Level 25

Trenches

From Chambers of Tulan:

Take the road that goes North through the tunnel from the Chambers of Tulan.  After the road through the tunnel, run over a bad guy (I may have run over him earlier). Pick up Uzi clips?? Clear the area, and then take the doorway in the building to the left or East by the big palm tree.

Doorway behind big Palm Tree:

Come out in a street with a ramp in the wall near the door. Follow the street to the left, then right and left again and shoot the soldier that hides on the right. Continue until you reach the machine gun.

The Machine Gun:

Run straight into the wall and then go up the hill on the left (west). Pick up a large medi-pack and some Uzi clips. Stay by the left wall at the end of the street and make your way towards the machine gun.  Run into the building with the machine gun and as soon as you can start crawling behind the boxes. Crawl behind the boxes making sure that the machine gun does not detect you. If the machine gun detects as you crawl around the last corner to the opening in the boxes, it will follow you and then you cannot shoot it. If this happens, go back and distract it, then crawl back behind the boxes without getting detected. Get out the revolver with the laser sight and aim for the red mark on the back of the white canister of the machine gun to blow it up. Climb on top of the boxes and look for a high ledge, jump to the high ledge and pickup some Super Grenade gun ammo.

Climb up on the centre crate, and then take a long running jump with grab to a high ledge above the machine gun spot.

Flame Gun:

Drop down into a misty hole and follow the tunnel until you reach a crawlspace (or poor Lara may end up a crispy critter if she continues down the hall to the flame gun). Crawl through some broken steam pipes and stand up.

Shoot the soldier. Find a block to climb up on in one corner of the room (you should be able to stand up). You are behind the machine gun!  Get out the revolver with the laser sight and shoot the red diamond.  Notice the soldier waiting. Return to the crawlspace with the steam pipes crawl through and sneak up on the soldier. Use the shotgun to terminate his guard duty.

Overhead burning truck:

Make your way under an overhead burning truck. As you come to a corner, look for a small crawlspace on the right (south). Crawl through the crawlspace, timing your crawl to avoid getting hurt by the broken steam pipes. Stand up and pick up the Weapon Code Key by the dead soldier.  Crawl back to the hall and continue down until you reach a wall with a crack.

(Do not try to run down beside the crack as it is a mysterious black hole from which Lara will not return!) From the higher ledge, take a standing jump grab to the crack, shimmy around the corners until you cannot shimmy any more. Drop down and hear a gun click, do a roll and kill the soldier behind you.

Climb up behind the machine gun and pick up a large medi-pack. It appears that the weapon code key deactivates the machine gun. Go out by the overturned truck, kill the soldier who sneaks up behind you, and use the crowbar to pry out the Valve Pipe from the engine.  Return back the way you came to the motorbike.

Don't read unless you have the Nitrous Oxide in your inventory.  Stand by the motorbike like you are getting on. 

Combine the valve pipe with the Nitrous Oxide to create a Nitrous Oxide Feeder.  Select the Nitrous Oxide Feeder and Use to attach the Nitrous Oxide Canister to the motor bike. Now that you have the extra punch to get the bike across places you could not do before, you can go back to other levels for a couple of things.

Return to the City of the Dead to get across the deep Pit.  Return to Chambers of Tulan to make the motorbike jump on the jump ramp.

Deep pit after you get the Nitrous Oxide Feeder:

After you get the Nitrous Oxide Feeder attached to the motor bike, return to the City of the Dead and the deep pit, save your game and start a run for the jump from before the corner in the street. Drive up the left side of the road near the pit and use the Dash key to activate the Nitrous Oxide (indicated by the green Dash bar. Shoot the soldier, and then walk around the pillars with slanted ramps.

There is a secret, but you will have to work very hard for it. Find the pillar with the slanted ramp closest to the small green decorative statues. Do a jump grab to the centre ramp on the pillar. (It must be the centre.) Climb up and immediately do a back flip to the next pillar with a slanted ramp, immediately do a standing jump with grab to next pillar with a slanted ramp, then immediately do another standing jump with grab to grab a ledge across the pit. Climb up and then drop down into another pit.

Pick up the green grenade gun ammo, large medi-pack and crossbow ammo. Return by dropping into the deep pit by the pillars with slanted ramps. Get back on the motor bike and back up into the corner near the pillars. Save your game.

Getting back is just as hard as getting there.  Get a running start and add the nitrous oxide using the Dash key. Go up the ramp on the left side of the pit and try to land on the left side on the other side of the pit.

Return to Chambers of Tulan.

