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V E N D E T T A !
by "TREEBLE"

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I know I'll never trust a single thing you say
You knew your lies would divide us but you lied anyway
And all the lies have got you floating up avove us all
But what goes up has got to fall

1) THE STORY
This story starts back ago, in November '99, with the first action of Lara Croft stealing Sophia's Eye Of Isis. Sophia of course wasn't happy, so she broke into Lara's home and got back not only her Eye Of Isis, but also the other three meteorite artifacts!
Sophia ran into a zoo and Lara is right on her tail!
Lara: "You will lose for the third time..."

2) THE CAST
* Lara Croft: the heroine, as always. She's in the adventure for her own interest and her glory! "I only play for sport."
* Sophia Leigh: the villain, again! She joined this story after Lara's robbery at her office.
* MP Guard: these are the best kinds of cops you can see around - they're really resistant! They are after Lara, as this is not time for a zoo visit...
* Guard: weaker than MP's, these are the zoo guards. They will try to catch Lara as well.
* Blue Force: elite guards. They were bribed by Sophia, so they will try to defeat Lara while protecting Ms. Leigh.

3) INSTALLATION
Don't forget to backup your original files that will be replaced and once you're done with this level, restore the originals.

a. Extract the zipfile
b. Move vendetta.tr4 to DATA folder
...Move 103.wav to AUDIO folder
...Move English.dat and Script.dat to TRLE root folder
c. Run TOMB4

4) TREEBLE'S LEVELS
So far, this is my best level - at least that's what I think. This one took the longest time to be ready: it took me almost one year to be ready. Don't know what took me so long, but I hope all this effort will mean something for you, when you decide to put it down. These are all my released levels:
Young Driver; Checkers Board; Tomb Of Nefertari; Isis Challenge; Intrusion; Bunker II; The Tomb Of Qualopec; TRLE Community Level Uno*; Vendetta!

* a joint effort from the EIDOS Forums members.

5) CREDITS
I want to thank everyone who helped me through all my TRLE life (and you all know who you are) and the people listed below for their creations I used on this level. If you use any of them, please credit the respective authors on your level readme. (SORTED BY ALPHABETICAL ORDER! YOU ALL ARE AWESOME!!! THANKS!)

Baddy: Guard, MP Guard, Blue Force
Bex: Metal Battle Xtended Remix Audio Track (original from Nintendo's Super Smash Bros Melee game, © and TM 2001)
El Diablo: Swinging Axe
Jesseas: Lara's Outfit, Jeep, Square Switch, Brazil Flag, Sophia (some outfit components from MountainDewNut's "Alias 4" outfit), Fixed Grappling Gun, Entrance Gates and Architecture, Pushable Cage, general improvement on weapons and inventory items
Jliboy64: Light Pole, Mysterious Artifact (retexturized by TREEBLE)
justin: Lara Doll, Puzzling Roses
LarzBritsh: Better Hand Grips (pistols and flare anim only)
Michiel (TRWad): TR2 Spider
Silent Viper: M3Super90, Bird
The_Curse: Submachine Guns (better hand meshes added by Jesseas)
Tomo: Bear, White Tiger, Werewolf, Shatterable Ring
TRAngel: Split Ponytail Mesh
Webknight: Shatterable Window
Other objects were ripped from Official TR games.

TREEBLE's additions: Yellow flares and black diskettes (both improved by Jesseas), white compass, black and orange sunshade, roses colors.

A note on Better Hand Grips: they were originally developed by TenChen (aka GokuZ), then LarzBritsh made some new hand meshes, with more detail and the current version (v2) was used as base for the hand meshes used on the weapons. The Submachine Guns and Grappling Gun hand meshes were made by Jesseas, using Larz's as base. This may sound confusing, but credit given where credit is due. Jesseas only modified those weapons because I requested, so don't you go cursing him! ^_^

Beta-players: Bex, eTux, Gerty, Jesseas, Magnus, Marksdad and Tombaholic. Thank you guys!

T H A N K . Y ' . A L L . ! ! !

6) DISCLAIMER
This level was not made and it is not supported by Core Design nor Eidos Interactive Ltd.
This level must be distributed free of charge.
No violations intended.
This level was made by Lucas, aka TREEBLE, and released in May 2003.

X) BUILDER'S COMMENTS
First of all, let me thank you for downloading this level. I hope you have fun with it. This probably is going to be my last level ever, I am simply tired of all the thing, the time it takes you to build this and to get what you want exactly. This is not a Top level, and was not intended to be. When designing this one, it was some kind of apologizing for my previous bad (if not terrible) levels and this time aiming for fun. DO NOT LOOK FOR REALISM. For god's sake! Tomb Raider is an escapism from real life, where you are a girl with absurd abilities, exploring unusual places and fighting the impossible. I love it the way it is, because I never looked for realism inside it. Saying this, I don't want to read about comments regarding the strange architecture of the zoo, or the stupid cage shapes, but hey, I am happy with the way it ended up being.

There are some bugs, and my beta-players did awesome reports. Without their input, the level would be a shame. There are some remaining bugs, though, but either they were unsolvable or I was too bored to fix them. I thank all the players though for their patience and interest, and apologize if any suggestion was not used at all.

Having said all this, I hope you enjoy it and review it everywhere you can. I always read (or try to) players input, because they're very important.

H A V E . F U N . ! ! !