The Ashura's Invasion - The Secret Base

A custom level made by Tony

Unofficial walkthrough written by Selene

This walkthrough is unofficial and is not written by the maker of this level. For the official walkthrough or any questions or concerns related to the level please contact the person who has created it. If I have missed out on anything at all, such as pick-ups etc. I would be pleased if you could let me know. Thank you for reading my walkthrough, I hope it will be of some help. ;)

NOTE: As far as I've understood it the Desert Eagle will be a pick-up in this level(quite obvious, since Lara finds ammo for it throughout the entire game), but I couldn't find it anywhere so if anyone knows where it is I would be grateful if you could let me know!!! Thanks.


The level starts with a short fly-by sequence of a room stacked with crates. Lara starts her adventure on the other side of the metal fence. The place and time is set to present day
Russia.

Start forward across the other end of the room and take out the guard coming from the opening on the left. The small box on the right hand side is breakable, but empty. Behind it, to the left of the larger crate, is another crate. Shoot at it to break it and pick up the small medipack hidden inside. Go through the opening where the guard came from. When you reach the small river wade across and push the button straight ahead to open the door to the left. In here is another guard on the left so take him out first and then pick up the desert eagle ammo on the floor. Go around the desk to the left and pick up the Magnetic Security Card. Leave this building and follow the river N. Go straight ahead and climb the ledge with the yellow and white barriers. To the left is only a closed door so go right and continue all the way until you can pick up the desert eagle ammo by the bars straight ahead. Go back to the river and drop down. Go left and climb the left ledge at the far end of the room. Head right by the opening and into a room with stacked crates. Pull the middle crate out twice to uncover a room beyond it. Enter and go straight ahead and around the right corner. Take out the guard standing at the far end. To the left are lasers blocking the hallway, so you can't go that way yet. A bit further back there's an opening on the right hand side.

Go through the door there to enter a dark lounge. There are three crawlspaces on the walls around the lounge with grates in front of them. The one on the right of where you enter leads to a closed trapdoor, so leave that one for now. The one in the middle leads to a closed vent with a guard on the other side so Lara can't enter there either at this point. Go through the crawlspace on the left. As Lara passes the vent on the left hand side we get a glimpse of a secret rose laying on the table, but we'll have to get back to that later. Go on to where Lara can stand and when she reaches the blue window shoot it out. Do a standing jump from the edge to land on the black block with the small water tank. Do another standing jump to the black ledge ahead. Walk to the edge and turn right. Face the third pillar with the arrows going down and do a standing jump to grab the pillar. This works as a ladder so climb down and at the bottom pick up the Blue's Key. Climb back up and when you reach the ledge you jumped from backflip to land on a short slope. Immediately press Jump and Action to grab the small ledge ahead. Pull up and turn right. Now save your game here, the next sequence is quite difficult to make.

First stand with Lara facing the slope ahead and her back towards the wall. Do a STANDING jump ahead and grab the edge of the slope. Now shimmy so that Lara hangs one step away from the right side of the slope (shimmy to the far right side and then press the left arrow key ONCE). During the next part the laser trap on the left side will follow you so it must happen quickly. Pull up onto the slope and immediately press Jump, using the right arrow key to angle Lara in the air so she will land on the right ledge facing another ledge ahead (W). Quickly run to the edge and press Jump and right before Lara reaches the ledge ahead press Action so she will grab onto it. Pull up, run ONE STEP forward and do a standing jump to the ledge slightly angled to the left and ahead. From there run another step forward and do a standing jump to the ledge right by the wall. Here you can save your game, you don't need to worry about the laser trap from here on.

The next sequence features some slope jumps and finding one secret so here goes: Walk to the edge facing the slope, hop backwards once and prepare to do a running jump to the slope ahead. Here there are at least three ways to make the jump across the first three slopes:

1) Pressing Forward, Jump and Action together will make Lara face forwards when she hits the slope. Keep pressing them and she will grab the edge of the next slope. Pull up, slide and press Jump and Grab to make her grab the back of the third slope.

2) Pressing Forward, Jump, Roll and Action will make her twist in mid-air before reaching the slope so that she will face forwards. Pressing Jump as soon as you hit the slope will make her jump over the edge of the second slope and land straight on it. Slide for a second and jump and press Action to grab the back of the third slope.

