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
Sublevel
4
LAND
OF THE DEAD
The start of the Sublevel
Read
the new Journey Entry first.
Return from the stairs to the narrow ledge and let go to the central platform.
There’s nothing else to do here than opening the huge screw again that
restores Thor’s Statue to its original position.
This time turn the screw loose – anticlockwise
Thor
will lower his head and cover the secret room with his arm holding the Hammer.
Thor’s Statue gets back to its original position
Near
the screw there is a decorated pillar standing on a groove in the floor.
The decorated pillar
Touch
the pillar with both hands (Lara wears the Gauntlets and the Belt) and it will
light up electric blue. Push the pillar along the groove until it stops in the
depression at the end of the groove. The position of this pillar is important
for a later move.
Touch the decorated pillar
Push it forward along the groove
It will stop in the groove’s
depression
Return
to the short pillar where you found the Health Potion (first to the narrow ledge
and then vaulting up to the top). From
here you can grapple on the Serpent chin’s ring.
Return to the top of the small pillar
Jump
from the pillar and climb up until under the serpent’s chin ring. When
Lara’s weight opens the mouth poisonous water will start flowing from it,
causing the pool to rise until her feet.
Jump from the pillar
Climb up
The risen water level
Notice
a narrow ledge on the Serpent’s neck (the waterfall is behind Lara). Turn her
facing the narrow ledge and jump forward to it from the rope. Jump forward and
hang from the ledge.
Turn Lara facing the narrow ledge
Jump forward to the ledge
Shimmy
left to the grey flat block and pull up (you’ve done this before in opposite
direction).
Remember last time you were on this ledge? Two Zombies arose and when you
crushed them two more came down. Guess what? The same scenario will happen
again, so do what you have to do.
That went fine all right.
Go to the narrow end of the floor and jump over the gap to the first narrow
ledge on the opposite wall. Vault up and shimmy until you reach the 4th
narrow ledge (you’ve seen these before).
The gap and the narrow ledge
Jump to the narrow ledge
Up to the fourth narrow ledge
Jump
right to the flat rock you were before when you jumped up to the crumbling
narrow beams.
Prepare a sideward jump to the right
Land
on the familiar black flat rock
Jump
to the beam again and jump over the gap that was caused last time you visited
there. Follow the same route over the beams until you reach the opposite side
again. Let go to the floor and immediately run to the grey block near the middle
pillar and from the other end jump to the short pillar standing nearby in the
pool (this is the carved pillar
that you moved along the groove in the central platform when the pool was at its
lowest level)
There were 4 Zombies arising on the ledge and from this pillar you’re safe
from them.
Of course, if you like an extra Arcade Game added to Underwater, be my guest and fool around with the 4 Zombies before
jumping to the block.
Let go to the floor
Run to the grey flat rock by the pool
Jump to the short pillar standing in
the pool
Turn left and jump to the next short pillar in the pool.
Jump to the next pillar
From
here you see the left arm of Thor’s Statue. The Hammer is in his hand. Jump to
it and pull up.
Jump to Thor’s Hammer
Pull up
From
here you can see that Thor’s right eye is golden: it is the Relic
of this Level!
Go up the few steps and Lara can extract the Relic from Thor’s eye lids.
Go up the steps
Take out the Relic
Thor’s right eye has gone
Return
from the steps and notice the ring hanging from the second Serpent’s head
slightly to your left. Repeat what you just did with the first Serpent’s ring.
Grapple on the ring, jump from the Hammer and climb up until you’re right
under the ring while the serpent’s mouth is opening and starts sprawling water
that fills the pool.
Grapple on the ring
Jump from the Hammer ledge
Climb up to the ring
Quickly
turn to the left upper ledge of the Serpent’s neck (facing the steps) before
the water level reaches Lara and jump to it. You’re back on the outer ring in
front of the stairs where you entered the Serpent’s pool area.
Turn to the upper ledge and jump to it
Remember
that block in the left corner with the Runes that produced a chime but could not
be moved? Well try again but this time with your Gauntlets and the Belt on.
Place your hands on it and move it away. Two Treasures were hidden under the
block: #49 and #50! Take them both: you’ve gathered all 50 now!
Place your hand against the block
Move it away
And here are your last two
Treasures
Now
it is time to return to the lever we saw by the deadly pit. Run up the first
three sets of stairs, run through the room with the Runes to the fourth
staircase, go up, and meet the blocks. Cross them in opposite sense and there is
your faithful motorcycle still waiting for you.
Cross to the other side
Your bike is still waiting here
Drive
up the stairs until you meet the second blocks. Dismount and push the left
pillar with the electric blue Runes forward until it stops. Now you can pass
through with the bike. Go around and keep driving.
Get off your bike here
Put your hands on the carved pillar
Push it forward as far as you can
Drive around and continue
Drive up a following staircase. The next staircase will lead you to the ramp into the room of the Xibalba Statues. There are 4 or 5 giant spiders in there. Just ignore them and drive to the open door. Or would you like to play another extra Arcade Game? Go ahead and play ride in circles over giant spiders.
Up the staircase
From the ramp into the Statues room
Into the Statues room
Optional Arcade Game: killing giant
spiders
Continue through the opened door and follow the tunnel.
Continue
through the tunnel
Cross two spike pits along the
beam ramps. Stop immediately after the second pit.
Over the first two pits
Get off the bike. Jump to the horizontal pole on the right wall and stand on it. Vault up to the second pole. Stand up and walk to the end.
Jump to the lowest pole on the right
Stand up
Vault up to the higher pole
Stand up and walk to the end
Jump to the opposite pole, hang down and shimmy close to the wall. Face the narrow ledge on the column and swing/jump to it. Lara’s weight will lower the narrow ledge that lets the log ramps of the third pit rise.
Hang from the left pole
Swing/jump to the narrow ledge and hang
from it
The ledge will lower down and the ramps
will rise
Where
are your usual giant spiders now? We were expecting them now!
Let go, hop on the bike and drive backwards to the top of the ramp of the second
pit (don’t fall in!).
Press forward (RT) and repeatedly (LB) to boost for if not you won’t make it
over the pit. Finally get your way back into the room with the lever.
The correct position to start your boost drive over the third pit
Keep going on through bends
Finally reach the lever room again
Get off the bike and place the Crafted Skull – the Xibalba Key – onto the second Statue that was missing this Skull.
Place the Skull on the Statue
Now
you can pull the lever. That will open the exit door.
Pull the lever
The exit door opens
The ramp panels retract
Hop
on the bike and place it near the edge of the deadly pit. Boost drive over the
second and up to the ramp. When Lara is on top all pillars will go down, the
Statue will retract into the floor and the plaza will just look as if nothing
has ever happened here.
The correct position to start your boost drive over the second pit
Up the ramp
The plaza is resetting when Lara leaves
the ramp
Lara
stops the bike and starts talking with Zip over her PDA.
Fig
29. Zip, I have everything I need to get
Thor’s Hammer...
Do
you have better coordinates for me?
Zip:
Yeah, I enhanced your dad’s photos on
the map. I’m uploading to your PDA now.
Lara: And your other project?
Zip: Haven’t tracked ’em down yet.
Still working on it.
Lara
takes the stairs and leaves through the arch:
Very good – I’ll call when I get
to