-west. Up the stairs is a drop-down point to a ramp, although a
jump-and-grab to the breakable vases results in WIDESHOT AMMO. Slide down to
a pool with high walkways interspersed around. A skeleton jumps around, but
a fun way to kill it is to use a shotgun blast and knock it into the water.
When the pests are zapped, jump the higher ledges to get to the SW lever --
it makes some blocks extend so Lara can leapfrog across the southern wall to
a vase hiding WIDESHOT AMMO. From that vase's platform, use the mesh ceiling
to approach the 2nd lever. An ice elemental appears, so once the lever is
pressed -- this makes other blocks extend on the east wall -- locate the
cross statue in the SW underwater alcove. Finally, the middle raised platform
duo can be used to reach the newly extended platforms, which let Lara exit
the room along the south wall. Clutch the ledge over the small canal and
shimmy around to safety. Whew!
The path leads to a room with a single rope and a huge drop off, with pillars
extending high upwards. Two skeletons will be around here, so it's in Lara's
best interest to snipe/explode 'em. Get the WIDESHOT AMMO in the nearby vase
and swing across to the ledge with an unactivated skeleton. A niche with more
vases contains nothing, so ignore it. Instead, jump to the center pillar-top
with a TRIDENT on a pedestal; stealing it activates the other skeleton. Save
some explosive ammo and shotgun it off the ledge when it jumps over -- do
this same tactic for the other skeleton, also. The NE corner of the room has
a ladder on a pit's inner side, so climb down that way to WIDESHOT AMMO and
CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO. Ground-floor vases contain SHOTGUN SHELLS but nothing
else. Climb back up the ladder, get the LARGE MEDIPACK on the western archway,
and take the NW alcove ladder out of this gloomy chamber (2 skeletons chase!)
The next room has a skeleton guarding another TRIDENT piece. Climb the pole
to the next-highest floor and get the CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO. The next floor
up has a passage ("M") that connects to the Catacombs' first pole shaft, now
inhabited by a skeleton.
TRIDENT #3 & 4
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Slide down the pole back to the room with two ropes ("H"), killing the creepy
skeleton that rises from the earth. The northeast corner of the room has a
ladder etched in, so a running jump-n'-catch will let Lara reach the bottom
safely. Defeat the two skeletons and take the north ladder/passage out of
this area.
In the next area, with huge ledges, Lara starts off on the ground floor.
Ignore the west door (leads to skeleton) and take the east door, which has
more dead ends & a skeleton, plus UZI AMMO. Return to the west door and one
of the alleys leads to an alcove with vases, and a ladder hidden inside.
On the middle level, get the WIDESHOT AMMO. Along the south wall (middle) is
a small alcove with a LARGE MEDIPACK, which sics a skeleton on Lara's tail.
The SE alcove has more WIDESHOT AMMO and SHOTGUN SHELLS guarded by two
skeletons on the path prior to this. Near that SE alcove, the NE alcove has
a ladder that leads to the top level.
Nearby are some SHOTGUN SHELLS near a 3rd TRIDENT piece on a pedestal. As
Lara nears the center long-shaped walkway and a skeleton rears its ugly mug.
Catch the rope and cross straight, spawning a skeleton in the SE corner. Kill
or ignore it, flatjumping to the structural pillar alcove with a pole visible
inside. It leads up to a small ledge with an unactivated skeleton amidst some
pots, plus a wide ladder. Since we'll have to come back down, destroy the
skeleton right now and climb up. At the top, the passage leads to the final
(4th) TRIDENT piece, which of course activates the skeletons here. What's the
ladder behind the pedestal, you ask? It leads back to the Coastal Ruins area,
at the north building (near the jetstream & seaweed). If Lara wants to climb
up and crowbar the doors open, and kill skeletons, feel free, but there's
no reason to leave completely just yet.
To get another secret [46/70], shoot all the small bone piles in the fourth
Trident room (with crossbow) and a small trapdoor near the pedestal falls in,
revealing CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO. Doing this also opens a brown door in the
SW corner of the previous large room's toplevel area, which is a 3rd secret
[47/70]: CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, WIDESHOT AMMO, SHOTGUN SHELLS, and a LARGE
MEDIPACK. Start softdropping down to the ground level passage where the room
entrance/exit is, except this time go all the way north to the dead-end shaft.
The elevator will silently ascend at this time to the final secret [48/70] in
the Catacombs, a LARGE MEDIPACK, WIDESHOT AMMO, and CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO.
That's all for this level now, assuming you have all four (4) Tridents. Get
back to the room with 2 ropes and exit to the west.
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19) TEMPLE OF POSEIDON [WK19]
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| "Catacombs". Don't bother progressing until they're all obtained, 'kay? |
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| | G |___ | C: Room with Abyss in Center |
W ----+---- E |_ _| | | D: Dual Face Statues |
| | _ H | | E: 2-Skeleton Room |
| | | |___| | F: Face Carving |
S |¯ ¯| | G: Poseidon Statue |
| F | | H: Floortorch Room |
| | | I: Poseidon Statue |
|¯ ¯| | J: Statue / Pole Room |
| E1 | | K: Poseidon Statue |
|_ _| | L: Poseidon Statue |
__| | | M: Abyss Pool (Once 4 Tridents Used) |
__| __| | N: 2 Ice Elementals / 2 Cross Statues |
_ ____| C A|____ _ | O: To Coastal Ruins (Largest Building) |
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Start the level and take note of the cross statue that can negate some ice
elementals. The floor hole has a ladder one one side, leading into a chamber
with a huge abyss (bottomless pit) in the middle and two face statues carved
on either side of the area. Enter the northern passage and arrive at a room
with 2 skeletons going for a pincer attack. Drop down to ground level and
enter the SE crawlspace for secret [49/70], CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO and a SMALL
MEDIPACK. That's the only one in this level! Climb back up and trek north.
--- NOTE: The Tridents can be placed in any order ---
The next room with a gigantic face carving has a crawlspace 'neath it. The
T-shaped junction beyond has UZI AMMO in a breakable jar, and the east room
with floor torches has CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO, SHOTGUN SHELLS, and WIDESHOT
AMMO, plus two skeletons who want a fight. Carefully exit and enter the
dead-end pool room nearby with a statue of Poseidon. Inspect its front and
use one of the Tridents, which floods a portion of the area. Return to the
room with a gigantic abyss.
This time, go east and find a crawlspace in a corner with a floortorch trap
right below that needs to be circumvented (running jump-n'-grab works). The
passage beyond leads to a SMALL MEDIPACK in a flimsy vase, a Posiedon statue
that needs a Trident piece, and a few skeletons who want to ruin Lara's fun.
If she catches on fire on the way back, there's always taking a dip in the
statue's new stream!
Take the southern way now at the abyss' junction, leading to a face statue
room with a pole leading upwards. On that higher floor, a vase leaves an
offering of WIDESHOT AMMO and CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO. Place another Trident in
the Poseidon Statue to flood the portion in the pole room. Conserve ammo by
ignoring the remaining skeleton and swim back to the abyss room.
For the final room, go to the east room. Around one of the corners near the
dry fountain statue is a climbable part of the wall. At the very top, destroy
the skeletor wannabe who surprises Lara from behind a wall and place the 4th
Trident in its slot. Get the WIDESHOT AMMO in a corner and leave back down to
the abyss.
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LEAVING THE LEVEL
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With all four Tridents used up, an ice elemental will now pester Lara. To
get rid of it, use the cross statue that was near the level's start, up the
very first ladder (which is camouflaged, or at least not as easy to find as
a normal one). Alright, now the abyss is halfway filled with water, so Lara
can jump in if she likes. Swim the small tunnel beyond to find a surfacing
point with two exits, both west.
A skeleton appears when each stairway is topped for the first time, so blow
up both and continue along. The next room with a floor fresco summons an ice
elemental duo to annoy Lara; luckily both the breakable jars nearby contain
cross statues that will un-summon 'em (although only one is needed). The face
button nearby will trigger a trapdoor in the opposite alcove, which leads
back to the Coastal Ruins level. I suggest taking that way just to crowbar
the door open, then returning back to the ice elemental room.
The well-lit room right near there has a stone coffin with a LEFT GAUNTLET
inside. Stealing this national treasure opens two side doors which connect
to each other. The tunnel beyond has a crawlspace where the two paths meet,
which leads to the level's exit.
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20) THE LOST LIBRARY [WK20]
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| | B: --. |
W ----+---- E | C: | |
| | D: |-- These all mark doors on the first floor |
| | E: | (rather than items). This is for easier |
S | F: | identification and direction. |
| G: --' |
| H: 2 Fire Elementals |
______ | I: Pool Room (This place is revisited _a lot_) |
_ | __ |__ | J: Planetarium |
__|R|___|S|__|HARP|_ | K: 1st Appearance of Tinmen (Mechanical Men) |
| _|____ | | L: Connected Passage (Pole) |
| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯|Z | | M: Golden Star Location (x3) |
| | |_|¯¯¯¯¯¯ | N: Swinging Chains |
| |_________| | | O: Underwater Passage |
|_ _ _ _| | P: Horseman's Gem |
|T|_|U| |V| | Q: 7-Serpent Fire Puzzle |
|___|¯ ¯ | R: To Ceiling Library (AKA Long Way to 2F Rooms) |
_____ _______ | S: --. |
V |X _ | | T: |- Also used for room identification |
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U |___| |T3 W _| | W: Lion Room |
¯|_______|_____| | X: Pharos Pillar Location |
| Y: Music Scroll Location (Burn Planks @ 'U' Path) |
| Z: Chain -- Opens Exit on 1F |
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SECRETS: 3 [52/70]
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THE 1F SIX
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The crawlspace leads to the level's main hall, which has six ground-floor (1F)
doors and five balcony (2F) doors. The latter isn't accessible to begin with,
so let's do the lower ones, all of which can open except the SW and NE spots.
There's no particular order to do these in, either, mind you (although I've
reorganized them in order of secrets obtained).
C DOOR
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Save first. Downstairs, two fire elementals will rush at Lara so the player
will have to do his/her best at evasive maneuvers. Take either side passage
and make a dash for the pool; the pursuing ghoulies will be snuffed out when
they touch the water. There's nothing else to do here now, but remember that
the pools can be used for snuffing out future elementals. The scroll room's
got a ladder leading to the balcony above, too.
G DOOR
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Inside, the first vase has a SMALL MEDIPACK inside. The room beyond has the
first appearance of 'Tinmen,' mechanize menfolk with axes. They're impervious
except when damaged from the front (blueish gem), and they'll grunt when they
take damage. A shotgun gets the job done quicker. Anyway, the scroll here is
a hologram and can't be picked up! Exit this antechamber.
F DOOR
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Take the pole down one floor and backflip to the SMALL MEDIPACK inside a vase.
Watch out for the gears cogs rotating around the pole as they can quickly eat
Lara's health! The next-lowest vases have SHOTGUN SHELLS and a LARGE MEDIPACK
to reap. At the bottom, the path leads to another pole and then a chamber.
Kill the tinman and pry the GOLDEN STAR out of its wall recepticle -- we'll
need this for the 'D' Door. The gear in this room actually covers a pit that
leads to a secret [50/70]: carefully back down the side with a ladder in it,
and the pits keep getting lower and lower until the prize is found. FYI they
are SMALL MEDIPACK, REVOLVER AMMO, UZI AMMO.
Back upstairs, look for a ladder on the south side of a pillar. This leads
west to a pole; the room below has 2 mechanized tinmen to scrap. At the end
is a long shaft that leads to a room where a tinman rides a horse. He can only
be damaged when charging, and Lara doesn't take damage from the horse -- let
her get pushed along by it and get some potshots from the safe axe distance!
Eventually he'll be knocked off and fight Lara on foot, where she can finally
get rid of him and claim the HORSEMAN'S GEM to herself. South of there is a
secret [51/70] -- look for an odd gate up on the wall and use the LaserSight
to snipe the pulley thing closest to the ceiling, opening the gate. The prize
is a LARGE MEDIPACK, SHOTGUN SHELLS, and UZI AMMO. Return back upstairs, now.
The level right above (where the two tinmen were) has a gate that uses that
Horseman's Gem to unlock. Pull the chain inside _ONCE_ and it opens a gate
underwater in the "M" room. Return there now, actually, taking the SW exit.
To get past the swinging chains, simply wait for them to move away first.
The room with a single large gear in it has a trapdoor covering an underwater
passage. Continue until Lara is under the "M" room -- there's a surfacing
point underneath a floor grid -- and look for a west-leading tunnel, through
the gate opened by the Horseman's Gem. Pry open two more GOLDEN STARs here.
With all three obtained, Lara now has to exit back to the main hall of this
dungeon. Yes, it's going to be a long trip, but it's not that hard (except
for the pole gear part, which sucks no matter what).
D DOOR
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Just inside, look for a breakable jar that carries a SMALL MEDIPACK inside.
This leads to a ground-floor planetarium with four other exits inside, plus
a bunch of recepticles for the three Golden Stars obtained previously. These
will open up four doors that contain globes. Lara must move these onto their
circular spaces and match orbits of heavenly bodies...or something.
BLUE : Centermost Spot
GRAY : Innermost orbit
GREEN : 2nd-from-center
PINK : 3rd-from-center
YELLOW: Outermost orbit
You'll know they're done right because a ball of energy collects over the
globes when in correctly placed (nothing happens if in wrong spot). After
all five are placed, electricity gathers and opens a northern door. Follow
along, collecting the LARGE MEDIPACK from a vase, opening the "E" door from
the inside.
E DOOR
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This leads to Room "Q", a 7-point puzzle with a serpent statue/lever fixed
at each one. To solve the puzzle, find the nearest statue upon entering and
press it, then go counterclockwise to do all the rest. This makes blocks rise
up and triggers a fire elemental -- to get rid of it, run back to the "C" Door
passage and hide in the pool until it self-extinguishes! Return and climb up
the block set, which leads to a library in the ceiling.
In the scroll antechamber, a SMALL MEDIPACK is in an upstairs vase, but the
real reason for this area is that the library connects to the 2F of the main
hallway!
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THE 2F FIVE
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So, after all that work, we're finally on the balcony again -- that makes 4
new doors left, all of which can be accessed now.
T DOOR
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There is a slide here. Save first and go down normally, jumping to catch a
ladder within the lion statue's mouth -- this leads to its top, which evades
the boulder trap below as well. To complete the secret [52/70], do a running
jump to the west wall's ledge, for CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO and a LARGE MEDIPACK.
Drop down and kill the tinman (although, after I missed the secret and killed
him, then reloaded, he didn't show up again...). When he's dead, save and
try to jump up the steep ramp -- this triggers a 2nd boulder, although it
may actually bound over Lara's head. Jump to the wall switch alongside the
ramp to raise a pillar upwards.
Once on top, forego jumping to the lion and instead aim for the south ledge.
Pull up into the higher doorway and save when Lara's position is level with
the statue's crest. Do a running jump and try to land on its flat mane rather
than its facial features. Pull the chain at the top of its head to lower its
jaw, then slide down its nose and catch-n'-grab it; from there, just drop and
catch its jaw, crawling inside. Climb the pole in its, err, trachea. Save at
the top.
Two gates raise here: one in a hallway, one in a room. Enter the room first
and take the PHAROS PILLAR from the pedestal. If you do it out of order, the
gate closes and Lara would have to go all the way through the T Door events
again (or reload, ha). Open the trapdoor near the pillar to find it connects
to the ground-floor "C" Room passage, the one with a big pool. This helps as
a fire elemental appears in the hallway from the artifact room, not to
mention it's helpful to have a quick go-between ladder to switch floors.
Either way, return to the Pharos Pillar room and enter the hallway that
connects to the lion room's pole -- use the hallway gate this time. The only
chamber to the side has a red torch on the ground and two burns Lara can work
by stepping on the grate near 'em. Light the torch and continue to the floor
that's made of wooden planks. Drop the torch there, setting fire to the wood
and eventually caving it in.