3) If you only do a regular running without pressing Action or Roll Lara will land on the slope facing backwards. In this case you must press Action so that she will grab the edge, pull up, jump and press Roll to make her twist in mid-air. She will land straight on the second slope, so press Jump and Action to make her grab the back of the third slope.

Pull up and keep pressing Jump, Forward and Action until she has jumped across all three slopes and landed on a flat ledge below a ladder. But before going up there retrace for a secret. Turn W to face the slopes you just jumped from. You will see that atthe back of the slope furthest from you is a ladder. Position Lara so that she is standing facing the slope on the ledge she's standing at and take one step away from it. Hop backwards and do a running jump past it towards the slope with the ladder. If you've set it up correctly Lara will land on the slope above the ladder, so press Action and she will grab the ledge. Climb down the ladder and pick up Secret 1: a Golden Rose.

Climb back up and press Jump and Roll to make her twist in the air and keep pressing Jumpto make her spring off the second slope to land on the ledge again. Climb the ladder and shoot out the window. Go along until you get to a ladder. climb this and backflip onto the ledge above. Follow the hallway to find Lara standing one level abovewhere she was earlier. Jump to the ledge ahead and turn left to face the fishbone ladder. There's a key behind it, but we can't reach that yet. Climb the ladderand go right onto the ledge above. Go around to face another slope. Stand at the edge and jump over to the slope. When Lara gets "stuck" at the middle of the slope simply do a forward jump and she will land on a flat ledge beyond. Stand on the highest point of the ledge and turn W. Do a running jump to land on the ledge ahead. Turn left and do a running jump and grab the block ahead. Do a standing jump to the next block and go through the opening to the walkway with the arrows. Follow the arrows, but stop at the edge and do a standing jump and grab the wall opposite. Climb down to the lower level. Turn around and follow the arrows on the walkway to the opposite end. At the edge jump and grab the wall opposite and drop down into the room behind the fishbone ladder where you can pick up the Yellow's Key.

Climb back up the same way you came from. Leave the hallway with the arrows and turn right. Do a running jump and grab the edge of the block ahead. Pull up, turn left and do a standing jump from there to the other block. Do a running jump again from that block to jump over the slope and land on the ledge beyond. Stand on the highest point of the ledge and turn right. Do a running jump to the ledge from earlier. From there jump past the slope to land on the ledge by the fishbone ladder. Jump over to grab the ladder and climb back down. Turn to the right and look at theledge ahead. The blocks with the brown surface contains burners that will kill Lara by the first touch. So do a running jump to the blue block between the brown ones. Position Lara as far to the right as possible and do a running jump to grab the lowest point of the flat ledge ahead. If Lara lands on the slopes to the left of this ledge she will get stuck there. From there turn right and do a running jump to the next ledge. Do another running jump to the next ledge, pressing Action so Lara won't bump her head. And do yet another jump to the ledge in the corner. Here is a receptacle for the Blue's and Yellow's Key. Insert these in the receptacles and go through. Pick up the CD-Rom on the table. Go right and shoot out the grate in the corner. Crawl through and down on the other side. Turn right, go straight ahead and open the trapdoor. Drop down and pick up Secret 2: a Golden Rose from the table.

Go over to the cabinet in the corner. Position Lara so that she's facing the exact middle of the cabinet, take one step backwards and then press Action. Lara will open the cabinet in the strangest way I've
ever seen - in the cabinet are M16 Wideshot Ammo (a big thanks to Alarable for letting me know this). Climb out of the room and go back to the hallway where you found the CD-Rom. Go back outside and retrace your steps all the wayback down to the lounge where you started out. I found the easiest way of doingthat was to jump to the pillar next to where the key receptacles were and then turn left and do an angled running jump to land on the long black ledge along the N/E wall below. Lara will lose some health doing so, so if you'd rather conserve health you can go the long way around instead. From the long black ledge jump to the shorter one with the water tank and from there to the ledge with the ladder.

