Level 31

Inside Menkaures Pyramid

Swing blades:

The blades are pretty easy to dodge. Stand near the wall and when the blade reaches the top of its swing on your side, start your run past the blade.

If you want to be smart, make Lara walk around the blades keeping tight against the wall and she will come to no harm.  Shoot the many bats and continue to the stairs.  At the top of the stairs Lara will look up to see a star in the ceiling. Shoot the gold star with either the revolver or crossbow.  Shooting the star opens a door in the floor of the tub at the bottom of the stairs.  Go down the stairs and look for the revolver ammo on the side of the room opposite the stairs. Avoid the two mummies in the room.

To get into the tub, run towards the tub wall and add Jump + Grab with the forward key.  It seems you must jump from the short ledge near the wall of the tub. Drop through the hole in the floor of the tub.

Rope swing over spike pit:

Use a long running jump with grab to the rope, slide to the bottom of the rope, use the Dash key to swing and then add the Jump key at the top of the swing.  You now have two mummies and a bat. Killing the bat is somewhat difficult because Lara keeps targeting the mummies.

Pit near North wall (right) with two ropes:

First lure the mummies to the other pit, then run back to the pit you want to jump and carefully line up a jump. Walk to the centre of the block and line up using the Look key so that Lara's hair is line with both ropes.

Take your jump to the rope, slide down, swing, then jump and grab the other rope. It also seems to help if you jump before you are at the top of the swing. On the second rope, slide down again and swing to the ledge.

Run up the ramp and pull the switch to open the door in the ceiling which is after the other pit with two ropes. Make your trip back across the spike pit.

Pit near South wall (left) with two ropes:

Lure the mummies to the pit you just crossed to give you some time to line up a jump to the ropes. Swing across the spike pit near the south wall with two ropes.

Go up the ramp and save your game.

Laserbolt Guy:

Climb up in the room, and you have someone almost as nasty as the Minotaur, but this one throws laser bolts. If you want to conserve ammo, just keep gulping medi-packs and pry off the gold circle.

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If you want to kill the laserbolt guy, I shoot this guy with the grenade-launcher and the heavy ammo!!!! I think I shot 4-5 times and he exploded in thousand pieces!!! Run to the far end of the room to the gold circle on the wall. Press the Action key to use the crowbar to pry off the Western Shaft Key. A cut scene plays which lowers a large stone and reveals a new opening. You now need to return to the top of the stairs where you shot the gold star. Swing your way across the spike pits, and go back to the room with the tub and two mummies. Jump out of the tub and run up to the top of the stairs.

Top of the stairs by the swing blades:

Look for an opening in the wall. Enter the opening and slide down a long ramp. Light a flare and start crawling in the dark tunnel because a low blade will zip along the tunnel slicing Lara in half. After the hall with blades, you can run up the ramp and open the over head door with a switch by using a jump and grab. Climb up and out to discover you are outdoors by the pyramids.

Outdoors near two smaller pyramids:

Kill the two overgrown scorpions headed your way. After that is done, you will realise that you have emerged on the other side of the large pyramid by the two smaller pyramids. Walk between the two smaller pyramids and look to the left for a stone switch at the base of the pyramid.  Press the switch to make the top of one of the small pyramids fall down and release one more overgrown scorpion.

Climbing the pyramid by the pit:

You should be good at climbing pyramids by now, so save your game because the penalty for making a mistake is falling into the deep pit.

Walk near the deep pit and look for some sandy stones. Up and up again, then a long running jump to the right on the same ledge. Up, up, then walk on the ledge to the left. Up to the top of the pyramid. Lower yourself over the edge of the hole at the top of the pyramid and then climb down to the bottom.

Inside the small pyramid:

Go up the hall with light streaming from the ceiling. Take a long running jump over the deep pit with spikes. You will come to another dark pit.

Look overhead for some monkey bars. Swing across the dark pit.  Your next obstacle is a spike pit with a swing blade. Stand next to one wall and line up a jump to the other side. Leap back from the edge of the pit and time your jump just as the blade reaches your side of the wall.

Take a long running jump with grab to the ledge on the other side of the spike pit. Cross one more spike pit and you will see a hall with a deep pit beneath it. You will come back to the hall, so jump over the last spike pit and go around the corner. Pull the jewelled chain to open the gate beyond the hall. Make your way back to the hall with the deep pit by re-crossing the last spike pit. Use the monkey bars to get across the dark pit. Find the open gate.

Long ramp with spike pit beyond open gate:

Slide down the ramp. Just before the spike pit, take a simple jump and use your arrow keys to turn to the right while in the air. Land in the right far corner of the spike pit. Pick up the Uzi (more ammo) for Secret #1.

Use jump grab to the wall and climb up. Now slide down through the hole in the floor.

If you go down the hill to the closed gate, you will see the Puzzle from the Underneath the Sphinx level. Go up the hill and return to the Sphinx Complex.

Sphinx Complex:

Emerge from the tunnel by the white stone. Remember the gold gate you could not open earlier in the Sphinx Complex? Look for the gold doors in the South West corner of the area around the sphinx. Walk to the pit near the South West corner. Stand near the rock wall; take a long running jump while turning in the air and land near the gold doors.

Use The Guards Keys you picked up in Menkaures Pyramid to open the door. Run down the dark hall and enter The Mastabas.

End of Level

Secrets: 1 (Total 66 out of 70)