Level 19

Strahov Fortress

Lara enters a factory building with trailer boxes in the area. One is opened ahead with a health pack inside, go and get it. Exit the trailer and approach one of the garage doors to watch a cut scene of a magnet above moving along a tram. We have to get to the upper level here so look for a trailer Lara can jump up to and face the higher trailer and jump to that one also.

Turn around and you should see an air conditioner covered by a wired covering. We need to position Lara facing the air condition and take a few steps back to be able to make a running jump to the air conditioner across the way. Once in position make that running jump then grab and pull up to the air conditioners ledge. Turn right and move Lara against the wall and make another jump to the open area across the way.

Lara will give you a subtle hint that she doesn't want to bring attention to herself here  and good reason too we have to get three guards below one is in a small room. The guard in the small room has a low security pass we need to get also the guards drop ammo that will come in handy later for our Mag Vega so pick them up after you take them down.

Stealth is very important here as this is the best way to get the guards from behind without drawing attention to the others blowing our cover. Will all that said we should be more than prepared to continue. Move yourself to the edge of the ramp turn Lara right  and make a short jump to the catwalk and engage stealth mode to not attract attention.

Once their make your way all the way around to the ladder way on the other side we'll see crates below if you look down from the ladder opening. Once at the ladder you'll find it's broken and Lara has to drop down. Take note of this because we have to return here to get back, but not by this ladder. Once on the crates drop to the ground once again engaging stealth mode and take Lara all the way to the other side past some long pipes.

Beyond the pipes is a nice place Lara can hide, a protruding crate sticks out and Lara can wait for her first victim to pass. Once the first guard passes and turns around walk up and press action to bring him down and take hi clips he leaves behind. Now go to the end of pipes and Lara can climb inside use the camera and look around for your other 2 guards.

One is walking around and he other is inside the shed or small room. Once you have your guards in site leave the pipes and go stealth to the crates and make your way around  to the right and along the wall getting closer to the shed with the guard inside. When you get to the shed stop and hit the crawl button and R2 to perform a commando crawl around the shed so the guard can't see us through the windows. Right before the steps to the shed we can see the guard with the look button and camera.

When the guard is facing away from Lara get up and engage stealth mode and bring the guard down and pick up the low-level security pass. The next guard is kind of slow at this point in a fog but still stay in stealth mode and sneak up on the final guard and pick up the clips he leaves behind. Now we have to find our way back to the crates where we jumped off the broken ladder entering this area. Unfortunately since the ladder is broken we can't get up this  way so turn around to the other crates and turn Lara around and jump to the railing and

Climb up.

Now on the catwalk again find the ladder and climb up and make your way to a door and open it, inside we'll find the swipe card thingy and use our low level security pass we got from the guard to get inside the door. Stealth is the way to go here but we'll have no choice really except to use a machine gun or whatever weapon of choice to get the baddies.

To best prepare you for what is ahead you gun turrets above and guards on the catwalk and one directly above you in a control room as you enter the door with the swipe card keypad. Have a weapon ready and stealth mode and enter the area and head forward until you encounter a guard and take him down another is on the catwalk do the same and finally go to the control room area where we entered and get the bad  guy above in the room.

Pick up the goodies left by both men and climb up to the control room where you disable the guard. Inside are controls but before we touch them pick up his weapon on the floor. Press action to throw the switch activating the electro-magnetic crane in the garage. Leave the room and find the ladder we passed along the catwalk where we disabled the guards and climb up the ladder. Head left and make your way to a set of stairs and head down.

A cut scene shows Lara disabling the turrets with the magnets and that's one less thing to worry about. Now we can safely head down to the garage area all the way down below. Head back down the ladder where we entered this area and climb down the ladder to the garage and locate a green door.

Inside are blue lasers and a nice little doggie he also has a buddy doggie we'll see also. This area can be a bit confusing so let's go over what we have to have Lara do and make it as simple as possible. We have crates in the area a bunch of them by the fence and the doggies and above the crates is a deadly gas if Lara gets on whiff of the gas she is a goner.

