Level 5

It's a Madhouse

Introduction.

Lara has become acquainted with the Fifth Artefact and its terrifying powers. The quest should end now, but there are too many unanswered questions. Who is behind all of this? What are they planning to do with the Fifth Artefact? Why were so many mutated prisoners being shipped to a French Zoo? Were there further experiments being conducted at the zoo?  Just what kind of power does the Fifth Artefact have? All would doubtless become clear as Lara pulls herself ashore on a deserted French coast.

Walkthrough.

The trip from the underwater laboratory to the deserted French coast was not without its dangers. When Lara hit the surf, the lifeboat did not survive and sank to the bottom. Fortunately, Lara is still alive and well, ready for action!

Ocean cave:

Light a flare and explore the ocean floor. Try swimming out to sea and catch a glimpse of your crashed lifeboat lying on the ocean floor. Swim back to the bottom and find the green glowing rocks. Light a flare and pick up the Hand of Rathmore which opens the trap door above the ladder.  Get out of the water and go up the stairs. Pick up the flares below the ladder. Then climb up the ladder.

Patio with table and chairs:

Shoot the monkey that is running around on top of the walls. Enter the middle archway into another room with table and chairs. Look out the windows and see a gold statue. Pick up the shotgun shells near the window at the bottom of the centre stairs. Near the bottom of the stairs, face the window and pick up the shotgun shells.

A cut scene shows a red car speeding down the street. Looking out the window, you will see the red car do a wheelie.

Go back to the first room with the trap door and take the open archway to the patio with four shrubs. Looking out the window, you can see another statue of Joan of Arc. Continue on until you reach the room with the tiger cage.

Patio with tiger cage:

Pick up the two sets of shotgun shells near the cage with the Siberian tiger.   Go up the steps by the C'est le Zoo sign. Bounding down the steps come two escaped tigers intent on killing poor Lara. Leap backwards and shoot.  After that little surprise, continue up the stairs.

Room with gates and locks:

Climb up on the block near one of the gates with the locks and start exploring. Jump over to the higher platform with the large lamp.

Explore the transparent wall with greenery until you find the opening (opposite the lamp). Fall down through the transparent wall into the alcove and pick up the Zoo Key. Use the Zoo Key to open the gate near the Planet of the Apes poster. Go down the stairs.

Room with switch and windows overlooking Monkey Island.  Find the large window that overlooks Monkey Island and watch the monkeys playing around with all of the goodies. Pick up the shotgun shells near the window. Now find the switch to open a window near the tiger cage window. 

Go out into the jungle.

Jungle:

After entering the jungle, look for a low crawlspace to the right of the short block. Crawl through the crawlspace and pick up a large medi-pack.  Return to the short block and pick up the flares.  Save your game, then climb up.

The Maze:

Two Siberian tigers attack in the narrow maze. You can drop back down the hole and regroup to then climb out for another attack. Once the tigers are dead.

Optional: You can get to the top of the maze by climbing on the tiger block near the hole in the floor with the block. Do a diagonal standing jump with grab to the hedge on the other side of the walkway. Climb up and enjoy the city lights of Paris.

Drop back into the hole with the block and face the wall (without any slants) to get oriented. Climb up into the maze and take the left fork. Go through the maze, always keeping the outside wall on your left side until you reach the jungle cave. Find the tiger's cage and pick up the Uzi clips near the bars.

(If you happen to see a large medi-pack on the other side of a transparent wall, you should have found that earlier near the block you climbed up to get into the maze.)

As you are leaving the jungle, look for a vine hanging from the ceiling and a large plant. Run into the transparent wall and go through! Climb up the ledges to the top.  Do a jump grab and climb up through another transparent wall with foliage. Secret#1!

Joan of Arc Statue #1:

Watch a red car drive off and hop down from the block. In the centre of the square is the statue of Joan of Arc! Pull the switch on the base of the statue to open a trap door by a different statue of Joan of Arc. Go down the street and shoot one of those cute little monkeys before it steals a nearby small medi-pack from the ledge to the right of the small yellow building.

