Tomb Raider 4. Last Revelation Level 1

Tomb of Seth

Tips for dark caves:

Shoot your pistols to make light. Turn the brightness up on your monitor.

Pre-explore the cave and using flares to find the goodies, but don't save your game. Once you know where stuff is, use a minimum amount of flares to pick up the goodies in the cave.

Movie:

Two camels with riders cross the desert amidst swirling sand. They arrive at some rocks in the sand. A lady dismounts from the camel and searches among the rocks. She spies an artefact and reaches for it. She looks back toward the guide. Meanwhile, scorpions appear from nowhere and creep for her hand on the artefact.  The lady looks back - EeeeK Scorpions!

The scorpions scurry through the sand towards her in a swarm. She falls

backwards and gets away.  She and the guide spot a switch in the

sand and  she activates the switch. The ground shakes and rocks fall

like in an earthquake. The sand beneath their feet disappears and she cries

"Nooooo!"  As they fall, sliding down a deep tunnel and land with a thump.  The

woman groans with pain from the fall, but quickly stands up and tosses off her robe to reveal LARA CROFT!!!!!

Story:

You and your guide just fell into the Tomb of Seth. Watch the guide lighting the torches, then get to work.

Cave with grate in floor:

Pick up a set of flares by Lara when the game first begins. Explore the cave with the grate in the floor and find another set of flares.  Follow the guide and pick up the shotgun lying on the cave floor. Continue down the cave and find a large medi-pack in a depression in the cave floor protected by a scorpion. Near the large medi-pack is a high slanted ledge on the left (the torch is on the ledge wall). Climb up on the ledge and walk up the long ledge higher and higher.

Pick up the red shotgun shells.

Continue following the guide as you descend deeper into the cave.  Suddenly, you get a vision of something moving in the cave. Shoot the hound. If you happen to fall into the nearby wide pit, shoot the scorpion.

Take a long running jump across the wide pit. Find a high ledge at the high side of the cave. Climb up and find a small medi-pack for Secret #1.

Go to the lower part of the cave and find a large medi-pack on a ramp near the opening with the bird above it. To the right of the cave exit is a small medi-pack.

Exit the cave.

Room of red stars and sand pit:

Follow the guide into the room of stars with two strange looking doors.

Kill the two scorpions. Look in the dark corners and find a set of flares.

Find the door in the room which descends to a lower room with stars.

Lower yourself into the sand pit and pick up the small medi-pack.

Explore the sand pit and find Secret #2 in a small alcove. Pick up red

Shotgun shells which triggers a scorpion. Return to the higher room with the

strange doors. Stand in front of all of the small holes in wall and press the Action key. One hole produces a Large Medi-pack, the other releases sand into the sand pit. Return to the sand pit and cross the sand pit to pick up the Eye Piece and a small medi-pack. This releases sand in the higher room to open one of the strange-looking doors. Follow the guide out.

The rope:

The mystery of the rope in Tomb Of Seth. Here is how I did it. Jump and grab the rope and then, start swinging. There are two ways of swinging.

Either keep the "?" button pressed, which won't take you anywhere, or just hold it down while swinging,

OR

Press it repeatedly, after each swinging cycle. Lara will bend her legs forward when you do it that way. At the point where her legs are bent, release the Action ("Ctrl") button and in the mean time press the Jump ("Alt") and Forward Arrow buttons simultaneously. Lara will vault forward and land on the desired ledge with the mysterious entrance!

Rotating blade that goes in a huge circle:

Congratulations, you have found Secret #3. But poor Lara is going to need some Band-Aids for this one, so watch the rotating blade, and run up to the high ledge and pick up the small medi-pack. On the other side of the room, you can see a ornate room very high up. You need to get to the ornate room. Watch the rotating blade, climb up to the highest ledge (opposite end of room from the ornate room), then take a long running jump grab across the path of the rotating blade to a ledge on the right.

Quickly hug the wall to avoid the rotating blade. Climb up to the top and pick up some flares. Watching out for the rotating blade, go over the crest of the hill and drop down to a ledge on the left. Watch the blade and line up a long running jump to the right ledge by the ornate room.  For all that trouble, you now have three dogs to kill.

Continue down the hall and slide down the ramp. Your ordeal is rewarded with the Uzis for the PC version and shotgun for PSX!

