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Tomb Raider
FAQ/Walkthrough by Shotgunnova
Version: Lara | Updated: 07/25/06 | Search Guide | Bookmark Guide
________ _ | | | | FAQ/WALKTHROUGH |__ __|__ __ __| |__ (c) Shotgunnova / Patrick Summers | | | \/ | \ | | [ ] | | [ ] | This guide cannot in indended solely for |__|_____|_|\/|_|_____| home and private use. It cannot be sold, ______ _ edited, distributed, hosted, or given | | _ | | away as a add-in or insert with a paid | [ ] /____ |_|___| |____ _ ___ package. To do so is violative of federal | / \| | | ___| \/___| copryright laws and infringements will | \ [ ] \ | [ ] | __|| / be prosecuted by law. Plus, if you steal |_|\__\___/\_\|_____|____|_| this you are a cretin. <3 ================= TABLE OF CONTENTS ================= 01) CONTROLS 02) TACTICS 03) WALKTHROUGH. I. Caves........................................................CVS1 II. City of Vilcabamba...........................................CVB1 III. Lost Valley..................................................LTV1 IV. Tomb of Qualopec.............................................TQL1 V. St. Francis' Folly...........................................SFF1 VI. Colosseum....................................................CLS1 VII. Palace Midas.................................................PLM1 VIII. The Cistern..................................................CST1 IX. Tomb of Tihocan..............................................TBT1 X. City of Khamoon..............................................CTK1 XI. Obelisk of Khamoon...........................................BLK1 XII. Sanctuary of the Scion.......................................STS1 XIII. Natla's Mines................................................NTM1 XIV. Atlantis.....................................................ATL1 XV. The Great Pyramid............................................TGP1 04) FAQ 05) THANKS 06) UPDATES 07) LEGALITY +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | 01) CONTROLS CNTRL | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ L2 BUTTON . . . . . . .Sidestep left R2 BUTTON . . . . . . .Sidestep right L1 BUTTON . . . . . . .Look around (move camera) R1 BUTTON . . . . . . .Walk (in conjunction with D-pad) Triangle . . . . . . .Draw weapon / holster weapon Square . . . . . . .Jump / Deselect (when in menu) Circle . . . . . . .Roll X Button . . . . . . ."Action Button" / Select You can change the configurations to one that suits you by going into the in- -game menu and selecting "Controls". +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | 02) TACTICS TCTCS | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ RUNNING AROUND Use the D-pad to make Lara run SIDESTEPPING Sidestepping has many uses as you spelunk around the game. Use the D-Pad's L2 and R2 buttons to take a step left or right, respectfully. ROLLING 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 What's a tomb raider without some ups? Jumping will be, no contest, the most important feat to get down. Use the Square button 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 Lara will encounter deep water in her adventures. In deep water press the Square button to swim quickly, and use the D-pad to twist around and navigate Lara underwater. SHOOTING Press Triangle to draw your weapon and Lara will automatically aim at the enemy. Press L1 to switch between enemies. CLIMBING THINGS 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. PUZZLE-SOLVING *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. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | 03) WALKTHROUGH WLKTH | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | I. CAVES CVS1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ As you start the game, Lara and her guide will be climbing a mountain in Peru. Croft scales a rock face to trigger a large stone door's opening, only to see her guide get mauled by wolves that emerge from it. She guns them down and enters the cave, only to have it shut behind her... SECRETS: 3 of 3 MAP OF CAVES __________ | [4] _ |_ | __ | |[5] _| <- SECRET #3 _____||_// |_ | | [3] |_/ __| | | | |[6] | | _____| ___|_ _| ||_____ |[7] |_ | [2] || _| <- EXIT |__ __||________| SECRET #2 ---> _ __||__ __________ ____| || [1] | [START]________ | | ____||__ __| | |_| |________|| | _____________| | |_ |___| <-SECRET #1 Follow the wolf tracks in the snow and head past the dart trap before the corner. When you come to the T-junction, Lara will look up at it so the player recognizes it. Head down to the dead end on the map and find a slanted rock you can pull up on. Get up, slide down, then jump out and catch the ledge of the rock (hidden, ain't it?). Pull yourself up and get the SMALL MEDI PACK and congratulate yourself on getting the first of the game's secrets (SECRET #1). Go back to the junction and vault up, then head to the left. You can see there is a ledge there, but you can't jump to it and grab it, strangely. Press Up and X to jump up and grab the ledge, kill the bat, and collect SECRET #2, a SMALL MEDI PACK. Head down the long tunnel into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Drop down and head towards the grassy area to find another place you can drop down to. Head down the stairs to the tunnel and pull the switch by the door to open it. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Kill the bats and climb up in the western edge (use compass to find out if you can't find it). Head into Room #3 through the rocky corridor. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Use the walkway on the perimeter to gain access to the first bridge. Snipe any sleeping wolves and head around to the second bridge, then take the tunnel that leads to Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* This room contains a giant pit with a bear in it, and four stone pieces of what was probably once a bridge. Do a running jump and land on the side by the save crystal. You can snipe the bear when it appears, but that may take awhile. If you happen to fall down into the bear pit, there is a cavern with a pressure pad that opens back up into the bottom of Room #3. Crystal-side is some stairs. To the left by the columns you can find a hidden SMALL MEDI PACK, which you should get first. Down the stairs is the way to... ******* ROOM #5 ******* Two wolves will immediately attack you, so gun 'em down. Instead of going down the stairs to the ground floor, continue to the two white columns and face the foliage on the wall. You can now see that it's a ledge hidden in the camouflage. Jump to it and find a LARGE MEDIPAK as your reward for finding SECRET #3. Back in the main room, there are two large platforms and some rubble scattered around them. One of them has a lever that opens a timed door, which I figure is open for about 22 seconds. Jump from the lever platform to the lower one 'tween it and the door platform; then, jump and pull up into the timed door. Follow it to Room #6, which is past the dart trap. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Once you're past the dart trap, enter the room and kill the wolf to the left. Walk over the cracked tiles to fall into the room below, which I'll call Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* Fall down via the cracked rubble and head right, into the tunnel parallel with the long cavern you can see through the pillars. You'll come to a broken ledge where you'll have to jump across. Once on the other side, run parallel again until you hear the "Danger! Danger!" music which heralds the appearance of a lone wolf. Once it's dead, grab the LARGE MEDI PACK sitting in the sunlight and turn the corner to a switch. It's a timed switch, so once it's pulled, head back to by the wolf and slide down from between the columns into the pit. Take the open door to finish the level. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | II. CITY OF VILCABAMBA CVB1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SECRETS: 3 of 3 [EXIT] ______||___ |____ | | [9] | |__ __| || ____ _____ ||/ ___ \ | ___ \||| ___|| || / |||||| _ 8| | 7|| || || |___| [6] | |__ _| _______|_|________ | ___________ _ | | | ________4| |3|| | |5| _ | | _ ____ | || _||_| [1]|_____| |_|| [START]____________________| -------------------------------- UNDERWATER MAP FROM ROOM #1 POOL -------------------------------- _____ SWITCH #1 ->| | ___________| | | ___ ___ | _| |__ | | | | __| || | |___ | <- SWITCH #2 |____[2]__|| | |_| <- SECRET #4 | | SECRET [START] #5 ******* ROOM #1 ******* As the level starts, run into Room #1 and dispose of all the wolves that attack you. Head down into the long room by the pool (nearest where the wolves were) and lure out the bear. You can dive in the pool to get shelter, then emerge to get potshots off at it. Once it's dead, head to the northeastern corner of Room #1 to find a wolf and a SMALL MEDI PACK. In the room by the [1] icon on the map, if you climb to the top of the stables you can find a SMALL MEDI PACK. Head into the pool of water and take a right, heading to Switch #2 in the diagram. Open it to gain access to the Secret #4 room above you, containing a SMALL MEDI PACK. There's also a switch that lets you enter back into Room #1 by the pool. For now, go back into the pool you just climbed out of and head to the Switch #1, which opens a door in Room #2. Swim there using the left corridor from the "S"tarting pool. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Climb up out of the pool and take the door that opened when you flipped the switch, to come into SECRET #4: a SMALL MEDI PACK and MAGNUM CLIPS. Head back to the small pool by where the bear was and head to the "3" in Room #1. There is a switch by a door here, which opens the door beside it. Head into it and climb the stairs to find a jumping point to Room #4. Jump and hang up into the windowsill. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Before you jump down, use the look button to see a crumbling tiles beneath you. You need to jump onto them and run, jump, and catch the platform with the LARGE MEDI PACK in it. You only get one chance. When you're done, jump down to the ground floor and push the gray block in until it comes out in Room #5. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Kill the bats and head forward and left (ground floor) to find a SILVER KEY, then head right to get the GOLD IDOL. Climb up to the save crystal, using it if you please. There is a LARGE MEDI PACK by the corridor that drops back into Room #1. From where you are, run to the left and you'll be right by the locked entrance to Room #6. Use the SILVER KEY to get through, then jump through the dart trap until you get to Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Kill the five wolves and run to the three doors by the stairs. Only the left is currently open, so take it to Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* This room is filled with water, which breaks your fall if you err in the jump course. Head up the stairs and do a "careful" jump and grab to the ledge, then do a running jump to the ledge with the doorway. Head up and you'll be back in the room on the third level. Kill the bat and jump across to the protruding platform. Climb the stairs again and get the SMALL MEDI PACK you see in the orange room. Pull the lever that opens the right door in Room #6, then head out the door to be back in Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* You'll be very high above the three-door crossroads, so jump back and hang to do a soft jump down to the rocks. Grab the SHOTGUN SHELLS right by where you land, then drop down to the three-door crossroad's roof. Underneath where you just dropped is a SMALL MEDI PACK. Drop back down to Room #6 and enter the right-hand corridor this time to come to Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* Run up the stairs lining the pool and notice the crumbling edges. Run and jump, grabbing the ledge above the tiles. Pull yourself up to be level with some more crumbling tiles. There is a ledge right by you, so vault up it, turn around and get up the next to be on the highest level of the room. Do a running jump to the ledge directly in front of you, then side-flip (etc.) to the one to your right. From the corner, jump to the doorway that takes you up to another orange room with a switch. The switch opens the middle door, so go back out into Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* This time you'll be at the top of Room #6 but on the other side from where you enter via Room #7. Do a soft drop down to the rocky part, then to the roof, then to the ground. Enter the corridor you just opened to find lots of swinging blade traps. Watch their movements and run through when it's safe and you'll come to a locked door. Pull the lever by the blade trap to fall into the water and take the aqueduct into Room #9. ******* ROOM #9 ******* A bear is using the pond as its hunting grounds, so get out of the water and shoot, then retreat back in. Repeat until it dies, then take a path by the columns up and you'll see a white switch in front of you. Pull it to make the blades stop moving. Walk onto the shelf that is opposite the switch to find a path downwards. At the very bottom is UZI CLIPS -- SECRET #6. Climb back up to the switch and head back into the pool. Use the underwater chamber in the pool to emerge in a room that leads up to another switch, that opens the door to the exit indentation. Go back to it (it's in front of the pool) and input the GOLD IDOL to open the door to the exit. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | III. LOST VALLEY LTV1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _____ __________ |=====|____|==========| ________ |=| ======== [6] | | ||=| __ ___ || SECRET #10 -> / |___ ___||=| | | | |__________________ |---- ||========================= ||_________|||___| TO DOWNRIVER -> -> |___________| SECRETS: 5 of 5 __ "=" is the water || <- MACHINE COG _____|| |[5] | |__ __| W ___||___ S - N ___| | | | E | __ | BROKEN || | | BRIDGE -> || | |_____ ______||__| ___ | __ | |__ |_| <- SECRET #8 [6] |[EXIT] | [3] _ | || ||________ | _ _ ________ S| || ____________||__||==== |_____| / || |__________| || <-- ====================== [2]__ ___| ||_______________[4] <- MACHINE COG <-- |_[1]__ _________________| ||__ \__________________/ TO UPRIVER || |___| _|| [START]__| Run out of the tunnel into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* This room is a stretch parallel to the river and will head upriver to the mouth. For now, head left until you get to the cliffside by the waterfall, and into Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* This room is the waterfall environs. Kill the two wolves here and head to the tunnel, killing the wolf there again. To the right is a dead end occupied by three wolves, so you can completely ignore it if you choose. Climb up the cliff face until you get to a skeleton and LARGE MEDI PACK. Drop down the other side into the jungle area to find Room #3, and it's a big'un. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Kill the two raptors here and advance towards the broken bridge. When you hear the "Danger!" music start up out of nowhere, and the screen start to shake, enter to the right to find a tunnel and a raptor inside. It comes out in the same area, so snipe at the Tyrannosaurus Rex that was the reason for the danger music and screen-shaking. When the t-rex leaves, find the waterfall to the right and drop down inside, which leads via a waterway to Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Pull yourself up then get up on the ledge because a raptor will come out of the tunnel. Kill it and keep climbing up. Climb up four more ledges to find the 1st MACHINE COG. Go back to Room #3 via the passageway or aqueduct. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Head up along the waterfall's wall and you will come to an entranceway with two raptors in it. They become less of a problem if the t-rex is already dead. When you kill them, head into Room #5. ******* ROOM #5 ******* There isn't anything eventful, but you can find the second MACHINE COG in an underwater tunnel. Get it and save, then head back to Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Time for a secret run. You can go to get the third machine cog, but you might as well get SECRET #7 which is in the corner by the waterfall that leads to Room #4. Face the falls (north) and head to your right to find a ledge you can climb up. Follow the series of mini-ledges to the secret SHOTGUN SHELLS in the crag. If you're in the mood to get SECRET #8, it's nearby also. To the left of the waterfall (facing north) is a flat ledge you can climb on. Climb it and the next in line, then jump diagonally to one beside the falls. A miniscule crack is there, so jump up and grab it then shimmy right until you're "hanging" on the falls. You can find a place to climb up then in a niche to your right will be UZI CLIPS AND SHOTGUN SHELLS. Get down by a method of your choice. The third secret nearby is a tricky one to find. Head west parallel to the waterfall's right wall and pass the big mountainous arch. After a few steps turn to your right and jump up on a ledge. To your left, you'll have to jump and catch another ledge. The third jump is tricky as you're jumping diagonal and to a ledge higher than you. Once you do it, you can jump and catch the next grassy ledge. You can do a running jump onto the temple's roof now, and collect the bounties of SECRET #9: a LARGE MEDI PACK, MAGNUM CLIPS, UZI CLIPS, and SHOTGUN SHELLS. Whew! You can jump down to a slanted rock face that coasts you down to the temple side. Now, time to collect the third machine cog. To the south wall, past the large mountain arch but before the temple is a ledge up to a passage. Follow it and you can come out on top of the broken bridge (there's a save point before). Do a running jump and catch the other side of the bridge. The third MACHINE COG is waiting there for the taking. Strange how they get to these places... Slide down to the jungle floor and head back through the area towards Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Ignored for most of the game so far, you'll have to do a jump course upriver, using the small platforms on either side. Jump across, then repeat to get back across. The third jump has a nasty habit of making Lara hit her head and tumble into the river, so make sure you jump carefully. From there, jump to the platform on the same side of the river, then catch and grab up into the tunnel that leads to a bridge where you can put all three MACHINE COGS into place. Pull the lever to dam the river. Once you pull the lever, hang down off the side away from the dam door and shimmy left until you're over some white-colored rocks that represent watery stones. You can jump onto these safely and find SECRET #10, a LARGE MEDI PACK, tucked in a nook. You can exit into the blocked channel or, if you didn't pull the lever yet, the waterfall. :) Once in the channel, appropriate the skeleton's SHOTGUN and swim down the long tunnel to find SECRET #11 in Room #6 -- SHOTGUN SHELLS and SMALL MEDI PACK and more SHOTGUN SHELLS. From Room #6, you can jump down into the empty waterway where the waterway used to flow. Head to Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Now that the waterfall has blinked out of existance, you can go into the room behind it. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | IV. TOMB OF QUALOPEC TQL1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ __ _____ ___||_ _____|7] | | | __ ___ | ______ __| | [5] |_|| <- SWITCH #2 SECRET 12 -> | ===|| || |__ _____| SECRET 13 -> |___| _||_ || _|| = |[6] | || | _| <- SWITCH #1 E |_ _| ___||___ _||_ ___ | ||__| |_| |__|[4]| N --- S |___ [1] _ [2] __ | | |___ ___| |_ _| =|___| W || || ===' __|| ||______ | __| |_ [3] _| [S] _______ |___| ||_| | |__ [8] | | ______| ||____ SECRET 14 -> | [9] | |_____| Start the level and head into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Once here, head into the east passage straight ahead of you to find a corridor that slants up. Head up a bit to make a large boulder start rolling towards you. Roll (with O) and run around the corner to evade damage, and watch it roll into the corridor you just came from. On a side note, the east passage is shut from entrance, so you can't do anything. Pull the switch on the west wall to open the south corridor for entrance. Two raptors will emerge, so show 'em a good time. The north path is shut for now, too, so head south into Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* There is a save point here, but hold off on using it -- it'd be a waste so early in the level. Head west into Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Push the block discolored block set in the wall twice, then push the one on the left in as far as it can go. There is a switch ahead, and a crumbling tile in front of you that leads to -- you guessed it -- deadly spikes. Pull the switch to open a gate in a corridor somewhere, where two more remain. To get back over the spike pit you'll have to jump, hit the ceiling, and catch the edge and climb up. Head back to Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Head into Room #4 from here. ******* ROOM #4 ******* By the switch you find will be a crumbling block, and you won't be able to pull the switch anyhow. Use the new hole to make your way down to the room below, Kill the triad of wolves. Pull the block at the top of the stair out of its nook, then push it into the room. In the passage beyond, you can find a SMALL MEDI PACK in the first drop-down. Keep climbing and you'll come to a room with a switch and a SMALL MEDI PACK. Pull the switch to raise a second gate in the trio. Drop down into the hole to arrive in the passage near Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Head into Room #5 and, since the next room has spikes and other deadly things, think about saving. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Don't pull the switch you find just yet. Drop into Room #5 and take the left passageway until you come upon a large block. Face right and start jumping up the ledges which will take you to a passageway that ultimately spits you out above a ledge with a left and right path -- left goes back into Room #5, right goes to the switch you didn't pull. Head left and face the wall from the block again, jumping into a niche with a switch. Pull that one, jump down, then get back to the switch you didn't pull and do the deed. Now you have a way to jump across the room, so use the shortcut by the switch [the one you just pulled] to get back in place to jump across the room to the east niche near the spikes. After a few running jumps, you can get to the switch that raises the third gate and opens the north passageway in Room #1. Head back to Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* A raptor attacks you so murder it en route to Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Take the north corridor to a save point (use it) and head into Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* There's a arrow trap here that hides SECRET #12 and one probably wouldn't find it without being overly meticulous. Run through the trap to the stairs and hug the left wall, by the dart shooter. Jump up and climb up by the statue there and a small door behind it will open, showing you some SHOTGUN SHELLS in a room with crumbling tiles. Like this: ___________ |[SS][CT][CT]| Jump to the shells to get the secret. SECRET #13 is right below |[CT][CT][CT]| it, too, in a spot by the spikes. Using the diagram as your |[CT][CT][CT]| guide (with North being at the top), hang over the right edge | | and move north until you can drop down by a spike and not die. ENTRANCE Get the UZI CLIPS. Now, how do you get back, you ask? Remember how you vaulted up in the Caves level? That's the ticket. Walk slowly through the spikes and when you walk to bottom of the ledge, by using R1 + X, and Lara will automatically climb up, do a handstand, and place herself up there. Score! Head into Room #7 via the stairs. ******* ROOM #7 ******* You'll be in the treasure room, now. If your guns are drawn, and they should be, Lara will point them at a mummy standing near the pedestal. Kill it before it can do anything and grab the SCION piece. Ceiling debris will fall and you can use the west entrance to exit into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Debris will fall from here, and if it hits Lara, she'll be a goner. I suggest walking slowly in from the treasure room and hopping onto the red carpet, then hopping bat. This will lure some rocks to your left. Put those rocks on your right and run to by the switch to make some more rocks fall in the room. From there, head into the corridor you first used to enter this place (the one with the big rock in it). Follow it to come to a save point and use it. Why would there be one here when you automatically get one at the end of the level...? Hmm. ^__~ Jump into Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* Underwater, you can find a hole that leads to SECRET #14, MAGNUM CLIPS and a LARGE MEDI PACK, in Room #9. Head back when you're done and you'll find Larson, who appears in a video if you leave the game playing at the main title, gunning at your face. Climb up and dispose of him, preferably with your pistols. He's easy pickins, but you may have to use a Small Medi Pack if you surfaced too far from the shore. Once he's down, a scene will play where a wounded Larson tells Lara that the Scion isn't complete and that Pierre Dupont is on the trail of the rest of the thirds. LARSON: "You'll have to ask Miss Natla." LARA: "Thank you. I will." Larson will try to lunge at Lara one last time, but will get kicked in the face. The level ends for the Tomb of Qualopec. Another cutscene plays where Lara breaks into the Natla Technologies building, breaks into some documents and finds a monk's journal from St. Francis' Folly. There's an illustration of another Scion piece. St. Francis' Folly is a monestary high above a cliff, and Lara finds evidence that Pierre has been camping there... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | V. ST. FRANCIS' FOLLY SFF1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ SECRETS: 4 of 4 _____ _______________| | N | _ [7 | | | | |_____| W --- E | | _____ __ | | [4] |_| | || <- WATER SWITCH S | _ [5] | || _____ | | |_____|[ ] <- SECRET #17 | |_| |_________|| | [6] _ _________ | |_____| | | || | | ____ [ ] <- SECRET #16 | || [2]| || |_______ ____||_ _| || _||_ _|| || | [8]| | |___ || |____| |[1] _[3] <-- SECRET #15 |_ _|____|| |_______| ******* ROOM #1 ******* This is the room you begin in. Run forward to the nearest ledge and vault up before the two lions can maul you. Kill them and jump down to the gray push- -block north as far as you can. Then go into Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* When you enter, the door will shut you in with two gorillas. Kill them and flip the switch up the stairs to open the door again. Flip the switch in the middle of the room also and head back into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Pierre will make an appearance here and start shooting at you. Return fire until he up and disappears and kill the gorilla who appears also (from doorway of Room #2). Once things settle down, push the gray block south to open up the southern ledge door, then push it as far north as you can. Now it's time for a climb. From the gray block you pushed, jump to the west column and pull yourself up. Face south and do a running jump to the column near where the ledge and doorway are. Jump to them to enter Room #2. ******* ROOM #3 ******* As you enter, there will be one ledge to the left and a cluster of three to the right and a ledge above them unreachable by normal methods. There is one with a prominent slant by the doorway, next to the one in the far corner. Here is a diagram. ___________ You need to backflip onto the "1" ledge and land at the top of | 4| the "2" ledge. On your "2" ledge descent, you need to jump again |1 |2 3| and position Lara to catch the ledge. This is so unbelievably --- ---- frustrating, try not to give up on it (because it's not as ENTRANCE frustrating as not knowing how to do this!). As far as I know, this is the _only_ way to do this. Make sure you hold the jump button also, as you may end up backflipping and ruining it. Once up, you'll come to a short slanted ledge and a higher slanted ledge, all going different ways. You need to front-flip onto the lower one, backflip onto the higher one, and catch the ledge as you spring off it. Surprisingly, this is far easier. On that ledge you can find SECRET #15, SHOTGUN SHELLS and a LARGE MEDIPAK. Don't use the crumbling tile to safety drop down as you'll end up dying. Go back the way you came and do safety drops down that way to get back into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Jump from the alcove ledge back onto the nearest pillar, then jump back down to the one near the gray block. Stand on the edge of that column and jump-and-grab to the next west column, scoring a LARGE MEDI PACK in the process. Do a running jump to the and make your way across the ledges to the south door. When you come to the large slide, go down backwards and keep the action button pressed. At the end you'll grab the ledge and can drop down to another ledge. Grab the edge of that one also and pull yourself up. This jump is tricky since you'll be backflipping into the alcove you can't see, and you need to time it /just/ right or you'll fall in the water, missing completely... Inside the alcove is SECRET #16, a SMALL MEDI KIT and SHOTGUN SHELLS. Head back down into the water channel and start your swim. Keep an eye out on the top of the tunnel, because there is a place you can surface -- SECRET #17, some SHOTGUN SHELLS. Head with the flow of the water to the other end, and pull up to a dry spot with a switch. The switch drains the water from the channel, so you can now take out that pesky croc when it advances. Head to the other side of the channel, and enter the stairway to the right. You will now be in Room #4. ************************** ROOM #4 - COLUMN OF LEDGES ************************** Notice the height? Notice how big the room itself it? Notice how many rooms branch off it? Good, because you'll be going back and forth here. On the map I've drawn, height won't be displayed, but I'll help you along. Use the save point if you've gotten all the secrets or have given up on resetting to get all of them in one go. Do a running jump to the "column" of ledges in the middle of the room. Dispose of the three bats that come from the ceiling and watch your step as you walk around. Hang down on a ledge to lure a fourth bat out. Drop down to a lever by and open the door to the THOR room. After that, drop down again to land by a save point. Two more bats will arise so kill 'em. A lever by the save point opens the door to the DAMOCLES room. From the save point, jump to the northern ledges and drop down to the east ledge. Follow the ledges and another bat will appear. Jump to the column of ledges from the east wall to come out by a save point and the THOR entrance. Head inside there. ******************* ROOM #5 - THOR ROOM ******************* As you enter, a metal ball will shoot lightning at five places on the ground. Run to a corner and wait for a chance to run past it into the room behind it. There will be a glyph on the floor right below a giant hammer. When you make the hammer drop, push the block nearby north to the large ledge. Then, jump over the block there and push that down the ledge to a pillar. Jump up to it to grab a SMALL MEDI PACK, then do a running jump and catch the alcove ledge. Inside is the THOR KEY. Leave the room the way you came in and make sure you watch the lightning. ;) ************************** ROOM #4 - COLUMN OF LEDGES ************************** Save if you wish, and plink away at Pierre when he appears at the very bottom of the room. When he does his disappearing act, jump to the ledge directly below the save point you used (or didn't) to come to another ledge with a lever and save point. Pull it to open the NEPTUNE room at the very top of the ledge column. ;____; Enter the Damocles Room. *********************** ROOM #6 - DAMOCLES ROOM *********************** As you enter, peek at the ceiling and see those swords dangling? Their shadows are just hanging for now, but after you take the Damocles Key from the back room pedestal, they'll be spinning. However, after you take the Key, climb up onto the ledge encircling the platform to get a SMALL MEDI PACK and SHOTGUN SHELLS. Back in the sword room, the swords will try to hover over you and drop into Lara's cranium. You can avoid them by jumping backwards, and once they've fallen, they can't get you again. From the Damocles Room, head back into the ledge column and head down, using the east ledge that lines the wall to hop down to a stair. At the very bottom pull the lever on the column to open the ATLAS room. Head up until you get to where the first save point in the column was, and you'll find the Atlas Room. ******************** ROOM #7 - ATLAS ROOM ******************** Kill the gorilla and step on the pressure pad to raise the gate, which will close behind you. Grab the SMALL MEDI PACK in the pit by the large stone-sized pressure pad... Hmm! And we have a large stone sitting atop a long ledge parallel to the gate. Interesting. Go towards the stone until it falls, then roll and run back to the pit. Back up to the ledge away from the pressure pad and the stone will roll onto it, opening the gate. Run back up the slope and find a ledge on the wall away from the gate, which leads to another ledge with a ATLAS KEY. Go back to the column of ledges and head up towards the last door, the NEPTUNE room. You have to jump to the stairs on the east side of the room and work your way up, though. ********************** ROOM #8 - NEPTUNE ROOM ********************** Swim down into the water pool and the current will whisk you to the bottom. As soon as you come to a semi-stop, look up at the ceiling and you can see a small side-path that leads to a lever. Swim to it, pull it, then go back into the corridor the water took you to. The gate at the very end holds the NEPTUNE KEY, so raid it and swim out. There's no real danger here except for drowning, which can happen since you have to swim all the way out without the current's aid. ************************** ROOM #4 - COLUMN OF LEDGES ************************** Now is a good time to get the last secret on the level, but if you want to have an easier time, you can head downwards and snipe the lions by the Damocles Room door. If you want SECRET #18, you have to do some tricky maneuvering. Jump onto the archway above the ATLAS ROOM and you'll find a pressure pad that starts makes a timed door open on the /very/ bottom floor, on the east side by the stairway's foot. Inside is MAGNUM CLIPS and a LARGE MEDI PACK. Once you're down to the ground floor, go to the door that is blocked by four swords and find the four keyholes. Use the keys in this order (from the door): Neptune, Damocles, Atlas, Thor. The swords will retract and the level exit will be clear. Good riddance, I say! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | VI. COLOSSEUM CLS1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ __ __ |11| |_ | | _| __||__ ||_ | |_________________ |_ | | _________________| <- EXIT __|| __ | | ____ |10 | |5 | | [7] | |_6 _| |__ |__||____|______|____||______ | || ____| | || <___ | | ROOM 4 ||_____|| | |_______| <-- BELOW-GROUND ____| |_______ TUNNEL _| 9_____________ _____________ 8 ___ | SECRET #21 -> |_____| ____| |____ |________| | ________ | __|| | | | | | [3] | |3| <- SECRET #20 | |____ __|_| | | [2] __| |___ _| <- SECRET #19 __ |====| _[1]|___|====| START -> [_ ==========| |___________| ******* ROOM #1 ******* Enter the room from St. Francis' Folly and you'll find a large aqueduct by the sandy soil. Kill the crocodile swimming in it and swim to Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* This "room" is the front of the collosal ruins. There seems to be nothing here but two lions will appear when you break land and approach. Take them out and head to the right side of the structure, ignoring Room #3 for now -- there's only a lion in there. Climb up the flat rocks parallel to the second ledge, then jump onto it. There will be a little stump of a rock you can use to climb up to the third story, although if you continue on the second story you will end up by a LARGE MEDI PACK. Once on the third story, jump of into the rocks to find a passageway. Before you go in there, try to get SECRET #19, some SHOTGUN SHELLS. If you look from the ruins you can spy them in an alcove that seems to appear after a bunch of slanted slopes. This is actually pretty easy, though. By the passageway you just jumped to is a small slope that leads to a flat space diagonal to the niche the passageway starts in. Walk to the end of it and face northeast to find a slant in front of you (pointing at you) and a slant beyond that you need to jump to (it's an acute angle). Do a running jump northeast off that flat rock to land on the acute-angled rock. From there it's just a jump into the alcove. Now, back to the passageway...it leads into Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* You can hear the grunts of crocodiles in the pit in front of you, so shoot them if you want and get the SMALL MEDI PACK lying among the loose gravel. Facing the pit, if you look to the left wall and up you'll find a long crack stretching across the pit. Shimmy across and pull up in the large part to find SECRET #20, some SHOTGUN SHELLS. Continue crawling and find a passage to Room #3. The locked door that you may have found if you killed the lion can now be opened for easier access into Room #1 and #2. Of course, if the lion is still alive... Head into Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* This place is the colosseum interior and it's HUGE. Start shooting at the two lions in the arena grounds and, while you're at it, shoot at Pierre until he disappears again. There's also a gorilla down below, so feed it some hot lead as you'll need to visit down there soon. Jump down and head to the huge mound of rocks at one end, killing the lion that appears. Take note of the locked gate. Go to the other end of the pit and enter Room #5. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Slide down and a lion will appear from a jail cell. You should be able to gun it down before it can get to you. Another will appear and give it the same treatment. Pull the lever straight ahead to open the locked gate by the lion in Room #4, and pull the next lever you see when you turn around to open a way back into Room #4's pit, which has a save point. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Pull yourself up and start ripping holes into the three lions that appear. The AI almost becomes intelligent when they try to swarm you! Amazing! Head to the locked gate that opened by the 'hidden' lion to enter Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* When you enter, there will be two locked gates on your left. Head straight into the room and take a right to find a pressure pad. We're going to be doing a locked-gate run. Here's what you do: 1) Press the pad and run at the doors, taking the right one. 2) Pull the switch, roll, run back out and take the other locked gate. 3) Enter the gate that opened (not the big one) and pull /that/ switch. Pulling the second switch opens a new downward door in the room. Take it and you will find a small pit with spikes, which is accessible from the arene right above you (you can drop down without dying, actually) and steer through that room into the next. Use the save point in the spikes "room" if you want to, though. The next tunnel is a climbing course and if you follow it (easy-peasy) you come out in Room #4 again, on top of those big rock piles. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Climb up into the rock pile. Behind you, with a little bit of jumping, you can find some SHOTGUN SHELLS in a hidden nook. The rock pile your on is at one side of the arena, and if you walk as far as you can to its edge, you can spy another smaller rock pile. Do a running jump onto it and you'll be left of the door you take to enter Room #6. From there, observe the manmade architecture facing down the arena to find a ledge within jumping range. A running jump and a pull-up allows you to gain access to Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* Kill the two monkeys and hold off on using the save point. Head beyond the skybox seats to find a giant stairway. On the left is a pushblock and, once it's pulled out, you can find a switch and a SMALL MEDI PACK. The switch opens a door in the seating lining the arena grounds. Nothing to do here now, so save 'n' leave into Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* There's a rock by the large rockpile that lets you get back up into the stone bleachers. Good thing the door is nearby, huh? Head into the little sheltered doorway there to find Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* Kill the bats! This barely consists of a room, but oh well. Enter the ground-level door to find a large stone sitting on a slope and a pit drop. As you enter this li'l passageway, the door behind you closes and the stone drops. Jump and catch the ledge the stone is barreling at you on and wait for it to pass before you pull up. Go up the stone's path to enter a small room with a lever. Pull it to open another door in one of these corner shelters. Head into Room #4 again. ******* ROOM #4 ******* As you walk by the entrance you used to get into the colosseum interior, a lion will approach. Give it a dirtnap and you'll find Pierre, too. Shoot him to make him flee. The shelter you need to enter is the next one down the line. ******* ROOM #9 ******* Kill the bats! Inside the new doorway will be a bunch of elevated platforms on li'l pillars, so...basically a jumping course. Nothing that you haven't done already. Run and jump to get to the switch platform, which opens a door in the last shelter. Hang off the switch platform and drop down. Time for SECRET #21. NOW, I know you've been achin' to get some new guns, so here's your chance. By the pillar near the ground-floor block is a pressure pad which opens a hidden door on the penultimate ledge (the one before the switch). You'll need to do some quick jumping here, which can be accomplished with a series of backflips and side-flips. Stand with your back to the pillar (so the pressure pad stays pressed down) and get ready to jumps in this order: 1) Forward onto the first block. 2) Right-flip onto the next block. 3) Backflip onto the third block. 4) Left-flip onto the fourth block 5) Front jump onto fifth ledge It sounds difficult when you put it like that, but it's really just the same sequence of jumps with one alternating button each time. When you get into the door, you'll get two LARGE MEDI PACKs, UZI CLIPS, and some MAGNUMS! Yeah, this is awesome. Pat yourself on the back. Head to the third location in the three-part series of shelters. ******** ROOM #10 ******** Pull the switch to open the large door in the skybox area (yes, I know calling it that sounds stupid) and take the underwater tunnel to Room #11. ******** ROOM #11 ******** Pull up, take the SMALL MEDI PACK, and push the block in twice. Then, get on its side and pull it once. In the hidden niche, take the RUSTY KEY and retrace your steps to Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Head down into the arena pit again, take the Room #6 downwards door, save at the spikes room (don't wanna lose those magnums!), climb up into Room #4's large rockpile and take out any gorillas if you didn't kill them already. Jump back to the little rockpile and climb up into the skybox. Almost done! ******* ROOM #7 ******* Go to the back stairway and take the SMALL MEDI PACK and use the save point if you wish. Use the RUSTY KEY on the little keyhole by the water to swing open the bars. Jump into the channel and swim until you see a place to surface in the ceiling. Ignore the crocodile, pull the switch there, and coast down the rest of the aqueduct to the level's end. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | VII. PALACE MIDAS PLM1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ E N + S W ____ |_---' [3] = Contains SECRET #23 ____ _||_ [5] = Contains SECRET #22 |[4] |[2] |=. ______ |_ _|_ _| ' NOTE: All heights are not shown here, and SECRET _| | _||_ _||_ ' some sidepaths and tunnels are not #21 ->|_ _____|| |[1] |=' either. ||______|[3] |_ _| | ||_ _| || | | ||__/ \__ | | |___ S _ | | |______|__|_|| | [5] ___________ | | | | _____| | \ || |_______|||___||___ |[8] ||[9]| |_ _||_ | _||_||_||_ _____ ________ | | |[10] | LEAD | |_| [6] |_| ___ | BAR ->| [7] _ | || |________| | | [EXIT] |_____________| ******* ROOM #1 ******* From the starting pool, head east into Room #1. Kill the two gorillas hanging around the broken architecture and take either doorway into Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Three more gorillas are hanging around here, and a fourth and fifth appear if you wait around, too. Grab the LARGE MEDI PACK and head into the door, which opens automatically. Flip the switch to see a scene where a garden gate swings loose. Save if you want and head back to the starting pool, heading left. ******* ROOM #3 ******* The garden is accessible now, and full of gorillas. Clear 'em out and jump up to the large stone awning where a LARGE MEDI PACK waits. There's also a door east, which takes you to Room #4 -- The Midas Room. You'll use this later, but don't need to go here just yet. Head back to the pool room and take the right path this time. A crocodile will attack, then continue on to a stairway and the corridor against it. Head down the corridor to Room #5. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Once in the spacious room, head left and take out the two lions that appear. Keep going until you come to a dark passage with four bats. Once they're gone around the walkway for a SMfALL MEDI PACK. Anyone left? Of course! From where you came in, head to the right on the ground floor and go all the way to the rock wall to find a gorilla nesting on two doses of MAGNUM CLIPS. The top floor isn't accessible from the ground floor, so head back to the stairway and continue on into Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* A three-gorilla welcoming party will show up, so send them away. If you take a look around, you'll notice that there are four locked doors on the ground floor. Head to the western corner to the area with all the pillars and you'll find a large block set against a wall that you can use to jump to one of the pillars. From there, it's a jumping course again (tired of 'em yet?). You can jump from the second pillar to the north wall and do a running jump to a ledge with a SMALL MEDI PACK and MAGNUM CLIPS. The pillar jumping course goes around to the side of a ledge in the center of the room. Once you're on the center platform you'll find five switches, all in the upright position. Before you do anything, jump down into the hole you see and flip the switch there to make the platform accessible from the 1st floor. The symbols on the doors correspond with the way you're supposed to flip the switches, so here's the order you go for the doors (first switch is the one closes to the last pillar you use to jump on platform): North Door : Down, Up, Up, Up, Up South Door : Down, Up, Up, Up, Down East Door 1: Up, Up, Down, Down, Up East Door 2: Up, Up, Down, Up, Down The order doesn't matter, but I'll go clockwise. Head into the north door to get into Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* NOTE: These rooms are annoying and you may have to use your medipacks to heal while you attempt to get them right. If you use to many, just restart. Kill the two sewer rats and prepare to jump across the flame spout traps. You might want to use the save point here. Cross the brown line by the first flame trap to turn off all flame traps. They stay in off mode for about 12 seconds, by my count, but that's alright since the first two pillars can be traversed by running jumps in one stride. You'll need to do a running jump + grab to get to the back ledge, however. It's possible to get to the last burner on the back ledge while it's on and jump over it without catching fire. I don't know if that's the result of scratches or whatever, but I jumped over it without being in flames, although I did take damage. Grab the LEAD BAR in the niche and use the save point, if you want. Head back to the switches. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Put the switches in the East Door 1's order (Up,Up,Down,Down,Up) after you kill the gorilla. Go into Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* Head past the giant pillar and into the adjacent room, taking a right down the stairs. Find the pillar-looking block and pull it out to bring down the large pillar upstairs. Take the left path this time and head upstairs to overlook the wreckage. Jump to right diagonally to land on a flat part of the sand, then jump and catch the central pillar. Jump diagonally off from there to the flat sand platform and pull yourself up. Jump into the doorway and climb up to the save point, which leads into Room #5's upper levels. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Kill the bats and the gorillas when they walk by in front of the pool. You can do this without jumping over, too. Kill the crocodile in the aqueduct and swim all the way into the large pool that branches off from the first one. Get on shore and climb the rock ledges. This will ultimately lead to SECRET #22, a SMALL MEDI PACK and MAGNUM CLIPS. The only hard part to navigate is where you start sliding and need to jump over another part that points back into the pool area. From there, it's a mere jump to the loot. Head back to the main pool when you're done. To get the next secret, go back to where you initially jumped to the third- -floor pool and hang off the edge by that cliff entrance. Shimmy south until you are over SECRET #22, a SMALL MEDI PACK, SHOTGUN SHELLS, and UZI CLIPS. You get the secret sound just by hanging over the side, actually. Jump out from the niche and kill the gorilla that's with you on the second level. Once it's dead, look for a SMALL MEDI PACK by one of the pillars' dark corners. Then, jump across the blocked corner to the long part of the second level. A few gorillas will appear and they _can_ knock you off to your death, so don't be taken by surprise. Across the way on the rock wall you can see a LARGE MEDI PACK. Jump and grab the ledge by it, then inch yourself through the crack to a ledge right below you. Use the ledge to jump back to the second-story area and kill the two bats that are there. Follow the /long/ and winding climbing path until you come to a room high above the lagoon near Secret #22's area. Jump to the LARGE MEDI PACK you see and beat it over the breakable tiles. Slide down to the path, then do a few safety drops until you come back to the starting room's second story. A lion will attack you, but after it, the path leads back into Room #1. When you get to the ledge, turn right and jump to the ledge there. Head into the room with the pool and kill the crocodile, then swim the channel and pull yourself up until you find yourself back in Room #2. Jump to the roof and find the 2nd LEAD BAR. Save and slide down to the lions. You know what to do, so head back to Room #6 when you're done. