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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. 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; get up and follow the ledge. If you are fast enough, you may be able to evade the first tiger of the level and get it from this ledge. If not, just get rid of it before you climb up. 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. The second tiger has probably appeared down below, so get rid of it from where you are if you want all of the kills. To reach the building above, first climb up the 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 right¹. 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 down² and go through it into the next room, ready for more spiders above and behind you! Relieve the skeleton of his large medipack and shotgun shells (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.
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 Dragon³, 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!)
Okay, now breathe and save your game! Ahead of you are some giant 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 spiders.
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 (screenshot), 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 down² 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 small medipack, two pairs of grenades and the grenade launcher containing two more grenades! 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. If you didn't get the spiders before, you will find five spiders waiting: two towards the back of the cave, and three as you approach the rope, so get rid of those before continuing. 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......!
If you missed anything while playing the PC version, here is the savegame file with all kills, pickups and secrets.
¹In this game you can 'roll' under water to turn around quickly.
²If 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.
³If you miss this secret, you won't be able to come back for it, so be careful when saving your game.
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