Go past the small yellow building at the end of the street and find the red car that has been appearing from time to time. Look around and pick up a large medi-pack near the barred window with another statue of Joan of Arc (#3). Walk out to the ledge above the cliff and pick up 3 sets of MP5 clips which triggers some mutant monkeys at the bottom of the cliff. (Try your Desert Eagle or MP5 to kill them, makes it easier later).

There isn't any easy way down to the bottom of the cliff, so return back up to the first Joan of Arc statue. Climb up on the ledge with the plant and go through the foliage wall. Return to the jungle cave, and then return to the maze.

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The Maze:

Make your way back to the hole with the block where you first entered the maze by keeping the outside wall on your right side. Drop back in the hole and this time, climb out and take the right fork. Follow the maze keeping the wall on your right side. You will go through a dead end, but just keep going with the wall on your right side until you reach the room with wood walkways and a pool of water beneath the walkways.

Room with wood walkways:

Save your game before you enter the room. Look at those cute little monkeys. You can merciless and kill both monkeys. Collect the Aviary Key from one and a small medi-pack from the other. Or you can be merciful and spare the monkeys by shooting each monkey with only one bullet to make them drop their goodies.

Of course, they are not happy about losing their goodies, and now take a very keen interest in Lara's kneecaps.  Walk to near the bottom of the walkway and look behind the pillar to see a small alcove. From the walkway, take a diagonal long running jump with grab to the alcove and pick up grenades.

Grenades in the water:

Find grenades in the pool by the low walkway (opposite the alcove near the wall).

Near the low walkway side of the pool, swim up by the walkway and find a higher underwater tunnel that leads to a small pool by the windows.  Pick up more grenades.

Find more grenades in the main underwater tunnel. Get out of the pool by climbing on the grey blocks.

Find more grenades in a small pool near a window underneath the high walkway. You will need to get out of the main pool and jump into this pool.

To exit, go on the high walkway, and find the opening that leads to another jungle (not the maze, other end to where you entered).

Jungle Cave:

You are standing on a high ledge above nasty looking spikes. Look up and do a jump grab to the overhead monkey bars. Monkey bar your way across the spikes until you are above the sloped ramp.

While on the monkey bars, turn so that you will face forward when sliding down the sloped ramp. Drop down to the sloped ramp, slide, then do a standing jump with grab to the crack in the wall. Shimmy to the right as far as you can, then drop to the wee space between the spikes. Climb up out of the spikes and enter a long hallway.

Go down the long hall and enter the jungle. Shoot the Siberian tiger and follow the lower walkway until it ends (you can WALK through the spikes).  Drop down to the pit at the end of the walkway.

Pick up the Uzi clips in the small alcove and use the climbing vines on the wall to return to the walkway. Return to the other side of the jungle by using the higher walkway. Walk until you spot some flares in an alcove. Stand one block's width from the wall and next to the edge of the walkway, do a standing jump with grab to the alcove and pick up the flares (lose some health).  Drop down the ground below and return to the long hall.

Long hall:

Pull the switch at one end of the long hall to open the gate. Shoot the cute monkey and relieve him of his medi-pack.  Go through several rooms until you find a room with yellow walls. Find the ledge to climb, and climb up to the top of the zip line. Grab the zip line by standing next to the handles and using the Action key. Ride down the zip line and don't let go until the bottom.

Monkey Island:

Don't kill the monkeys as they run away! Just follow the monkeys and they will lead you to Secret2! Go across the bridge and find yourself back in the large room near the zip line. Pick up 2 sets of Desert Eagle clips and a large medi-pack. Might as well ride the zip line down again. Back on Monkey Island, pick up the two rockets.

Find a small pit with water on the island. Load up to full health and face the pit backwards. Save your game.  Wait for the piranha to swim behind the switch-block, immediately leap back into the pit of water and swim down to pick up the second Aviary Key.

Immediately, swim up and climb out as the piranhas bleed your health away. If needed, gulp a large medi-pack to survive the piranhas, or just try again.

OR

Swan dive into the small Pool.  With Lara facing the pool on the opposite side from the Block with the Switch.

I walked her up to the edge, then side-stepped LEFT to near the corner of the Pool.  Next Lara hopped backwards once, and then took one Walking step back.  Using a standard Swan Dive into the pool, Lara immediately swam to the bottom, retrieved the Aviary-Key, then tilted up and swam to the surface, pulling herself out facing the shoreline.