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Flip the switches into an Up,Up,Down,Up,Down position and head into Room #9. ******* ROOM #9 ******* There are some gray blocks surrounded by spikes. Ignore them for a moment and head into the south room and pull out the block. You'll find a switch that makes the gray blocks rise up into gray pillars. Head up the path by the block to find a save point in an alcove. From here, it's another jumping course with spikes as the consolation prize for falling. Jump across the rooms to the alcove, where a gorilla appears. Bring it down and take the LEAD BAR on the pedestal. Jump down and head back into to the garden room (Room #3) and head into Room #4. Time to make some gold... ******* ROOM #4 ******* There's a save point in here, but you can choose to use it if you please. Go to the hand -- DO NOT TRY TO CRAWL ON IT OR LARA WILL DIE -- and press the action button to bring up your 3 Lead Bars. Select the bars and Lara will put them on the hand which changes them to GOLD BARS. Repeat thrice and save, then head back into Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Search the trees to find a lever handle you can pull. It will open one of the gate paths which leads to two crushing traps and a crumbling tile between them. Jump through and get SECRET #23, some MAGNUM CLIPS, SHOTGUN SHELLS, and a SMALL MEDI PACK. Head back the way you came to Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Put the switch in the Down,Up,Up,Up,Down position and head into the southern room. ******** ROOM #10 ******** Kill the lion and go all the way up the stairs to a save point and some SHOTGUN SHELLS. Head back and enter the adjoining room with the three numbered alcoves. Put the three GOLD BARS into the receptacles and the door will open that leads to the end of the level. I'm sure you'll be jumping for joy to leave this place behind. ;) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | VIII. THE CISTERN CST1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ N RUSTY KEYS: ROOM 1, ROOM 3 W+E SILVER KEYS: ROOM 6, ROOM 7 S GOLD KEY: RUSTY KEY DOOR (not to Room #4; must flood room) ______ | | | | | [9] | |__ __| _______ __||_ | [6] || [8] | | __ __|| _ _| ||__||__ _ || || [7] | |_|| _______||__ __|___ | | _| ||______||___ | [5] | __| | _____ |__ __| |__ |_| | ||_______| _ [2] | |[4] _ [1] | |____ | |______| |_____ _____| ____|| ||_ |[3] | [ | |_____| |_| Start the game by safety-dropping down to kill the rat. Push the block in the wall once, then move it under the wall switch. Climb up to pull it to open a trapdoor right beside the block. Kill the two rats and drop down, then head into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* The raised walkway you enter the room on leads to two doors, but they're locked at the moment. Do a safety-drop down and start killing the vermin that inhabit the ground floor. Two rats will come at you, and don't forget to deep-six the two crocodiles in the pool. Head east to the stairway and ignore that save gem as you pull up in front of it. From the platform directly below the nearest gem, jump north and pull up on the raised walkway. You'll see another save gem and you can ignore that also. Jump to the next section of the raised, curved walkway and you will be right by a long crack that goes clear across the east side all the way down to the south side. Ignore it and jump up to the very top of it, which is a flat walkway. At the end will be the RUSTY KEY. Snipe at the rat below and do a safety-drop to catch the crack's ledge. Jump into the pool if you don't like the idea of using the crack to inch your way. While you're down there, look for a small hole on the west side to find SECRET #24, MAGNUM CLIPS, in the little downward gap in the regular path. You can use the tunnel the crocodiles came out of to go to another room, but skip that for now. Head to the east side, pull yourself up by the 1st save point and use it. Go back to the save point on the pillar and climb up. Face east to find a little balcony you can jump on, which leads to Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Our old friend Pierre seems to have made it safely to the Cistern, so give him a ride back home with your guns. When he's gone, let's go for SECRET #25. Climb up on the blocks set like stairs (south) away from the holes and switch. Climb up one, then jump and catch the curved pipe. Jump to the next pipe to get a LARGE MEDI PACK and smidgen of SHOTGUN SHELLS. Back on that first ledge, turn around and jump straight up to catch the ledge by the SMALL MEDI PACK. From there, head into the corner and keep heading up to the SHOTGUN SHELLS. Drop down to the little slide and jump to catch the other ledge with two doses of SHOTGUN SHELLS. You'll slide back down into the room and take some small fall damage. Jump in one of the floor-holes and make your way into the east wall's underwater tunnel to get into Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Climb up the little set of stairs, do a running jump to catch the north ledge, then drop down to the lower ledge adjacent to the one you just jumped on, and do a jump-and-catch to the RUSTY KEY's ledge. From there, the ledge leads to a long fall, so put your back to the drop, catch the ledge, and use the crack to sidle north until you can drop down. Kill the rats and slide back into Room #1. However, you can have a much easier time if you go back into Room #2 from here and pull the switch. It will let you flood the place up to the higher walkways' levels and you can get the second SILVER KEY without much effort. You'll have to backtrack if you want it, then, and it's just way longer. ******* ROOM #1 ******* You'll need to get back onto the elevated walkway you first entered this room on, so jump to the nearest elevated "half-moon" platform and use it to get to the crack...or, rather, on top of the crack. Run to the platform with the dead rat and jump back to the series of elevated platforms. Now that you have the Rusty Keys, the two doors can be opened. Head to the first (nearest) one with a running jump and use the key to enter Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Kill the two gorillas and get ready for an awkward part. Vault up on the ledge that the doorway is in and jump to the first western ledge. Pierre will come through the door, so gun at him until he's gone. Jump-and-grab at the second western ledge to find a LARGE MEDI PACK. Jump to the third ledge and you can see some MAGNUM CLIPS on a ledge below the crack you need to jump to. If you want them at the risk of killing Lara, walk (w/ R1) to the end of the ledge and take one step back. Jump and you can catch the ledge and claim your prize. You _cannot_ catch the crack and drop down and catch the ledge...I tried it. =( Once you're back on the third platform, jump and catch the crack and shimmy to the next ledge. Whew. Head into room five. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Go down the twisting stone 'stair' and kill the crocodile. Run to the ledge by the save point and turn around, killing the crocodile you lured out from the tunnel. There is a third crocodile and another rat for you to kill, and they hang around in the tunnel. Once they've all been sent to vermin heaven, steal the LARGE MEDI PACK in the tunnel and go save. Climb up the taller platform right by the save point and do a standing jump to catch the next elevated one sticking out of the wall. Do a running jump to the next one, then another. To get to the next smaller one, simply jump back from the edge then run off. Use the crack to get to the doorway and use the switch to open it. This little path has spikes right off the edge, so jump diagonally to land in the channel. Kill the two rats, drop down into the mossy-green room and kill the rat, then head into Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Kill the rat and start climbing on the gray ledges. There is an easy, natural order to follow them in, so you can navigate them easily. At the end is a switch which opens the niche door on the bottom near the pool. Head back to the bottom floor and take the SILVER KEY from the niche. Shoot him to make him disappear or escape via the pool (Pierre doesn't want to get his jacket wet, I guess....). En route to Room #1's pool, you'll find a room where you can't surface. ******* ROOM #7 ******* You can't advance here unless you've used Room #2's flood switch. There are some SHOTGUN SHELLS, a LARGE MEDI PACK, a SMALL MEDI PACK and a save point above once you do. Pull the switch just under water-level, you can open the door to the second SILVER KEY and, in kind, a connection door to Room #1's lower walkway. Head back to Room #1 whichever way and make your way to the second door you can use the RUSTY KEY on. You can swim there if you've flooded the cistern. ;) ******* ROOM #1 ******* In the second door, use the RUSTY KEY. If the room isn't flooded, go back and do it -- there are spikes below that can only be traversed when it's flooded. If you're in water up to your ears, swim down over the spikes and into a lower room with a SMALL MEDI PACK and a GOLD KEY. Exit on the ground-floor door that opens. In the flooded main room, swim to the platform that is now accessible in the north. Climb up and you'll find a door where you can use a SILVER KEY. Before you do that, however, there is a block to the left that you can push in to reveal a secret room. Can't find it? You can move the camera to look behind that block, and there is probably white (light) at its seams. Behind there is a small room. Stand under the ledge, backflip onto the decline and jump again mid-slide to catch the ledge. This is child's play compared to the one in St. Francis' Folly, no? There are two doses of MAGNUM CLIPS and a LARGE MEDI PACK in there. SECRET #26: complete! Now, go back and use the two SILVER KEYs on the locks you find to head into... ******* ROOM #8 ******* There's nothing here except for the gold-key door and a save point on a pillar. Save, and jump from the pillar to a small ledge from where you can jump to the keyhole. Once on the ledge, a gorilla will appear, so if you want to keep your health intact, simply drop back to the ground and get back to the ledge to snipe at him. Once the gorilla's gone, use the keyhole to open the door. Two lions will run into the room. Shoot them from the keyhole ledge and drop down, heading for Room #9. ******* ROOM #9 ******* Some of the floor tiles can cave in here. Some lead to nothing, some have spikes beneath them. You can circumvent wasting your time with them by walking on the sides of the room. At the end of a room is a switch that opens the door to the east. Pull it and climb up, killing the three lions that stampede out. Once dead, pull out the push-block and position it under the eave of the roof. You can find a LARGE MEDI PACK and a pair of MAGNUM CLIPS. Two rats attack you if you try to enter the only door level with the roof. Drop down to the room and don't bother with the switch (it only closes the door). By where the push- -block was is a drop down, and that is the level exit. Goodbye Cistern, hello Tomb of Tihocan! By the way, I've been saving my ammo up to this point and this is what I had: Magnums: 750 Shotgun: 40 UziClip: 8 Large Medi Packs: 21 Small Medi Packs: 14 Would have had more if I redid some secrets and all, but not bad. Conservation of ammo is the ticket to beating the game over the head, yo. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | IX. TOMB OF TIHOCAN TBT1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Secrets: 2 of 2 ____ ____ |[10]|[9] | N |_ _|_ _| W + E _||___||__ ___ ____ S | |_| | | ___________________| _ [8]|[11]| <-- SECRET #28 | ____________ [5] | |___|_ _| ____________ | | |[2] | | |_______||___| | | | |_ _ | |_ ____ ____________ |___ | | ||_||_ _||_ _||_ | [12] __ | | | || | |[6] ||[7] | ____| | || | [4] |___|| [3]| |____||____| | _ | || |___ _| __||____| __| | | | || ||_|| || RM. 13 SWITCH -> |____| | |__|| |___| || ______| ___| || | [13] | || |______ | || ___ |_______________| ||_| |_____ |__ [1] ___ ] |___| || || || [START] As you start, swim all the way to the end of the tunnel, ignoring where the room widens and you will find a place to swim down into. At the end of the tunnel is a metal lever switch. Pull it and when you swim back into the widened room, you can now surface for air. Head up and pull the switch, which opens the door into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Kill the crocodile and go up the stairs. Pull yourself up to the block and jump to the stone "hook" that juts out of the north wall. Jumping to the top of the hook (which is white, rather than green) triggers a dart trap, so jump to the green part if possible. Do a flat-footed jump to the other platform on the north wall, then do a running jump to the alcove's ledge. Pull up to a switch which floods the place with water. Jump into the water head under the alcove ledge and find the floating block. Where that block once was, a niche housing a SMALL MEDI PACK is available. Climb up the floating block and head into the passageway, which is also filled with water. The first chance you can, swim down (rather than going the length of the passage) to find another metal lever switch which activates a current. Pull it and ride the stream down the /long/ tunnel to the next room. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Kill the hungry rat and climb up onto the block nearby. Do a running jump and catch the marble-white ledge. Pierre will show up, so return fire to make him flee. Once he's gone, head up the passage (or use the ledge you just jumped out from under to ascend) until you can spy a save point and an alcove with some goodies. Use the top of the support pillar to jump to the save point, and I would advise using it here if you want to go for the blade trap's items. The blade trap starts as you walk forward, but don't walk all the way to the edge or you'll get cut down. Walk one step away from the edge and jump in when comes right by you to find some SHOTGUN SHELLS in it. Jump back the same way you can, if the camera allows it... If you want SECRET #27, read on. The ledge by the blade faces one blue passage, but you don't want to jump to that one just yet. Jump to the other one and get in. Pierre should probably be there, but you can chase him away. Go down the path and you'll eventually find a drop-down point, where a croc will try to make you his lunch. Take him out and go into Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* The room is an ammo dump of three SHOTGUN SHELLS. That all? Right? Wrong. The three corners of the room have sensitive padding that, when all are pressed, a door swings open into SECRET #27. There are some tricky jumping you have to do, but the easiest way is to head in and stick Lara between where the two ground- -floor jumps are. Sidestep left into the forward-pointing ledge and sideflip onto the right decline. Hold down the jump button and Lara will automatically jump over and over until she finds a ledge with SHOTGUN SHELLS and a LARGE MEDI PACK. Head back the way you came until you get back to the blue corridors. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Jump to the ledge with the blade by it, where the save point is/was. The blade will cut you down with ease, but you need to be specific when you jump here. Wait for it to pass into the alcove to walk all the way to the edge, then jump back as soon as you can so you evade its sharp edges. When it starts to back into the alcove again, jump and catch the second blue ledge. Pull yourself up and head into an alcove overlooking Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Hang down and shimmy through the crack to find an alcove which leads to a flood switch. If you approach the switch, Secret #27's door closes, and you can't get it that way (or at all). Drop down once it's flooded and surface again. Dog- -paddle to the ledge at water-level and kill the rat. Swim down in the tunnel you find and you'll surface in Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* A lion attacks, so defeat it. In the stairway opposite the spikes, you can find a lever on the wall. Pull it to open a door somewhere, with items inside. Stand by the save point platform and kill the gorillas above. Save once they're dead, then pull up. Do a flat-footed jump to the ledge above the spikes into the door you just opened. Take the LARGE MEDI PACK and GOLD KEY. Jump out of the alcove diagonally so you don't hit your head and fall into the spikes. Go into the room by the save point and use the GOLD KEY to raise some blocks. Take the SMALL MEDI PACK and head into Room #5. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Find the push-block and push it forward (away from the doors) twice. A door will open to Room #6, and a gorilla will come out. Kill it and head in. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Collect the MAGNUM CLIPS and SHOTGUN SHELLS. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Push the block forward twice again (same direction as before) and the door beside Room #6 will open as well as the one right by the block and up high. One gorilla to escape from Room #7. Kill 'em and enter. ******* ROOM #7 ******* Collect the SHOTGUN SHELLS. Go back to the block and jump up into the alcove with the crushing trap to enter Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* Collect the LARGE MEDI PACK and the RUSTY KEY. Run back out into Room #5 and push the block directly away from the ledge twice. Kill all the rats and run into Room #9, which just opened. ******* ROOM #9 ******* Take the SMALL MEDI PACK and move the block directly away from the wall, now, opening Door #10...nothing comes out! Yay. Head inside. ******** ROOM #10 ******** IMMEDIATELY run into the alcove across from you to avoid being squashed by the boulders that come from both directions. Take the RUSTY KEY and the SMALL MEDI PACK from where the boulders passed by. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Use the two RUSTY KEYs on the two-keyhole doorway. Save as it opens and jump to your left when the camera changes to the bottom view. To get SECRET #28, when the camera shifts, jump to one of the directions and hold down the jump button and Lara will start jumping back and forth between the slanted ledges. You want her to land just right of the doorway you slide through (from the bottom view). This will lead into Room #11. ******** ROOM #11 ******** You'll need to hop on the breakable platforms to get the secret at the alcove far to the back of the room. As in the Colosseum, this is best (only?) accom- -plished by sideflips and such. Jump to the first platform, then left-flip, forward-jump thrice, right-flip, then jump into the alcove. Get the MAGNUM CLIPS and UZI CLIPS and return to the slide. Note: the 'secret' sound does not play until you get to the alcove. Good job on SECRET #28. Slide into Room #12. ******** ROOM #12 ******** Swim past the crocodile to the far marble-white platform. Kill the crocodile, then enter the tunnel behind the platform. Follow the climbing course until you get to a sand-filled room with a gap that leads to water far below. Climb up the rock that slants to the water and jump off at the last second to reach another platform (don't need to grab ledge). Climb up and pull the switch to open an underwater passage somewhere. Slide down into the water and swim until you are in the main room. Now where is that passage? It's in a tight nook to the right of the statued walkway. It opens into view when you face south, so follow it up into to a room with a switch and a save point. The switch opens the door by the statues, into Room #13. Swim back and approach the statues to have a centaur-like monster appear. It spits fireballs, but you can dodge them (on land) by side-flipping. Use your Magnums to take it out. Head into Room #13. ******** ROOM #13 ******** There is a pedestal here and Pierre is waiting around for you. Use your Magnums to take him out because he's not that much of a fighter, just really good at disappearing... Once dead, he'll give up a SCION piece, a GOLD KEY, and, if you didn't have them already, some MAGNUMS! Funny, because his dead body is still holding his guns... You can use one of the four pillars around the pedestal to jump up to the ledge lining the room. Get the MAGNUM CLIPS and, by the keyhole, a LARGE MEDI PACK. Use the GOLD KEY to open a door by the pedestal. Another centaur will awaken if you go outside, but you don't need to go that way 'cause the level exit is the door you opened. See ya, Pierre! Lara will be shown inspecting some heiroglyphs and learning that Tihocan had no child and his knowledge has no heritage. Lara will try to put the two pieces of the Scion together and will have a brief vision of what happened in the past. The pieces of the Scion were sent to different corners of the globe... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | X. CITY OF KHAMOON CTK1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ E N + S W [EXIT] ____||______________________________ PASSAGE | __ ______________________________ | <-EXAGGERATION || || ||____ Secrets: 3 of 3 || || __________ | | ___||__||_____| [3] | | [7] | | |______ | |__ __| | | |_| SECRET | ||_ | [2] |[4] _ <- #30 |_ |_ | |__ __|____| |_____ _____| <-- SECRET #29|| | | __||_____________ ____|| |1| | __ |__| ____| | | |__[5]_| |[6] ___| |_| SECRET #31 -> |_______| ******* ROOM #1 ******* This is the room you start out in. Follow the tunnel to a large gap in the floor, and safety-drop down to the block against the wall. Jump to the ledge across from the pillar and don't bother shimmying to the lever -- you can jump to it from that ledge. Pull the switch to open the door, then pull the push- -block within thrice. Go into the passage the block was in to find MAGNUM CLIPS and a SMALL MEDI PACK. Position the other push-block in the long alcove so that you can pull it over the top of the push-block you brought through the door. Push it [alcove block] to the wall and against the pillar that has the same markings. Climb up into Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Don't stop to admire the sphinx you see in the distance; a panther attacks you from the right. Kill it like you would any other feline and climb up onto the ledge you walked under to find a SMALL MEDI PACK and MAGNUM CLIPS. Quite a score already, eh? Head into the sphinx area and find a ledge so you can kill the mummy that you find prancing around on all fours. Head into the little obelisk's pool to find MAGNUM CLIPS and...MAGNUM CLIPS! Surface by the obelisk foliage to find a small step you can use to get to a ledge. From there, get the SHOTGUN SHELLS on top of the obelisk. If you pull the block from in front of the sphinx, you find a key-locked door you can't get to just yet...but you can in one second. Climb up the front of the sphinx, drop-grab one of its sides and shimmy to its back where you can find a save point, SHOTGUN SHELLS, and a SAPHIRE KEY [sic]. Save when you've gotten the other two and head into the sphinx and unlock the door. When you get to the turn in the passageway, climb up onto one of the ledges and jump to the SMALL MEDI PACK. Jump to the ledge beside it and a panther will in your gunsights. Kill it and take the corridor by the locked gate. Another panther will spring at you, and then you'll be back in Room #2, just behind a high fence. Run past the save point to Room #3, kill the crocodile from the ledge, then save, dropping into the room. ******* ROOM #3 ******* SECRET #29 is in a small corridor with a slope in front of it, left to the cat statue in the middle of the room. Do a running jump into it to find MAGNUM CLIPS and a LARGE MEDI PACK. The slope that leads to a locked door will drop a rolling boulder at you when you try to approach, so flip out of the way before you become a pavement stain. Also, make sure you grab the LARGE MEDI PACK that is in a tunnel underneath the platform you entered the room on. Nothing to do here now but go into the pool. Swim into the passage to find a metal lever that opens the door right near it. Swim into Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* A crocodile will be in here, so surface as quickly as you can. Once above water you can grab the ledge right above the platform to be in front of the door the boulder dropped in front of. Push the movable block twice towards the save point, then do a flat-footed jump to the ledge. Climb up to the highest space in the room and you'll find a hole in the ceiling with a save point in it. Pull it to make a large gold platform extend out of the wall. You can save now, but you can save yourself some time by pushing the block as far as you can parallel to the save point, then use it to jump to the next ledge with a pushblock. Move that block, then go back to the save point because a mummy will be there, ready to eat your face. Kill the mummy and get into the room where it was, which is above the gated passage from Room #2 to #3. Pull the switch to open a golden door, and that opens a trapdoor above the extended block in Room #4. Use the pushblock to jump onto the golden extended part, then vault up into the highest point of the room. Pull the switch to make the floor around Room #3's cat statue swing down. You can exit onto the roof which overlooks Room #3. Hang over the edge by the white statue to get SECRET #30's ringing, and drop down (you'll lose health) to the UZI CLIPS. You will have to do all of Room #4's climbing procedures over if you get this secret, and you'll have to run away from the boulder if you didn't trigger it already (which you should have!). If you come back here after getting the secret, you can find a small ledge that is level with the white statue's platform. Jump to it and walk slowly to the MAGNUM CLIPS so you don't slide down, then slide down to the SMALL MEDI PACK. Do a running jump to the next rocky, jutting platform (flatfoot = freefall), then jump onto the roof to get some more MAGNUM CLIPS. Kill the croc and drop down into Room #5, through the trapdoors. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Drop into the room via the platform, then jump to the side of it to find a passage with a hole and some MAGNUM CLIPS in a mini-alcove to the side. If you go to the other room, you'll find a two-prong passageway that leads to some spikes. Do not go this way (even though there is a crack you can grab if you happen to fall victim to it which can be used to go to safety). ******* ROOM #6 ******* Head down the hole near the clips you got. When you come out by the save point, find the niche in the wall right by it and pull the switch. Back in Room #3, a floor panel will have fallen through. Kill the panthers and use the save point. By the cat statue right by the save point, you can climb up into an alcove to get MAGNUM CLIPS. You can try to jump to the middle pillar and ledges, but you'll fail; safety- -drop down. Two more panthers will come out of the door (auto-opens), so blow them away. Use the pillar by the newly-opened door to climb up to a ledge. Use the rope bridge to get access to the middle pillar's ledges and jump to the cat statue you find and pull up to SECRET #31, some SHOTGUN SHELLS. Kill the two extra panthers if you haven't already and enter the first room you opened, to get a LARGE MEDI PACK; in the room opposite it, there is a SMALL MEDI PACK. Use the pillar to climb up and take the passageway by the rope bridge. At the end is a room with a mummy, and a higher ledge that leads to the room above. This is Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* Kill the mummy and jump into the passageway which takes you to the room above. From there, use the passage to reach the passage that you came into from the sphinx's path. You'll be at the top of the room now. Do flat-footed jumps to the MAGNUM CLIPS, then jump to the ledge switch and pull it to drop the sand from Room #7 into its lower part. Head back and slide down. Make your way back up to the upper portion of Room #7. Climb the pillar and take the SAPHIRE KEY (yes, it's spelled wrong again) and drop down into the passageway accessible from the top of the sand mound. Head in and use the SAPHIRE KEY, then enter to put the level behind you. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | XI. OBELISK OF KHAMOON BLK1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ _________________ _______ | _________ \ | | N |[8] ;;;;;;;;;| [9]|_| [10] | W + E |____| ;;|__________ __| S ;; || __________ [EXIT] | | | [5] | |__ _____ | ______ _____ ___ _____||_____|| | [2] | [3] | | | ;; | |__ __|_ __| |_| ;; | ||____||__ [7] _ [4];; | | |_____ | | |_____| ___ _| | | __ _ [1] |___| | ___| |_ _________| _| | | _____| || START -> |___| |____ ____|\\ _/ \_____ |___ | || | | ||__|| <- TO ROOM #4 (NOT ROOM #1) | [6] | |____| |__________| As you come into the passageway, pull yourself up on the left edge and head into the corridor. Head into Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* There are four push-blocks in the room as you enter: two on your left, and two on the wall ahead. Turn left and pull out the first block out to reveal a water passage. Jump in and head into Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Swim to your left and head along the sunken structure to find a pull-up point by a save point. Kill the crocodile that's probably tailing you now. Jump into the center pool and find a SMALL MEDI PACK at the very bottom in a niche. You can also find a SAPHIRE KEY (spelled wrong...again) in one of the corners of the underwater structure, by the pull-up point. Take the MAGNUM CLIPS that are on the bottom of the pool outside of the center pool and exit back to the push- -blocks' room. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Dislodge the push-block by the one to Room #2. Slide down into the sandy room below and kill the panther. Pull the switch to open a door above. Start your climbing course and find a SMALL MEDI PACK on the little ledge. Climb all the way until you can jump into the door you opened. You can drop down from here, but if you jump to the ledge lining the little room, you can find MAGNUM CLIPS behind the door. Tricky-tricky! Drop down to land back in Room #1's passage. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Ignore the block on the east wall nearest Room #2's pushblock as there isn't anything but a panther there. There is a SMALL MEDI PACK in the room beyond the fourth push-block, though. Once gotten, return to Room #1 and exit to the passage you initially came down. Use the SAPHIRE KEY in the slot to open a wall corridor in Room #1. Use a push-block to get up there. Before you use the save point, get out your magnums and head into Room #4 and kill the mummy. Save and re-enter. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Once the mummy is dead, head down the room and take the left niche to find a spot overlooking the large obelisk room. Pull the lever to make a walkway drop in the right niche and walk over it to the obelisk, taking the EYE OF HORUS piece you find. Jump into the water around the obelisk and get the MAGNUM CLIPS and the SHOTGUN SHELLS on the dry land. You may also notice the locked door by the Saphire Key slot is now open, letting you connect to Room #1. To the north, by the gray blocks placed in a sequence, you can find a slide down. Use it to get to Room #5. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Before you enter, plink away at the two panthers from a safe distance. The little stairway is the beginning of another climbing course. Don't climb across the room because that just leads to a place where you can drop down into two mummies' room. Climb higher on the stairs' edge wall and you can eventually jump across the room to a LARGE MEDI PACK. The slide takes you into the mummy room, so don't take that way. Climb onto the heiroglyph-covered structure and do a series of running jumps back to the stairs' edge wall. Climb up the gray pillar. Climb up from there and jump across the room until you get to a save crystal. Use it (did I need to tell you that?) and jump to the gold-tinged platform that leads to the golden pillars you see above. A mummy will come from your right, happy as a lark. Once the coast is clear, pull the switch. Go to the greenery hanging by the edge and hang off yourself, dropping to a SMALL MEDI PACK and two spoils of MAGNUM CLIPS. ******* ROOM #1 ******* You can get SECRET #32 if you jump to the top of the obelisk from the pillars, netting you some SHOTGUN SHELLS and a SMALL MEDI PACK. Score! Look north and downwards to see a silver statue, like the one you saw in the previous level. Do a running jump and land on the ledge behind it to get SECRET #33, some UZI CLIPS (x 2) and a LARGE MEDI PACK. If you're low in health, heal beforehand so you don't end up dying -- you do take some health damage from the fall. Do a running jump from there and land on the first bridge you lowered. From there, you can jump to the newly-downed bridge and get the ANKH. Go into the gated area behind you and use it to jump to the west side of the room. Take the LARGE MEDI PACK and pull the switch at the top of the stair. Jump down to the lining the wall (lower than switch) and jump to it. Enter the south room. ******* ROOM #6 ******* As you enter, head left and climb up to the crack. Hang off, go through the crack, and climb up the ledge above you. SECRET #33 is a LARGE MEDI PACK and some MAGNUM CLIPS. There are some SHOTGUN SHELLS as a reward if you choose to use the three ledges to get them. From the second ledge, drop down and you can come back out by the crack via some stairs. Head back through the crack to the entrance. Use the "stair" pillars that head down to the bottom of the room. From the last stair, drop down then jump right back up as two mummies make their last appearance. Climb back to the crack and use the stairway to come out between the first and second ledges you used to jump to the shotgun shells. Drop down and shimmy through the crack there, then drop down at the end. Shimmy on the next ledge and fall to a platform in sight of a save point. Running-jump to it and go outside to the gated area to pull the 3rd artifact's lever. Save the game after this and take the route you used (shimmying) to get out, or jump down and climb the mummy-less room. If you didn't kill the mummies, you'll have quite the time trying to make a run for it, I guarantee. =p ******* ROOM #4 ******* Straight ahead you can take the SCARAB from the third fallen bridge. Jump by the switch and enter Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* Climb up the stairs and do a running jump to catch the crack along the room. At the end is a platform which leads to a slide below. Safety-drop down, and enter the passage right there to find a switch. This changes the slide you just saw into stairs. Climb up the stairs and you'll hear a mummy on the ledge above you. Kill it and press the both switches to open a door in that room and to lower the fourth and last bridge in Room #4. A door to Room #4 opens, but that way is a hassle and a hazard to get down. Go back the way you came, down the stairs and jump to the blue platform at the base of the slide (used to be stairs). Exit out into Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* You can get the SEAL OF ANUBIS easily from here, opening the underwater door at the base of the obelisk. Jump into the water and head down the passage, collecting the MAGNUM CLIPS, SHOTGUN SHELLS, and the SMALL MEDI PACK. Head up to Room #8's pool. ******* ROOM #8 ******* Get the SHOTGUN SHELLS and SMALL MEDI PACK...and MAGNUM CLIPS lying at the bottom of the pool. Climb up and give the mummy a goodbye present of pistol slugs. Save and run into Room #9. ******* ROOM #9 ******* Kill the mummy before dropping in, then leave via the side "stair" pillars after taking the LARGE MEDI PACK on one side of room. ******** ROOM #10 ******** You'll be back in the City of Khamoon's first room now, by the sphinx. Put the SCARAB, EYE OF HORUS, ANKH, and SEAL OF ANUBIS into the obelisk's receptacles to open a large set of doors you previously couldn't before. They're located by where you dropped into the room, so take them to exit the level. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | XII. SANCTUARY OF THE SCION STS1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ;; = Subterranean path [4] = Level Exit __ ____________ |3 |_| \ |____ | _|[4] | | _| _____| [1] | START -> |_ _____ ;; | |__;;;;;;;;_____ | __|| _| | |2___| |_______| Start the lever by heading through the doors that open. Head up the stairs to find two mummies galloping towards you. Spare a few Magnum bullets to explode 'em. Pick up the MAGNUM CLIPS in the room beyond. Vault up the ceiling to come out the back of a sphinx's head. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Yeah, this place is big. Climb the wall right in front of you and pull up to a LARGE MEDI PACK; get down afterwards. You'll have to contend with a mummy when you reach the bottom level, so get down onto the sphinx' shoulders and snipe at it until it's dead. Drop down and get the MAGNUM CLIPS in front of a locked heiroglyph door. On the left side (from where you entered) of the sphinx, you can find another set of MAGNUM CLIPS by a heiroglyph door. Time for another climbing course. Head to the cliff wall across from the sphinx and you'll find a way to climb by its left paw (looking at the wall). You'll soon find a crack to shimmy across to another pillar. Pull up at the end and you'll be at the highest place on the rock wall. Do some jumps and keep an eye out for slanted ledges between the platforms, as they'll give you a nice trip down to the floor. Do a running jump to the MAGNUM CLIPS platform. Once you make it across, use the save point and pull the switch to open the door by where you found the magnum clips at the back of the sphinx. A large flying monster will appear, and explode once it's done -- watch out! From the ledge you can spy a small platform with SHOTGUN SHELLS on it. Do a running jump to it (make sure you don't fall off setting up the jump) and take them. Do another running jump and grab another platform that has SHOTGUN SHELLS on it. From there, do a flat-foot jump-and-grab to the next platform, then safety drop down to the lower flat one. You can make it to the floor from there. As you near the destination door, a mummy will appear, and you know how to deal with them. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Slide down the decline backwards and catch the edge. Sidle onto the platform and get the MAGNUM CLIPS. Climb up the large stairway and take the ramp at the top of the stair to find a slide down into a watery cavern. Swim down and get the GOLD KEY, then use the branch-stairway to go back up to the slide. This time, jump at the end and grab the overarching bridge and pull up. Use the GOLD KEY in the camouflaged keyhole, then head across the bridge to the door. Kill the centaur-thing that's inside and get the ANKH and SMALL MEDI PACK. Jump down to the water-level stairway and climb back to Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* The ANKH can be put on top of the sphinx right now, but you can wait for a while, right? When you exit out of the second room, head alongside the sphinx and turn right, into the corner of the room with steep sand and vertical blocks sticking out of them. Do running jumps and follow the natural height order to get up by a save point and a crusher trap. Save and head through the trap to the SMALL MEDI PACK. Run across the platform that lines the wall and take care, because there is a drop that is camouflaged and that's all you need to die. Good thing you saved, right? Go to the switch, which opens a door by a save point somewhere... I'll tell you where in a sec, but first you have to kill the flying creature that zooms in on you. Get back to the long, flat platform as the heights are treacherous and it can push you around...or off. Once it's dead, you can jump to a small jutting platform by the save point with a LARGE MEDI PACK on it, and jump back the same way. You'll have to get down the same way. Go back to the ledge you used the pillar to get up to and safety-drop down to it. Running-jump to the pillar, and do the same thing to the ledge on the wall. From there, you can simply slide down. To get to the newly-opened door by the save point, you need to climb the cliff wall in front of the sphinx once again and jump past the switch to where the shotgun shells were. Jump once more, then do a flat-footed jump and catch the next small ledge. Safety-drop down, jump across the sloped rock, then climb the sandy-colored blocks to a corner. At the top of the corner, you'll be facing the sphinx's left side. Jump to the right opening and climb up to the save point and door. Congrats! I would have felt bad if you died at that last jump. Head into the alcove to find Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Go under the structure and push the block out into the small walkway. You'll find another centaur-like creature. Magnum it out of existence and go collect the ANKH and SMALL MEDI PACK. Head back to Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* As you exit, slide down to your right to be back behind the sphinx body. Use the 'stump' sticking up to do a running jump onto the ledge on the back of the sphinx' head. Climb up and put in the first ANKH in the notch on top of its head. CAREFULLY jump onto the ledge on its face and put in ANKH number two, which opens the door at the base of the structure. Save the game and go for SECRET #34, which is...THE UZIS! Peek off the head and look for something that is floating in mid-air...well, actually, on an invisible block. Climb off the sphinx' face ledge and onto its "hat" (for lack of a better word), which is far nearer. Position Lara so she's looking at it, take a jump backwards and do a running jump to it. You should land right on it. Take the UZIS and two UZI CLIPS and pat yourself on the back. Kill the two flying creatures before they knock your block off. The UZIS speed up this process tremendously. Now...how do you get down? You need to do a running jump and grab to the cliff wall, which you previously traversed to get to the second ANKH door. Jump and grab, safety-drop down, etcetera...you'll land at the bottom of the floor one way or another. ;) -------------------- BELOW-SPHINX PORTION -------------------- Head into the hole beneath the sphinx...and drop down into the water! The two sparkling objects sitting on the statues are SHOTGUN SHELLS and UZI CLIPS. Between the legs of the jackal-faced statue is a pathway to a door and a metal lever switch. Pull it to be sucked into the room beyond, then surface into the dry room. Climb the heiroglyph'd pillar and do a flat-footed jump to the next pillar. Do a running jump to the ledge that lines the wall and sticks out to- -wards your current pillar. A flying creature can be seen flying around the dry room. Slide down if you want to waste uzi ammo, but you can snipe at it until its life's exhausted. Slide down and use the save point on the ledge. Do a safety drop to the ledge between the large statues, then do a running jump to the jackal-faced statue's ledge. Climb up to its head and on the side by the wall, slide down and you will eventually land right by the switch. I took some fall damage here, so have your health filled up. The switch opens a door at the base of the other statue, so jump into the water and swim into it. Surface in the room and run up the sandy ledge, and follow it up the twists until you get some MAGNUM CLIPS. Up the path are some more of the MAGNUM CLIPS, and at the end, a save point and the a SCARAB. The gate by it opens as you take it, and you will be back in the passage before Room #1, where you fought the two mummies previously. There will now be a centaur-like creature and two mummies here to keep you company, so break 'em in two and head to the other locked gate and use the SCARAB. Once they have ceased to exist, pick up the MAGNUM CLIPS (x 2) and, when the gate is open, the MAGNUM CLIPS and LARGE MEDI PACK. Climb the ledge in the wall to enter Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* As you run through the room, someone will be firing at you. Pierre, is that you? Nope...it's Larson this time. Seems like he didn't get enough pain back in the Tomb of Qualopec. Put some Magnum lead into his face and head into the li'l branching path to the right and up the stairs. You'll receive the third SCION piece! The level ends! Yayayayay! However, the celebration is cut short. As Lara walks into the sunlight, some of Natla's goons rob her of the Scion pieces. Natla takes them and orders them to kill Lara, but Lara dives into the water and makes her escape. As Natla's car drives off, Lara tails them in a motorcycle to the water. Using her quick wits, Lara drives off a ramp and lands on the boat, leaving her motorcycle to sink. As the enemies ponder the cause of the noise, Lara climbs onto the boat and hides in the hold, then takes a nap. She wakes up hearing Natla and her two friends taking off in a boat. She jumps overboard after them, to an island she has never seen before... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | XIII. NATLA'S MINES NTM1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [START] || _____ ______||___| ____| | _____ [1] _| || | __ | || ||| |_ | || ||| || __||_|_| __||__ |[3] | [2] | __________ ____ |__ ____|__ __|| _ |; __| |_ __||____ ||___| [5] |_||; ___| _ [8] _[EXIT] ==| [4] | |_________ __|; ____ | | |____| = |__ ____| | | ;; __|[7] | ||__| =====|| | | ;; | _ | || ||__ _______| | ;; || | | || __||_ | |SECRET_ | ;;_||_|_ _| || | __| || |__ 36| | | | | ||___|| FUSE -> ||____|| || | | | [6] | |_____| |______| || | |_| _____| || |_____| ******* ROOM #1 ******* No guns...but at least you have your clips and medi-packs! ;____; As you start, head to the waterfall and surface behind it. Look to your left to find a switch. Go back to the lagoon by the waterfall and pull up by the big red crates, near where the boat is docked. Head down the tunnel to Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* There is a red box between a ledge and a wall you can pull out, revealing a tunnel (surprise!) behind it. Run in, past the door you opened with the w'fall switch and pull the next switch, which opens another door further up the w'fall passage. Go back there. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Go through the door you just opened to be at the top of Room #1. Jump to the ledge and careful not to get stiff-armed by the railing. Follow the winding tunnel to Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Lara's attention'll get stuck on a raised building, but ignore it for now. Grab the LARGE MEDI PACK on the ground and go into Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Move the red box wedged in a corner parallel to the building and wall, twice then once towards the building. Jump onto the building and break the tile, then do a soft drop into it. Head up the passage until you find a right niche with a switch (/poet). Pull it to make the boat in the waterfall room move away from the dock. Slide down and (hopefully) land on the box. Find the locked mine door in this room and it will open for you, then close behind you. Advance slowly and let the boulder go across the tracks. There is a second boulder on a down-sloping ledge parallel to you, but it can't hit you unless you pull up onto it. There is a pressure pad that triggers this boulder if you pass a certain part of the tracks, whether its by hanging or walking. When you get to the first candy-cane type obstruction, pull up and hang on the ledge (don't pull up). Shimmy thrice until you're over the break in the tracks, then pull up and the stone won't fall. Head down to where it usually rests and enter the path to get a FUSE. Use the save point and enter the passage. Two boulders will fall at different times here, so let the first pass and hide in the off-slope corner. Lure the second one out, too, and head up, then drop down into the first boulder's path of movement (it's already triggered and won't be able to roll on you). Pull up and enter the passage at the top of the high-up boulder's ledge and exit back into Room #4. Head to Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* Climb up the boat and jump to the red boxes. Climb up to find a tunnel lined with the words 'NATLA'. Narcissist much? Find the Natla crate that's all broken and grayed and pull it out, then push it clear of the passage behind it. Pull out the second Natla crate and do the same thing to find a switch. Pull it to make a drill in Room #2 move out of the mine tunnel. Go there. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Push the Natla crate out and into a small room. Instead of going down the path behind the crate, mount the crate and climb up into the ceiling. Pick up the UZI CLIPS and pull the switch, then drop down and head into the ignored tunnel behind the crate. Head into Room #5 to get the second FUSE, then leave again, back to Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* After making your waterfall climb, head into the lefthand passage by one of the boarded-up buildings. Head into the small room beyond and find the passage with the open wooden door, which leads to a switch. The conveyor belt will move for a moment and drop the last FUSE at the end. Pick it up and go back to Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Go up to the office and take the MAGNUM CLIPS. Put all three FUSEs in the wall to drop the building the crane has. Go inside the building to reclaim your two trusty PISTOLS, then save. Gone are the days where monsters did not roam the dungeons... Climb the lowered building when you're ready and do a running jump- -and-grab to the wall corridor. If you want SECRET #35, jump up to the mostly-hidden right passageway above you when you've just jumped into the wall space. Run towards the timed wooden door and slide down...TO A LAVA PIT! Oh no! Jump before you become burnt Lara and keep jumping and backflipping on the two slanted ledges that point to the lava pit. Eventually, the trapdoor will close (silently) and you can use it to jump to a LARGE MEDI PACK, UZI CLIPS, and a door switch to leave again. Take the corridor back to the waterfall room, now, and drop down to the save point. Save and head to Room #5, where you go the second fuse. ******* ROOM #5 ******* The cowboy goon from before will be here to shoot it out with you. Pah! Let's rearrange his face. You'll only have the pistols, of course, so this fight will take a bit longer than usual. Use your healthy amount of medi-packs to heal and make sure you don't fall into any lava pits. If you keep your distance and just keep shooting, you'll find his aim slacks quite a bit. Once the cowboy's bitten the dust, take your MAGNUMS back from him. Odd how his magnums are white and they turn black when you take 'em. By where the cowboy started out, you can drop down off the side to a ledge with a save point. Hang off the side of that ledge with your back to the lava, then drop and catch the ledge directly below the save point. Steal the SMALL MEDI PACK and use the crack until it ends. You can find another crack parallel to the lava stream, and use that until the end, too. Across the stream is another crack. A standing jump won't make it, so do a running jump-and-grab to shimmy across (using the crack or the top of the crack which can be grabbed also). Follow the corridor to come out a little downriver by a lava spout. Stay clear of the lava spray or you'll lose health. Jump to the flat rock past the spout and under the cliff to come to another jumping course, this time with lava below. Do a running jump to the platform that isn't slanted (duh!), then do another running jump to the middle one. If you want SECRET #36, you can turn north and find a block at the end of a long mine track. Quickly push the block in as there is a boulder rolling towards you. You pushed the box in front of a ceiling hole, so once the box is moved, you can jump up to a LARGE MEDI PACK and UZI CLIPS. Take a side-passage and drop down onto the mine track to get UZI CLIPS, a LARGE MEDI PACK, and your ol' trusty SHOTGUN back. To return back, climb back up from the mine tracks and use the drop-down point in the first treasure room. Back in the lava room, use the look button to find which ledge is slanted and which is not and jump accordingly. Once you make it across the pillars, you can come to a corridor with a little slide. You'll land by a lava pool, so do a standing jump and emerge by some TNT crates. ******* ROOM #6 ******* There is a old battered crate in the corner, which can be pulled. Do so, and move it into the adjacent room (straight ahead from doorway) by the debris. From the box top, jump up to a room with a save point in it. Use it and climb up the ledge at the top, then jump to the left or right flat spot siding the lava pit. A boulder will roll into the lava when you make the jump, and can kill you if you're close enough. Jump into the ledge that leads back to Room #5. ******* ROOM #5 ******* That switch that was out of reach can now be operated. Get the MAGNUM CLIPS in front of it and switch it on, to destroy the TNT crate you moved. Head back to Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* The explosive crate paved a way through the cave-in, so head into Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* This room is filled with pale-colored pillars. There's nothing here except for...the backwards-hat punk! He rides a skateboard and comes from the right, and he's got your uzis. Put a few magnum bullets in his brain base until he dies, or shotgun him until you can paint the floor red. Take back your UZIS when bails. Collect the UZI CLIPS (x 2) you can find around the room. By one of the clips, you can find a water pit. Jump in and swim to find SECRET #37, UZI CLIPS, a SMALL MEDI PACK, and a LARGE MEDI PACK. To exit, you have to surface in the passage to the room, but not where you jumped in. Follow the passage back out, then leave the room via the save point passage. Further on is a wide passage where three boulders fall down. The first is in the middle, so head left. The second lands on the right, and the third lands on the left. You can easily dodge them if you know their paths. The passageway to the left will have another boulder, which you can trigger by walking around in the room before. Head into the passage and climb up, entering a small room with a climbing course. Climb into the sand-colored room and push in the discolored block. Once in the next room, head right and climb up into the ceiling to find a second discolored block. Push it into a third room and drop down into the hole, where there is another block. Pull this one then go back to the first sand-colored room, then push the block in further. There will be a side niche with a save point, a door, and a switch. Pull the switch but don't save yet. Head up to the 2nd room and go through the open door and down the stairs. Push the block once and find the switch in the left alcove. Head back to the first room and save, then enter to Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* The black man who robbed your "lunchbox" of the Scion will be here, and will be usin' your shotgun. Of course, you can use your Uzis to take him out fast, but your magnums will work to the same effect. Stay out of shotgun range and waste your clips on him. This guy is probably the easiest of the three due to his gun range. =p Take his shotgun (you may already have one, but...) and head to the pyramid's entrance. You can't enter yet, but you can vault up (Up + X) the flat part of its awning. Do the jumps up the flat part of the pyramid, all the way up, then jump as far as you can to the wall. You'll slide down into a flat part by a cliff entrance where there's a switch. Open it then head back to the sand- -colored blocks. There are three entrances now: the one you entered the room through, the one that was by a switch you already pulled, and one right across from it. Enter that [third] one and take the LARGE MEDI PACK and PYRAMID KEY. Use the key at the pyramid to open the exit. Cowboy... Skateboarder... Shotgun Guy... We hardly knew ye. A scene will play where Natla uses the Scion and the top of the island's mount blows off to reveal a pyramid... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | XIV. ATLANTIS ATL1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [START] || ___||___ | [1] | ____| |_____ ____||_____________ | ___ |[7]| | | _ [2] _________ | |________ ___|____|| | | |____| || ;;;;|| | | | | ||_||______ _||_ ;; _||___| [6] | |[8]| |__||__ || | ____;;| [2] _______| ____ |_ | ___\\ |[10]| | | ________|_________ |[13]| ||__| || |_ ||[11]| |[3]| \________ | | ___| |___ [9]|| |________| | _| _____ <- SECRET #38|| _____ |____| ||__| |_ ________|| ||__| |_________ |___ [4] _| [5] __| |___ [12] _______ | |_______| | |_____| _____| | |______| |[2] ___| |___| _____________ |[14] __ [13]| | ___| |____| || ||__ |[15]| | | |____| ******* ROOM #1 ******* Take the UZI CLIPS and head into the room proper. This room contains a bunch of...err, eggs, like the one you may have seen when Natla activated the Scion. Not all eggs will break, luckily. As you enter, a monster will come out to the left, and can be silenced with a few magnum shots. Like all these types, it explodes upon death. The first on the right breaks open, too, revealing the same type of baddie. Same goes for last on the left. At the end of the room, take the UZI CLIPS and veer left to a closed door. It opens when you approach, taking you up to the top of the room. Get the SMALL MEDI PACK in the corner, and head to the bridge on that side. A flying enemy will break out of an egg and you can snipe at it easily as it turns around in the air. Get the SHOTGUN SHELLS on the middle, translucent walkway. After that, another egg busts open to reveal another quick-moving ground-walker, so deal with it in the same manner as the rest (it goes up the stairs to you). In an alcove on the second level, is a switch. Pull it to open another door with a switch opposite your position. The last door on the upper level will now be open. Go into it, throw the switch, and the last door on the lower level will open. Follow the stairs down to the first level again and kill the runner enemy and the flier, too. Head into Room #2. ******* ROOM #2 ******* This room will have lava in it. Kill the flying monster and hang down from the edge of your platform. Catch the ledge directly beneath and enter the passage to get UZI CLIPS, MAGNUM CLIPS, and LARGE MEDI PACK. Follow the passage out to drop by Room #2's other corridor. SECRET #37's path lets you evade some bladed doors, also, so there's no reason not to take it. Head into Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* There will be another egg here, over the lava. You can't exit to the opposite ledge with a door from here, so you'll need to use the crack. Jump to it flat-footedly from as far back as you can to reach it. Hang, drop down and catch the ledge underneath it. Pull the switch in the corridor to open the door in the main room. Climb up the rocky ledges to get UZI CLIPS (x 2). Jump back out of the niche onto the walkway. Run and catch the ledge with the door, and the egg below will hatch. You can leave it behind, if you're feeling kind-hearted. Head down the passage to the save point and Room #4. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Climb up to the pillar and jump to the first discolored section of the slope (make note of the spikes if you miss, too). A boulder will roll down at you when you first make contact, so jump to the second discolored section. You can do a running jump to the lower section in front of the rest of the spikes, but I recommend a running jump to the next one over, which you can easily make. From the last discolored spot, face up the slope. You can spy flat spots that are not discolored. They go like this: [X] The "X" spaces are flat and "D" is the discolored one you are [X] one, looking up the slope. Make the easy standing jumps to the [X] ledge the last "X" leads to and SECRET #38, a LARGE MEDI PACK [D] and MAGNUM CLIPS, are right there for the taking. Oh, and UZI CLIPS. Slide down along the wall and make a running jump-'n'-grab to the opposite ledge, just above water level. Head along the south wall and do a running jump to the ledge with the LARGE MEDI PACK. Do the same jump to the next nearest ledge and pull up into a niche with UZI CLIPS (x 2) and a switch. Activate it and get back in the water. Find the underwater metal switch on the south side and pull it. You'll need to make it across the ledges of the long slope and to the other side where the door is (I timed it at just under 45 seconds). Of course, if you skip the third discolored platform and the last one, since you can jump right down to the door, this is easy as pie. Head into Room #5 when you're done. ******* ROOM #5 ******* The door will lock you in, but don't worry about it. Do a running jump-and-grab to the lowest pillar of the ones bunched together over the lava rocks (don't go down there...). You _have_ to jump to this one, as the others are out of reach. Follow the pillars up and jump into the alcove with a save point. Head up the passage and leap over the spike pit, then jump into the water to come to a li'l room. Get the SHOTGUN SHELLS, pull the metal switch on the wall, and head through the door it opens to a surfacing point. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Watch out for the crush trap that activates as you run through to the ledge. Run out and take the two UZI CLIPS and start gunning at the flying monster. Be prepared to jump back through the crush trap so you don't get knocked into the lava. Once the bird's gone the way of the dodo, do a running jump to the next (only) ledge you see on the same wall. Take the double dose of UZI CLIPS and run into the watery passage to Room #6. ******* ROOM #6 ******* Surface here to find four eggs on the walls above you. Take the UZI CLIPS pair in the alcove across from the shiny switch. There are three doors underwater that are locked. By the save point, throw the middle and left switches, then on the side with the uzi clips alcove, throw the left one. When all doors are open, kill any errant enemies and jump in, swimming to another corridor that is all fleshy-colored. Before you enter, head into the right niche to find a switch. Pull it to open the door into Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* Get two UZI CLIPS and a boulder will roll down on the other side of the room, blocking a passage. You'll be locked in here, too. Pull the push-block out and move it in front of the slope the boulder usually rolls down. Head into the fleshy-like side-passage and go through until you can come to the niche and the switch again. The trap will replay again when you enter, but the boulder will be impeded by the push-block. Enter the passage beyond to arrive in Room #2 again. ******* ROOM #2 ******* You'll be higher up this time. Kill the flying monster and do a running jump to the passageway's ledge. Save when you can and enter Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* The two eggs in the room will break open as you enter. Kill the flying monsters and slide down, aiming for the two fleshy-colored strips among the three brown- -colored strips. Jump over the spike pit to them and collect the LARGE MEDI PACK, pair of UZI CLIPS, and SHOTGUN SHELLS. Head down the pulsating passage to Room #9. ******* ROOM #9 ******* Kill the flying enemy that comes from the ceiling and grab the UZI CLIPS on the fleshy bridge across the lava. On the egg's wall, jump to the platform indented in the wall, then to the small one by the egg. The egg'll break, so kill the flyin' enemy. Go up the passage and collect the UZI CLIPS, then jump to the part of the fleshy bridge that looks like a spider web and sticks out a little towards you. Jump there and kill the two galloping beasts in a passage on the same wall you just jumped from. Jump from the fleshy bridge to the other side of the room (there is a drop-down point, as part of the bridge skirts the top of the lava). Pull the switch on one end of that wall, then jump the little slope to get to a push-block. Pull and head through to be at the other end of the bridge, by the crusher trap. Go through and kill the two beasts if you haven't. Jump to that passage and pull Lara up the stone ledges to a SMALL MEDI PACK and some UZI CLIPS. You'll be back in Room #2 at the end. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Kill the flying monster and do a running jump to your only contemporary ledge. Run through the door and come to Room #10. ******** ROOM #10 ******** Save the game and jump to the ledge on the same wall as the save crystal was. Jump into the niche and pull the switch, then head back. Jump along the per- -pendicular wall's pillar, then jump to another pillar. At the third pillar, jump into the alcove (there is a platform below opening) and pull up to another switch. This will change the pillar configuration and the room exit will now be open. Do a running jump to the next pillar, then jump from there to the last. Once in the passage, head to Room #11. ******** ROOM #11 ******** There are three beasts here, but surprisingly, this room isn't as hard as it sounds. A bunch of their shots hit the curved ceiling, so you can just use your magnums to explode them. I say use your magnums because you can easily get up the slope and into the right room, which holds SECRET #39, a LARGE MEDI PACK, UZI CLIPS, and SHOTGUN SHELLS. Head into the passage beyond Room #11 and the door will open for you. There is a switch in this room, but it only makes a lava flow enter the room. Instead of doing the obvious, pull up into the ceiling hole by the door and you will be back in Room #2 again. ******* ROOM #2 ******* Jump to the platform level with yours and get the UZI CLIPS (x 2). Enter the passage beyond to find a beast. Kill it and take the UZI CLIPS on the floor, then enter where the beast came from to find a crush trap with darts in front of it. A boulder will come from behind the door, so watch out. Enter up the incline to Room #12. ******** ROOM #12 ******** Save the game and enter. Push in the left block under the throne to get to two switches. The right one drops you into a hole by a boulder. Jump the lava pit and then quickly backflip out of harm's way to let the boulder drop into the pit. The left pit drops you on a decline that leads to spikes, which you can avoid by simply jumping over them. Do the climbing course a little to find a switch. This opens the door by the two trapdoor switches. Continue the course to drop back down behind a throne, then head into the door to Room #13. ******** ROOM #13 ******** The door closes behind you. There are three eggs in the room. When you get by the only one on the ground floor, a centaur-thing breaks out and starts its fireball-shootin'. Kill it and pull the switch nearby. Another egg breaks open and a beast breaks out. Take the 2 UZI CLIPS in the corner by the entrance and head into the newly-opened door to a save point. Slide down to... ******** ROOM #14 ******** Two beasts immediately attack and since you're backed up into an alcove with an incline, take out your uzis to fry 'em. A third creature will be present as well...and it's shaped like Lara! It mimicks her actions, so don't bother firing your guns. Find a mini-ledge and make your way to a pillar and, from there, jump to a switch platform. The other "Lara" will do this as well. Pull the switch to make a trapdoor on your platform drop down, showing a lava pool. Climb up the way the other "Lara" did before and make her get onto the switch platform. Stand where the trapdoor is to make "Lara" fall into the lava pit. You can even go and look into the pit if you're cruel. =p Might as well, 'cause it's on your way to the door that opens on the switch platform. Pull up and enter into Room #15. ******** ROOM #15 ******** Take the UZI CLIPS and turn the corner of the fleshy-colored passage to find a centaur monster and one of those quick beasts. Use your uzis because this late in the game, you can probably spare some from your stockpile (I had 4100...). From where you enter, head to the right to find a switch. Pull it and it will open the door at the end of the lowered bridge. Quickly run to the left side of the pit to find a switch and UZI CLIPS. Now, quickly run across the bridge and into the door before either closes. Inside the adjacent room, you'll find the completed SCION in a rotary device. Grab the UZI CLIPS (x 2) in front of it, then grab the SCION to end the level. A flashback to when Atlantis was whole will play, and Tihocan and Qualopec are sealing Natla in a cryogenic chamber of some sort. Natla will exclaim that they don't have "one squirt of inventive juice in your heads," then tell them that Atlantis won't be sitting high for long either. In the present, Natla will catch up with Lara and tell her that a new breed is necessary for evolution, that after Atlantis, humanity's survival instincts hit an all-time low. Lara will try to shoot the Scion as a loudspeaker announces the hatching of... something. Natla will tackle her off the top of the huge pit (Room #2), and will fall to her death. Lara, on the other hand, catches a platform and rolls to safety just as the hatching begins... +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | XV. THE GREAT PYRAMID TGP1 | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ________ | __|_ |[6] |____ | |_ _| ___| ___________ __|| || | [3] _ [4]| [5]|_||______ |_ _| |_________|________ |_ _||_ | [7]| |[2] | | | |_ _| |_ __| _____ ||__ ____ | [8]|___| | |__ | | ____ | ___ [9] | |||[1]|__| __ \ |_____| |_____| ||| __ |__|| |||___| | ___| ||| || ____ ||| || | _ | |_| ||___||_| |_____ |____|_________ | __||_ |START| As the level starts, you'll be fighting that giant 'thing' that hatched from the egg. Stay away from the edges and roll away from it when it appears. It has a slow turn radius and you can really belt it easy. This is the most ammo- -consuming boss in the game, so don't be surprised if you waste 1000+ Uzi Ammo on it. It will stiffen up when it's in the throes of death and explode like all its brethren. Pick up the six deposits of UZI AMMO and head into the newly- -opened door. Head down the fleshy slide and come out in a corridor. Head down the stairs and find a push-block. Push it until a corridor opens up to your right, then head up. Push the block again to be back in that first corridor. Use the push- -block to head up to a ledge with a save point and a crush trap. Save and head into Room #1. Be careful on the crumbling tiles! Turn the corner and at the next intersection, take the path with white walls down to a push-block. Push it and head back to the intersection, taking the other path this time. Hop over the block and push it twice towards the way you just came, then head back through the white-walled area. Run down the path once more and come to the top of the push-block you just relocated. Pull the switch and enter through the red door to Room #1. ******* ROOM #1 ******* This is a fairly standard jumping course, with you jumping to the flat parts in the slanted slopes. Do a few running jumps after the second jump and you'll be good to go. If you want SECRET #40, head back through the jumping course once you reach the corridor opening and you will find a small bridge spanning the lava. Go into the alcove and find a LARGE MEDI PACK, MAGNUM CLIPS, and SHOTGUN SHELLS. Don't pull the lever, as it only lowers the bridge. Run back across the bridge and complete the room as you already did, entering the corridor. There is a long slope with a dormant boulder. Jump up the slope backwards and run into Room #1 when you hear it rumbling. Enter up the slope when it's safe and you'll find a second boulder/slope setup that can be done in the same manner. At the end, you'll find a cracked tile. Trigger it and jump back. Do a soft drop down to the room below (you'll lose some health from the fall) and you'll be in Room #2, the last room of the Atlantis level. ******* ROOM #2 ******* The Scion is still here, but save first. Go up to the Scion and literally shoot it off the pedestal. Get out your uzis and run into Room #3. ******* ROOM #3 ******* Kill the two beasts prancing around the bridge area, then kill the one in the tunnel if you want. Look at the lava pool beneath the bridge to find some has cooled and turned to rock. Jump down there (you'll take damage) and find a hole to (safety) drop down into. ******* ROOM #4 ******* Take a running jump to the wall crack and start shimmying across. Darts will hit you, but since this is the last level, go crazy with your medipack usage if you want. When you reach the end, drop down to the ledge and backflip 'fore you become lava bait. Head into the next room. ******* ROOM #5 ******* Take the UZI CLIPS to your left and overlook the mission. Lots of spikes, and a swinging scythe blade trap. Why can't these things ever break when structures collapse? Go to the right side of the room (spikes in front) and as you get near, a boulder will roll down the other side. Whew. A blade swings in front of the easiest access, and there is a boulder below it so you can't do any sloppy jumps. Instead, do a diagonal jump to the clear ledge and walk through the spikes (R1 + X button) so you don't take any damage. A pair of lava spouts appears, but they don't do very much damage if they hit you. Walk to the ledge nearest the broken tiles that hang over spikes. Jump to it and then quickly align yourself with the ledge and jump. ******* ROOM #6 ******* This room has a bunch of slopes over a lava pool. God, this room is annoying if you're bad at timing yourself. However, you can get SECRET #41 here. To the left is a crack, not detectable at first glance. Flatfoot-jump to it and shimmy until you get to a ledge (visible from starting point) with UZI CLIPS and LARGE MEDI PACK (x 3). Drop down onto the slope and jump to the save. Hooray! Save for now and jump to the little platform by the cracked tiles. If there wasn't a save point before this, you'd probably throw the game into oncoming traffic. You need to run across the tiles as the axe swings, and make it through before the boulder can crush you or you get your torso removed from your body. Once inside, you'll start at the top of a small ledge by a rock. You can already guess what comes next. Run down the decline and don't stop for the decoy SMALL MEDI PACK, as you'll get crushed if you attempt picking it up. The third trial for Lara is sliding down a slope between a blade and having to jump to the next ledge before a boulder pancakes her. Refill your health to full and slide down as the blade passes the slope. You'll slide through and take a little damage, but at least you made it through, no? Jump to the ledge, let the boulder pass by and drop down to the next corridor. Run through and pay no mind to the SMALL MEDI PACK on the ground, as the lava flows will advance from sides of the room and you'll only want to make it across. By the door is a switch which opens the door. Turn right into the perpendicular corridor and take the UZI CLIPS at the end. Run down past the door (which closed on you ;__;) and the boulder above you will start rolling. Keep running and you will pass under the ledge and it will roll down past the red door. For the next one, do a flat-foot jump to grab the next boulder ledge and it will roll over you like Lara's hands are made of steel. ^__^ Go into Room #7. ******* ROOM #7 ******* PALACE MIDAS FLASHBACKS!! Ahh, brain freeze! OK, so it's not that bad, but the burner traps are still not fun to deal with. For the first one, you need to do a running jump over the flame trap and grab the ledge on the other side as you fall. As you get on the second ledge, a burner activates. Do a standing jump over it. Do another running jump-and-grab over the third burner trap to come into Room #8. ******* ROOM #8 ******* Do a standing jump to the crumbled platform. Hang over the edge over the water pool far below and drop if you want; or, climb up onto the crumbled tile and jump to the alcove beyond it, the last secret in the game (SECRET #42): a LARGE MEDI PACK and UZI CLIPS (x 2). To get down to the water pool, do a flat-footed jump off the ledge. Down in the water, take the UZI CLIPS from the pool bottom, then surface and take the four UZI CLIPS by the save point (save after you get them). Brandish your uzis and head into Room #9. ******* ROOM #9 ******* A winged Natla will fly down from the ceiling and try to make this room Lara's tomb. She'll shoot fireballs that do mucho damage up-close, so keep your dis- -tance and pack some uzi clips into her face. Use your medi-packs liberally and you'll do just fine. Natla will lose her flying abilities when you shoot her down the first time, then she'll get back up and shoot at you again if you wait around. Kill her for good and, if you have trouble doing that, there is a nook with three UZI CLIPS if you really need them...which you probably won't. After Natla is dead, head to the other end of the room where the pillars are smaller. They get progressively bigger, though. Start the jumping course and head to the third pillar, which has a climb-up ledge over it. Follow the path and you will come out into the room again, this time up higher. Continue your climbing course. By the sixth pillar is another climb-up place, which leads to another entry point, again, higher up. Jump to the platform underneath the red passageway, then climb up. Just then, Natla will come back and attack you with ninety incarnations...or you beat the level and game when you slide down the slope. Save your game if you don't want to replay the Natla battle for kicks and give yourself a nice congratulatory pat on the back. A scene will play where the pyramid catches fire and explodes. Lara will swim to the Natla's yacht as the island explodes again, and Lara doesn't waste any time watching the fireworks. The entire Atlantis island sinks and is destroyed. THE END! +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | 04) FAQ | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ [Q] - I hear there is a secret glitch...? [A] - Yes. Apparently, if you're dutiful and collect all the secrets up to the Great Pyramid, the last secret in the game doesn't register as having been obtained. Of course, since you don't get anything for getting all of the secrets, this isn't /that/ much of a loss. [Q] - Where can I get the Magnums early? [A] - You can get them in the Colisseum level. When in the main room, there are three side-rooms that are make up the corners of the room, in that they are by the bleachers. The second room you can open has a bunch of pillars with platforms on top. In that room, on the ground level, is a pressure pad that can be triggered by standing by a pillar. It's right by the block you use to get on the first pillar platform. Stand with your back to the pillar (to keep the pressure pad down) then jump to the pillar, side-flip right, backflip, side-flip left, then jump again to run into the door on the top level. Run inside and get the Magnums. Doing this lets you get them three levels earlier than usual. [Q] - Where can I get the Uzis early? [A] - Haha...not so fast. They're only available on the Sanctuary of the Scion level. The way to get them is detailed in the walkthrough. If you could get them that early, you'd make the game a breeze. =p [Q] - So...who is Natla really? [A] - She was alive during the time of Atlantis and was one of the three rulers, I guess you could say, of the continent. She abused her power, however, and Qualopec and Tihocan sealed her in a cryogenic chamber and shot her off (into space...?). At the start of the game, if you leave the title running, you can see a scene where something crashes into the New Mexico desert. That's the chamber Natla's in. I guess one could assume that the scene takes place before the present time, as Natla has to get her company running and the like. [Q] - Are all the secrets listed in the walkthrough? [A] - I hope so. I think I listed 42 of them, if the numerical values are indicative of my good counting skills. [Q] - Is there anything I can do after I beat the game? [A] - You can play back through the game with unlimited ammo for your guns, but that's about it. [Q] - Which levels take place where? [A] - Caves, City of Vilcabamba, Lost Valley, and Tomb of Qualopec all take place in Peru; St. Francis' Folly, Colisseum, Palace Midas, The Cistern, and Tomb of Tihocan all take place in Italy (Rome). City of Khamoon, Obelisk of Khamoon, and Sanctuary of the Scion all are found in Egypt. Natla's Mines, Atlantis, and The Great Pyramid all take place in Atlantis, which I assume is located somewhere in the the Atlantic/Indian Ocean or the Mediterranean Sea. [Q] - Hey, some of your maps don't have the secrets listed! -OR- Hey, some of your directions are messed up on the map! [A] - The maps are there just for reference purposes and are not drawn to scale and may only give the basic room-to-room info. I apologize for not having the best cartography skills, but I do hope they're useful. [Q] - So, are you a fan of the series? [A] - Yeah, I've played most of the PSX ones but haven't gotten to the PS2 ones. I used to play them with my friend and we'd have contests to see who could find the most secrets. ;) [Q] - You should update/add in some information/clarify something! [A] - If you tell me what I should add/clarify/update, I'll sure try. =p +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | 05) THANKS | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Nic Holte For playing the Tomb Raider series with me long, long ago just to have something to do. Inspiration for making this, in a way. EIDOS / CORE For making this game quite possibly the best platformer ever. GameFAQs For hostin' this. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | 06) UPDATES | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ July 25, 2006 +Initially submitted guide +Walkthrough completed +42 secrets (all of 'em?) --- If you have anything to add/correct/comment on, e-mail me at: shotgunnova[at]gmail[.]com +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | 07) LEGALITY | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ This guide is intended for personal and home use only. It may not be hosted or edited, distributed, sold, or given away with paid packages. To do so is in direct violation of federal copyright law and will not be tolerated. Many FAQ authors have had their guides stolen and sold online, so please respect the work and time that has gone into making these. <3 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ | FAQ/Walkthrough (c) Shotgunnova, 1997-2006 (and countin'!) | | Tomb Raider series & characters (c) respective owners | +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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