From City of the Dead:

Jump with ramp by Deep Pit after you get the Nitrous Oxide Feeder:

Line up a jump with the motorbike to the jump ramp next to the wall.  Back up along the wall to near the deep pit under the overhead arch. Use the Dash key to kick in the Nitrous oxide. Go up the ramp and land in a small dark room. Climb up on the ledge near the street and turn the corner and shoot the soldier waiting in the hall. Find the ramp and slide down.

Room with horizontal overhead rope:

Use the binocular and add the CTL key to look up at the ceiling and see an overhead rope attached to a crate above the door with yellow stripes. Not much you can do now. Find the hall and run into the next room and kill a soldier. In the dark room with two short crates, pick up the Torch that is in the corner.

You now need to light the torch.

Return to the room with the overhead rope and find a door has opened. Run down the tunnel and find a soldier at the bottom of the tunnel. Drop your torch to shoot him, and then find your torch again. Find yourself in the area with the climbing ladder that you explored earlier. Explore the halls until you find the burning torch on the wall. Light your torch and return up the long tunnel to the room with the overhead rope.

In the room with the overhead rope, go up the ramp and use the Action key to raise the burning torch near the sprinkler head. The door with the yellow stripes is now open. Enter the next room and find the switch and push it to move a crate and move it into the room where you found the torch. Return to the room with the overhead rope and then go down to the room where you found the torch and with a high overhead door. Climb on the crate. Take a long running jump with grab to the high overhead ledge which is lit up. Drop down into the room filled with crates.

Room of crates:

Get out the pistols and crouch and start blasting crates until only two crates are left. Pick up blue shotgun shells, a small medi-pack and crossbow ammo. Get out your revolver with the laser sight or grenade launcher and aim at the hasp of the lock on the gate (the black gate part not the silver lock part). Shoot and the gate will open. Y

You might miss this; there is a very dark small hole in the wall in the area behind the gate. Use the Action key to reach in and pull out the purple Roof Key. Return to the room with the overhead rope and climb up by the sprinkler heads. Go through the door with the yellow stripes and take a right by the lever. Find your way out to the motor bike. Drive down the ramp and return to the Trenches.

Return to the Trenches.

Trenches: (after getting Nitrous Oxide Feeder)

Road with big palm tree:

From Chamber of Tulan, leave the bike there and look up at the wall on the left of the palm tree to see a crack in the wall, this is blocked by a piece of wood so get out you crossbow and explosive arrows, aim with the laser-sight to unblock your path.  Go to the right of the central building up the hill to some steps.  Look to the left side of the street and see a small opening in the building and pick up a large medi-pack. Go across the street on the climb on the ledge opposite the building where you picked up the large medi-pack. On the roof of this building is a sniper, use the revolver or crossbow with explosive ammo to shoot him.

Just use the auto targeting of your weapon to pick him off.  On the ledge, look back towards the palm tree and spot an overhead switch. On the ledge, walk to the edge of the pit and do a jump grab to pull the switch and open an overhead door. Do a jump grab from the pit by the switch to the overhead crawlspace. Climb up into the crawlspace and drop down on the other side.

Climb up into another crawlspace near the crack in the wall high above the street.

Crack in the wall high above the street:

From the crawlspace. Shimmy up the crack and round two corners until you can drop down on a ledge. Look for the overhead monkey bars.  Swing across the monkey bars while some locusts have a feeding frenzy.

After the monkey bars:

Shoot the soldier waiting in the room beyond the monkey bars and pick up a small medi-pack. Find the double doors and use the purple Roof Key (that you found in the Chambers of Tulan) to open the doors. Walk out onto the ledge above the street. Look across the street (at the central building) using the binoculars and the action key to use night vision to spot a crack in the wall directly across the street. 

(Don't bother trying to jump to those monkey bars on the right.)  Take a long running jump with grab to the crack. Shimmy left and climb up. Follow the tunnel and climb up until you are next to a narrow opening that looks out across the street. Equip the crossbow with the laser-sight and normal ammo. Now aim (use zoom in (?) for better aim) for the red button on the electrical box. Shoot it and it should start smoking.

This opens a gate on the centre road with the stairs. Drop down to the street and find the motorbike.

The Jump above the central stairs:

Take the road to the central stairs. Look for an opening at the top of the hill above the central stairs. Line up the motor bike on the opposite hill which is by the road that goes to the Chambers of Tulan. Start accelerating towards the stairs and the opening; add the nitrous oxide using the Dash key and land on the jump ramp.

Zoom up the ramp and land on the top of the hill (if you miss and land on the low ground drive around to the right and run over the snipers, down the left stairs to try again).  Walk to the edge of the hill and shoot the soldier down below. Climb up the ladder and enter the Street Bazaar.

Go to the Street Bazaar.

The rest of the Trenches level is explained in the Street Bazaar level.

End of Level

No Secrets.