TOMB RAIDER 2
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Walkthrough guide help: Different rooms and areas are in bold/black, important
objects are in bold/purple and
secrets are in bold/red.
Level 1 – The Great Wall
First you see a movie clip of Lara descending from a helicopter near the Great Wall of China.
As play begins, you find yourself in a large cave. Don't dawdle if you don't want to encounter a stray tiger or two (but do stick around if you want all of the kills)! When you've finished sliding, run down and turn right, climb over some rocks and wade through the water to come to a climbable rock, go up and follow the ledge. Jump over to the next block, then to the ledge on the right. Climb up onto the next rock and turn around to take a running jump to the next ledge, then leap over the gap to the longer ledge opposite the cave entrance. At the end of this ledge is the first secret, the Silver Dragon.
Return to jump back across the gap and climb to the building. First climb up three stone blocks, then jump across to the flat rock to the left. From here you can climb up to the building entrance.
Stand on the trapdoor in the right corner of the room as you enter, to fall through into a pool in the next room below. Emerge and climb to the top of the stone steps, then run, jump and grab the ledge ahead to pull the lever. This opens the door to the wall outside. Exit through the door that just opened and pull out your pistols ...three nasty crows are approaching up ahead, and take a surprising amount of hits to dispatch!
Walk along near the right side of the wall until you come to an opening with a slope leading to a pool. Slide down into it and retrieve the Guardhouse Key from a small underwater cave in the bottom right*. As you emerge from the pool, you'll see a tiger prowling around it, looking very hungry! Wait until he's away from you then climb out and either kill him with two shotgun blasts or jump around a bit with the pistols...he doesn't take much killing.
To the right of the pool are some climbable rocks to take you back up to the top of the wall. You can use the key to open the next door, but ready pistols for three manic-looking and creepy-sounding spiders! Climb the ladder, kill another spider, take the rusty key to open the door below. Climb down** and go through it into the next room, ready for more spiders above and behind you! Relieve the skeleton of his goodies (well, he doesn't need them any more!) and move the block out of the way to reveal the room exit. Slide down the ramp on the right, to take you to some water at the bottom.
Don't go through the water as there's a trap that fires lethal blades across the room from the wall! Instead, step down into the water and turn left, jumping up to grab the crevice and shimmying all the way along and dropping down at the end. Swim to the door and pull up on the right side of the blade shooter.
You need to save your game now if you haven't already, because the next series of traps are a killer! The first is a boulder-spike-pit-closing-spiked-wall trap! It's tricky, but there's more than one way to do the first boulder section. You will have to run across a cracked floor, so there's no time to peep into the next room before you enter! As soon as you go in, two boulders roll down from the left. At the other end of the room, to the right of the entrance, there's a spike pit to the left of the far wall. One of the boulders rolls down into it, and another into the room wall at the right of the pit. Your objective is to run through the room and jump over the spike pit, but you immediately start sliding into a room with spiked walls closing in on you.
a) The quickest way to do all of this, is to run over the cracked floor, turn right and head toward the spike pit, jump over it, slide down into the next room, ignore the ammo next to the skeleton (unless you have been very, very fast!), turn and run toward the opening on the right-hand wall, pull up and wait until you've calmed down before continuing! (Another walkthrough states that you can pick up the ammo by flipping left once you have landed in the room, picking it up and climbing out straight away, but I've never tried that myself!)
b) I've had some success with running into the boulder room, turning right, running down to the far wall and positioning myself sideways next to the wall as near the spike pit doorway as I can...the boulders rolled past and I had time to take stock before jumping over the boulder to slide down the ramp.
c) My daughter ran into the boulder room and just stopped in the middle and the boulders ran right past her, and I've managed to do it that way once or twice. Some say you can run into the wall ahead from the entrance and stay there, but whenever I've tried that I've been squished! I'd love to hear from anyone who has another way of doing this!
Once you've managed all of that, save your game again, because the next part of the game is pretty much similar! You have to run over the cracked floor, jumping over three blades slicing back and forth, then turn left, stopping to pick up the second secret, the Jade Dragon, keep going down the next passage with the closing spike-walls, keeping close to the right wall. You'll slide down into another room with more closing spike-walls, so roll and run onto the cracked floor to fall through to safety below! (Please note that if you don't land in the exact spot where you can pick up the secret without having to line up, you won't make it! If that happens, just load in the game and try again!)
Ok, now breathe and save your game! Ahead of you are some blades rolling from side to side...in front of them is a medipack. Walk to it and pick it up, then run past the blades as they move away from you. Continue to find yourself on a ledge inside a large cavern. Two spiders emerge from your right, so deal with them first. Continue further and kill three more.
You can see a rope-slide that will take you down to the bottom of the cavern, but there's something you should do, first! If you walk to the edge of the ledge you are on, you'll see a flat spot below and to the right. Stand with your back to the ledge, drop and hang, then let go to drop onto it. Jump to grab the crevice above you and shimmy to the right until you can pull up. Follow the passage, pick up the flares you find, then continue to a ladder. Climb right, then down** until you reach the bottom.
This brings you to an underground cavern, which can be described as something of a lost world! You can see a couple of skeletons ahead...move towards them, then, as you hear some scary footsteps, roll and run back to the passage you just came from to fight a huge T-Rex! You can get a lock on him and use your pistols until he falls, then save your game! Cross to the other side of the cavern to a small opening to find the Gold Dragon! Because you have found all three secrets, you are brilliantly rewarded with a medipack, grenades and the grenade launcher!! Now, wasn't all that worth it? :-) (Note: don't be tempted to blast everything in sight with your new weapon...save your grenades for later in the game...trust me!)
Now you'll hear more footsteps as another T-Rex appears...you can dispatch this one from where you are then run back to the entrance tunnel and climb back up the ladder as far as you can to come out back in the large cavern with the rope-slide. Position yourself in front of the slide and press action to grab it. Keep holding the action button as you slide, letting go only as you near the bottom. Kill the two tigers that charge out at you (being careful not to jump too far back from where you fell...there's a great drop there), then enter the doorway. In this area is the door you saw in the movie clip at the beginning of the game. Approach it to exit the level.
Another clip shows Lara talking to a member of the Fiama Nera cult before heading off to Venice......!
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*In this game you can 'roll' under water to turn around quickly.
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If you have a long ladder to descend, you can position Lara at the top, drop
and grab it, then keep releasing and pressing action and she'll drop and grab
all the way down, saving time climbing down!