Level 11

The Louvre Storm Drains

We begin this level sliding down to the lovely sewer. Hey! Lara has a new outfit! Yes there are more rats and some bother Lara and some do not.

I don't think I need tell you what to do to the one that do bother Lara.  Once in the sewer turn left and pick of the candy bar, then ahead of that go up the stairs and pick up the health pack. Come back down the stairs and head down the tunnel where you see and hear the gushing water.

There is a passage with mucky water on the left with a ladder and straight ahead in the main sewer area if your turn left is a doorway that leads to the same exact area and Lara would get to if she climbs the ladder in the mucky water area. Turn left at the main sewer area and get the goodie on the floor and head down the corridor. In the room is a valve that Lara is not strong enough yet to turn; there is also a rat that may bother you.

Return to the main sewer room with the gushing water and search for a pipe on the wall and climb it. Take note you can walk safely around the rushing waterfall but Lara will die a nasty fall if you jump down. Now back to the pipe on the wall.

Climb up and get off onto the rusty platform on the left. And walk to a switch on the wall. This switch shuts off a fan down the corridor on the right if you were just entering the main sewer area. Lets go back to the pipe we climbed up and climb down. Head left and down the corridor and on the right we'll find a small ladder and our fan that we shut off with the switch. Climb the small ladder and go up to the fan and Lara will say she thinks she can turn the blades. Turn the blades to the right twice to make it possible for Lara to duck and crawl through the opening in the fan.

After turning the blades Lara now has the strength to turn the valves. Hit the crawl button and enter the fan blade opening and pick up the goodie. Go down the rest of the way and get off the barrel, walk up to the valve and turn it to shut off pipe number three on the control panel. One down, five to go. To the left is an alcove that supposedly had darts, but I didn't see anything there perhaps you'll have better luck.

Lets now go back the way we came back through the fan blade and down the ladder then left to the end of the corridor to the main sewer area again. Go right and around to the control panel area and through the room to the right once again Lara can now shut off the valve there. Shut off the valve and exit the way you came and head back to the pipe we climbed up earlier. Two Valves down, four to go now. Climb up the pipe and back onto the platform. In the middle are an opening and a platform that goes across the waterfall.

Carefully walk across the plank to the other side and turn off valve number three. Three valves down, three to go now. This also floods the tunnels below the waterfall that can now search the tunnels. Turn right across the walkway and pick up the goodie at the end of the walkway are rungs jump up and climb the ladder getting off at the next gantry.

Go left to find another set of rungs and climb up. Go right to the end to a piece of metal blocking your way. Lara says I can climb this it's not for the metal grid if you look up there is a pipe we will eventually climb to get to another valve across the way but before We do walk back to the other side and walk another blank to a room across the way and get a goodie inside and return back to this area again and back to the pipe we need to jump now.

Jump to the pipe and shimmy across to turn off our fourth valve. Four down now, two to go. After this we have to make our way all the way to the bottom surface again. So shimmy across the pipe and go down the gantries and across the plank to another gantry and down the very first pipe we climbed to the ground below.

Enter the water and dive down enter the passage tunnel and swim forward taking 2 rights after the send right you'll be heading upward to the surface. Don't waste anytime investigating or Lara will drown! You'll find a grating you can climb to another gantry platform. Walk to the left and you'll hear Lara say I can climb this that is because there is a pipe above you we need to jump onto and shimmy across To the plank in the middle and drop off, once off go to the end to the valve and shut it down.

Five valves down now and only one to go! Go to the middle of the plank again and look for a metal grid across the way. We need to jump to the pipe again and shimmy and drop over to there. Climb up the grid there to the top until you are on the gantry platform. Walk left to the end and you'll see another gantry we need to jump to, to reach the final and 6th valve that will shut off the waterfall completely. From here go to the right and to the end of the ramp and jump to the other one.

You'll see a door enter it and pick up the goodie. Continue on and to the right to another door and look for a plank to walk across in front of you. Walk across and at the gantry turn left and angle yourself for a short hop into the storm drain.

When you reach the end of the tunnel here you'll see a set of pipes in front of you this is the boiler room. Lara says she smells oil here. We need to hang drop from here to the ramp below us. Use the look button and you'll see it. If you go into the water by mistake there is a ladder to get back out and simply make your way to the gantry ramp across the way. There is an upper boiler on a high ramp above Lara says the same thing at either boiler that this is the place and better refer to the map.

This is a very good time to save if you've made it to the boiler.

If you did hang drop and went left to the boiler on the other side we are ready.

Lara is going to set an explosive set for 5 seconds and the place is going to be on fire. You need to do a back flip by pressing the jump button and back on the left stick PS2 or Back Arrow PC. When in the water head for the right-hand tunnel go straight and take the first left and take it all the way until you reach the surface and can breathe.

Wade through the water. You'll see pipes in the way of a path in front of you so go to the left tunnel and left again until you reach the end. You can now see the result of your handy work and we are almost at the end of this level. Hang drop down to the platform below you and go left to the ladder at the end. You cannot climb down the next ladder or you will fry Lara to a crispy critter. Jump past the flames and onto the platform and climb the rungs ahead on the wall and left onto the gantry platform and take it to the end.

Go to the edge of the gantry and jump to the landing below. To the left is our exit out of the boiler you and are into the Louvre. Once through you'll see a blue room that goes right and left there is nothing on the right so lets go left to end this level and onto The Louvre Galleries.