Tomb Raider Anniversary

Written and Illustrated by Dr. Hugh

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© June 2007 Bert Jamin (www.gamesover.com)
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Level 2: Greece

Sublevel 2.1: St. Francis Folly - Part 1, The Monastery
Sublevel 2.1: St. Francis Folly - Part 2, Shaft of the Gods
Sublevel 2.1: St. Francis Folly - Part 3, Descending the Shaft again
Sublevel 2.2: The Coliseum
 Sublevel 2.3: Midas’s Palace - Part 1, The Spear Room and the Column Room
Sublevel 2.3: Midas’s Palace - Part 2, The Fire Room
 Sublevel 2.4: Tomb of Tihocan - Part 1, The Catacombs
Sublevel 2.4: Tomb of Tihocan - Part 2, Into the Temple

Level 2: Greece

Sublevel 3: Midas’s Palace

Part 2: The Fire Room

 

     
This lever will trigger a gate behind Midas

 

Jump into a small square pool from the corner and pull up without taking any damage.


Jumping into this pool is safe from this position

 

Climb the narrow ledges again like you did before to reach the back of Midas and jump over the pool before the entrance you just opened (CHECKPOINT).
Enter the hallway: straight-right-left-left-right and reach a very colorful room. Enter and obtain a CHECKPOINT.
When you proceed to the ledge over the pool and step on the pressure pad on the end of it fire will burst out everywhere. So, this is a Fire room!


Entering the Fire room

 

Go left and descend some steps that lead into the pool. Jump into the water and lure a crocodile out. Quickly return to this ledge (it has a lower part) and shoot it to hell.


Lure the crocodile out and shoot it from the ledge

 

The water of the pool is safe now so dive in again and find an underwater lever. Swim on the surface until you see it.

  
See the lever from the surface, dive and pull it

 

The lever will raise a grey pillar. Return to the steps and watch it from the protruding ledge.


See the raised pillar on your right

 

It would be a good idea to create a new Checkpoint here. So run back to Midas and you’ll get a CHECKPOINT by the pool on his back. If you run back to the pool ledge of the fire room you’ll get a new CHECKPOINT. That’s the one you need to save.

You have to run/jump to the central flat pillar where a flame lights up and extinguishes in a constant rhythm. When you hang from its ledge or stand near the ledge you won’t get hurt. Position yourself in one line with the ledge in front of the raised pillar.
When the flame is burning pull up, it then will extinguish so run/jump to the opposite narrow ledge. The flames on the pedestal of this pillar run counter clockwise. There are crevices on this pillar so you must find the lowest one and jump up when the flames are on the other side. This lowest crack is 90 degrees on your right. If you pull up from the ledge quickly run right, jump to the lowest crevice and immediately vault up to the 2nd and the 3rd crevice before Lara will end up barbecued. Shimmy to the left and jump backward to the opposite ledge.

           
Get up to the third crevice on the pillar and jump to the ledge

 

Pull up and run to the lever. Pull the lever which will raise another pillar from the water with a fire on top (CHECKPOINT).

  
The lever triggers a pillar

 

Turn around and stand on the right ledge. Look to your right to notice a snake shaped grapple ring on the higher wall. Remember this ring when you will return here later on. For now ignore the ring and jump to the crevice in the pillar in front of you. Shimmy around to the right side. Now if you look behind you, you will notice the pillar that just emerged from the water and a pillar next in line with Lion heads that regularly spit fire. When the lower flame has passed to the right, drop down twice, turn around and jump from the protruding ledge to the new pillar and hang down from its edge. Shimmy until you are aligned with the Lion head’s pillar. There is a narrow ledge between the two opposite Lion heads and you should jump there.
When the flame starts, pull up and run across to the other end of the circular top when the flame is down.

           
How to reach the narrow ledge under the Lion’s heads

 

Shimmy to the left under the next Lion’s head and jump backward to a block standing in the water. Pull up and turn right where you will notice a climbable ladder. Jump to the ladder, climb all the way up until you reach a platform with a lever. Pulling the lever will raise a pillar on top of another one. (CHECKPOINT).

        
The lever will trigger a second pillar

 

Go to the corner of the left ledge and notice a grapple ring in the pillar with the Lion heads. Grapple on the ring and pull with B1 to rotate the pillar.
Now you will notice a 2nd grapple ring right on the same spot where you grappled the 1st one. Grapple on this ring and rotate the pillar a bit further. Now jump to the lowest narrow ledge of the pillar and vault up three times to the top and pull up.

     
How to reach the top of the Lion’s pillar

 

From the other side study the tower that just emerged on top of the other one. Jump to the base when the flames are out and slightly to your right jump to the first crevice. Shimmy right passing the Lion’s head when it is “safe” and use B1 to move faster. Do the same thing with the second Lion.
Shimmy to the right corner and vault up to a higher narrow ledge when the Lion’s head is “safe”. Then immediately shimmy right again and repeatedly press B1 again. Now you can jump backward to the opposite ledge.