Climb up and go through the crawlspace back to the lounge. Leave the lounge and go right. Use the CD-Rom in the machine to open the elevator doors. Enter the elevator and press the button on the right side. When the elevator stops go through the doors to find yourself in a snowy cave. Follow the tunnel until you reach a large room with moving spotlights. You will see that there's a ladder below you going to the bottom of the room and two tiger-like creatures (most likely of the Ashura race) are occupying the ground level of the large room. Drop down and kill them. If it makes it easier the small pool with the iceberg makes good cover. On the N side of the iceberg is an opening. Swim through there and follow the hallway until you cansurface. Now walk forwards CAREFULLY. There are two deep pits ahead of Lara, so if she runs she will fall in. Walk to the edge of the first pit and do a standing jump. Now go to the edge of the next pit and do another standing jump across. You will now enter a maze-like room with some crates. This room was a true misery for me and it took me ages to figure out where to go next.

Go between the water tank and the crate and continue following the passage between the wooden crate and the stone block the S/W). Continue on and you will see a blue block and a black tile with a white cross next to it. Stepping on this tile opens a timed door and until I learnt the way to the door off by heart that was a pain. Here's what to do:

Stand with Lara's back against the black tile and hop backwards onto it. Immediately start forward and run left past the blue crate. Turn left at the corner and continue straight ahead. Go on straight ahead and around the corner to the right. You should seea wooden crate ahead on the right and be facing S. Continue left around the corner and go straight on until Lara reaches the wooden crate straight ahead. Run past it and continue straight past the first opening on the right and do a right turn by the second opening. Go straight ahead(N) and around the corner to the left.Follow the passage and if you're in the right place you should run by a purple block on the left hand side. At the end turn right and sprint straight ahead through the timed glass door.

On the other side of the door I found that Lara got stuck in place, but side-flipping away from the door helped. Go straight ahead to the end and around the corner to the right. Ahead you will see a black block with a white cross on. Go through to the open room at the right and straight through it to the S/E alcove with another black/white-crossed tile. Stepping onto this will fill the deep pit closest to the maze (where you came in) with water. Step off the tile and retrace your steps through this room, past the glass door (which is now open), through the entire maze and back to where you entered. Drop into the first pit to land in the water below. The current will sweep Lara along, straight past a hammer-head shark and further up. Once she can stand on her feet wade and climb up on the snowy ledge ahead.Take out an Ashura dog running around up there and then turn to the pool to kill the hammer-head shark you met on the way up here. To the right is a closed gate and to the left a snowmobile. Guess we'll be going for a ride then

Ride to the W side where the track goes and go up the ramp closest to the wall, taking care not to fall into the holes along the way. On top drive in to the left. Go on up the ramp and when you reach the second opening on the left get off the snowmobile and go through the iced doorway. Lara is now up on the bridge with the spotlights you saw earlier. Go to where the bridge starts sloping upwards and turn left to face the other ledge. Do a running jump over there and follow the ledge to theend. From there do a running jump back on the bridge (being careful not to get hit by the spotlight beams) and go through the iced doorway here. Go straight ahead and up the long ramp. On top slide down the ramp to land on a grey bridge above where you were a little while ago. Go ahead and press the button on the left side and you will see a door open somewhere else. Go past the block with the button and to the right. Ahead is a doorway, but as you can see from the tiles in front there are burners below. Do an angled jump from the right side of the structure to grab the side of the burner tiles. Shimmy to the right until Lara stops and pull up there. Now you can go through the hallway to once more find Lara inside the building from before.

Continue along the hallway, left around the corner, ahead and slide down the slope. Straight ahead again, then left around the corner and straight ahead until Lara comes to the next room. Remember that in the lounge earlier there were three crawlspaces?? If you enter the hallway with the guard on the right you will come to the place on the other side of the closed grate from where you came through the middle crawlspace. The door on top of the ramp to the left leads to the trapdoor you couldn't go through from the lounge crawlspace on the right. Go up there and open the trapdoor. Drop through and go through the crawlspace and back into the lounge. Leave this room. The laser trap ahead is still active so turn left and go back towards the beginning of the level. Leave behind the crate and go back to the left and drop down into the river. Leave this hallway past the two crates and go right at the end. Climb up and to the left here you'll see the door that you opened earlier. Go through there to see a red wall and a small green block. Stand on the left side of the green block (left when facing the red wall) and face N. Jump up and grab a hidden hatch to pull the trapdoor down. Face the red wall and jump and pull up into a crawlspace. Crawl through and climb down on the other side. Go to the door at the end and swipe the magnetic card to open it.