If you were lucky, you did not fall into the pit with the two scorpions.

Drop down into the other hole and find yourself between the sand pit and the room with the red stars.

Make your way back to the rope.

Metal blades that slice and dice:

From the rope room, go down the stairs to find the room with the metal blades. I am not sure what triggers the blades, but I did a dash at the centre of the room. Pick up the second Eye Piece and make a dash back to safety.

The metal blades are triggered by the guide.  After you kill the Scorpion he walks from the star room and lights a square hole in the blade room triggering them. In the slice & Dice area you need to avoid the black squares on the floor, walk past them and you will not get diced.

Rope Room - Eye Pieces:

Go back to the rope room, and find the receptacle for the eye pieces.

First go to the inventory and combine the eyepieces, then use the eye pieces to open the door. Follow the guide through the door and shoot two dogs. Enter the room with the sphinx, and a cut scene follows.

(Note you can make your way down to the bottom of the Sphinx using the various ledges, but you will be back.)

The Sphinx - top near entrance:

Watch where the guide goes, then explore the area near the stairs and find some Uzi Clips and a small medi-pack. Follow the guide through the door on one side of the stairs. The guide will light the oil on fire then continue down and get blocked by a door. As you descend the tunnel, look for the dark green tunnel to the right.

Dark green tunnel:

Go back to the dark green tunnel. Drop into the small pit and pick up a small medi-pack. Go through the room with the oil and a statue (note the guide running against the barred door.) Find the red hallway and follow it until you reach a room with hieroglyphs on the floor.

Room with cut-outs of Egyptian hieroglyphs on the floor:

The toughest part of this level is to stay on the lit Egyptian hieroglyphs in the floor.

Pull the chain to release the door for the guide in the room below.

He will start the oil on fire which lights up certain hieroglyphs.

The lower room with the jewelled chain is to turn off the fires.

Go down to the lower room and pick up the shotgun, pull the chain once to open to door. (this chain also turns off the flames if you mess up.) Return to the room with the cut-outs, you need to jump from to all of the cut-out squares without stepping on any of the other squares. You must not stray outside of the square including the brown outline.

When you make your first standing jump, do it from slightly back in the square so you land in the middle of the next square. Not wasting time turn Lara to face to next square and so on. All standing jumps!!

If you fail, go back and turn off the flames in the lower room, and try again. Once you succeed, the door will open, pick up the Timeless Sands, which opens the other door. Go out the door and find yourself at the bottom of the Sphinx.

Sphinx (bottom):

Note where the guide travels. Then make your way up to the left side of the sphinx, find a climbing ladder. Flip the switch and climb down and pick up a Secret #4. red shotgun  shells and blue shotgun shells.  There is a fifth secret in the "Tomb of Seth" reached by climbing over the sphinx from the top of the ladder area to the other side of the sphinx and then back. From the room at the top of the ladder, walk out onto the sphinx towards the centre. Line up a simple jump to the flat area towards the centre and front of the sphinx. You may need to use the arrow keys while Lara is in the air to guide her. Walk across the sphinx and repeat a similar jump on the other side of the sphinx.

Secret #5. Pick up red shotgun shells and a large medi-pack. You will need to jump to the side of the Sphinx's head, so you can slide down to the floor.

Now pick up the goodies from Secret#4 at the bottom of the ladder.

Find the tunnel on the left side of the sphinx (when facing the Sphinx).

Follow the guide to a chamber. Cut scene: The guide get scared and deserts.  Lara to her own devices. Enter the cave and kill the three scorpions.

Large chamber with statue and sand on the floor:

Pick up the red shotgun shells in the centre of the chamber. There is also a small medi pack on the far right hand corner of the raised area where you pick up the shell (found by Sarah). Climb up near the statue and place the Timeless Sands in the statue's hands. Cut scene: The chamber fills with sand from the sand that was by the Sphinx and the Sphinx's mouth is now uncovered. Kill the scorpions on the floor of the chamber.

Return to the Sphinx.

The Sphinx:

Jump grab to the Sphinx's mouth. Holding down the Action key and up arrow,   Add the Crawl key (.) to crawl into  the mouth. Continue down the hall and  enter the next level.

End of Level

Secrets: 5 (Total 13 out of 70)