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| GLITCH ALERT: I've heard that people cannot get through the burned floor |
| if they save the game after having left the area WITHOUT dropping down. |
| This may not plague most people but the easiest remedy is to descend at |
| first chance. |
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In the room below, Lara looks at something on the ground -- a MUSIC SCROLL
she can steal. Pick up the SHOTGUN SHELLS in the vase and exit, which leaves
Lara on the ground floor "B Door" path on the map. However, we'll have to go
back upstairs to use the scroll, so either:
- Enter the "C Door" path on the map and use the trapdoor ladder that leads
to the Pharos Pillar room
- Enter the "E Door" path via the shortcut or planetarium and climb into the
ceiling, doing this the hard way.
Either way, get onto that thurrrrr balcony, folks!
S DOOR
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UZI CLIPS are hidden in the first vase, and the only room is a dead end with
a harp there. Use the Music Scroll on the PEDESTAL to reveal a secret passage
behind a bookshelf. This leads to a chain in the main room which opens the
large double doors on the ground floor. Get down there in your preferred way
and exit the level!
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21) HALL OF DEMETRIUS [WK21]
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SECRETS: 0 [52/70]
This is a small level, so I won't make a map.
Enter the main hall (1F) and traverse the south passage, which leads to a
pedestal with a PHAROS KNOT inside. This is necessary to proceed later (this
assumes you got the Pharos Pillar in The Lost Library, which is also needed).
Return to the ground floor, take the opposite ramp to the balcony for a scene
with Lara's nemesis.
When the scene's over, kill ninja assassins/henchmen/whatever and return to
the balcony the cutscene took place on. Move the floor lantern there down the
scrape marks (but not next to bookshelf) to reveal the secret bookscase path,
which has a ramp leading back to...
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THE COASTAL RUINS
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SECRETS: 1 [53/70]
Surface after being dumped in the sink, which is somehow a secret [53/70],
and pick up the BROKEN GLASSES from between the four pillars. A LARGE MEDIPACK
and CROSSBOW POISON AMMO also sit silently nearby. Near the glasses' position
is a hole in the ceiling, one side of which is notched like a ladder. This
leads outside, where Lara's in the far west portion of the Coastal Ruins,
in a part that wasn't even accessible before due to the crazy currents (these
have since become calm).
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Boat writes: "Unlimited Secret in Coastal Ruins: I have found this glitch
accidentally when I tried to find the way to open the another door in Hall of
Demetrius. After searching every spot in this room and found nothing, I
decided to get out of this room using the secret passage behind the bookshelf.
After I exit this level and enter Coastal Ruins, I gained another secret that
I had gotten it once (Note that I had entered Hall of Demetrius and exited the
level with this secret passage once before I revisited this level to find the
way to open that door). After that, I went through all the way to get back to
Hall of Demetrius and exit with secret passage again. After entered Coastal
Ruins, I gained the same secret again. I also checked the number of secrets I
gained and found that the number also increased. I had tried this 3 times and
get one secret for each time (result in 3 secrets at the same place). I didn't
try it again but I think I will get more secrets if I try." [NOTE: This was
done using the PC version]
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To find the next level, swim out a bit and look for a long underwater tunnel
in the south rockwall, before approaching the seaside ruins. This leads to a
bunch of broken manmade debris in a cave, which one one side leads to a thin
gap that ends the level.
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22) PHAROS, TEMPLE OF ISIS [WK22]
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| NOTE: The Pharos Pillar and Pharos Knot, obtained from The Lost Library |
| and Hall of Demitrius respectively, are needed for this level. If one's |
| missed them, the surfacing point in the sunken temple has a crawlspace |
| that leads back to the Coastal Ruins outdoor area, and backtracking can |
| be done from there. |
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| ¯|_ _ | B: Surface Point / Crawlspace Entrance |
_____ _|¯ |O| | C: Exit to Coastal Ruins |
|K |_| I _| | D: Pharos Knot Recepticle |
| MJ | | | E: Pharos Pillar Recepticle |
|L |¯¯¯¯¯| |¯ | F: Door Opened by D & E |
¯¯¯|¯|¯ ¯| | | G: Lion Room |
|_ H _| | H: Crossroads #1 |
W |_ _| | I: Crossroads #2 |
| _| |_ | J: Cleopatra Statue Room |
| | | | K: Broken Beetle |
S ----+---- N | G | | L: Black Beetle |
| |_ _| | M: Winding Key |
| | | | N: Pyramid (Black Beetles go here) |
E | | | O: Exit to Cleopatra's Palaces level |
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Currents blow Lara into the sunken temple and prevent her from exiting now,
so might as well proceed. Spy a surfacing point high above and flock there
for some oxygen refills, then climb onto dry land before the hammerhead tries
to maul our girl. Kill the creature by luring it near the hole and it'll be
time to swim around (rather than going in the crawlspace, which leads to a
dark exit back to Coastal Ruins).
The sunken temple has two passages leading west, both leading to surfacing
points where Lara can insert the Pharos Knot and Pharos Pillar. Placing both
correctly opens doors ("F") at the bottom of the temple. Inside, Lara's lead
to a well-lit room with a skeleton and a watery pit near two lion sculptures.
This path leads to a three-door crossroads, although the south & west doors
are dummies, leading to dead ends; go north instead.
This leads to another crossroads with a harpy, who can be taken down without
too much effort (its wings shine when it's about to fire projectiles). Break
the ornamental objects here for 3x SHOTGUN SHELLS, 3x WIDESHOT SHELLS, LARGE
MEDIPACK, and a SMALL MEDIPACK.
The next part can be done in any order, although the north way should be left
for last.
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ROOM I - SOUTH STAIR
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This leads to a room with a Cleopatra statue, and Lara gets locked in after a
few feet. In the far corners of the room are two artifacts: the SE has a
BLACK BEETLE and the SW has a useless BROKEN BEETLE. Taking either makes a
scarab swarm flee the socket as well as raising a block giving access to the
north or south alcoves in the room's middle (these are scarab-free at the
highest point). Each alcove has a button to press; pressing both triggers a
trapdoor in the room's center -- one side has a ladder on it.
In the room below, climb onto the nearest flat block. The object is to jump
to the nearest slanted block, then to the next-nearest, then jump to safety.
It can be a bit annoying to do so save beforehand, preferably before going
down the trapdoor (hanging down the lip makes the scarabs fall below!). The
prize for doing the jumping course -- which is similar to the one in St.
Francis' Folly in the first Tomb Raider -- gives a WINDING KEY as a prize.
Press the button there to release the door in the beetle room, letting Lara
return to the stairway crossroads. Kill the skeleton there and hang a left
to the west corridor.
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ROOM I - WEST STAIR
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The first room contains more breakable furniture, giving a bounty of a LARGE
MEDIPACK, UZI AMMO, WIDESHOT AMMO, and SHOTGUN SHELLS. The adjacent room has
a large pyramid (with recepticles for Black Beetles) and three slopes in all
cardinal directions but east. They can be done in any order, and saving first
is highly recommended.
All slopes have the same trap: Lara slides into an oily channel and must get
to the pull-up point before the boobytrap sets it aflame -- avoiding it is
easy if Lara jumps at the chute's end and walks from the get-go. The west
entrance has a BLACK BEETLE, the south has a BLACK BEETLE and BROKEN BEETLE
(the former is directly opposite the entrance), and the north way has only a
BROKEN BEETLE and should be summarily skipped.
Either way, Lara should now have three BEETLE artifacts. There's no harm in
putting 'em in the pyramid sockets either. Either way, backtrack to the
3-stairway crossroads and take the north passage.
SECRETS: 1 [54/70] _____ _ _|¯|_
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| A: To "Pharos, Temple of Isis" | | _ B _| _| ___| Greave
| B: Fountain Room | |A| | _| ¯| | |
| C: Balcony | ¯ |_____|D|_|¯¯¯ ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |
| D: Crowbar Path (from Balcony) | | _____| | |¯| |¯¯¯¯¯| |_|¯|
| E: 4th Black Beetle (Use in Pharos) | __| |__ |G |¯ ¯¯¯|_| | |
| F: Spiketrap Passage | | | |_| | H | _|_|
| G: Sword Trap | | | |E| | _| ¯¯| |¯ |
| H: Hole Opened by Fountain Mechanism | ¯ ¯¯¯ ¯ | |_| | K | | |¯
| I: Right Gauntlet | | ¯¯¯ |J|___
| J: 3rd Spike Passage (Don't Take!) | | |¯¯¯| |_|¯|
| K: Pharos Knot | | ¯¯¯ _ 1|
| L: Lara Statue Room | ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| |_|
| M: Hathor Effigy | _____ ¯¯¯| |¯
| N: Ornate Handle | |_ Q _|¯¯¯|¯ ¯|
| O: Throne Room | ____| | |_ LMN |
| P: Breast Plate | EXIT O _| |_____|
| Q: Left Greave | W ¯¯¯¯|_ _|
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Let's cut this level down to size. Make for the north side of the fountain
area (ground floor) and blow up any ancient furniture around, giving a bounty
of a LARGE MEDIPACK, REVOLVER AMMO, and CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO. Enter a balcony
near the fountain via a north ramp, which has more items: SHOTGUN SHELLS and
WIDESHOT AMMO! Standing on the balcony itself makes a skeleton appear, though.
Crowbar open the face door and do the same at the next stop, continuing to
the hole in the ground. Take one look down the hole and save! Yes, it leads
to the final fiery-oil-canal trap, although this one's created differently.
Slide down and pull up to the ledge straight ahead, then do a running jump to
south/north-running ledge the fire travels down -- a BLACK BEETLE is hidden
in the SE corner. Exit the room via the ramp chute which is now a stairway.
[Oddly enough, I don't know if this is a glitch, but I tried to do a flatfoot
jump to the ledge and fell in, but didn't catch on fire!]
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With the final Black Beetle obtained, return to the previous level (check the
map in section WK22 if needed) and locate the western room with the pyramid.
This has four slots for said artifacts, and when all are placed correclty, it
reveals a MECHANICAL SCARAB, which can be combined with the Winding Key to
create the beautifully-named MECHANICAL SCARAB WITH KEY.
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| NOTE: The Mechanical Scarab with Key breaks after three uses, so be sure |
| you only use it as directed in the walkthrough! It IS possible to screw |
| oneself out of the level's only secret if used willy-nilly! |
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Return to the palace area now.
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The fountain has an underwater passage that goes east to a wall mechanism --
this lowers part of the floor past the spike-trap passage. Stand on the tile
with the scarab and pick the MECHANICAL SCARAB WITH KEY (manually from the
menu), using it as a lab rat to trigger the spikes. Just make sure to pick it
up again before going down the new path, which has two new ways to go. Go
north first to a small room with a blade trap and a sarcophagus with a RIGHT
GAUNTLET inside. Whew!
Stroll down the east corridor, kill the skeleton, trigger the spikes with the
mechanical scarab. The antechamber here has WIDESHOT AMMO within a sarcophagus
for some reason; just make sure to dodge the blade trap perched inside the
doorway (and a skeleton) before leaving east.
This leads to a large chamber with many exits, but first a harpy must be put
down. A coffin has a SMALL MEDIPACK inside; continue NE, ignoring the spot to
the west (Point "H" on map). This leads to two passages and a artifact socket
with SHOTGUN SHELLS near it.
NOTE: The Mechanical Scarab with Key breaks after three uses, so the player
will have to make a choice on which way to go: north or west. The former'll
lead to the level's only secret [54/70], 4x SHOTGUN SHELLS, WIDESHOT AMMO,
SMALL MEDIPACK, and EXPLOSIVE CROSSBOW AMMO. The latter way lets Lara pull
up into a northern alcove afterwards, although this way can be entered from
another side so there is _no_ reason to choose it! In fact, I'll cover that
in the next paragraph.
Return to the room with the latest harpy and go to the west area. Look for a
black wall switch that will trigger the double doors nearby, as well as make
a block raise from the ground. Jump and catch the west wall, then shimmy to
the alcove down the line -- this leads to CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO in a breakable
chest and a RIGHT GREAVE in the coffin past a blade trap. Return to the wall
switch room and enter the L-shaped hole in the ground the fountain mechanism
made before. Get the CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO from the pit and see that Lara
can now access the room with barred windows ("K"). A LARGE MEDIPACK and
CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO is inside, and the single sarcophagus contains the
PHAROS KNOT we need...although it looks like a Pharos Pillar...
Either way, return to the room that leads to the secret and put the new item
in the depression, leading to room "L". Take the SMALL MEDIPACK on the small
ground-floor block and a wizard will make a golden replica of Lara on the
other block. Okay, a wizard didn't do it this time, but it's still magical!
Hop on the small block in the north, swing across to the next block. There's
an alcove here from which Lara can grab the top lip of the notched ceiling
and pull up, despite the camera POV's attempts to thwart that. Kill a harpy
before the damage dealt to the statue is incurred by the real lass. Jump the
gap, climb higher in a wall alcove, kill another harpy, then a skeleton when
Lara reaches the tip top platform.
A breakable on the west side has a LARGE MEDIPACK, so get that first and save
after. Notice there are two black switches attached to the pillars hanging
from the ceiling in the west/east? Jump-n'-catch one, then fall a ways (lose
health, sadly) near a released harpy; pulling a lever also opens one of the
doors above. Secure the harpy nonsense and collect the ORNATE HANDLE and
HATHOR EFFIGY items from the top-floor wall mechanisms, which then combine
into the PORTAL GUARDIAN, which opens the remaining door up there.
This leads to the "O" Room, where Cleopatra's throne is. Get the UZI AMMO out
of the breakable crate and approach the room. Lara can't resist sitting in
the queen's chair and doing so triggers a trap with two Cleopatra Guardians.
Although they both appear at the same time, they only attack one at a time --
kill the one that shoots projectiles (it took about 300 Uzi rounds for me) by
staying out of its range or staying at mid-range and letting its projectiles
miss completely. Repeat for the other, then take the BREAST PLATE and LEFT
GREAVE from the containers nearby, opening trapdoors near the throne. That's
how you exit the level! Enjoy the cutscenes.
NOTE: It's possible to take the items and run without killing the guardians
but this isn't necessarily recommended except on self-imposed challenges.
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24) CITY OF THE DEAD [WK24]
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| A: Revolver (Dropped by Soldier) | I: Lever / Water Room |
| B: 1st Automated Machinegun | J: Connected Path (Crawlspace) |
| C: Garage / Motorcycle Ramp | K: Gate Switch |
| D: East-alley Crawlspace | L: Grenade Gun |
| E: Large Locked Gate | M: Gigantic Pit |
| F: Rooftop Machineguns / Helipad | N: Draggable Soldier Corpse |
| G: Bat-filled Portico | O: Building Husk |
| H: Soldier's Corpse / LaserSight | P: Rooftop Access |
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W | ___ H| by jumping over the pit at Point M,
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This first level of the Cairo 'block' has a bunch of interconnected areas as
those preceding it, and I've tried to take the most efficient route through.
There might be some slipups here or there, but there shouldn't be too much
(useless) backtracking. The motorcycle is also drivable right now, but Lara
should clear the way first before bringing it up to speed (in my opinion...)
Lara starts the level on the street near the city gate, and two soldiers to
south will fire on her. These guys are tougher than normal grunts, but can't
stop bullets like previous assassins. The one nearest the street drops a
REVOLVER! Like the crossbow, this can be paired with the LaserSight for more
high-accuracy killing...although it has such little ammo (I got as many drops
as I could the entire game and still only had 30 rounds!) that it should be
saved for when it's required. Surprisingly, that's in about two seconds: up
the street is an automated machine gun that can only be destroyed by shooting
its weird canister at the back with the scoped revolver. A soldier is around
here too, and he uses grenade rounds -- watch out!
Around the corner, kill the next soldier hiding behind a slanted ledge's cover
then two more up the street near the garage area -- one leaves SHOTGUN SHELLS
behind. Ignore the east alley and north street for a moment and jump the
motorcycle NW off the sandhill to land by the fenced-off portion of the garage
ledge, which makes it fall through. A SMALL MEDIPACK is inside, and leaving is
possible by jumping through the garage door. But, for now, disembark to the
red-glowing passage and fall down into the water, surfacing near a bat-filled
portico. Get the FLARES and WIDESHOT AMMO here, and slide west (one-way) into
the alley.
