Tomb Raider: Underworld walkthrough

Tomb Raider: Underworld

Text & Screenshots by Dr. Hugh

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© December 2008 Bert Jamin (www.gamesover.com)
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4.1 Southern Mexico - The Unnamed Days

4.2.1 Southern Mexico - Xibalba: The First Mayan Calendar

4.2.2 Southern Mexico - Xibalba: Into the Temple

4.2.3 Southern Mexico - Xibalba: The Second Mayan Calendar

4.3.1 Southern Mexico - The Midgard Serpent: The Xibalba Statues room

4.3.2 Southern Mexico - The Midgard Serpent: The Four Colored Keys - The Silver Key

Southern Mexico - The Midgard Serpent: The Four Colored Keys - The Golden Key

Southern Mexico - The Midgard Serpent: The Four Colored Keys - The Red Key

Southern Mexico - The Midgard Serpent: The Four Colored Keys - The Turquoise Key

4.3.3 Southern Mexico - The Midgard Serpent: The Crafted Skull

4.3.4 Southern Mexico - The Midgard Serpent: The Serpent Pool

4.3.4 Southern Mexico - Land of the Dead

Level 4
SOUTHERN MEXICO

Sublevel 3
THE MIDGARD SERPENT

Part 2
THE FOUR COLORED KEYS

The Turquoise Key

Further left of the staircase there is another wide set of 5 stairs leading to a platform with 4 columns hanging full of skeletons. Go the tall narrow alcove in the wall and prepare a chimney jump.

The platform with the four skeleton columns

The tall narrow alcove

After the fourth jump you’ll reach a narrow ledge where you can pull up.

Chimney jumping to the narrow ledge

Pull up to the narrow ledge, jump to the stones on the opposite wall and climb up where you can vault up to a narrow ledge.

From a standing position jump to the stones

Climb up to the narrow ledge

Shimmy left around the corner up to the position like on the screenshot and jump to the right (LAS + green) where can grab the climbing stones.

Shimmy left around the corner (correct position)

Jump right past the alcove

Climb all the way down and jump to the climbing stones on the adjacent wall.

Climb down

Jump to the cornering wall stones

Climb up diagonally right and prepare a side jump to the tall narrow column on your right. Now Lara is hanging from the first of 4 columns.

Prepare a jump to the column

Jump and grab the column

Climb all the way up (but don’t stand on the top) and face your back to the ledge with the Treasure. Press jump (green) to land on the ledge and take your 41^st Treasure.

Climb high and turn your back to the ledge

Land on the ledge and take your 41^st Treasure

Now jump back to the column and perch on the top. Face the second column with the skeletons and jump to it.

Perch on the column and face the skeleton column

Jump to it and hold it

Lower a bit down, face your back to the next skeleton column and jump it.

And another jump to a skeleton column

Now you’re on the third large column. Turn the camera around to spot the fourth and lower column. Lower down until the skeletons will stop you. Face your back to the low column and jump backwards to its top to perch on.

Jump to the lower column

Perch on the column

Face the narrow ledge on the opposite pillar

Jump to it

Shimmy all the way to the opposite side until you are exactly under a twin horizontal pole. Stand up on the ledge and vault up to the pole. Shimmy left traversing to the other twin until the end and let go to the narrow ledge below.

Shimmy to the opposite side

Stand on the narrow ledge

Shimmy to the end of the twin pole

Drop down to the narrow ledge

Shimmy around the right corner and pull up with your back against the wall. In front of Lara is a protruding narrow beam from the wall (the rusted kind we’ve seen before). Jump to it.

Shimmy around the right corner

Pull up

Jump to the narrow beam and stand on it

Turn to the open door on the right side and jump to the ledge. Enter the hallway and hear an Autosave Ping. Return outside and make a manual save.
Inside you’ll see three rows of spikes. The first row comes out of the floor, the second from the ceiling and the third from the floor again. There are also two enormous razor sharp blades hanging from each wall behind the first row of spears. They are attached to a cross rail construction, indicating they can move in all directions.

Landing on the ledge

Spikes and blades...

Go stand in front of the first row and as soon as they retract pass the sunken part of the floor and immediately duck. The blades start doing circles and would have easily chopped off Lara’s head! They get quickly bored though and stop moving.

Run past the sunken spike and immediately duck

The giant blades doing a few rounds

Now repeat for the second row of spikes where another pair of blades is hanging behind. Pass and duck until the blades are fed up with it.

The blades go on and off

They’ve given up on Lara

Pass around the first blade that is hanging lower in rest and face the third row of spikes in front of the Altar. No blades between them and the Altar, so just pass through when they retract.

The third row of spears are now in the floor

Run up to the Altar (Checkpoint) and first take the Health potion in the right corner.

The Potion in the right corner

Now go to the Altar and take the Turquoise Key.

The Turquoise Key

Take it in the pocket

Standing in front of the Altar take a look at the left wall full of blocks and ledges.

We should climb this wall...

Jump to the narrow ledge on the right side where it is most narrow. Shimmy to the left and vault up twice to higher narrow ledges. Shimmy left to a narrow ledge of equal height.

Jump to the narrow ledge

Vault up twice to the higher narrow ledges

Shimmy left to the narrow ledge

Prepare a left jump over the spears in rest to the blunt top of the first blade. Walk to the end of the blade and jump to the second and then to the third. Pull up.
[NOTE: The second blade is hanging lower. If you miss the jump and land on the floor you can jump to the blade and pull up]

Jump sideward to the first blade