     
The way to reach the ledge

 

Turn right and pick up the Large Medipack near a column. Then collect the Lead Bar from the pedestal (CHECKPOINT).

     
Large Medipack and Lead Bar

 

Dive into the pool and swim to the ledge with the steps.


Dive in from the edge

 

Get a CHECKPOINT by the entrance to the hallway that will lead to Midas’s room. Turn around and return to the spot where you pulled the first lever (see above).
Turn to the right corner of the alcove and notice again the blue circle on a snake-shaped grapple ring that I told you about. Grapple jump to the ring and hang from your chain.
Swing high enough to grab the narrow ledge on the left wall.

     
Swing to the narrow ledge

 

Let go to the slope below and slide down almost to the end where you can jump to an opposite narrow ledge on the right side of another slope.
Side jump to your right to the next narrow ledge in the corner. Vault up to the one above. Notice the slope in front of where Lara is hanging and a horizontal pole.
Jump backward to the slope and as soon as you touch it press B4 to grab the pole. Swing/jump to the next pole.

     
How to reach the 2nd pole

 

Position Lara in front of the pointed pillar and swing/jump to the pillar. Immediately jump to the opposite slope (slightly to your right) and from there into the alcove on your left where you will find a lever.

  
How to reach this alcove

 

When you pull the lever a cut scene will show you a pillar rising further up revealing an alcove containing a Relic. They give you plenty of time to look around to where it is located: it is on the round platform of the pillar left of the Lion Heads’ pillar and you have to jump from the top of this pillar to the platform. (CHECKPOINT – make sure to save this).

The run to the Relic is strictly timed, so you’ll have to move fast without interruptions and not take care of running through the flames. You’ve gathered more than enough Medipacks for situations like this. Also if one of your jumps is delaying your mission, say farewell and start over: it is a matter of seconds. If your mission fails load the Checkpoint with the last lever.

So here we go right after the cut scene:

-         Jump into the water and swim left past the pillar to the ledge with the steps. Repeatedly press B1 to let Lara swim in crawl style which goes faster.

-         Get out of the water, run up the 2 ledges and the stairs, turn around (Ignore the Checkpoint and don’t save it), run/jump to the first low pillar from the pressure pad and jump slightly to your right to the narrow ledge in front of the second (taller) pillar that you will hang from

-         Pull up, turn left and run/jump to the third (lower) pillar

-         Continue jumping to the pillar with the Lion heads where you will hang down from the lowest circular narrow ledge and make a half turn to your left while repeatedly pressing B1 to the back side

-         Jump up 3 times to reach the top and pull up (so far you’ve done all these moves before)

-         Jump left to the newly raised pillar’s base

                             
How to reach the raised pillar

 

When arriving at the final pillar ledge and running around to your left you will suddenly see a yellow exclamation sign, meaning you are in front of the alcove now (but you won’t see the alcove). Stop running and quickly press B1 to grab the Relic before the pillar will retract causing the alcove to disappear into the lower pillar.

  
You’ve found the Griffin-Head Protome

 

Griffin heads were fitted on bronze cauldrons or drinking vessels in archaic Greek at ca. 700 BCE and served as talismans to ward off evil spirits.

Continue and dive into the pool at once. Swim to the ledge with stairs once again and enter the hallway to Midas’s room. CHECKPOINT.
Follow the hallway to Midas’s room and a Gorilla will appear. The best trick again is to run backward (remember the sequence from left to right while constantly shooting until the monstrous ape is dead). You’ve done this before.
So go right-left (a long corridor)-and right again and wait here until Mr. Gorilla shows up. To lure the second Gorilla go right and left again to Midas’s room and repeat the same shooting tactics.
Get a CHECKPOINT when you enter the room from Midas’s back.


Enter the room and save your Checkpoint

 

Now you have gathered 3 Lead Bars in this Sublevel. What would be the use of such Bars? Ah, we remember that Midas turned all he touched into Gold! So that’s it, we have to convert the Lead Bars into Gold Bars!

Jump across the water (where the lever is) and follow left until you see a sloping roof.

  
Jump to the roof, slide down and drop safely to the floor

 

CHECKPOINT.
Jump up to Midas’s seat pedestal and walk to his lower hand. Put the first Lead Bar in his hand and it will turn into Gold.

        
You’ve found the Gold Bar

 

Repeat with the other 2 Lead Bars and now you have 3 Gold Bars in your Inventory. Remember there were 3 empty rectangular receptacles? Place your Gold Bars one by one in there.

              
The Gold Bars will open the square pool in front of Midas’s Statue

 

You’ll get the completion window of Midas’s Palace now.


The completion window

 

Now let's go to Sublevel 4: Tomb of Tihocan - Part 1, The Catacombs