There, by a soldier's corpse is a LASERSIGHT in case it was missed way back
in Alexandria. Upstairs, there will be an uncrossable watery pit with a lever
on the other side. Nothing can be done here, although if Lara falls in, she
can take an underwater channel and be dropped back in the soldier's corpse
area. Speaking of which, in that very location, the NW corner has an upper
ledge -- shimmy to a pull-up point, face the south alcove, and snipe the
rotating blue ball (not the jar which releases locusts, although if you tried
to blow up the corpse below like me, this also releases them). Ice elementals
come out of the blue orb and these can be ditched by jumping in the water
room up the stairs. Return back to that upstairs room and the water will have
been frozen -- eureka! The lever opens the south door in the corpse room.
Therein, one of the doors can be crowbarred open to reveal the level's only
obtainable secret (until later) [55/70], a LARGE MEDIPACK. A SMALL MEDIPACK
is in one of the well-lit room's dead ends, too. To exit, climb the blue-glow
path near the secret's door which leads back to the level's very beginning.
But don't just jump out -- hang on the ledge, shimmy to a pull-up space, and
do a running jump-n'-grab south to a black wall switch. This opens the nearby
iron gate which gives us better motorcycle access. Kill the grenade-gunner
soldier nearby at this point (who drops a SMALL MEDIPACK) also.
Backtrack to the motorcycle, jump out of the garage door, and proceed north
to the building where two rooftop machineguns are. Get out of their line of
fire, go west, and find the building doorstep with a GRENADE GUN and SMALL
MEDIPACK inside. Further west are two more soldiers and a gigantic pit that
even the bike can't hop yet (we need nitro first); ignore this for now.
The building opposite the rooftop machinegun nest has an enterable door; a
soldier corpse is sitting on a grate from below, which is why I had you
ignore the east-alley crawlspace. Drag him off the hatch, then leave this
building and circle around to said east-alley crawlspace, which we'll now
be able to use in full. Pull the lever down there to flip the grate up, then
climb up and enter the crawlspace near the corpse. The 2nd lever opens a
roof trapdoor, but not in this building.
Drive the motorcycle to the level's beginning, and drive through the gate
Lara opened earlier. This building husk has a bunch of ramps lining its
interior, and actually can lead Lara right near the east-alley crawlspace
from before (although we don't need to). Kill the bottom-level soldier and
get the CROSSBOW POISON AMMO from the crawlspace near him. Ride the bike up
to its top level and use the small kicker ramp, leaping the pit and into the
opposite alcove, which actually is another path to take.
Near the first ramp leading up, look for a niche with a lever that raises a
block in the stairway portion, near ground level on the north side. This path
leads up to the rooftops.
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The first jump is to the roof that the draggable soldier corpse was in. Jump
behind the automated turret. Ignore it (it's broken) but take REVOLVER AMMO
right by it. The reddish-color door will only be open if Lara triggered the
lever inside this very building before (up the 2nd crawlspace). This leads
to the other half of the roof, the one that can be fired upon by the turrets
across the street. If you didn't snipe them from street-level, shoot the heli
-copter in between them and they'll both be taken out en masse. Don't do as
I did the first time, trying to jump between the buildings and get behind
'em -- they just use their flamethrower extension!
Jump to their position when they're kaput, then over the small pit to a lever
that activates that opens the "E" gate we've passed by so many times before.
A SMALL MEDIPACK is near here, too. Get down your preferred way and take the
"E" gate via the motorcycle to end this level...for now.
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25) CHAMBERS OF TALUN [WK25]
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Start the level and kill the guard at the lower street, either by shotgunning
him in the cranium or an old-fashioned hit-n'-run. There's also a sniper in
the east corner near a large pit. This part can be ignored for now, actually.
Enter the large building via the south entrance and head into the main foyer;
to the left, is a GRENADE GUN hidden in a niche and a SMALL MEDIPACK in the
NE corner. To reach the 2F, climb one of the blocks near the south entrance
and jump to the arch, and from there, the next-highest level. Flatfoot-jump
to the west ledge, shimmy around to a pull-up spot, then do the same on the
notched pillar, landing again on the west ledge. The walkway will lead to a
pull-up spot, roof-level.
The north side of the roof has a lever that closes both lower entrances --
this doesn't need to be activated (Lara can put it back to original position
mind you). The rope in the middle is too far away, so maneuver to the western
position and swing all the way east, where a secret [56/70] is found, a LARGE
MEDIPACK and WIDESHOT AMMO. To get back to the rope, Lara must jump SW to the
lower archway, then climb back up. Lara can just barely jump to the southern
rooftop, which has a soldier around the corner who drops REVOLVER AMMO near
a LARGE MEDIPACK just sitting there. A drop-down hole is right near there,
too.
Back at the motorcycle, jump the eastern pit and continue to the western
street. To get the level's other secret [57/70], there is a ledge right
over the north tunnel that leads to the Trenches level. Simply pull up into
it from the slightly raised ground at the fort's north side and get the items
inside: LARGE MEDIPACK, FLARES, CROSSBOW POISON AMMO, and REVOLVER AMMO.
Return to the street and go to the west side -- a minotaur should appear from
that side. It has a large polearm-type weapon and will bash the ground, which
can damage Lara with its shockwaves. Simply raising the west gate while the
baddie attacks our girl is an option, but the true way to rid ourselves of
the minotaur is to lure it into the fort and trap it, then leave. In fact,
you know this is the real way to do it because the game automatically shuts
the gates when Lara nears the lever. However, I suggest doing the former as
the time the latter buys is negligible to nothing.
But, either way y'wanna do it, Lara has to exit to the west of the fort, and
after turning the gate crankwheel, there's a limited amount of time to get
through. Even then, it prevents any damage but the tremors from its attack
can shake Lara off the ladder. This is a stupid gameplay mechanic, but if
Lara climbs up at the extreme left/right of the ladder -- so doesn't have a
foothold -- there won't be any other attacks. Huh... The passage above will
lead to...
Drop down into the alley and see the scene with the sargeant who says he'll
help Lara to kill the "beast from ages past." Get the REVOLVER AMMO near him
and continue down the street until a draconic serpent pops up from a pit. He
won't move from there, but his breath attack will turn Lara to ash -- still,
it can't pass through objects, so if you want the GRENADE GUN NORMAL AMMO and
a LARGE MEDIPACK north of there behind a wall, feel free. It shouldn't need
to be said, but the thing is invincible to conventional weapons so don't even
bother.
When it shoots its projectiles, evade and run south into the street, out of
its line of sight & fire, and hopefully that locust swarm is dispersing. If
you want some extra items, though, Lara has to be turned into locust food!
After running past the croc, look to the right (west) for a crawlspace up on
the wall. FLARES and a LARGE MEDIPACK are within, and the path puts Lara out
near the wounded sargeant's position. This isn't pictured on the map above,
but if you want it, it's there (although it's not worth it). South of draggy,
the first path to the west leads to two crocodiles living in a crawlspace,
which leads to REVOLVER AMMO and CROSSBOW POISON AMMO. Further down the main
avenue is an bottomless earthen pit, but there's no need to go that far along
-- by the croc den is a north passage over a ledge.
This leads to a couple of odd caskets and some switches. The puzzle is to
figure out which of the four switches corresponds to the engravings on the
coffins, but when you consider that pulling all switches (3 below, 1 above)
solves the "puzzle" of both, then there's no guesswork to be done, really.
Enter the southern of the two holes first with a makeshift crowbar lever
that opens a door in the northern of the two, which is where Lara should now
go. That passage's lever releases locusts, and after entering the newly-
-opened passage, bats; and at the top, more locusts and bats! Very annoying.
Save when the air is clearer.
First, let's get a secret [58/70]. Do a running jump to the rope, then turn
around and look NE to where a huge bell is -- it's kinda hard to locate. Get
some momentum (easier if Lara is all the way at end of rope) and jump to that
alcove, then drop-n'-grab to the crawlspace underneath, which has the secret
items: LARGE MEDIPACK and CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO. For the real task, it's
using the rope to jump straight south to the apartment window outcrop in the
crocodile alley.
From here, start leaping across awnings and whatnot, making your way south
toward the bottomless pit. The way will have some stag beetles in awkward
high-altitude fighting, plus some tactics we've seen before: climbing around
corners with a ladder, jumping across the alley to catch a shimmy ledge. The
rewards are minimal, being a SMALL MEDIPACK. Eventually there will be a path
enclosed above an arch that leads to the abyss proper. The object is to do a
running jump NE out of the doorway and land over the pit, near the higher
fractured road with a toppled truck. Save before attempting, naturally, and
kill any bats/etc. flying around beforehand -- this jump is tricky.
By the truck, kill the two stag beetles, avoid the still-burning fire, and
pick up the NITROUS OXIDE CANISTER, a vital component in giving the motorcar
some torque. That's all there is to do in this level for now -- do a running
jump over the abyss and exit the level, taking care to avoid any dragonfire
towards the beginning...
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The minotaur will be running rampant, but we don't need his involvement for
this level, really. Exit into the street and run to where the motorcycle is
parked, then drive north to the Trenches level.
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27) TRENCHES [WK27]
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| | F _ | | B: Automated Machine-gun |
| |_____|_| | | C: Automated Machine-gun |
| _______| _| | D: Weapon Code Key |
W------+------E Can't | |C _ |_ | E: Out-of-ammo Machinegun |
| Access | ¯ |_| D | | F: Valve Pipe |
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| |_| ___ | | ____| done now but I'll be covering
|_____ | ' |_| | such things in the "Part II"
|_ ¯ _____| portion of this level, after
|A| getting the Roof Key.
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Lara starts the level in a deserted street. Get off the bike and get the UZI
AMMO on the small ledge nearby, then look for a LARGE MEDIPACK in a western
alcove near that NE pat of the street. The west route has two guards but
ultimately has no path to take, so go down the east way where the motorcycle
can't follow. After a bit of brisk walking, a soldier appears from behind a
pillar; north of there is a t-junction where a machine gun fires from the
east. Jump up the west acclivity to UZI AMMO and a LARGE MEDIPACK.
Save and run into the machinegun's room, taking behind the sandbags and walls
in the southern area. Use the camera angle to see which way it's pointing and
then snipe its back canister from the most opportune spot, being making it
facing the small paneless window and shooting it from the west/southwest.
The ledge with the flourescent lights has GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO on its peak,
too. Use that vantage point on the crates to jump-n'-grab the north ledge; it
has a drop-down point.
Down in the blueish-green passage, the passage perpendicular to Lara's will
have a machinegun staring her down. To circumvent, use the small crawlspace
with exhaust pipes to kill the guard across the way, then proceed across.
The soldier drops a SMALL MEDIPACK and WIDESHOT AMMO is near his vicinity.
The elevated position there will allow Lara to snipe the turret's weakpoint
and proceed east. Just shotgun the guard who appears.
At the end of the corridor is a crawlspace leading south, to a soldier corpse
and the WEAPON CODE KEY Lara needs for later (this seems to shuts off the
3rd machine-gun nest). The passage north of there seems normal but the walkway
under the steam jet is actually a huge abyss -- a nice illusion! Use the
lit-up groove to shimmy across, dropping down by turret #3. This one is out
of ammo or something, so get the LARGE MEDIPACK on its ledge and continue west
to an overturned jeep and a soldier waiting for Lara.
When things are clear, crowbar a VALVE PIPE from underneath the vehicle's
hood. Combine this with the Nitrous Oxide Canister (if you got it from the
Citadel Gate level previously) to make the NITROUS OXIDE FEEDER. Return to
the motorcycle and Lara will attach the object, which lets her have boosts
of speed with the 'sprint' button. [NOTE: Lara must manually attach this
item; it doesn't function automatically.]
That's all for this level, for now. There are now two small things to do in
previous levels that I'll detail in the next section.
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28) CITY OF THE DEAD, PT. II / CHAMBERS OF TALUN, PT. II [WK28]
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TECHNICALLY, both of these are optional: the secret doesn't need to be gotten
and the Roof Key doesn't have to be used in the Trenches level...but in the
spirit of the game, we're going to get everything. We'll start with the level
nearest.
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| _ | __ __ E| | B: Fort |
| | |___| | | | | | C: To "Trenches" |
W ------+------ E |_ D | B 1| | | D: To "Citadel Gate" |
| | |¯| |_| _|_| | | E: Broken Stairway |
| | ¯| |_ ___|A| | F: Connected Passage (Stairway) |
| ¯¯¯| | | | G: Lit Torch (B1) |
S ¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯¯ | H: Sprinkler Room |
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This part requires the Nitrous Oxide Feeder, a combination of the Nitrous
Oxide Canister (from Citadel Gate) and the Valve Pipe (from Trenches). Enter
the level -- the minotaur shouldn't interfere with this portion -- and note
the broken stairway in the NE. Do a nitro-boosted jump off this to the small
upper corner, then disembark and kill the soldier in the nearest doorway.
A slope is inside that leads to the lower room.
The downward ramp to the west leads to a previously-locked door accessible
before, but since there was nothing but a soldier there, we ignored it -- go
kill both down there, now. In the room Lara just slid into, kill the soldier
in the north dead end, take the torch there, then light it on the flaming
one all the way downstairs. Return back upstairs and stand near the southern
(locked) door -- there are two sprinklers overhead. Press action underneath
'em to set off the sprinkler system, which opens all locked doors around.
The newly-opened door upstairs (south) leads to a lever that lowers a freight
box into the room where the torch was initially. Use it to get to the ledge
behind there, where a SMALL MEDIPACK and CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO are. A locked
door behind a box is padlocked, but this can be shot off. Inside the wall's
mechanism is the ROOF KEY -- mission accomplished! To exit, return to the
sprinkler room's lever area and the path back to the motorcycle is open to
the west.
Now for Cairo's first level, City of the Dead! The exit is in the far south
of this level, past the road pit, y'know.
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| A: Revolver (Dropped by Soldier) | I: Lever / Water Room |
| B: 1st Automated Machinegun | J: Connected Path (Crawlspace) |
| C: Garage / Motorcycle Ramp | K: Gate Switch |
| D: East-alley Crawlspace | L: Grenade Gun |
| E: Large Locked Gate | M: Gigantic Pit |
| F: Rooftop Machineguns / Helipad | N: Draggable Soldier Corpse |
| G: Bat-filled Portico | O: Building Husk |
| H: Soldier's Corpse / LaserSight | P: Rooftop Access |
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The purpose of being here is to get a secret. Lara enters near "E" and must
go west up the street to point "M", a gigantic pit (there may or may not be a
soldier here if Lara killed him previously). She'll need the nitrous oxide
boost to get over, though. Run over the soldier there and get on foot to the
four slanted pillars. Pull up onto the south one and hold the jump button --
Lara should do a bunch of flips/jumps, eventually landing to the east. If she
didn't make it right, try centering her position on the 1st pillar, etc.
The secret [59/70] is in a small area behind a street-level building, and
contains GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, and a LARGE MEDIPACK
for all that trouble. Climb back west and return to the motorcycle -- it's
time to revisit the Trenches level with the Roof Key obtained in Chambers of
Talun! [To leave, use the dirtpile ramp to vault over the pit. Use the alley
nearby to pick up speed if needed.]
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29) TRENCHES, PT. II [WK29]
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| | F _ | | B: Automated Machine-gun |
| |_____|_| | | C: Automated Machine-gun |
| _______| _| | D: Weapon Code Key |
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| | ¯ |_| D | | F: Valve Pipe |
| ___ | |¯| |¯¯¯ | G: Trapdoor (To Rooftops) |
| ___| J| |¯¯¯¯¯ B ¯| | H: Roof Key Door |
S | |_|¯ ¯¯| |____| | I: Fusebox-control'd Door |
| ___|_____ __| |_ | J: To "Street Bazaar" |
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From the start, take the NW part of the street that leads to two soldiers
that can become roadkill. We'll be back here later so put the motorcycle
there and head to point "G", a small alcove on a sidestreet. Jump upwards
and grab the trapdoor's handle, then pull up into the crawlspace. The other
side has CROSSBOW POISON AMMO and a crawlspace that points east. When it's
possible, draw your weapons and shoot the grey thing blocking the shimmying
route, which Lara should then do.
Round the ledge and grab the notched ceiling crossing the street eastward;
some locust attack at this time (dagnabit!). Land and kill the soldier just
standing there -- he drops a SMALL MEDIPACK. Use the Roof Key on the nearby
door, then save before doing a running jump-n'-grab to the ledge across the
street (the one that goes under the building outcrop). Pull up into the dead
end alley and a hole lets Lara snipe a fusebox (aim for the red light). A
sniper will be there if he wasn't murdered already. Leave back to the street
level once y'see the fusebox start smoking.
