Level 12

The Louvre Galleries

The level begins with Lara standing at the gallery stair and says at least it's clean in here. It's important to activate stealth mode and throughout the laser area the walk button will also be used more than the run. Turn on stealth mode to head up the stairs, there is a camera you can avoid if you time it right and the two guards one outside and one at the top of the stairs won't see you. Once at the top of the stairs sneak up on the guard and punch his light out and watch him vanish into never-never land.

Proceed to a door and open it. This is the laser room be careful of the trip lasers if you trip any metal cages will come down upon you and the Guard will be right up to get you. If you do trip the wires and take out the guard you can reset the lasers again by pushing a button on the wall.

With all this said and we are all prepared lets get through these lasers jump onto the first display case and turn left there is a stone slab on the wall with a health pack on top. Jump and grab then pull up and take your first goodie here then turn right facing the first set of laser trip wires. (Not a bad idea to save your game here) You need to perform a running jump here to make it over and if you miss one of the guards shows up shooting and you'll have to shoot back.

Once he's put to sleep reset the lasers by pushing a yellow button on the entrance of the door and head back to the slab and start over. If you made it to the second glass case no problem. Climb down and jump onto the middle case and back up for a running jump over to the next case. Time your jump as the lasers move up and down as they start to pass below the case make your jump.

Once on the next case hang drop of the end of it and shimmy past the laser over the case and climb back onto the case. Jump over to the next case on the right and jump on it and grab the ledge above and shimmy left. When you are past drop down and exit through the door to the next set of lasers in the next room. (Cut Scene)

Will show some guards round and unfortunately we can't avoid them. Crawl under the first laser and trip the next one that will bring the guard in the white shirt coming to you so take him down and make sure you pick up the security pass he leaves behind. In the far right corner is a large health pack and opposite left is a door with a card reader. Walk up to a card reader near a sign in the corner of the room Lara mentions Von Croy talked about the security pass card that Margot had.

The card doesn't work on this door but it will work on the one in the next room. Now in the middle of the room go through the only door that is unlocked this is the Mona Lisa room. Another guard in white is there, lets for fun, use our stealth mode around the glass cases and sneak up behind him press action and Lara takes him down with a nice punch for good measure. On the left hand corner by the door is a glass case blocking a switch we need to move it out of the way. After moving it this will give Lara the strength to move an even bigger case.

Do not trip the Mona Lisa lasers, as they will let out a poisonous gas. Go to the large case in the middle of the room and move it as close as you can to the chairs in front of it. Go to the small glass case you moved and use your card. You have to be quick now and jump onto the big case as it is on a time and do a running jump onto the ledge over the Mona Lisa painting and crawl through the opening. Once through walk a bit and crawl through another bit of venting climb out and find the ladder on the right side wall and climb up.

Once at the top wait for the guard in the white shirt. Wait until he walks away and kick down the grid and go to stealth mode. Creep up on the guard and let Lara give him the one-two punch. Now look for an Upside down L shaped air duck against the building wall. There is a base in from of it you can climb up.

Shimmy, climb up and walk when you can to the right until you get to a metal conduit pipe above you. You have zero time to waste getting across so set yourself up not at the beginning but a step or two ahead until Lara is willing to jump up and grab the pipe. Immediately make your way across to the other side and off onto the ledge below. Lara will say that she is stronger now. Go to the right until you see a pipe you can climb down.

You have to hang and shimmy to get to it. Half way down hang to the ledge of the window and climb in where a guard is standing immediately go into stealth and take him down. He leaves behind a key. You will need this key if you do not have the crowbar in your inventory.

*Funny Bug Alert.* If from the pipe you try to get onto the window before Lara can grab and pull up she will stand there for a second and float away into the air. You'll have to restart.

Climb out the window and down the pipe you'll see stairs and a gate open the gate and down the stairs. Left and right are two utility doors the one on the right has bandages and with Lara's acquired strength from the pipe climbing she can now shoulder in the doors. Let's head back to the pipe we were at before where we got the guards keep but now climb to the top and shimmy right until we can get onto the walkway there. Go all the way down to the other end where you'll see a fenced area and a gate door.

If you do not have a crowbar the key you got from the guard will come in handy now. You'll have to go down the ladder and to the right is a blue utility door. Use the guard's key and get the crowbar inside. Go back to the ladder back to where we were at the fenced area and use the crowbar on the gate.

Climb up the exhaust ductwork and crawl through the opening and down the ladder. Go through the duct until you see an end and drop down into a storage room. You will see a guard walking by wait until he passes and go into stealth mode and take him down.

A doorway with a keypad is Margot Carvier's Office and we to get the code. One of the doors has an office filled with the usual desks and PC's but there is a round shaped glass door that will open when you get near. You may get to sneak up on the guard but if not take him Down. The PC monitors in the office have access to the offices one of which is Margot's.

You can use the zoom to look around and find the post-it-note with the code but if you can't find it the code number are 14639. Go now to Margot's office where we had the keypad and unlock the door.

In the room you'll find information about the Abscura paintings just walk around and when you see the hand pop up find out all the details you can about them but most importantly get Margot's Security pass at a draw bottom right of the front of the desk. Leave the room and down the hall left is an X-ray room remember this room we'll be back after the Tomb of Ancients.

Leave the X-ray room and down the other hall and use your Margot Security Pass and open the door and head all the way down all those stairs. Go through the only opened doorway and there are two doors but only one opens the one on the right. Unlock the door on the other end using the pass card and open it.

Go through and you'll see familiar territory open the next-door with your card read and go down the stairs. There is a guard there you'll have to deal with the room on the right has some nice artefacts to look at but nothing more.

Head for the stairs go all the way down and open the door. Find the stairs and head down. There is a room with portable lighting lit all around. Head to either door and end the level. Next up The Archaeological Dig.