After you have the key, pull the switch down on the block (on the island), leap back, then jump forward to the top of the block and run over the bridge using the dash key before the timed door closes.

In the C'est le Zoo ici room, find the opening opposite the switch, go up the stairs and find yourself back near the gates with the locks.

Gates with locks:

Use the Aviary Key to open the gate with the bird pictures on the wall.

Enter the aviary.

Aviary (La Voliere):

Enter the aviary and follow the pathway admiring the scenery and those birds flying about. OOPS, those birds happen to be buzzards. Shoot one buzzard hiding behind a palm tree and shoot the other one that descends from above.  From the entrance, look to your right and you can see a climbing ladder on the right wall.

Lower yourself over the edge of the walkway and drop to the ground below. Climb up the climbing ladder through the leaves and pick up Uzi clips, Desert Eagle clips and shotgun shells.  Climb back down. Take a long running jump to the central island and climb back on to the walkway.

Follow the walkway until you see a large palm tree in a brick courtyard with red awnings. Drop down to the area with the palm tree and look under the awning and find shotgun shells. 

Take a long running jump to the area with the climbing ladder and make your way back up to the walkway by jumping to the central island.

Follow the walkway until it ends near some climbing vines. Shoot one more buzzard, then jump to the small ledge by the climbing vines and pick up a small medikit.  Now jump to the small hill with the tree trunk.  Do a jump grab to the climbing vines and climb up to the top. Facing the centre of the aviary, walk as far as you can towards the left ledge under an arch. 

Take a diagonal long running jump to the ledge under the arch on the left wall. Pick up shot gun shells, and then crawl under the arch. Take a long running jump with grab to the white pillar under the zip line. Shoot the buzzard that attacks. Then use the Action keys to ride down the zip line.  Drop down by the second Joan of Arc statue.

Joan of Arc statue #2.

Use the second Aviary key in the key lock at the base of the statue. This opens a door by the third Joan of Arc statue. Enter the area with the hole in the ground, but do not go down the hole just yet. Near the hole in the ground is a hallway, jump into the hallway and follow it until it ends by the third Joan of Arc statue.

Joan or Arc statue #3:

Aha, this statue has the trap door at its base, which you should have opened with the switch on the Joan of Arc statue #1. Drop into the hole for SECRET #3!

Grey ledges with green goo:

More green goo! This stuff seems to be everywhere. Save your game. Do a simple jump to the next grey ledge and pick up flares. Do another simple jump to the tan ledge and pick up a rocket. Walk to the lowest ledge and pick up one more rocket.

Look down through the mists and see a climbing ladder. Save your game, and then take a long running jump with grab to the climbing ladder. Climb down to within one block's width from the bottom. Do a backwards jump and land on a ledge with one more rocket.

Take a long running jump with grab to the ladder, climb up above the higher ledge and do a backwards jump back to the high ledge. Go to the other side of the grey ledge and look down. Save your game. Drop down through the mists to a lower ledge and enter the beach.

The Beach:

Oh no! Mutant monkeys spitting poison! (This is easier if you killed some of the mutant monkeys from the cliff top earlier).  Remember all of those grenades you picked up?  It might be a good time to try out that grenade launcher. Kill the mutant monkeys. 

OR

When the mutant monkeys appear, run back into the cave and pick them off from safety with the pistols. Run out to lure the next wave of mutants and then run back to the cave Pick up the two large medi-packs on the glowing squares which triggers more mutant monkeys. Blast the monkeys to bits.

Go back up the ledges above the green go and climb out by Joan of Arc #3.

Follow the hallway back until you reach the hole in the ground. 

OR

From the beach you can climb up the tan blocks to reach the last part of the level.

Area with hole in the ground near Joan of Arc #2:

Drop down in the hole and find yourself on more grey ledges above green goo. Carefully walk down the ledges and do a simple jump across the gap to the ledge with the flares. Continue down to the bottom and reach a room with mummies hanging in the air and with a mummy in the pit with a hole in his chest.

Do a simple jump to the ledge with the mummy that has no heart and use the Action key to place the Hand of Rathmore in his chest.

End of level

Secrets: 3 of 3

Kills: 24