Go up the stairs and enter a room with red walls, a walkway with burner tiles and a claw in the ceiling and a toxic-looking pool below. Take out the guard on the left side. As you enter the room right by where he stood you will see a laser trap. Go as close to it as Lara can without getting killed and as the lowest laser beam sinks into the ground quickly run past. Pull up into the opening on the left, shoot out the glass and pick up the Generator. Time your run back past the laser and go back out on the ledge. This time go over to the opposite side. Do a running jump from the ledge to land about halfway down the tiled burner-walkway. Immediately run/jump ahead to land on the opposite side. Go to the left of the closed door and do an angled running jump to the doorway ahead. Go around the machine in the next room and place the Generator in the slot where there is one missing. This will open a door somewhere on a higher level. Go out and jump back to the ledge with the red brick wall and the closed door in the middle and climb the left side of the red wall. Pull up onto the ledge above. Ahead and to the right you can see a ledge with another secret. The easiest way to get it I found was to stand to the left side of the burner ledge ahead, do a standing jump and grab the edge of it and then traverse as far to the left as possible. Pull up and immediately run/jump to land on the red tile ahead. From there do a running jump to the next tile. Pick up Secret 3: the Golden Rose.

Now turn to face the slope on the left. Walk to the edge of the tile and hop backwards. The following sequence was the hardest so far in the level for me, but this is how I finally got through it. Do a running jump onto the slope and jump to the second slope and then the third. As you jump from the third slope, use the left arrow key to turn Lara in mid-air and as soon as she lands run/jump to the tile ahead. Quickly turn right and do a standing jump to the next tile and then another to the hallway ahead. It is recommended that you SAVE your game here so you don't have to do it all again.

Climb the ladder next to the door opening ahead and step onto the red brick ledge above to pick up desert eagle ammo and a large medipack. Climb back down and enter the hallway. Go up all the stairs and shoot the guard on top. Go through the door he opened to find Lara facing another burner walkway with breakable tiles and metal claws above. Look to the right to see a ladder, that's where we're going. Go to the edge of the red brick ledge, hop backwards and do a running jump to the breakable tiles ahead. Do a standing jump to the next tile to the right and run across, jumping at the last moment and angling Lara in the air to landon the red brick ledge (grabbing the edge and pulling up if you have to). Climb the ladder up to the next level and look around. Ahead is another long burner walkway with breakable tiles, buttons on the left and right side and another button straight ahead across the room plus a doorway across the room and to the left. I found the easiest way was to go for the button to the right first, then the one across the room, then jump from there to the doorway and finally jump from the doorway to the final button (the left one):

Run onto the first breakable tile, do a standing jump to the one on the right and ahead, sideflip to the next on the right and then sideflip onto the red brick ledge. Push the button here. Next turn around and one step away from the wall do a standing jump onto the tile ahead. Run/jump to the tile straight ahead on the right, turn right immediately and run down the section of tiles towards the next button, jumping at the end to land on the red brick ledge. Pick up the Entrance Key and press the button. Turn around and do a running jump and grab the breakable tile ahead and to the right. Shimmy a bit left, pull up and immediately sideflip twice to land on the red brick ledge by the doorway. From there you can easily do a running jump ahead to grab the red brick ledge with the last button. Push it and do a running jump back to the doorway.

Go through and jump/pull the high wall switch on the left. This opens the large doors on the first level of the red room (above the ground floor). Follow the hallway and at the end jump and grab the wall opposite and climb down to the first level. Jump back to the middle ledge and go through the now open double doors. Go to the end and use the key you collected to open the doors ahead. Go ahead until Lara reaches a snowy ledge. You will see a short cut-scene with two guards below speaking Italian and at least three more up in an office to the right. The alarms will go off and Lara now has to make a smooth escape. First of all go to the zip line on the right and ride it down to the ground. The guards will not harm Lara unless she shoots at them first (thanks to Suzanne for pointing that out for me). Below the ledge where you came from there are two crates, one wooden and one purple. Pull the wooden one away to reveal the Exit Key. Pick it up and use it in the keyhole to the right. Go ahead and down the slope to end the level.