Return to the motorcycle in the NW part of town, or drive there if you don't
know how to follow my directions (:p), and drive it to Point "I" on the map.
The door on the wall has risen and now the motorcycle can jump north through
the entrance and land on the higher platforms, with nitro-boosting naturally.
Save before jumping, naturally.
When the glorious leap is completed, turn the 'cycle around, save, and climb
up the ladder which leads to...
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30) STREET BAZAAR [WK30]
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| A: To "Trenches" | F: Rooftop Lightning Rod |
| B: Mine Detonator Body | G: Slope Series |
| C: Handle | H: Mine Position Data |
| D: Car-Jack Body | I: Guardian |
| E: Rooftop Access from 2F | J: To "Trenches" Minefield area |
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Jump down into the warehouse -- which looks suspiciously like a replica from
the movie Reservoir Dogs (1992) -- and approach the soldier to obtain the
MIND DETONATOR BODY. He says his friend has the explosive codes but a monster
ate his head or somethin'...weird. Grab the HANDLE from a workbench and the
CAR-JACK BODY from behind the policecar. Combine the two new items to create
the CAR-JACK proper; we'll be using this later. The red button here leads to
the south crawlspace and LARGE MEDIPACK, then take the ladder near the entry
point to reach the rafters.
Leap to the notched ceiling, drop at the stair, climb into the blue
crawlspace that leads to a roof grate. It's locked, but by using the complete
Car-Jack on the low cement wall there, it will unhinge the thing. Avoid the
lightning rod up there and go behind it, weathering the locust swarm all the
while. Push the low box north into the alcove, then pull the large machine
out and near the lightning rod. Save and move it onto the lightning rod pad,
blowing up part of the bridge (what the heck?).
Do a running jump to the notched siding of the roof ahead, then shimmy north
to a ledge. Look NE to the greenish-hued path just around the corner. Do a
2nd running jump to clear the slanted portion, then find the secret [60/70],
a LARGE MEDIPACK, GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO, and CROSSBOW POISON AMMO. Jump back
to the normal side of the building and take the small passage to a bunch of
slopes (softdrop-n'-grab to avoid damage). In the NW corner of this new area
is the headless corpse by the MINE POSITION DATA, which can be combined with
the previous object to make the MINE DETONATOR.
After collecting the item, a Guardian (like in 'Guardian of Semerkhet') shows
up to party-crash. Pick up the FLARES quickly and lure it into smashing the
boxes in the SE corner, which gives balcony access with a soldier to KIA. The
exit's in the south.
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The slide deposits Lara near the initial street. Return to the alley that
leads back to the Street Bazaar and at the base of the sandy slope will now
be a flat surface; this can be used to catch a ledge and climb back up to the
motorcycle. Enter the bazaar once again.
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The door in the warehouse is now open and leads to a street-level exit that
we passed over before (via the broken bridge). Kill the two soldiers around
the area, pick up the UZI CLIPS and exit northwest.
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Alongside the warning fence, use the MINE DETONATOR to blow the underground
explosives and clear the way. The red button there opens a gate near Lara's
motorbike, which she can drive through now. Splatter the shotgun soldier and
arrive in...
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31) CITADEL GATE, PT. II [WK31]
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START-|A|_| | | A: To "Chambers of Tacun" |
N | _| | B: Wounded Sargeant |
| | |____ | C: Dragon |
| |_ | | D: Munitions Truck |
| __| ¯¯| | E: Croc Couple's Cache (LOL?) |
W ------+------ E | D C | | F: Bottomless Abyss |
| |¯¯¯|_ ¯¯¯| | G: Burial Area / Swinging Rope |
| |_G1H_|¯ | | H: Access to 2F Rope |
| |E _ ¯| | I: Nitrous Oxide Canister |
S ¯¯¯|I| | | J: Starting point from "Trenches" |
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Save and use a nitro boost to get over the fenced-off abyss. Land northward
or Lara might take a huge fall! Circle around to the main street and smush
the two crocodiles running around. From here, drive past the dragon and to
the sargeant up the street for a cool cutscene involving the munitions truck.
Lara will automatically start the final level of Cairo now.
NOTE: If you can't trigger the cutscene with the sargeant, it's probably
because you're not on the motorbike. That's a requirement, y'know.
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32) CITADEL [WK32]
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A little ways in, see the scene with Jean-Yves and he'll leave. Continue as
far south as possible, until a stairway can be found leading to a lever (bear
with the wonky fixed camera angles here). This opens a door in the 1st hall,
leading to UZI AMMO, although before getting it, pick up the torch in the
lever room and light it. See the rope moored to part of the wall in Room "A"?
Jump to the ledge there and the lit torch will burn the sucker to ash, making
a trapdoor trigger in the initial room.
Follow the tunnel to WIDESHOT AMMO in a south corner, then proceed north to
a multistory room with a watery bottom. A small scene shows a blue assassin
(remember these chumps?) run to the top near a lever, and if Lara's feeling
spry, she can snipe him from her starting alcove. Flatfoot-jump to the NW
ledge and ignore the large medipack in a north path -- it's boobytrapped w/
a firejet duo. Instead, jump to the west staircase, grab the notched ceiling
and look out for a south crawlspace Lara can drop-n'-grab onto. This leads to
a secret [61/70], GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO and a LARGE MEDIPACK. Drop down into
the pool of water back in the main series of rooms then swim to Room "D". One
can get back to the room's starting (south) entrance by surfacing and doing a
running jump-n'-grab to the west block.
Once back up, return to the stairway shaft in the west. You may have noticed
that there's a groove that spirals down its length when falling before. To
take advantage of this, stand on the east side of the shaft and do a drop-n'-
-grab to the highest point of the groove right below. Shimmy along until Lara
can drop to the next groove, and eventually take it all the way to the north
crawlspace with UZI AMMO inside. Then, it's an east crawlspace with a slanted
block underneath. When the slide begins, do a backflip to avoid falling into
the water (save before attempting), then jump off a 2nd block to snag a north
ledge with a SMALL MEDIPACK inside.
Do a running jump south, grabbing the next ledge at the stairway's bottom. Be
prepared to kill a 2nd blue thug, and finally get to the lever at the top of
the multistory room -- this turns off the flametrap below and unleashes a 3rd
thug. The pit near the lever is a shortcut to the LARGE MEDIPACK's location,
which also has an exit that leads east. This spits Lara out near what is
affectionately known as the "Compass Puzzle."
First, get all items (GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO, SMALL MEDIPACK, GRENADE GUN
NORMAL AMMO) and save. The pedestals here have letters etched on their tops,
and the four spots on the grooved floor correspond with cardinal directions;
Lara should double-check her compass if unsure of which way's which. Move
the pedestals to their appropriate location -- 'W' to West spot and so on --
to make the doors open.
Hit up the west entrance to start. It's surprisingly straightforward going,
too! At the first pull-up point, a small pit in the south has useless FLARES
(I mean, I had 230!) and another in the room's center drops into a flooded
passage. There are three exits here, too: west, north, south. Take the latter
first and locate a ceiling lever (and SMALL MEDIPACK) at the room beyond, then
go north. There's a sunken chain here but it can't be used. Get REVOLVER AMMO
before leaving back to the compass room where Lara should go east.
Kill 2 henchmen and pull the lever, draining water in the western of the 3
sunken passages at point "I" on the map. Get there in your preferred fashion,
and pull the lever to open the floor trapdoors in the adjacent room, one of
which has UZI AMMO. The north room with the sunken chain ain't so watery
anymore, and the chain opens a door in that same room. Kill a thug who drops
a SMALL MEDIPACK and continue east after saving.
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Upstairs our girl finds the two zombie knights her nemesis reanimated. They
can't be killed or damaged by conventional weapons, so take the easy way out
by climbing the scaffolding to the upper (gray) walkway. Wait near the NE
blocked-up beams and the slowtastic knights will eventually walk up the ramp.
The goal is to get their sword swing to break the beams, from which Lara can
jump-n'-grab to the next level above.
Beyond is a lonely chamber with lit torches. FLARES and UZI AMMO are around
the NE corner. To get the final secret [62/70] of this level, drop-n'-hang
in the deep west shaft and drop-n'-grab to the crawlspace lip below.
Jump up the steep-looking slope and climb to a higher room with two knights
guarding WIDESHOT AMMO, GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, a
LARGE MEDIPACK, and REVOLVER AMMO. Slide down the slope to re-enter the room
containing the shaft.
To finish the level, enter the pit surrounding the shaft and go north -- Lara
automatically steals the AMULET OF HORUS and we're in a new level, now.
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33) THE SPHINX COMPLEX [WK33]
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| | | | A: 2-Lever Room |
| | |¯¯¯| | | B: Path with Abysses |
| | |¯¯¯ | | C: Supply Room |
W ------+------ E | D | | D: Metal Blade |
| | | 1| | E: Engraved Tablet |
| ___ | B ¯¯¯¯¯| | F: Wooden Handle |
| |F |_ _ | | A | | G: Secret Passage (Dig Here) |
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The first level of Giza starts Lara on a dirt road. Two blue thugs try for
first blood, one of whom drops a SILVER KEY that can be used on the door
nearby. Inside, two more goons perched on a wall pester our gal. Take the
SMALL MEDIPACK in the SW corner and then jump to the NE & SE levers, both
of which are needed to open the west door. Kill the ninja henchman and go
through the new door.
The adjacent path has two abysses, one in the south and north. Since we want
to get a clever secret first, take the north path, which is rather simple to
cross except for the last jump, which requires Lara to do a running jump and
catch the north side of the pit. After pulling up, jump to the first ledge of
the next pit (by a LARGE MEDIPACK) and kill the assassin who opens fire. Get
to the north side and enter the blue door.
Pocket the UZI AMMO inside a crate and pull back the southern supply shelf,
revealing a covered crawlspace. Shoot yer way inside and find the adjacent
room to the south with a single henchman inside. Get the METAL BLADE in a
crate and the SHOTGUN SHELLS by the exit button, then kill the two thugs who
appear outside. Now, to get the secret [63/70], push the two side-by-side
shelves north, picking up the SHOTGUN underneath. This might be the only
secret in the game that doesn't involve finding a hidden room!
Continue west until Lara's eyes catch on an engraved tablet at the sphinx'
feet; approach for a deciphering scene. Save and cross the western abyss,
after which two ninja henchmen bumrush Lara -- be careful! The crate near the
do-not-enter door north of there contains a WOODEN HANDLE, which can be mixed
with the Metal Blade to form the KATANA OF DOOM...not! It's really a SHOVEL.
There's a small ledge there that lets Lara get on the sphinx' paw, too, and
WIDESHOT AMMO are at its tip.
This wouldn't be an archaeological dig without actual digging, would it? Get
back to the engraved tablet and stand on the dry cracked earth in front of
it. Select the Shovel to uncover an earthen tunnel below, which ends the
level.
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34) UNDERNEATH THE SPHINX [WK34]
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| O _ | ___|D|___ | A: Guardian Room |
| |____|_| |_ ___ | _ _ | | B: Guardian 'Cages' |
___| | | N | |G | | |_| |_| | | C: Heiroglyph Tablets |
| EXIT| |_ _| |_| |_ |_ _ _| | D: Glyph Reset Mechanism |
| |¯¯¯ | |___ | F _1 | |_| | | E: Colorful Hallway |
| | |___ | | |_| _____ |_ _| | F: 3 Crawlspaces |
| | |E| | | | C | | | | G: Stone of Maat |
| |___| |____| |____| |____ | H: 9 Wall Niches |
N |_____ A HI| | I: Stone of Re |
| | |¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯| |¯¯¯¯ | J: To Watery Labyrinth |
| |¯¯¯¯|_| | B B | |__ | K: Stone of Atum |
W----+----E | LM ___|____|_ _|____| J| | L: Crocodile Pool |
| |____| | | ¯¯¯¯\ | M: Stone of Khepri |
| | | (K) | N: Holy Scripture (x4) |
S | | | O: Boobytrapped Room |
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Upon entering, Lara is locked into the first room, which has two (sleeping)
guardians in the north near some wall tablets. They won't come alive if Lara
flanks them, but this may be tentative as the game progresses. The recommended
way to neutralize them is to awaken them one at a time, then trap them in the
closable doors ("B") -- just bait 'em in and quickly drop the portcullis. If
they're gone, then proceeding is much easier.
Now then, west of this chamber is a skeleton with FLARES and a SCRAP OF PAPER
laying beside him. No, it's not Lara's nemesis, sadly! Now, this paper scrap
tells the Western equivalent of the heiroglyphs on the three tablets. Push
them in this order to open a single gate: rightmost, leftmost, middle. [Any
other combination opens the NE passageway that leads to the puzzle's reset
mechanism, past a boobytrapped hallway prefaced by a huge pit. Just start
over if this way has to be taken.]
The path in the west leads to a large pit in the "valleys" of the sloping
corridor, so make sure to walk carefully. Upon reaching the gate guarded by
two statues, there will be colored lights up higher slanted slopes. Using
the binoculars' flashlight, Lara can see four different sets of paths that
can be opened. ______________________ ______________
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| Bird, Triangle, Reed | Northwestern |
| Reed, Bird, Triangle | Northeastern |
| Reed, Triangle, Bird | Eastmost |
| Triangle, Bird, Reed | Southeastern |
| Triangle, Reed, Bird | Southwestern |
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Since there are only five other doors to unlock, the other combinations are
not that important. I'll just go in clockwise order. [NOTE: If the tablet
combinations don't work, it's because you didn't view the solutions in the
colored slopes -- ALL must be viewed.] The order they're done in doesn't
matter for the most part.
NORTHWESTERN GATE
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Kill the bats and get to the do the jumping course to find a crossroads with
three crawlspaces. There are spike traps within here that will kill Lara w/o
much trouble, but these should be easily spotted since they're wooden trap-
-doors and clash with the game's graphics. But anyway, follow this to the
letter.
NORTH CRAWLSPACE: North, West, South ---------------------> STONE OF MAAT
SOUTH CRAWLSPACE: South, East, South, East, South, East --> Switch
With the Stone of Maat found, save in the crossroads room and crawl down the
east 'space. Go south to the wooden trapdoor, which doesn't have spikes
underneath but a secret [64/70], a GRENADE GUN. If you already triggered the
south crawlspace's switch, the way back out is open.
NORTHEASTERN GATE
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This leads to the puzzle reset mechanism -- don't bother going this way.
EASTMOST GATE
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Kill more bats and reach the chamber with 9 wall niches. Even with the Scrap
of Paper, I didn't really get if there was some sort of puzzle to do here.
The rightmost niche on the north side opens the exit gate, and the rightmost
niche on the east side contains the STONE OF RE. [If someone knows what the
logic here is, e-mail me 'cause I'm kinda interested.] All other niches will
drop scarab swarms in, so avoid those!
SOUTHEASTERN GATE
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This gate can be kind of annoying. Cross the abyss using the flat areas and
arrive in front of two statues and a watery hole. Kill bats and prepare for
the plunge! There is a watery labyrinth beyond, and while the map is a simple
______ top-down view, it's actually got a lot of vertical passages
| #4 | and such, leading to surfacing points. 'S' marks the start
N | |¯¯¯¯ point from "J" on the main dungeon map.
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| |S #5 | The first spot to target is surfacing point #1 above a bird
| |¯¯¯| |¯¯ heiroglphy in the tunnel, which opens a trapdoor at the #2
_| |___| |_ point. This goes on for awhile; it shouldn't be hard with a
|#2 | map. By #4, west of there, is a SMALL MEDIPACK in a niche,
| |¯¯¯¯¯¯¯| | if y'want to get it. Surfacing point #5 has a switch that
| |_______| | opens the exit, plus has a STONE OF ATUM opposite there.
| #3 |
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__| | it's the only vertical passage that leads somewhere that is
|#1 | _not_ marked by a heiroglyph. Getting back to the entrance
¯¯¯¯ from the abyss room requires a running jump and grabbing the
edge of a sloped ledge to pull up normally.
