Level 14

Tomb Of Ancients

The level begins in a tunnel area find the open and do a hang drop you'll land on a log below, and From there jump to the floor below then walk up to the cave entrance. You get a nice panoramic View of the surroundings and then you get control of Lara once again. Do you hear bats yet?

Well if you don't get ready for some soon. If you look below you ask yourself hmm I see no way to get down there what do I do? Well you have to hang but you cannot drop below or Lara will have a nice long scream to her death. Instead Lara can grab the wall and climb down to a platform below.

PS2 users will use the left stick by pulling it backwards. Once on the platform below turn to your left to a long wooden beam. This is an excellent place to save at this point in case you happen to miss this jump. Walk to the edge and jump to the beam then pull yourself up then turn Right and position yourself for a jump into another cave opening. Look for a hole in the floor inside the cave.

Carefully make your way down to the bottom some of the drops can give Lara some Damage if you are not careful. Once safely on the ground head out the opening to that broken Bridge we saw earlier from way up above at the beginning of this level. Now look behind you and you will see a sealed door. Do a running jump from one end of this bridge to the other. Once you are on the other side turn left and look across the way to a square ledge sticking out.

This ledge has no Gargoyles on it just a platform. Jump across to that platform and turn left to jump and grab to the gargoyle platform and pull yourself up. Now hang from the ledge and shimmy left all the way around and let go to the platform below. You are now on a rock face platform that you can safely climb down to the lower portion of this rock face. So turn around at the middle and climb down To the lower platform and turn left again. Position yourself now to jump to the small platform in the distance below.

Next is a jump to the wooden beam if you look closely there is a switch on the Wall we will have to throw once there. This will open more platforms for us to reach the bottom. So after we have made it to the beam and pulled up and thrown the switch we have a short hop to the next platform. A regular jump will have Lara falling to her death. For a hop jump for PS2 Hold the walk L1 and the circle at the same time. Next platform is a standard jump walk to the Edge and jump to the next platform.

The next is slightly above and is another regular jump. Pull yourself up afterwards and the lower platform is another hop jump holding the walk button. There is a platform underneath you so hang drop to that platform below you and turn left to Your last platform and jump to that one. Before we drop down below get prepared for a Knight Waiting to slice and dice you. Be prepared to draw your weapon as you land. The Knight Cannot be killed but on your first shots at him he will be out for about 30 seconds or so giving You time to run to a small crawlspace and pull a lever to open more platforms. When you Crawl out The Knight will be waking up from his nap and you need to quickly find the lowest Platform you just opened and jump onto it.

From there we can say good night to the knight he Can't harm Lara from the platform but if you fall from one he'll be eagerly waiting to meet you Again at the bottom. If you do head for that lowest platform again and jump on also a side jump will land you onto it also. OK, we are on the first platform turn left and jump to the next one and Jump again to the next one after that and pull up.

Stay far back and jump to the next as it's just in the right spot to be a pain. If you're successful Lara will grab and pull up there perhaps a nice Spot to save there beforehand. Two more jumps onto two more platforms and we have to turn around and jump to platforms facing the other way. Jump to the first and jump up and pull to the second.

Two more platforms jump and look for the brown platform ahead another jump. That platform we pull Lara up to another switch that opens the trap door at the bottom Where Mr. Knight is waiting for us. We have to make our way back now to a platform We can hang drop off of so do a short hop to the first and jump the next two and hang drop from The next two then jump to the ground and run to the opened trapdoor. To the left and then to the Right is a metal door press action and kick it down.

Lara say that she is even stronger now. Pick up the shotgun and the other 2 goodies on floor quick because Mr. Knight is coming. If you encounter him you have a few options. You can kick him silly to daze him or you can shoot Him or you can run like the wind out of there and to a corridor on the right to another metal door. If you got to this door first Lara wasn't strong enough then to kick it down. Kick down this door and head through to a new room finally. This room once you walk through has lovely poison Darts that start flying across as you leave the hallway and enter the next room. Immediately On your right is a switch before you throw it this is a great time to save your game.

Once you pull the switch it starts a 15 second timer and opens a door on the other side. You'll also notice spikes going in and out around the doorways. You have 15 seconds to Time your jumps across the spiked doors and run through the doorway on the other side. We have one more door to open and it's an easy one that leads us to our exit of this level And onto The Hall of Seasons