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Level: The Tomb of Tut Orial back home search
Author(s): Die Basis
total rating:4.85 Gameplay &
Puzzles		 Enemies,
Objects &
Secrets		 Atmosphere,
Sound &
Cameras		 Lighting &
Textures
Boris 4 4 3 4
Dimpfelmoser 4 5 5 5
Doug E 3 4 4 7
eRIC 4 5 5 4
eTux 4 5 5 5
Gerty 4 5 5 5
Kristina 4 4 5 6
MichaelP 4 6 5 5
Orbit Dream 3 4 5 6
RaiderGirl 5 5 5 6
Sash 5 5 5 7
Scottie 6 5 6 6
Treeble 5 6 5 5
category averages
(13 reviews)		 4.23 4.85 4.85 5.46

Reviewer's comments

"Lara has discovered the tomb of the Tut Orial and investigates this. After approx. 20 minutes one is in the final room, namely the room with the sarcophagus, finds a cartouche and is at the level end. Opponents are a crocodile, a Baddie, two skeletons, a harpy, two dogs and a Demigod. The riddles are easy. The textures were applied substantially. A small tip for the beginning: One should not follow every evident invitation. Result: Short, but substantially built level" - Scottie (17-Apr-2009)

"As I wanted to play the Maya Legends levels , I was curious to play the author’s 1st level to see how he has improved since the beginning. So this is a tutorial level where the author mastered well already the basics of the Manual and had made the effort to include different enemies , as you get dogs a harpy , a croc and a demigod with the other usual Tut suspects, and some different Egyptian textures as well. This is a short 20 minutes level where you have to find a few artefacts, flip a few levers , navigate in a trapped room, monkey swing and a make a series of rope swings, nothing too difficult. The lighting is quite irregular , too bright or too dark , and the long dark room with the rope swings (3 to go and 4 to come back) was really not very enjoyable because of that. By the way it seems that the ropes were shorter than the usual so that was a bit difficult to go through. I like the red herring at the beginning and the flipmap in the skeleton room" - eRIC (16-Jul-2007)

“Yes that rope dilemma mentioned by others existed for me as well; but as it occurs close to the end of the level using DOZY didn't detract from the Gameplay experience as much as it usually would. This is all terribly straightforward; which is just how many prefer it especially after a tough level. The outdoor location at the start was thoroughly unconvincing but some of the internal architecture was agreeable (in a large and predominantly empty sort of way). It's been a while since I've ventured into the Tut1 world and the simplicity of gameplay presented here (where running toward a locked door was enough to open it) was actually rather endearing. Play it for relaxation.” – Orbit Dream (14-Jan-2005)

“Guess what; one more Egyptian level for your collection. The usual two hands the Eye of Horus and enemies like mummies dogs and a crocodiles plus a couple of skeletons and a demigod. I had a problem with the ropes as I couldn’t get back the last one was too far for Lara to grab so I used DOZY. Short and easy.” – Kristina (27-Aug-2003)

“This was a nice small level I quite enjoyed to play. The level is straightforward - most of the tasks are simple and you'll never get stuck. There were ninjas skeletons crocodiles harpies and a demigod to fight not too hard though didn't need a single medipack for any of them. I don't understand why the others had to dozy at the rope swinging though it was perfectly doable and for the way back a 4th rope was triggered so either it was a bug others experienced or they played this level with eyes closed.” – eTux (29-Dec-2002)

“I had put off playing this as I could never get it to run but after reading in Gerty's review to rename the German.dat file to English.dat I had no problem getting it to run. It reminds me of the tutorial level but the textures have been put together in a way that makes it look almost new and it goes pretty quickly as you go from room to room completing small puzzles in your search for a few hands and both pieces of the Eye of Horus. There's quite a few enemies spread around but it's easy to avoid some of them and the rest are easily disposed of. I didn't even try the triple rope swing since everyone else said it wasn't possible which was nice because I hate rope swings. This is a good first try for the author and I hope to see him release something else someday.” – RaiderGirl (29-Nov-2002)

“Rename the German.dat into English.dat and you are on your way. Nice level and like I normally do I went the wrong way what was the right way this time as I found out much later. There are quite some enemies in here at least I encountered ninjas dogs a mummy skeletons a harpy and a demigod and even some scorpions. I’m starting to get the same ‘disease’ Matthias has as I hardly can recall that much after playing this or is it that I shouldn’t play three levels in a row. My notes say nice flipmap good jumping 3 rope jump twice finding two Hands and get Eye. Need fly cheat with rope jump rope too far. Find cartouche and there it ends. 31-10-2002” – Gerty (09-Nov-2002)

“I wonder if I missed something at the triple rope swing cause like Treeble I had to use Dozy on my way back and I wondered why this wasn't mentioned by the other reviewers. I quite liked the fast progression and the strange mix of well placed enemies but the initial misleading flyby was rather unfair I thought and the hopping sequence over the Lava can be easily avoided by jumping straight to the dividing wall. What else can I tell you?! It's a rather straightforward run through an ordinary Tutorial environment (but I bet you guessed that form the title anyway) with not many surprises along the way but there is no maze either so why not give it a try.” – Dimpfelmoser (02-Oct-2002)

“Another Egyptian temple to Lara raid. In the beginning there's the tomb entrance and an underground passage. I went through the underground passage and got inside the tomb pushed a few levers got the two hands (had to dozy to the second - the rope is too far from Lara from the lever platform) and finally the Eye of Horus which took me to a fight with a demigod then I saw the sarcophagus and got the Ba Cartouche then the level ended. Then I was curious: why the tomb entrance then? I restarted the level and surprise- it was just a trap. A wall blocks Lara and two boulders go down to take Lara to a better place...” – Treeble (26-Jul-2002)

“This is definitely a straightforward level with no brain busting puzzles to work out but it was kind of easy to overlook that fact as there are some great uses of textures and colours to make most of the rooms interesting. There are also at least one of most enemies but they aren’t threats even the demigod near the end precariously placed on the thin walkway was easily taken out with just my pistols and not much loss of health. Taking me 25 minutes to play that unfortunately is too short a game time for the large size of the download so if that doesn’t bother you then check it out otherwise there are much better levels in much smaller packages.”- Sash (21-Jun-2002)

“Starting from the initial (deceiving) flyby with two scorpions nibbling at your feet you will make it through this kind of standard level without a lot of trouble in a little over 20 minutes. It has its few moments with the 3 and 4 rope jump (thankfully a straight line) a small lava jump sequence a large variety of enemies and a variety of textures not always fitting overly well together. I was quite surprised how quickly it ended once you had found the two hands. Potential to make it a little bigger and more interesting is clearly there.” – Michael (21-Jun-2002)

“There is not much to say Lara has to find the usual tomb of Horus using the usual artifacts levers and ropes and then escape. The time to end the level is 20 minutes no bug and secrets.” - Boris (21-Jun-2002)

“This level gets you from A to B without any traumas. The sound effects were absent camera work was on the right track but not fully. All in all it was all a bit obvious really and the level ended quite unexpectedly. This level would suit those of a nervous disposition - it's very sedate!” – Doug E (21-Jun-2002)
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