SOUTHWESTERN GATE
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As is the norm, kill some bats and cross the gigantic abyss. The pool room
beyond has some crocodiles that need to be thrown off the mortal coil. Near
each of the corners if a wall mechanism; when all are triggered, a trapdoor
in the pool's island leads to a STONE OF KHEPRI. The east wall has a switch
that opens the exit gate. Save before making the jump back across the abyss,
as this one requires pinpoint precision from a triangular-corner slope to
the outcrop Lara probably jumped off on her way in. [Protip: hug the wall.]
WHEN ALL (4) STONES ARE OBTAINED
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Return to the western passage (with the colored lights/hallway) and place all
four Stones -- Maat, Re, Atum, Khepri -- in the recepticles to open the exit
gate. Before leaving the level, however, traverse the abyss via the notched
ceiling and enter the adjacent room after killing more bats. Lara will be
locked in and the ceiling will start to move. Collect the 4 HOLY SCRIPTUREs
from the floor alcoves and exit before becoming a blood puddle (it's like a
mud puddle except red).
The final stretch is getting past the boobytrapped room beyond. Floor blades
will snap up like venus flytraps (at both entrances to room), so walk slowly
to trigger and avoid, then use the 2nd set of ceiling bars to blow this joint
once and for all. Naturally one last bat has to appear...
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35) MENKAURE'S PYRAMID [WK35]
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EXIT
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| D | | A: Ceiling Trapdoor |
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| ____| |__| | | C: The Guards Keys and/or Armory Key |
| |__ __ |¯ ¯| | D: Pyramid Anterior (Climbing Course) |
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| |¯|_| | | |-Start SECRETS: 1 [65/70]
S | B ¯ A|
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|¯ ¯| a future secret. Make sure to get it!!!!
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Pick up the UZI AMMO in the southwest corner then climb the blocks in the SE
corner, leading up to a ceiling trapdoor. With a bit of positioning, Lara can
jump-n'-grab its southern handle (face north while doing this). Up top, kill
the gigantic red scorpion. If you want a gauge of its health, it took three
grenade rounds to die. The south path just beyond there has a man shooting at
a scorpion, and he drops REVOLVER AMMO; the western path has a LARGE MEDIPACK
to pick up. To get out of this area, jump the north abyss on the left (west)
side. Looks hard, but it's possible. There's just one more scorpion beyond
before the north path is clear. Do a running jump-n'-grab to land by the foot
of Menkaure's Pyramid.
Pull up and devour the big scorpion and stag beetle. To the east, there's
yet another abyss. To get across, look for a southern broken ledge that,
when stood on, slides Lara south; at this time, jump to find flat ground.
The next pit is untraversable so break down the modern door to the south
after saving. Inside is a scorpion attacking a guard, and whether he lives
or not -- as well as whether Lara can get a level's secret or not -- will
depend on if the scorpion is killed first. If Lara saves the guard, he gives
THE GUARDS KEYS (sic) and ARMORY KEY as a reward. Check the room for a 2x
SMALL MEDIPACK, WIDESHOT AMMO, and SHOTGUN SHELLS before leaving. [NOTE: The
guard, if dead, only drops The Guards Keys.]
CLIMBING MENKAURE'S PYRAMID
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Return back to the base of the first pyramid catching a higher ledge and
shimmying around the corner, dropping onto flat ground. The next part will
involve climbing the pyramid to a higher door. The starting point is at the
SE corner. Since flat parts mean the right way is being taken, feel free to
save on the way up. Do a few jumps NE until finding a stag beetle up there.
From there, do a running jump west; Lara should slide down to a lower rim
with a 2nd stag beetle.
From there, climb up twice, jump to NE block and climb up twice again. A
running jump east should land at the entrance, where a 3rd stag beetle is
waiting around. Use 'The Guards Keys' to unlock the door. Save here, but
don't go in yet.
To get the secret [65/70], there's more climbing to be done. From the outer
platform with the door, drop down the SE side. Do a running jump east and
climb up a bit until a 4th stag beetle rears its face. Climb more until Lara
is level with the top of the doorway below, and can do a standing jump west
to the items on some ledges: SMALL MEDIPACK and a REVOLVER!!! Note that the
Revolver is the secret, not the medipack. Scarabs will drop in from somewhere
immediately, though, so quickly exit the level via the unlocked door below.
Some swinging blades mark the end of the entrance slope, and past there, a
bat or two. Use the down-stairway at the end and Lara's sight will be caught
on a 6-pointed star on the ceiling. Snipe it with your preferred weapon and
a trapdoor triggers in the lower room with two mummies (blow 'em up!). Jump
into the large ceremonial tub and continue, after getting the REVOLVER AMMO
in the room, that is.
The passage leads to a rope hanging over a pit with retractable spikes below.
Beyond ar two more similar setups with mummies guarding both. The northernmost
of the two leads to a switch that opens the door in the southernmost, so that
is the order of procedure. Up the trapdoor, a bird guardian will start with
the energy projectile slinging. Pick a fast weapon like the uzis and stay
active in some way, even if it's just jumping up and down. Crowbar the WESTERN
SHAFT KEY out of its socket and a wall portion lowers in Room "B". This means
backtracking all the way there -- have fun!
When the corridor becomes level, start crawling to avoid the lateral blade
trap that springs. At the next incline, catch the pesky trapdoor's underside
and pull up to the outdoors, which is across the huge pit near the scorpion/
guard fight in the previous level. Nix the two scorpions and look for a small
earthen-colored button on one of the smaller pyramid's sides. This caves in
the top of the other and releases a 3rd scorpion. To climb this one, start
on the west side, jump SE, then do a running jump south. [NOTE: Even if Lara
slowly walks here, she can still slide in the abyss; save first!]. Once over,
it's simply climbing to the top in an easy manner.
Now, the top of the pyramid leaves a huge shaft behind and the inner wall
is notched for climbing. Downstairs, continue to a spike pit to get by and
an abyss to cross by swinging on the ceiling. The next spike pit has a moving
guillotine blade, so time the jump-n'-grab carefully. Once y'got the hang of
doing this, there are two more to do in the same fashion...hooray for you!
Past the 3rd, there's a chain that opens a portcullis somewhere nearby. To
find it, use the notched ceiling between the 2nd & 3rd spikepits to reach the
passage. SAVE!
This part regards the secret [66/70]. Slide down the first slope and jump to
the right (SW) to land in the 1st spikepit's safe zone. The reward: an UZI.
From there, slide down the normal route and exit south.
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THE SPHINX COMPLEX
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Yup, back to Giza's first level. Climb out of the pit near the engraved
tablet and go to the SW abyss. The object is to get to the corner door which
can be opened with 'The Guards Keys' obtained previously. That's where the
exit is.
'Case you don't know, a mastaba is a flat-roofed Egyptian tomb, so that's
what this fun level will be full of. Kill the two mangy dogs nearby and pick
up the JERRYCAN by the gas station pumps. The entrance is locked so we'll
leave it alone. The mastaba with a 'do not enter' sign in can be broken into
but there's only bats to disturb...or so it seems. Actually, a trapdoor is
camouflaged there and leads to the level's secret [67/70], a LARGE MEDIPACK.
The building north of there has a trapdoor to take too, but this one's in
plain sight. There are numerous mangy dogs below, so take care.
Anyway, take the east passage initially and arrive in an underground room
with wolf head statues (or is it authentic taxidermy?) and a couple doggies.
Get the SMALL MEDIPACK and CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO, then shoot all the gems in
the statues' mounted heads to open the locked door here. It contains a SMALL
WATERSKIN guarded by a mummy. Leave this are and continue south through the
rest of the unexplored passage, which lets Lara back into the fresh air in
the above-ground region's SW corner. Kill all mutts, small scorpions, and
bats, then do a running jump east to the next mastaba. This has a don't enter
sign also, plus some more moronic bats/dogs inside.
Back in the trapdoor tunnel, go to point "F" and kill any evil creepies that
are there. Like before, shoot the gems in the wolfhead statues' mouths to
open the back door. Past the mummies and bats, is a BAG OF SAND. Return back
to the rest of the tunnel and there will be a dead end with REVOLVER AMMO and
a LARGE MEDIPACK. The only other way north leads to a pull-up point near the
street (with bats...it's always with bats...). The huge abyss can only be
crossed in one direction, and that's jumping NW near the building's corner
and landing on a fragment of solid ground. Save beforehand, natch. From there
just jump around the corner to Point "H," kill scorpions, and enter the next
trapdoor.
At the fork, go back west and find a TORCH past a soon-to-be dog corpse. Take
it to point J, kill the dogs/bats, and then break the wolfhead gems to unlock
the door. Beyond are two bats and a triple scale puzzle. To solve, use the
Jerrycan on the center scale and light it with the torch; the Bag of Sand is
to be placed on the eastmost; and the Small Waterskin dumps water in the
westmost, after it's been filled in the small pool within the room. West of
there are two mummies and a crowbarrable NORTHERN SHAFT KEY, the taking of
which opens a far-east door. The nearest east door has CROSSBOW POISON AMMO
and REVOLVER AMMO near a ramp with 2 dogs. That east stair leads to a dead
end with a LARGE MEDIPACK, the other a pull-up point.
Back on the street, 86 some scorpions and jump NE along the small ledges to
another mastaba (save here). From there, jump-n'grab south of there and kick
in the door of the building there and descend into the tunnels again. There's
only a couple scorpions and REVOLVER AMMO, making this one of the easier
ones to navigate. Climb up to the street level and enter the do-not-enter
house for yet another trapdoor tunnel entrance ("O").
Get the SMALL MEDIPACK in the dead-end tunnel toward the start, killing the
dog that assaults Lara. Through the dog/bat den, proceed to break the wolfhead
gems until the north door unlocks and leads to a chamber with 3 statues and
levers. They're sculpted in the "see no evil" poses and such and appear to be
elephants, although you'll soon find they're monkeys. Only the eastmost does
anything helpful, releasing a monkey who opens the east door; the other two
will simply make aggressive foes and we don't need that flack.
Pry the SOUTHERN SHAFT KEY from the east mummy room -- this should be the 3rd
and last Shaft Key in Lara's possession -- and exit through the newly-opened
west room & passage, which leads to the exit.
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38) THE GREAT PYRAMID [WK38]
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| ______ ______| | B: Great Pyramid Exterior |
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FINAL MASTABAS
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Huh? Didn't we see this level in the first Tomb Raider game? Well, we're back
once again. Exit out of the boarded-up mastaba and crush the blue henchman
just standing there. Jump to the SW edge of the abyss and kill the northern
henchmen who strikes first blood. The adjacent mastaba with a stag beetle
inside has a camouflaged trapdoor -- the creators tried that trick again --
that leads to the only secret here [68/70], a GRENADE GUN.
Climb back up and exit north, killing the henchman there and inside the next
mastaba. An overt trapdoor is here but it only leads to a bottomless pit, so
skip the sucker. There will be one more moron outside to plant 6 feet under,
then the dirt road leads to the Great Pyramid, which a cutscene explores a
bit once she approaches. Enter the final mastaba to the south and collect
the UZI AMMO and GRENADE GUN NORMAL AMMO, plus the LARGE MEDIPACK inside the
trapdoor.
CLIMBING THE GREAT PYRAMID
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Before the scaling can begin, first it must be approached. From the NW tile,
do a running jump north, then slide west. Jump and catch the far west ledge,
then pull up and scrap the stag beetle before it knocks Lara into the abyss.
The general goal here it to work east, and it's not too hard once Lara's up
there, since the traversable tiles are flatters and appear sunken in more.
When the pyramid rumbles, watch out for falling debris; ducking near cover
can help from being blown off. When Lara goes as far east as she can with
flatfoot & running jumps, look to the base of the pyramid. Do a flatfoot
jump east, then slide down to flat land down there; save beforehand, natch.
At the bottom of the pyramid once again, do a running jump south over the
abyss and catch the ledge. Kill the stag beetle perched on the east ledge,
then jump to it and use it as a platform to jump back OVER the pit to the
north ledge. From there, Lara should be near the SE corner of the pyramid
and a LARGE MEDIPACK will be within jumping distance there.
Save and jump NW to the next flat ledge, then crouch against cover -- there
will be a huge rolling boulder that hits that exact spot. The 'stepping
stone' path leads NW still, and a stag beetle joins the fray up there. Jump
east a bit until another boulder falls. Lara should be able to snipe two
stag beetles laying on a stretch of walkable bricks.
From here, do a running jump west -- if done correctly, Lara should drop to
a flat block 3-4 tiles below instead of all the way to the abyss. Another
running jump west lands near a stag beetle's territory. Don't climb upwards
as that way leads to a dead end; instead, keep jumping due west until the
tiles run out, then do a diagonal (SW) flatfoot jump downwards to the next
flat spot. Repeat this downward-to-upward jump pattern once more.
If you've made it this far, good job! Lara should be able to climb up a
ways at this point. Jump NW again and the way west will be flatter, although
another boulder threatens Lara's life. From here, do a running jump as far
west as possible onto a slanted block, which should carry Lara all the way
down the Great Pyramid's west side and automatically end the level by dry
land.
TREK TO THE QUEENS' PYRAMID SECRETS: 1 [69/70]
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Towards the start, some soldiers are preoccupied with attacking the overgrown
scorpions around, giving Lara license to kill 'em all without repercussion!
You may recognize the area as being on the east side of the two small pyramids
near Menkaure's Pyramid. But anyway, there's only one way to go and that's
down the small pyramid with a lit entrance at its base.
The westmost of the two entrances leads to the secret [69/70], but it can
ONLY be obtained if Lara got the Armory Key in the Menkaure's Pyramid level,
by saving the guard from the scorpion. The door it unlocks leads to a huge
cache: CROSSBOW POISON AMMO, SHOTGUN, an UZI, CROSSBOW, GRENADE GUN, REVOLVER,
and WIDESHOT AMMO. Taking these items unleashes another scorpion up top but
it's definitely worth it!
NOTE: kenzie.wiesener has brought it to my attention that s/he missed the
Armory Key but still found the Armory door wide open. This may be a glitch.
The other entrance leads to a similar setup except the gate's already open
for pillaging. This one has REVOLVER AMMO, CROSSBOW POISON AMMO, GRENADE GUN
SUPER AMMO, WIDESHOT AMMO, UZI AMMO, and GRENADE GUN NORMAL AMMO. Not as good
as the other one, but still pretty useful. Anyway, the real way to go is NW
of this area near a giant abyss alongside the two mini pyramids.
The way is rather clear: the first jump should land Lara on the ground 'tween
the two pyramids themselves, which has a scorpion waiting around. Following,
jump due east to where small ledges are on the buried pyramid. Climb up a
bit to the 1st stag beetle, then do a long running jump north to a sliver of
solid ground. One more jump north, then a running jump west across the pit
to be right alongside a mini-pyramid. A stag beetle and scorpion launch a
guerilla assault there, and a SMALL MEDIKIT can be found nearby, too. This
small area has a movable boulder that should be pushed as far west as Lara
can, opening a door in the pyramid's side south of there.
INSIDE THE QUEENS' PYRAMID
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After pulling up the trapdoor and descending, Lara finds herself in a maze
that only reveals itself (walls lower) by stepping on certain floor panels.
Here is the right way to go:
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___|9|___ 1: Go west, kill scorp, UZI AMMO in niche farthest away
| _ _8 | 2: SMALL MEDIPACK in niche before wall-lowerer
___| |_| |_|7|___ 3: Lower wall
| _ _ _5 | 4: Lower wall
| |¯| |_| |_|6|_| | 5: Lower wall
| ¯ _ _ 4 | 6: Get UZI AMMO inside a niche
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S | 1 2 | 8: Lower wall
| ¯¯¯|_|¯¯¯ 9: Enter chamber with Bird Guardian & Scorpions
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Yes, there are plenty of wall niches; no, they're not special. Most will
send scarabs in or have nothing of interest. The Bird Guardian was faced
before and wasn't that special; try to keep active and get behind it to stop
the constant barrage of projectiles. Pry the EASTERN SHAFT KEY off its socket
afterwards and it'll be time to leave this pyramid. The way back is as such:
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| _1 _ | 2: Lower wall
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| _ _ _ | 4: Lower wall
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| ¯ _4 _ | 6: Lower wall
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S | | Climb back out of the pyramid when done.