On the other side of this area are two stacked crates if you approach them Lara will say she is not strong enough and if you walk up to the crates by the fence Lara will say I can climb that and she is referring to a pipe above. What we need to do is get the strength upgrade to move those stacked crates on the other side so we can push them up to the nearby air conditioner and shut the valve controlling the gas on the side of the boxes.

If you have absorbed all that info we are now ready to push and pull some crates. Two single crates are in the room one looks like the other crates and the lone crate on the left the odd looking crate is just there to fool us and waste our time so leave that one alone. Push the matching lone crate to the right all the way up to the fence and then push the crate into the other crates against the fence.

If the doggies are bugging you waste them now or you'll have to deal with them once over the fence. What we need to do now is get that high crate somehow against the fence so Lara can reach that pipe above it's not the pipe with gas coming out it's a thinner pipe that's bracketed to the ceiling. When we are ready Lara can grab it and tuck her legs to the pipe and make her way across and drop down.

In older games of TR the crates would move one way, but in this new game they can move half way or partially and we'll have to do this in order to get the proper position to move the top crate up to the fence to get the strength upgrade. Go around to the back of the boxes and climb the lowest one against the fence if you got rid of the doggies they won't bite Lara when she is against the fence. Watch out jumping to a high box or the gas will get you.

Once on the crate in corner against the fence walk to the 2nd crate and turn Lara around to pull as far as she can the crate toward her.

Now jump on the other side and push that crate we pulled up to the fence. Go back behind the crate to the low crate by the fence again and pull that crate towards Lara as far as you can once again. Now jump on the other side of that crate Lara just pulled and push it as far as you can to the wall. You will now have to jump on top of this crate and pull it towards Lara as far as she can back toward her.

Now jump on the other side of the high crate we just pulled and push it right against the fence and this gets Lara her strength upgrade. With Lara's new found strength we can push those 2-stacked crates in the area to the air conditioner and jump to it and pull up. There is a valve their press again to have Lara shut off the valve shutting down the gas on the left side where our stacked crates are against the fence.

Climb to the top crate and line Lara up to the pipe hanging above and tuck her legs to grab the pipe (TRIANGLE BUTTON PS2) once past the fence drop down. If you got the doggies before we don't have to deal with them now. Ahead to the left is a ladder, climb up the ladder and activate the switch. You'll see a cut scene of a saw cutting a piece of ductwork that we can enter next.

Jump from the control switch area onto the track and climb up on top of the duct and make your way to the saw on the end. Lara can hang and drop and hang again to climb into the ductwork. Just hold down the action key while dropping.

Once inside the ductwork crawl your way through and once you're at a certain area a cut scene kicks in of Luddick Gunderson and Eckhardt. Poor Luddick won't be able to spend those 800 Euros from Lara.

When we get control of Lara again the camera control is a bit tricky but make your way to the end where we have our opening and Lara see guards walking below. You can use stealth here or your weapon of choice to get rid of the guard he leaves behind a security pass pick it up, we need it for later. To the left are lasers we'll deal with those later. Head to the door with the swipe card key in stealth and swipe the card.

A guard is inside we'll have to take him out of the picture. Pick up the clips he leaves behind and go to the control area where we see some computer stuff. A cut scene kicks in of Lara saying she has to shut off the security system she also finds out why they need so much power. Two more guards are hanging out in the cafeteria here in the next room either stealth them quietly or use your weapon to take them down and pick up the clips they leave behind.

In one of the cabinets are bandages and on the tables are goodies for the taking. Once we have everything lets use out pass and leave the room. Ahead and to the left is a room where can we use our pass and inside is crispy Luddick still smouldering from the hand of Eckhardt. We can't do anything for him but we can get the goodies in the cabinet and on the table is a gun.

Leave this room and lets get ready for our lasers. I chose the commando crawl but you can choose from two options to pass them. On the other side is our exit the green door. We can shoot at a nearby spool sending it through the lasers or we can commando crawl under the lasers and setting off the mines as we pass. Either way once on the other side turn left and head for the green door with the swipe card key to end this level and head onto the Bio Research Facility.