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EXIT RE-CLIMBING THE GREAT PYRAMID (EXIT)
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Back across the abyss, jump north some more until Lara can pull up onto the
queen's pyramid near a stag battle. After climbing around the Great Pyramid's
exterior once already, this should be child's play -- it's mostly a bunch of
diagonal jumps, and there are still falling boulders. Eventually there's a
ledge with a door 'The Guards Keys' can unlock plus some stag beetles as the
kicker! Enter inside
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40) INSIDE THE GREAT PYRAMID [WK40]
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Right at the start is an abyss to leap over with two assassins, one of each
kind, ready and willing to fight. How did they get inside when Lara had to
go through 23423 levels!? Argh! Take your age out on 'em and steal one of
the corpse's UZI AMMO before taking the sidepassage one of the assassins
jumped out of. This leads upwards to another chamber, past a blue henchman,
which locks Lara in with another ninja henchman and bat. Take the lower path
and a sliding pillar trap activates, but it's crossed easily, generally.
Beyond, kill three mangy dogs and SMALL MEDIPACK in a broken basin. The torch
inside should be used to light all the unlit (x4) ones, which opens a western
alcove with a switch and WIDESHOT AMMO. The switch lowers a wall portion one
room back, but you'll have to put down three more stray mutts before getting
there.
The room unlocked has sockets for the four Shaft Keys collected throughout
the Giza levels. Place them all in and a floor hole opens! The switch opens
the locked gate from the "B" room, letting in two blue henchmen all the while
(one drops SHOTGUN SHELLS). Return to the basin room and the east alcove will
be open -- it has a LARGE MEDIPACK and a lever that raises the portcullis in
the initial hallway of this level.
Backtrack there and kill the two blue assassins -- a SMALL MEDIPACK is left
behind. Continue north, jumping to safe spots on the abyss and shooting bats
who threaten to knock Lara downwards. Near the lower gate is a LARGE MEDIPACK
on a stoop. With all threats gone, let's get the final secret [70/70] this
game has to offer! If you stand by the door leading to the beam of light,
the secret would be in the third one away from there, i.e. the one split in
two by a tiny platform. Stand and look south, using the binoculars or a flare
to light up the path -- a dark alcove shows up! It contains a CROSSBOW, and
Lara can flatfoot jump-n'-grab to get back to where she was before!
To exit the level, climb into the shaft the beam of light shines in, taking
the west tunnel when it presents itself.
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41) TEMPLE OF HORUS [WK41]
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| D _ | | A: Water Puzzle #1 |
|_____|_| |__|¯¯¯¯¯| | B: Connected Passage (Pole) |
| F | | C: Water Puzzle #2 |
¯|E|¯¯|_____| | D: Connected Passage (Pole) |
_ ¯ | E: Water Puzzle #3 |
_|C|___|¯¯¯¯¯| | F: Connected Ps. (Lightbeam Shaft) |
|_ ___ D | | G: Armor of Horus |
| |___|¯¯¯¯¯| | H: South Gate Switch |
| ___ B | | I: North Gate Switch |
|_| |_____| | J: SE Corner (Climb Course Start) |
_ | K: Crawlspace |
_|A|___|¯¯¯¯¯| | L: Sliding Pillar Trap |
|_ ___ B | | M: Falling Pillar Trap |
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|START|
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Lara starts the level in a passage with fountains. Pick up a LARGE WATERSKIN
sitting on the floor, which is a 5-liter companion piece to the smaller one
from 'The Mastabas' level which carries 3 liters. Here's how to do this:
1) Empty the smallest waterskin (select 'Use')
2) Fill up the largest waterskin
3) Combine the large waterskin with the empty waterskin
4) The Large Waterskin should have 2 liters, the smaller one 3.
At the scales, pour the Large Waterskin into the vase (a watery SFX plays if
done right) and by balancing the thing, a floor grate opens. Kill a few bats
in the room beyond, which contains a pole. Save and jump to it, then inch
downwards until Lara's right above the retractable spikes. As they're going
back into their holes, slide down! Kill the bats when at the bottom.
The next room leads to another water puzzle! This one requires 4 liters, so
naturally only the big one can fill it.
1) Make both waterskins empty
2) Fill the large waterskin
3) Combine it with the small waterskin
4) Empty the small waterskin
5) Combine the large waterskin with small waterskin
6) Fill the large waterskin
7) Combine large waterskin with small waterskin
This makes the small one at full capacity and the large at 4 liters. Put the
latter into the scale's vase to open another floor grate! This leads to a
similar setup, with a bat-filled room and pole with retractable spikes. The
third and final water puzzle requires a single (1) liter! To make that a
reality...
1) Empty both waterskins
2) Fill the small waterskin and combine it with the larger one
3) Repeat step #2
Bingo-bango! The floor grate that opens leads to a shaft of light room from
the previous level. Either way, the first floor down has a locked gate and
can't be used. Keep descending on the "rock" ladder wall until it runs out
of space, then round the corner of part of the ceiling block. Lara may get
'stuck', so quickly let go and reattach, climbing up onto it. This should
start a small panoramic cutscene.
HORUS' ARMOR
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From the top of the cavern, (save and) do a running jump off into the water.
The side shouldn't matter but low-hanging ceiling portions can put a damper
on the attempt -- north works as long as you look for a ceiling groove that
gives leeway. Anywho, get to Horus' armor and put the four 'Holy Scripture's
on the pedestals around there. Approach the armor from the front and...
Dagnabit, things have gone awry and the Amulet was thrown into the water.
It's on the north side, and easily accessible from the start. Avoid Set's
projectile blasts (which can't work underwater; what a loser!) and collect
the artifact, which opens a gate on the south side. To get to that door, a
surfacing point in the SE corner gets up there. UZI AMMO is behind the door,
and the switch opens the north gate.
Get there lickety split. A SMALL MEDIPACK is behind the door, and the switch
activates some mechanism (?) in the shaft of blue light. Remember the floor
with the gate that we skipped? It's there. A new ledge on a wall has extended
but Lara isn't informed of this.
To find it, go to the southern door ramp and instead of going inside, jump to
the SE corner. The ledge is on the east wall, within a running jump-n'-grab
distance. Keep doing these until reaching the NE corner, which can be climbed
a bit to find a SMALL MEDIPACK. Turn south again and there will be another
ledge a running jump-n'grab can get. From there, save and jump SE, aiming
between the huge stalactite and the wall; if done right, Lara should barely
land past a slanted ledge and on flat ground. This ledge has a crawlspace
in plain sight by jumping west. Pull up into there and Set's wrath won't be
able to reach her. Out the other side, continue to a ledge that is right
alongside the giant beam of light. Catch the climbable wall (Set will get in
some attacks) and climb up the shaft. Automatically, Lara seals the cave and
Set forever...?
ESCAPING THE GREAT PYRAMID
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Anyway, the locked gate here will now be open. Continue past the sliding
pillars trap and to an abyss where a rumbling is found. A pillar will fall
from the ceiling onto the worn-out space in the middle, so stay clear of it!
Slide down towards the abyss and jump at the last second, catching the other
side. When a rumbling comes hide in the middle of the twin paths to avoid any
untimely accidents. Slide down the next pit and jump like before, then hurry
to the lip of the 3rd pit to avoid more falling pillars.
Sadly, after the credits the main title is returned to. No infinite ammo is
obtained (like in Tomb Raider 1) or anything. Shame...
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SECRETS [SCRT]
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From time immemorial, Tomb Raider games have contained "secrets," niches and
alcoves tucked away from the main path and always carrying item rewards of
some kind. Most carry ammunition but every once in awhile a weapon is found.
There is no reward for finding all (70) secrets in the game but there's some
satisfaction in doing it, considering how hard most are to find.
Secrets are listed in the order of appearance; just keep in mind that some
levels have to be revisited to claim the prizes. Here's a general list of
the per-level amounts and totals:
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| LV | LEVEL NAME | SECRET# |
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| 01 | Angkor Wat | 08 [08] |
| 02 | Race for the Iris | 00 [08] |
| 03 | The Tomb of Seth | 05 [13] | - Missed 1
| 04 | Burial Chambers | 05 [18] |
| 05 | Valley of the Kings | 03 [21] |
| 06 | KV5 | 04 [25] |
| 07 | Temple of Karnak | 04 [29] |
| 08 | The Great Hypostyle Hall | 00 [29] |
| 09 | Sacred Lake (Part 2) | 01 [30] |
| 10 | Tomb of Semerkhet | 07 [37] | - Missed 1
| 11 | Guardian of Semerkhet | 03 [40] |
| 12 | Desert Railroad | 03 [43] |
| 13 | Alexandria | 01 [44] |
| 14 | Coastal Ruins | 00 [44] |
| 15 | Catacombs | 04 [48] |
| 16 | Temple of Poseidon | 01 [49] |
| 17 | The Lost Library | 03 [52] |
| 18 | Hall of Demetrius | 00 [52] |
| 19 | Coastal Ruins | 01 [53] |
| 20 | Pharos, Temple of Isis | 00 [53] |
| 21 | Cleopatra's Palaces | 01 [54] |
| 22 | City of the Dead | 01 [55] |
| 23 | Chambers of Talun | 02 [57] |
| 24 | Citadel Gate | 01 [58] |
| 25 | Trenches | 00 [58] |
| 26 | City of the Dead (Part 2) | 01 [59] |
| 27 | Street Bazaar | 01 [60] |
| 28 | Citadel | 02 [62] |
| 29 | The Sphinx Complex | 01 [63] |
| 30 | Underneath the Sphinx | 01 [64] |
| 31 | Menkaure's Pyramid | 01 [65] |
| 32 | Inside Menkaure's Pyramid | 01 [66] |
| 33 | The Mastabas | 01 [67] |
| 34 | The Great Pyramid | 01 [68] |
| 35 | Khufu's Queens Pyramids | 01 [69] |
| 36 | Inside the Great Pyramid | 01 [70] |
| 37 | Temple of Horus | 00 [70] |
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ANGKOR WAT
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| 01 | Start of the level, on a ledge near where Werner stands |
| 02 | First jumping tutorial room, in the waist-deep water |
| 03 | Second jumping tutorial room, lower area near a manmade waterfall |
| 04 | Swimming tutorial room, at bottom of pool |
| 05 | Outdoor area with two wild boars; SW corner, kittie-corner to exit |
| 06 | In room with already activated spike traps, a li'l ways past #5 |
| 07 | When Lara has to crawl in small vent, in a dead-end offshoot |
| 08 | After #7, in Virtuous/Heretical pathsplit area (SW corner) |
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THE TOMB OF SETH
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| 09 | At the start, there's a path the guide walks and a darkened one that |
| | he doesn't because there's no torches. Kill the mangy dog around the |
| | area and find a climbable block in that dark passage, then angle the |
| | camera to locate an alcove within jumping distance. [SMALL MEDIPACK] |
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| 10 | After #09, the guide waits in a locked door room w/ alcove switches. |
| | Ignore the switches and take the side passage, jumping down into the |
| | sand to find an alcove. This gets covered in sand via the switches, |
| | so it has to be done in this order. [SHOTGUN SHELLS] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 11 | In the room with a rope dangling from the ceiling, use it to jump to |
| | the west alcove. The secret plays by getting there, so getting the |
| | Uzi is NOT a part of the task! |
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| 12 | In the sphinx room, use the ladder in the SW corner to reach a ledge |
| | at around face height. Jump to the shoulder of its headdress and see |
| | there is barely enough room to get to its frontal headdress. From |
| | there, jump to its northern shoulder and find the alcove with items! |
| | [SHOTGUN SHELLS, LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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| 13 | In the sphinx room, use the ladder in the SW corner to reach a ledge |
| | with a lever on it. Pull it and descend the ladder to find items now |
| | uncaged! [SHOTGUN SHELLS, WIDESHOT AMMO] |
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BURIAL CHAMBERS
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| 14 | The level starts with a sliding portion. SAVE first and wait until |
| | part of the slope lightens (red) a bit, also when the ceiling opens |
| | up a bit. Jump-n'-catch the ledge for the cache. [LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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| 15 | After obtaining the Hand of Orion, two parts of the wall recede and |
| | Lara has to pick one to evade the spike trap. Take the left one as |
| | it leads to the secret. [SHOTGUN SHELLS] |
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| 16 | In the burial chamber of Seth, where Lara can get the Amulet of |
| | Horus, an adjacent passage leads to a room with four sarcophagi in |
| | upright positions. The NW corner has a secret passage that leads |
| | under the room to the secret, but know that the secret is locked if |
| | the Amulet of Horus is obtained! [SMALL MEDIPACK, SHOTGUN SHELLS] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 17 | In the dark cavern where two jewelry-wearing dogs appear, locate the |
| | natural staircase that runs parallel to the south side of the room. |
| | Hug that southern wall until part of it drops off into a pit, which |
| | is where the secret is. [LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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| 18 | Upon reaching the octagonal room that spins, or after spinning it |
| | twice which resets it to its natural position, jump from the initial |
| | alcove (blindjump almost) to the ledge nearest the [LARGE MEDIPACK] |
| | easily visible. A running jump is necessary to get up in there. |
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VALLEY OF THE KINGS
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| 19 | After clearing the ambush at the level's start, scour the southeast |
| | corner for a dark alcove. [2x SHOTGUN SHELLS, SHOTGUN] |
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| 20 | In the NE corner of the ambush site is a dark alcove with nothing in |
| | it. However, the ledge that leads up to there can provide access to |
| | the reddish rock wall/pillar outside the door (flatfoot jump?). In |
| | any case, once one gets on the pillar, it leads up to the building's |
| | roof. [UZI AMMO, SMALL MEDIPACK, 2x SHOTGUN SHELLS] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 21 | Later, the road will have a large spike pit -- this is located near |
| | the first overarching cliff bridge. Do a backwards jump-and-grab on |
| | the pit's lip (near the ramp) to see the inside is notched and very |
| | climbable. Maneuver to the thin slit under the ramp and pull up; at |
| | the other end is the items. Note that it's sometimes hard to emerge |
| | through the slit, so grab its ledge, release the action button and |
| | press it quickly -- this lets Lara get a foothold and getting in is |
| | then possible. [SMALL MEDIPACK, GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO] |
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KV5
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| 22 | In the desert area with the first spike pit and scaffolding uziman, |
| | there will be a small crawlspace near the exit, cut out of the west |
| | rockwall. [LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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| 23 | In the T-shaped junction between two buildings, the southern one has |
| | a secret bounty underneath its walkway. To claim it, pull up to the |
| | mid-level walkway and look for a drop-down point past a henchman. |
| | [SMALL MEDIPACK, LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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| 24 | After unlocking the gate, there will be an incline with a trap that |
| | drops spikeballs toward the vehicle. Reach the top to stop the trap, |
| | then disembark and inspect the ceiling near the ramp's peak to find |
| | a recess. Face east and try to jump-n'-catch a ledge, although it's |
| | rather hard to get the right footing. [GRENADE GUN NORMAL AMMO] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 25 | Past the spikeball incline area, there will be a bend in the path by |
| | two spike pits, one small and the other L-shaped with its inner wall |
| | notched and climbable. Descend down it to find a half-hidden alcove |
| | that can be pulled up into. Like before, grab the lip, let go, and |
| | then immediately catch it again to be able to enter. [WIDESHOT AMMO, |
| | CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO] |
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TEMPLE OF KARNAK
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| 26 | In the beginning, near the obelisk plaza, find the SW corner of the |
| | area amidst some old arches and debris. There will be a pit there, |
| | and it leads to a crawlspace with lots of treasures, some of which |
| | are in breakables. [SHOTGUN SHELLS, LARGE MEDIPACK, WIDESHOT AMMO, |
| | UZI AMMO and FLARES] |
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| 27 | From the obelisk plaza, go due west until reaching a pool of water. |
| | Swim down the shaft and take the side passage to a door -- this can |
| | be opened by pressing Action in front of it. Continue along until a |
| | small surfacing point is found. [CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO, UZI AMMO] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 28 | Near #27, continue down the passage until it turns east. At that |
| | time, look west to find a triangular crack in the wall that gives |
| | barely enough clearance for Lara to get into a dark alcove with the |
| | treasures. [WIDESHOT AMMO, CROSSBOW POISON AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK, UZI |
| | AMMO] |
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| 29 | From the obelisk plaza, visit the northern building's interior -- it |
| | has two empty pools flanking a stairway. On the west red wall, spy a |
| | high-up crawlspace that leads to items. [FLARES, 2x UZI AMMO] |
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SACRED LAKE PT. II
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| 30 | After unlocking all doors at the obelisk via the Sun Talisman, take |
| | the south exit to find a pole leading down to water. One of the tiny |
| | crawlspace-sized tunnels leads to a gray door, and beyond that, the |
| | secret in a surfacing point. [WIDESHOT AMMO, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO |
| | and a LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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TOMB OF SEMERKHET
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| 31 | After dropping into the chamber with a life-size Senet board, there |
| | will be some ledges on one side that lead to a black ladder, which |
| | points to the secret. [WIDESHOT AMMO, SMALL MEDIPACK] |
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| 32 | In the room with 3 blocks that shoot fire, after the scaffolding has |
| | be raised, Lara can get to a 2F ledge in the middle of the room with |
| | a single fiery-jet block. The east side of this platform has notched |
| | surfaces, letting Lara climb on it. Once she does, shimmy around the |
| | corner to the alcove. [WIDESHOT AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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| 33 | When Lara loses the senet match, trapdoors in the floor around the |
| | game board activate. Take the NW hole and slide down three slopes, |
| | then jump-n'-grab off that last (3rd) one to catch a ledge. There's |
| | a pole that leads to the treasures. [SMALL MEDIPACK, WIDESHOT AMMO] |
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| 34 | In the room with two ropes hanging from the ceiling, use the nearest |
| | to land on a ledge with a closed red door (this ledge is over the |
| | Ba Cartouche door, as Lara finds out later). Push it open and take |
| | the prizes. [SMALL MEDIPACK, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO] |
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| 35 | After unlocking the Ra Cartouche door, there will be a room with 3 |
| | ropes and a fire elemental. Get rid of the elemental by releasing an |
| | ice elemental nearby, then swing straight across all three ropes to |
| | find the secret alcove. [GRENADE GUN NORMAL AMMO, UZI AMMO, REVOLVER |
| | AMMO] |
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| 36 | Using the third rope in the Secret #35 way, swing east to another 2F |
| | platform that leads to a pole. Climb the pole, jump to the platform |
| | level right above it (3.5F?) and look for a black wall switch on one |
| | side. Jump to and pull it, which raises an odd platform at the level |
| | right above. Climb back up via the pole and jump to it, and take the |
| | torch from the wall mechanism now available. Throw the torch down to |
| | ground level and get down there yourself, then take the torch to the |
| | 3-rope room and light it. There are two unlit torches on either side |
| | of the pole room, and when lit, open a trapdoor in the main walkway. |
| | Go down, get through the circular scythe trap, and take the bounty |
| | before the room starts to fill with scarabs from the ceiling/floor. |
| | [WIDESHOT AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK, FLARES, GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 37 | Using the same technique in #36 to get to the height where the torch |
| | is obtained, use the walkway platforms on the opposite side of the |
| | room to find a passage with a ceiling access point. There's another |
| | black wall switch that raises scaffolding there, giving access to a |
| | passage that leads to the level's exit. Before going all the way, be |
| | sure to search the ceiling throughly to find another access point... |
| | [UZI, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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GUARDIAN OF SEMERKHET
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| 38 | Use the Guardian Key and slide down into a lower hallway. At an east |
| | corner, Lara can get access to the notched ceiling lining everywhere |
| | around. Swing west, past the entrance point, and find a crawlspace's |
| | lip that can be dropped-n'-caught. This leads to a room with flaming |
| | blocks (not mentioned here) and the items sitting on decorations. |
| | [SHOTGUN SHELLS, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO] |
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| 39 | After making the guardian come out and play, follow the corridor it |
| | emerged from until a dead-end room is visited. The wall niche gives |
| | Lara a torch, which she can light back near where the guardian had |
| | emerged. Backtrack to the dead-end room, light both the torches here |
| | and voila! -- a secret door opens on the east side. The pedestals |
| | that hold the items are booby-trapped and avoid the center of the |
| | room, since another trap falls in from the ceiling! [SHOTGUN SHELLS, |
| | LARGE MEDIPACK, CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO] |
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| 40 | Once the guardian is baited into the "Eye Mural Room", and Lara gets |
| | on the 2F walkway, inspect the southern side by the walkway's curve |
| | to find an open ceiling that's beggin' to be explored. The pedestals |
| | within aren't boobytrapped but there are two ceiling spikeballs that |
| | descend, before and after taking the item. Speaking of which, of the |
| | 3 items in view, only one can be taken; the others catch on fire! |
| | [SHOTGUN SHELLS or SMALL MEDIPACK or LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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DESERT RAILROAD
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| 41 | At the final car ('caboose'), kill the assassin who climbs up and |
| | hang off the back end; a door opens and Lara can drop-n'-catch the |
| | lower crate's ledge. [REVOLVER AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK, CROSSBOW NORMAL |
| | AMMO] |
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| 42 | In a boxcar right _before_ the steep tarp-covered cargo, one of the |
| | crate panels can be peeled back to reveal the rest of the freight... |
| | [GRENADE GUN, GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO, GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 43 | In the car Lara first started in (with a broken lever), one of the |
| | crates can be pryed back to reveal an interior. [SMALL MEDIPACK] |
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ALEXANDRIA
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| 44 | Walk on Jean-Yves' study's balcony and kill the two thugs on the |
| | warehouse roof to the west. Do a running jump to the building north |
| | of there and catch its roof. Shimmy to the east anterior and do a |
| | drop-n'-grab on the wall lever below. This opens a secret passage in |
| | that same building. [LARGE MEDIPACK, CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO] |
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CATACOMBS
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| 45 | In the room with two ropes hanging from the ceiling, make it to the |
| | 2nd one and jump to the western crawlspace, which is above the niche |
| | with a secret. There is only two chances to get this, once at the |
| | start and once after getting the two Trident pieces in the southern |
| | portion when the room is revisited. [SHOTGUN, FLARES,LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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| 46 | In the room with the (4th, if you follow my walkthrough) Trident |
| | piece high above the room with three levels of ledges, there are a |
| | few white pieces of bone sitting around. Crossbow-snipe these (x5) |
| | to make a trapdoor activate near the Trident pedestal. [CROSSBOW |
| | EXPLOSIVE AMMO] |
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| 47 | If #46 is obtained, this opens a brown SW door in the room with 3 |
| | tiers of walkways, top-level. [CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, WIDESHOT |
| | AMMO, SHOTGUN SHELLS, LARGE MEDIPACK] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 48 | After collecting all four Trident pieces, get to the ground floor of |
| | the three-tier walkway room and head to the northern dead-end shaft. |
| | An elevator rises to a room above. [LARGE MEDIPACK, WIDESHOT AMMO, |
| | CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO] |
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TEMPLE OF POSEIDON
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| 49 | Most of the level relates to a large room with four exits, abyss in |
| | the very center. The northern passage leads to a room with a couple |
| | skeletons right off the bat. Jump into the lower middle portion and |
| | check the SW corner crawlspace. [CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO and a SMALL |
| | MEDIPACK] |
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THE LOST LIBRARY time, it can't be gotten, even though that room's
_____________________ available. I tried it myself to confirm -- seems so.
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| 50 | Enter the NW of the six 1F doors. After a straightforward path, Lara |
| | will be in a room with a gigantic rotating cog and some tinmen to |
| | dispose of. The cog is over a pit but upon closer inspection, a tiny |
| | ladder is on one side. Descend deeper and deeper to find the secret. |
| | [SMALL MEDIPACK, REVOLVER AMMO, UZI AMMO] |
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| 51 | After obtaining the Horseman's Gem, in that same room, move to the |
| | south and look for a weird gate high up on the wall. Combine the bow |
| | with the LaserSight (from the Alexandria level) and snipe the pulley |
| | object high up towards the ceiling. This releases the gate, letting |
| | Lara climb in! [LARGE MEDIPACK, SHOTGUN SHELLS, UZI AMMO] |
|----+----------------------------------------------------------------------|
| 52 | Upon reaching the main room's balcony (2F), enter the SWmost door -- |
| | it has a ramp underneath a trapdoor. Save first, slide down, jump at |
| | the ladder right before Lara flies out the statue's mouth. Climb up |
| | and jump to the south wall ledge. [CROSSBOW NORMAL AMMO, LARGE |
| | MEDIPACK] |
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HALL OF DEMETRIUS
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| 53 | Although technically in the Coastal Ruins area, this secret's gained |
| | automatically after exiting Hall of Demetrius, which involves being |
| | dropped through a ramp and landing in some water. |
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CLEOPATRA'S PALACES (some, anyway) without being instantly killed. If the
___________________ scarab toy breaks, I suggest looking this method up...
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| 54 | After combining to make the 'Mechanical Scarab with Key,' which has |
| | three (3) uses before it breaks, use it to spring the 1st spikefloor |
| | boobytrap. Continue along until finding a single boobytrap of this |
| | same nature (if you come across two of these in a row, you've gone |
| | the wrong way) and proceed. In one of the rooms, a harpy appears; |
| | take the NE passage until coming to a path with 3 exits: 2 spiketrap |
| | and one needing an artifact to open. The north passage is the way to |
| | go for the bounty. [4x SHOTGUN SHELLS, WIDESHOT AMMO, SMALL MEDIPACK |
| | EXPLOSIVE CROSSBOW AMMO] |
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CITY OF THE DEAD
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| 55 | Part of mandatory play is opening the iron gate near the start in |
| | order to drive the motorcycle to a building and get rooftop access. |
| | En route to this, Lara must freeze a small pond to get to a lever; |
| | this opens a door to a room near a soldier's corpse. Upstairs from |
| | here is a crowbarrable door that has the secret. [LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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CHAMBERS OF TALUN
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| 56 | After climbing to the top level of the building near the start, jump |
| | to the west perch and swing to the east space, which is guarded by |
| | two stag beetles. [LARGE MEDIPACK, WIDESHOT AMMO] |
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| 57 | On the north side of the fortress, over the tunnel that leads to the |
| | Trenches level, use the raised earth to grab the slanted awning and |
| | locate a flat portion that leads to a crawlspace. [LARGE MEDIPACK, |
| | FLARES, CROSSBOW POISON AMMO, REVOLVER AMMO] |
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CITADEL GATE
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| 58 | Past the dragon, in the area with caskets and switches, a rope can |
| | be accessed from the 2F balcony (with some annoyances). Do a running |
| | jump to it, then look NE at the bell in that area. With momentum it |
| | is possible to jump to that alcove, then drop-n'-grab to the crawl- |
| | -space underneath it. [LARGE MEDIPACK, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO] |
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CITY OF THE DEAD (PART 2)
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| 59 | This can only be done after making the Nitrous Oxide Feeder from the |
| | Nitrous Oxide Canister (in Citadel Gate) and Valve Pipe (Trenches). |
| | The western street near where the rooftop machinegun turrets were'll |
| | lead to a large pit that can be crossed with the nitro's boost. Kill |
| | the soldier and locate four slanted, pinkish pillars. Pull up on the |
| | southern one (center Lara), then hold the jump button -- Miss Croft |
| | will complete the tricky jump slopes and land on the eastern ledge |
| | overlooking the secrets, if all goes right. [GRENADE GUN SUPER AMMO, |
| | CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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STREET BAZAAR
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| 60 | After using the rooftop lightning rod to blow up part of a bridge, |
| | do a running jump off said bridge to catch the notched exterior of |
| | the building. Shimmy around the corner to stable ground, then peer |
| | NE to the greenish-hued path. A running jump can clear the slanted |
| | portion, leading to the locust-infested secret. [LARGE MEDIPACK, |
| | GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO, CROSSBOW POISON AMMO] |
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CITADEL
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| 61 | In the multi-story room with a thug-guarded lever at the top, the |
| | west side has a broken stairway over a watery shaft. Above there's a |
| | notched ceiling Lara can climb on. Swing to the south wall, execute |
| | a drop-n'-grab on the crawlspace lip. [GRENADE GUN FLASH AMMO, LARGE |
| | MEDIPACK] |
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| 62 | After the first area with undead knights, Lara is in a room with a |
| | deep shaft in the west corner of a depression. Hang on the inner rim |
| | then drop-n'-grab the crawlspace on the south side. This leads to a |
| | steep-looking but traversable hill that gives access to a higher |
| | room guarded by two more knights. [WIDESHOT AMMO, GRENADE GUN FLASH |
| | AMMO, CROSSBOW EXPLOSIVE AMMO, LARGE MEDIPACK, REVOLVER AMMO] |
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THE SPHINX COMPLEX
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| 63 | In the supply room with the Metal Blade, there are two shelves next |
| | to each other. Push them both north to reveal the prize underneath |
| | one. [SHOTGUN] |
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UNDERNEATH THE SPHINX
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| 64 | In the northwest room that has three crawlspaces, take the east one |
| | which leads to a bifurcation. The south path has a feeble trapdoor |
| | that normally leads to spikes; however, this one crumbles to reveal |
| | a secret item. [GRENADE GUN] |
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¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ NOTE: Lara needs to get the Armory Key in this level to
MENKAURE'S PYRAMID find a future secret. To obtain, when she encounters a
__________________ guard fighting a scorpion, save the guard (kill scorp).
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| 65 | After climbing up Menkaure's Pyramid and finding the door that 'The |
| | Guards Keys' opens, unlock it but don't go in. Instead, there's a |
| | second climbing path that starts in the SE and arcs back west a bit, |
| | giving access to some items on top of the stone door frame. [SMALL |
| | MEDIPACK, REVOLVER] The secret registers after taking the Revolver. |
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INSIDE MENKAURE'S PYRAMID
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| 66 | After finding a chain past some blade-n'-spikepit traps, it opens a |
| | portcullis in a sloped cavern. Save at the top and start the slide, |
| | jumping to the right (SW) towards the bottom, landing in the safe |
| | part of the spike pit or a ledge right near there. [UZI] |
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THE MASTABAS
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| 67 | At the beginning, in the area near the gas station, a building is |
| | boarded-up and has a "do not enter" sign. Bust inside and look for a |
| | well-camouflaged trapdoor that leads to the secret. [LARGE MEDIPACK] |
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THE GREAT PYRAMID
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| 68 | Towards the start of the level, in the first mastaba where Lara has |
| | to enter via a door, there will be a camouflaged trapdoor that leads |
| | down to the secret. [GRENADE GUN] |
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KHUFU'S QUEENS PYRAMIDS
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| 69 | Towards the start of the level are two doors at a pyramid's base, |
| | the westmost of which leading to an armory with items inside boxes. |
| | This can only be unlocked with an Armory Key obtained in "Menkaure's |
| | Pyramid" level, by saving the guard who was harassed by a scorpion. |
| | [CROSSBOW POISON AMMO, SHOTGUN, UZI, CROSSBOW, GRENADE GUN, REVOLVER |
| | and WIDESHOT AMMO] |
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INSIDE THE GREAT PYRAMID
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| 70 | The starting hallway that points north is plagued with many abysses, |
| | but in one (the 3rd from north, AKA the one split in two by a tiny |
| | platform) the secret is hidden. From the north, peer south and look |
| | with a flare/binoculars flashlight to uncover an alcove in the dark. |
| | [CROSSBOW] |
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ENEMIES [ENMS]
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Enemies come in all shapes in sizes, from the lowely beetle-bug to the large
invincible monster who wants to eat Lara's face. Aggressive monsters are
listed here (no bosses) and so are passive (boobytrap) enemies that lie in
wait.
SPIKES
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First Found: Almost every level
Good ol' reliable spikes. This type is a passive trap, relying on human error
instead of other factors. They often sit at bottoms of holes (punji-pit-like)
and wait for missteps or misjumps to impale the target. Careful planning and
knowing the area's layouts help, but saving beforehand is a great teacher as
well. Later, in Cleopatra's Palaces, the only way to proceed (legitimately)
is to use the Mechanical Scarab with Key which springs the trap for her.
MANGY DOGS
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First Found: The Tomb of Seth
These fleabagged mutts are probably ugly wolves, but y'wouldn't know it from
how easy they are to take down. They appear a few times in the level but pose
little threat unless Lara was previously injured. Pistols give feed them the
daily dose of lead with ease.
SCORPIONS
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First Found: The Tomb of Seth
C'MERE! These reddish stinger fiends usually appear in two ways: pits they
can't climb out of or are triggered by some event in a room they can't climb
out of. Pistolwork perforates their carapace pretty easily and they're on the
lower rungs of the difficulty ladder.
ROLLING SPIKE MACHINE
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First Found: The Tomb of Seth
To get the uzi on the first level, Lara has to outsmart the spike machine
rolling on wall grooves in one of the passages. It doesn't kill Lara in an
instant like some other traps, but it heavily damages her. Avoiding is as
simple as knowing where it is which, unlike traps to follow, is harder since
it runs rather silently.
SWORD TRAP
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First Found: The Tomb of Seth
This trap has blades on the ceiling and floor, and will mince whoever happens
to meander inside without proper knowledge. Lara's guide deactivates the trap
when he comes to it, so unless Lara's go-get-'em attitude gets her sliced in
fine strips, there's little reason this should kill her.
FIERY OIL POOLS
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First Found: The Tomb of Seth
Once calm and harmless, the tour guide will set fire to these pools to make
some light. If Lara jumps in, she catches on fire and dies -- simple as! Just
avoid them and things'll be hunky dory.
ASTERISM SPIKE TRAP
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First Found: Burial Chambers
An asterism is a cluster of stars, and the holes the spikes come out of are
shaped like stars -- I know, great term for the thing! This trap may encircle
a room or come out of a block, but no matter where it shows up, it's often
easy to spot for two reasons: visual identification and the horrible grinding
noise they make when approached. They emerge and recede at regular intervals,
so they're not as hard as they appear.
SPINSCYTHE TRAP
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First Found: Burial Chambers
Sometimes pared with asterisms spike traps, this trap won't kill Lara in one
go but is designed to keep her in constant motion which increases the chance
of error (or it knocking her off platform). The blades can be jumped over but
it's still annoying, even if one knows the correct path to go.
MUMMIES
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First Found: Burial Chambers
The stereotypical pyramid/burial chamber/sarcophagi enemy, this time mummies
are invincible, despite their desiccated, rotted state of existence. They're
slow-moving and often don't attack without provocation, meaning Lara's safe
to do puzzles and whatnot until she puts one square 'tween their eyes. Easy
to avoid, generally.
FANCY DOGS
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First Found: Burial Chambers
Kinda like the mangy dogs from previous levels, these ones wear gold jewelry
and are a little tougher, even though the pistols can still take 'em out with
little to no trouble.
HENCHMEN
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First Found: Valley of the Kings
These uzi-totin' wannabe punks ambush Lara for their first appearance and
continue to pester her throughout the game. They're dressed in desert garb
and only fire their weapons in bursts, which gives Lara more than enough time
to beat them into submission.
ENEMY VEHICLE
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First Found: Valley of the Kings
This white van isn't for soccer moms -- it's driven by a henchman and drops
grenades out its backdoor, which can damage Lara if her driving's erratic.
Since the grenades drop in line with the vehicle's movement, evading them
and the explosions isn't so hard. The van is 'invincible' for all intents &
purposes.
BLACK SCORPION
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First Found: Temple of Karnak
These suckers are just like normal scorpions except their stings can 'poison'
Lara, the effect of which constantly lowers her healthbar and, after awhile,
gives a hazy LSD trip effect where the world distorts and her vision blurs.
Using a medipack cures this condition, and these scorps are barely better
than their worst counterparts in terms of constitution...meaning use pistols!
BATS
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First Found: Sacred Lake
Bats are small and agile, but have little defense -- even pistols can take
'em out without any trouble. In previous games these have appeared earlier...
CROCODILE
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First Found: Sacred Lake
These reptilian wonders are surprisingly fast on land and have enormous health
to deplete. That's why the pistol should be switched to the shotgun, which can
two-shot the suckers before they make a Happy Meal out of Lara.
NINJA HENCHMAN
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First Found: The Great Hypostyle Hall, Pt. II
These are like regular henchman in black and red. It carries a sword thingy
and can deflect bullets, and keeps this stance until Lara puts some distance
between her and them. A few shotgun blasts will take 'em down, though.
SCARAB SWARM
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First Found: Tomb of Semerkhet
These dangerous bugs are invincible gameplay-wise, and will quickly devour
Miss Croft's health if they catch up with her. She'll have to clamor to high
ground or hang onto the ceiling to avoid their wrath, which impedes her a few
times in the game. Torches keep the scarabs at bay to a minimal extent, but
don't prevent damage.
FIRE/ICE ELEMENTAL
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First Found: Tomb of Semerkhet
This fiery fiend flies through the air and pesters Lara with general damage,
and can even catch her on fire! There are only two ways to kill one of these
suckers: sic an ice elemental on its tail and let them negate each other, or
lure it into water, where it fizzles out. [The Ice Elemental, when faced as
or a cross-shaped statue, the latter which is used in the Catacombs level.]
CIRCULAR SCYTHE TRAP
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First Found: Tomb of Semerkhet
This trap is like a circular ring with six or seven scythe pieces on it, that
slice into the middle at regular intervals. Since it's stationary, Lara can
get by by sprinting and diving through, or taking one for the team and just
bungling through (with health loss). Note that standing really close and
rolling past the blades when they're closed works as well, although isn't a
good idea if, say, scarabs are following.
HIDDEN FLOOR-TILE BLADES
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First Found: Guardian of Semerkhet
Long name, quick death. These first appear on the ground floor of the room
with a timed cleaver trap. The blades are underground and when Lara steps on
one, four blades come out of the corner and converge in the center, killing
her instantly...or, rather, they have to catch her cleanly to OHKO. Still,
it's best not to test out the specifics and simply avoid any weird tiles like
that.
HIDDEN UNDER-PATH BLADES
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First Found: Guardian of Semerkhet
These longsword-like blades point vertically down from certain paths, and
when Lara steps haphazardly, they pull a full rotation and slide her up. They
can be visually identified but are impassable unless a mechanism shuts them
off or delays 'em.
PEDESTAL BLADES
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First Found: Guardian of Semerkhet
Some pedestals are boobytrapped, so when an artifact is taken, four blades
come up and cut downward at the enemy. These are a one-time affair and can
be avoided by taking the item at an angle (NW, SW, SE, NE). The pedestals
that fit this bill are also easily detected by long black slits down the
cardinal directions' sides. [NOTE: Some blades only come out from certain
sides, although the rest holds true.]
SPIKEBALL BOOBYTRAP
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First Found: Guardian of Semerkhet
In one of the secrets, this thing falls down from the ceiling in the middle
and after a moment, a bunch of blades poke out. It doesn't move around or
have any special abilities, but if Lara happens to hit it, even when it's
just sitting there, she bleeds out...so avoid!
GUARDIAN
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First Found: Guardian of Semerkhet
This invincible guardian in the shape of a bull (I mistakenly call it a
minotaur) is immune to conventional weapons, and all weapons for that matter.
Whenever it appears, which is rarely in the ensuing levels, the only option
is to run away and/or use it to open paths. Lara can bait it into charging
like a novice matador, which comes in useful for breaking down doors and
such.
SKELETONS
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First Found: Coastal Ruins
These sword-wielding Halloween decorations are rather fun to fight. Like a
few other enemies, they are invincible with regard to normal weapons. However
if they are exploded they permanently die. The really fun way is to use the
lasersight + crossbow to snipe their heads; when they have no head, they'll
just run around and not attack Lara any longer. Another way to "get rid" of
them is to use the knockback effects of weapons, pushing them into deep pits
or places they can't climb out of.
BOULDER TRAP
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First Found: Coastal Ruins
It's a simple setup: a pulley holds a boulder above a certain spot, and if
Lara steps there, it falls (after a delay). To trigger it, simply step on
that certain spot and back/sideflip away.
TINMEN
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First Found: The Lost Library
Although perhaps not made of tin, these mechanized men carry axes and attack
Lara without compunction. They're invincible to normal weapons from the sides
or back, and it's only when Lara shoots the green gem on their chest that any
real damage is done. They'll grunt when hurt, and that's the only way to tell!
I recommend using a shotgun for the job.
POLE GEARS
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First Found: The Lost Library
Although more of a nuisance than anything else, these gears rotate around
poles and damage Lara if she touches them. Since backflipping off poles often
requires her to be level with the floor/ceiling (relative), they can really
take off chunks of her health. They're invincible, naturally, and the only
way to get past is coordinated sliding or taking one for the team.
HARPY
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First Found: Pharos, Temple of Isis
This "bird" has a human face and will fire projectiles at Lara, but really
doesn't have any super-special traits to take note of. Dr. Uzi will cure all
its living problems!
Guarding the long-dead queen's throne room, these guardians shoot mystical
blue projectiles and take a lot of bullets to be downed. If Lara stands at
mid-range, for some reason the enemy's projectiles may zoom upward and miss
her completely and giving an easy advantage. They also attack one at a time.
CAIRO SOLDIER
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First Found: City of the Dead
These guys are tougher than normal grunts but don't have the capability to
stop bullets like those fiery-red assassins in the Karnak levels, which means
they aren't that useful. Their main feature is better firepower, and they'll
commonly use grenade rounds. Also, Lara first gets her Revolver from one of
these suckers.
AUTOMATED MACHINEGUN
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First Found: City of the Dead
These suckers can raise a lot of hell if Lara comes into their line of fire,
but since they're inert, they're helpless if she can get around back. The
only way to destroy the guns is by shooting their white-ish canister with
the revolver (which means attaching a LaserSight for better accuracy). Their
most dangerous feature is the flamethrower at close-range -- this may be the
best reason to snipe the weak spot from afar.
STAG BEETLE
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First Found: Chambers of Talun
These overgrown bugs are as big as bats and twice as tough...meaning it takes
two shotgun blasts instead of two. They pester Lara just like bats and also
make a mind-numbing buzz noise -- that alone is worthy of death.
LOCUSTS
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First Found: Citadel Gate
Another bug enemy! These pestilence-bringing, crop-failing, health-eating
mongrels will often just appear around Lara out of nowhere, and drain her
health without any counterattack. Running away seems to disperse them, and
that's really the only course of action to take, sadly.
DRAGON
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First Found: Citadel Gate
This behemoth sits in a pit (inert) and shoots flaming projectiles on a set
pattern. If Lara is hit, she catches fire and will probably die. Use cover
to block the projectiles and sprint past when the opening is clear. It can't
be damaged by conventional weapons.
UNDEAD KNIGHTS
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First Found: Citadel
These reanimated corpses of Crusaders cannot be killed or damaged (where have
we seen that before?). Slow-moving and kinda weak, they're only seen in one
level. Yawn!
LATERAL SWORD TRAP
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First Found: Underneath the Sphinx
Ever seen Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade? It has a trap like this, which
swings laterally (horizontally) and damages Lara, if not outright killing the
poor gal. Ducking under it will work; the downside is that it's found with
boobytrapped floor traps which make this task rather difficult.
OVERGROWN SCORPION
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First Found: Menkaure's Pyramid
The red scorpions of yesterdungeon have taken steroids and become these large
freaks, with much more health. For instance, it takes three grenade rounds to
take one down! However, unlike their similarly-colored smaller counterparts,
these ones do have poisonous stings! That's evolution for ya.
BIRD GUARDIAN
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First Found: Inside Menkaure's Pyramid
Like the jackal guardians from Cleopatra's Palaces, this foe also shoots
energy projectiles, just at a faster rate. And, like the previous guardians,
if Lara can get 'round back, it has to turn slowly and resume firing.
PYRAMID DEBRIS
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First Found: The Great Pyramid
While scaling the outer face, sometimes the structure will shake and loose
boulders will tumble down the side. If one hits Lara, it'll do more than make
her see stars -- she'll be a stain! Avoiding them isn't too hard since there
is no random factor to their appearance or where they land. Just to be on the
safe side, crouching against cover helps.
SLIDING PILLAR TRAP
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First Found: Inside the Great Pyramid
These pillars slide across paths, killing Lara if they hit. They're avoided
with some timed jumps, so save beforehand.
DINOSAUR?
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Found: Temple of Horus
If Lara messes up one of the water puzzles, a gate opens and this creepy
monster crawls out. It crawls on all fours, has a dinosaur head, and looks
like a crocodile in some way. It's not necessarily tough but it does respawn
behind the gate, waiting for the next time Lara screw up the puzzle!
FALLING PILLAR TRAP
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Found: Temple of Horus
Toward the last leg of this area, a small rumbling will herald a pillar
dropping in from the ceiling. It instantly kills Lara should it connect, but
simply progressing forward or hiding off the main path evades its attack.
It does block part of the path though, so dilly-dallying doesn't help.
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CHEATS [CHTS]
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Like most Tomb Raider games, there are push-button codes for those who just
want to destroy stuff from the get-go. Before inputting the code, Lara must
be pointing directly north. This can be done manually but most people prefer
to hang from an flat object with a south face, which accomplishes this a lot
easier. When that part is done, enter the menu and highlight a certain object
listed below:
EFFECT MENU HIGHLIGHT BUTTON COMBO (PRESS TOGETHER)
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ALL ITEMS Large Medipack R1 + R2 + L1 + L2 + Down
LEVEL SKIP Load Option R1 + R2 + L1 + L2 + Up
INFINITE AMMO/MEDIPACKS Small Medipack R1 + R2 + L1 + L2 + Up
ALL SPECIAL ITEMS/ARTIFACTS Large Medipack R1 + R2 + L1 + L2 + Down
Some overzealous people may think getting everything is great, but it's been
known to cause serious game-breaking bugs, particularly ones regarding
artifacts and other special items. Level-skipping can also cause players to
permanently miss crucial items needed to complete future levels, which is why
it's not advised, even if you know what you're doing.
In any event, use these with caution!
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V. FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS [FAQZ]
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[Q] - Hey! You said I get [ammo] here but I actually got the [ammo's weapon]!
[A] - Yeah, that sometimes happens. Sometimes if you've already obtained a
weapon at that point, instead of getting another weapon (which turns
into a bunch of ammo) you simply get a normal ammo cache.
[Q] - Lara's health is depleting and there's a weird acid trip effect! Help!
[A] - This occurs when she's been poisoned, such as by black scorpions. Her
life constantly worsens and after awhile, there's a hazy LSD effect as
her vision blurs (which is really cool, actually). Using a medipack of
any sort cures her condition back to normal.
[Q] - Why can't I pull up into this crawlspace?
[A] - This is a common problem that results from Lara not really 'grabbing'
the lip from above, but rather the side (such as portions where she
moves laterally to the crawlspace like in Valley of the Kings). To
rectify, climb as high to the lip as possible, let go and quickly press
action again. She should grab the lip like normal and that's how y'do
it.
[Q] - In Chamber of Talun's main building, I can't round the 2F pillar corner!
[A] - I've noticed this too. Lara can do the first corner easily but the last
one to get back on the west ledge is weird. On the 2nd face, make Lara
climb up (so she has a foothold) and then try -- that should work.
[Q] - I entered a new level from [direction] and it says [new direction]!
[A] - I have no idea what this is about but it's happened to me too. For
instance, after finishing "Khufu's Queens Pyramids" Lara exits to the
east; when the level starts, east is displayed as 'north'. It's quite
an annoyance to be sure but shouldn't affect much, since I usually
check for the 'current' north at each level's beginning.
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VI. UPDATES & CONTRIBUTIONS [UPDT]
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07-09-06 --------------+ Started walkthrough
10-15-08 --------------+ Scrapped old version and restarted walkthrough
10-24-08 --------------+ Finished walkthrough
06-14-09 --------------+ Updated Hall of Demetrius & Trenches sections
For errors and corrections, make sure to email me! I'm interested in that
kind of stuff.
THANKS TO...
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• Sailor & Ceej, for always hosting my junk
• Nic Holte, for playing Tomb Raider games with me since way back when
• The readers, 'cause this was one heck of a fun thing to write, dagnabit!
• Boat, for some glitch/tips in Hall of Demetrius & Trenches
• kenzie.weisener, for info on possible Armory Key glitch
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VII. LEGALITY [LGLT]
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through electronic or commercial means without the expressed consent of the
author (Patrick Summers). It cannot be hosted, edited, or distributed for
profit, and may not be given away as an add-in/gift to bought items. All rights
are reserved to respective parties, even those not explicitly stated herein.
Those who find thos document on sites not listed below should e-mail the
author (Shotgunnova). Thanks for reading, and thanks for respectin' FAQers.
